Commercial Sync

It never fails to amuse me when the television networks, who are so precise with advertising rates and down-to-the-second transitions, have to contend with a 3-4 second delay when programming from China. News anchors being cut off to tell me about gutter repair, footage of people staring intently into the middle distance waiting for people to let them know they're "on", and the strange "back in time" glitch that occurs going from the HD television signal to just the SD digital signal.