Major league baseball or The NFL (I can't remember which now) was recently looking into allegations that an affiliate was using this compression technology during a game. A sports writer with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was listening to the game on radio and simultaneously having the game on tv(muted). He noticed that the game on TV wasn't live anymore when images on TV weren't matching up with the live radio broadcast. MLB (sub-NFL) were looking into allegations that the affiliate was now rebroadcasting the game, without the expressed consent of the league. (more likely the league was upset that the affiliate was generating some of that sweet,sweet ad revenue and not passing it on to them!)
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Major league baseball or The NFL (I can't remember which now) was recently looking into allegations that an affiliate was using this compression technology during a game. A sports writer with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was listening to the game on radio and simultaneously having the game on tv(muted). He noticed that the game on TV wasn't live anymore when images on TV weren't matching up with the live radio broadcast. MLB (sub-NFL) were looking into allegations that the affiliate was now rebroadcasting the game, without the expressed consent of the league. (more likely the league was upset that the affiliate was generating some of that sweet,sweet ad revenue and not passing it on to them!)