YouTube wants to put the noisy neighbor/social media spoiler problem to bed for live TV by fiddling with a feature long used in broadcast television to prevent mistakes or inappropriate content from airing live – broadcast delay (also called deferred live). Broadcast delay coupled with the inherent difficulties of pushing live video over the internet results in latency for live streaming services like YouTube TV typically spiking significantly higher than for broadcast channels. So, rather than any groundbreaking technical feat through playing with protocols like LL-HLS, LL-DASH, and WebRTC, to more closely align live streams with live broadcasts, YouTube TV allows users to turn off this baked-in broadcast delay feature. YouTube TV users can simply select a smaller buffer for…