Steve_

Yes I've seen it, seems to be very similar to the UK version (I have to admit I've never read it but the covers look the same).

Steve_

That giant sucking sound you hear is the entire population of the rest of Canada removing their asses from their couches after six months of winter.

paolosmythe

nice try, but the down side to a busy and fulfilling life, are the bills they incur... hence the need to work.

perhaps if TV was tolerated at my office i could identify with the majority pains being expressed in here; but as it stands, i remain content with your entertaining me instead... until i am set free at three that is.

dbd33

I'm afraid not. A quick check with the nearest half a dozen people drew a blank too, I think you're looking at some sort of niche market.

Alan2005

Do you not watch it live then? Doesn't an hour of iced hockey take about 4 hours of elapsed time or something?

dbd33

I had to google that. It seems to be a device to take the adverts out but presumably it can't restore the footage removed in order to insert the adverts in the first place so it's not the same as watching the film in a cinema or from a disk or internet stream. It seems to me that films on Canadian TV only work if you're already familiar with them and just want to throw toast or sigh "surrender Dorothy" at the appropriate moments.

el_richo

My office has a TV and a PS3. It's brilliant

Oink

There are loads of people walking past my office window not watching television, what's all that about?

el_richo

They're clearly not British then.

I'm about to watch the latest Family Guy episode, with a cup of tea and a British bought Jaffa Cake with an occasional glance at the Police boat mooring up alongside a pykie sailing boat

After that, i'll tuck into my leftover Thai Green Curry and Pad Thai from last night. I'll bet Paula Smythe is rethinking his "go get 'em" lifestyle sitting in her cubicle right now

THIS is the life.......

dave2003

Wasn't he the bloke, back in '73, running around raising alarms about the new ice age-apparently back then the permafrost was advancing south by 1m per year.

SambaDeAmigo

The conclusion is all down to having UK TV channels?
You guys know that all UK basic channels can be streamed online to watch on a PS3, right?

And to answer the OP's question, NO life isn't boring in Canada (with or without UK TV)

Steve_

Huh? Never had that problem. Just FF through the ads. (And you had to Google "DVR"? Really? Yikes.)

dbd33

I did have to google DVR, my television didn't come with one.

I think the last film I watched as it was broadcast was Once Upon A Time In America, a film I'd seen on video. The broadcast version was as long as the video version and yet, in the course of a three hour film, there was a little less than an hour of advertisements and announcements. How did the adverts fit? They took out the plot. Specifically they took out the heartbreaking scene where Robert DiNiro makes the grim choice to move to Buffalo NY. Obviously, without that scene, the film is pointless, as are all films on television.

So, my question is, does your DVR device come with the missing bits of films and restore them or do you still miss almost one third of the film but, instead of seeing adverts, see jerky images of nothing in particular?

Steve_

Never had a situation where they took out parts of the movie, except the swear words. Or it comes up at the start saying "edited for television", but that's edited by the studio, not the broadcaster. Just DVR it and start watching it an hour after it starts and FF through the ads.

Kydney_Stone

Life can be boring anywhere in the world, surely that's the answer.

Actually maybe not, for instance the middle of Misrata, but I bet it was boring once, for someone.