The arbitrary time delays in digital broadcasting can also be a nuisance. If I have Freeview TVs on in both lounge and kitchen, tuned to the same channel, the sounds I hear are never quite in sync owing to different buffering delays in different TVs. I’ve noticed a pub I use has the same problem, two (same model) TVs in the bar but when both have the volume up the audio’s not quite synced, causing an unpleasant echo effect.
Whereas I can turn on as many analogue radios as I like all through the house, they will all play perfectly synchronised as there is no receive-side buffering in the first place.
And I do like to remind people, when watching a new year show with Big Ben bonging, if we wait for the first bong before we start exchanging greetings it’ll be far too late, so I start early. Oddly, this never aids my popularity.