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Originally Posted by baconswitchfarm
I think the satellite money is why dish is involved. Roberts moved all signals to dish a few months ago. In your home it is an ok value. But now the tracks are all receiving the same time delayed feed you get at your home. You could get a bunch of decoders and watch every track at your home , at the same time, for in the hundreds of dollars. Every track and simulcast location in the country is paying thousands a month for the same time delayed inferior feed you get at home for a fraction of the cost. They used to pay thousands a month because the feed was delivered in, as close to real time as possible ,c-band feeds to the simulcast outlets. Imagine one person at every simulcast window in America being shut out because of the delay. How much is that in handle at the end of the year ? Roberts lowered his cost and is making out great .Tracks and bettors, not so much.
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Ummm , the delay is at best a few seconds. And most of that is due to the longer trip the signal must make to get to the viewer.
BTW, C-Band services are almost non existent for consumer use. Most are commercial applications. Such as delivering raw feed to TV stations for editing and yes, for the simulcasting signals from horse tracks. However, the feeds seen at some shops are from Dish because it is just easier and more cost effective to install small dish antennae at say an OTB or other simulacast shop rather then several 5 to 10 foot C-Band antennae.
I understand the need for some bettors to be able to "press the send button" at the last nanno second. I have a solution. Bet 5 seconds earlier. Or bet before the last horse is loaded.