[wowczarek]

Today's broadcasting truly is a beautifully evolved piece of engineering. For a guy like me who dabbles in time / frequency synchronisation, this is a great example of a use case that physically malfunctions without sync.

...but the first time I learned about SMPTE, was from Frank Zappa's song "Baby Snakes" - interestingly it mentiones both SMPTE and sync. Every time SMPTE is mentioned, this plays in my head.