Have you ever noticed that when news channels interview people on video, there’s often a delay between what the person on TV says and when the remote person responds? Sometimes, the connection even drops completely. I live in a third world country and I’ve had better video calls with people from other countries than some of the news channels I’ve seen. You’d think that they’d prioritize things like low-latency, stable video calls to avoid these awkward pauses. Why does this happen? Do they just not care or am I missing something?
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Because in most video calls there are awkward pauses and connection problems. That is the normal situation. Especially when dealing with people who are not particularly good at video calls.
It would be rather ridiculous and unbelievable if there never were issues like that.
Normal video call is 2 phones talking with one service in the middle making it happen.
Broadcasting that on the news is a lot of extra steps. Video has to go to the studio and then to the host of the show. Both of these get merged and then broadcasted back out. And that’s not even assuming any editing or delays that are common for live tv
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