They DO have a tape delay FYI...
and apparently someone watching it 24hrs a day...
I'm not sure there's any actual tape delay other than the delay it takes the signal to relay across the comm satellite and back to ground control.
What made you think matter-of-factly there was a delay?
LOL exactly.
Though it's well documented that every time there's been an "anomaly" appear on the feed, it goes down a couple seconds later.
From an old thread I created showing TMMAC mission control (
here)
Here's one of the display screens. The second and third line are Loss of Signal and Acquisition of Signal timers. They count down the time between a LoS and AoS as Station trades communication from one comm satellite to another. So these down times are known well in advanced and are planned for.
I've never witnessed video feeds being
randomly or
suspiciously dropped from mission control itself and there's always two or three showing Station.
Admittedly, those cameras
aren't the same ones being used by the HDEV project (at least, to my knowledge) but they will still drop at the same time as the other ones simply because of a LoS.