The Oscars were horrible. I've seen these problems on most broadcast types, but it seemed like such a high budget production wouldn't have such problems. Guess that shows how long I've been out of the video editing loop.

Anyway, it's good to see that I'm not the only one who notices it and that someone is doing something about it.

Interestingly, though, of the 5 or 6 people I was watching the Oscars with, only 2 or 3 could notice the synch errors. Everyone else had no idea what we were talking about. Funny how different people see things differently, isn't it?


- Jon

Yes, it seems with all the different codecs, sample rates, satelitte feeds and the like, it is becoming increasingly an issue with live broadcast. It even winds up in edited show but the Ashely SImpson SNL debacle I think doesnt qualify for this study.

There is quite a bit of interesting information on the "Technical Details" page of www.LipFix.com which includes an article written for submission to the SMPTE committee mentioned here. The lip-sync error problem has been with us for many years but the advent of HD images with their larger processing times and also slower displays in home theater systems (like LCD, Plasma, and DLP)has added enough cumulative delay to finally become noticeable to most people. That site offers equipment for both broadcasters and home theater owners to correct lip-sync problems.