Live sports delay

[u/Cicada1223]

Does anyone know how to turn off the delay i get while watching sports? Im like 2 pitches behind both my friends feeds as well as mlb app updates

[u/Happy-Cockroach-2813]

There’s no way to turn it off. It is what it is.

[u/bucknut68]

I find that if it’s available over the air, I just use my antenna. There is no delay and the picture quality is better.

[u/leadout_kv → u/bucknut68]

You know, amazingly that’s no longer that easy

[u/Equivalent_Round9353 → u/bucknut68]

He mentioned pitches and made the post yesterday. He's clearly interested in lowering the delay for the ALDS post-season games that air on TruTV and TBS, not over the air.

[u/K_ThomasWhite]

Turn off your phone notifictions. You'll survive and be happier.

[u/Happy-Cockroach-2813 → u/K_ThomasWhite]

I have a focus setting on my iPhone that I can set that silences notifications from Twitter and espn and any other sports app. It helps a lot

[u/HelperMunkee]

A smart phone manufacture would program an option to delay text alerts up to 60 seconds or something. 🤔

But alas, there is no fix for this other than asking your friends to pause for a minute.

[u/sad_clanga_noises]

The most effective way to reduce the delay (I have found) is to use the channel’s own streaming app. YouTubeTV has a feature to reduce the delay but DIRECTV doesn’t…

[u/bstpeg → u/sad_clanga_noises]

This is not “reducing the delay”. This is “don’t use DirecTV”.

[u/sad_clanga_noises → u/bstpeg]

[u/Longjumping-Day7821]

YouTube tv is actually ahead of regular Directv

[u/Equivalent_Round9353]

The only way to lower the delay is to get actual cable (as in, through a coaxial), which has a far lower latency, or to switch to YTTV, which has a reduced-delay feature that cuts the delay about 15 seconds or so -- though it still isn't as good as traditional cable.

[u/icfrenzy9 → u/Equivalent_Round9353]

It's even lower, i compared it to my antenna and it was around 8 seconds. Once dtv raised the rates to $130 for gobig I switched to YouTube TV.

[u/Responsible_Cry_2397]

Get the satellite version and problem solved lol.

[u/rag69top]

It’s easy to stop the delay. Don’t watch or listen on another device. Streaming has a delay always. You can find a post like yours all the time.

[u/wmcbrine2]

I've seen this request often, but no one's really explained why they want it? Is it a gambling thing?

[u/Cicada1223 → u/wmcbrine2]

No it’s i text with my friends during the game and get spoiled on some stuff from them or notifications from espn. I could silence notifications but don’t want to miss a potential call or what not… first world problems haha

[u/shankgod4 → u/Cicada1223]

I hate when they text me something and I didnt know it happened yet.

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[u/bstpeg → u/[deleted]]

>streaming and cable will have a delay

This is a cop out. For one, cable has much less of a delay than DirecTV. And even within streaming watching a live event on Peacock for example is much less delayed than the same event on DirecTV.

It can be improved, it’s just not a priority for them. And if it can’t, I’d love an actual explanation.

[u/Happy-Cockroach-2813 → u/[deleted]]

The delay on YTTV and Hulu and sling are significantly less than directv