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BT Sport - Now TV

Basil1 — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 13:45:04 GMT

Hi,

Will there be a minute delay when buying sky sport via Now Tv through BT?

when using Now TV there is a delay of roughly a minute till the picture comes on your stream. For example, if a goal is scored in a football game you can get a notification on your phone alerting you before the goal has been scored on your stream. Will there be this delay or will I get the pictures on my screen quicker like normal tv pictures (this is usually a delay of roughly 7 seconds).

sorry for the odd questions but the delay is very annoying if you have alerts on your phone or you enjoy betting on sport.

Re: BT Sport - Now TV

gomezz — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 14:52:36 GMT

Two suggestions
1) Turn off alerts;
2) Do not make a bet on the outcome of an event less than a minute in the future.

Re: BT Sport - Now TV

-Richie- — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 14:59:32 GMT

@Basil1wrote:
Will there be a minute delay when buying sky sport via Now Tv through BT?

This question was addressed recently, see Delay in live sports
The answer from DarrenDev is :

It's only a few seconds on the BT TV box (delivered over multicast) but internet streaming has a lot more processing to make it available to all devices at all broadband speeds.
How far a player is behind depends on the player, the platform, the implementation, and the distribution.
BT Sport is distributed in at least 10 different formats that I can think of off the top of my head - they each behave differently based on what the target hardware and software is capable of.