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Oh goodness, this decision depends on so many things!
Is the show any good?
will there be any entertaining commercials?
how long is the ad break?
how badly do you need to go?
will you also use the time to make a cup of tea?
is there someone else in the loo?
Do you have an empty beer bottle close to hand which you could use without ever having to leave the living room? |
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I can see my television from my toilet. Hypothetically. |
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It's still there on British TV. |
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That little square can be misleading during the Formula 1 GP races. They have scheduled times for the ads, so the square lights up, but if there's some spectacular action happening, the ads are held back. The little square can be there for five minutes or more. |
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Little blobs in the corner of the screen (owing to the low fidelity of a TV set we had when I was a student, the blob in the corner looked like a little wriggling goldfish) are, as Rods suggests, to allow regional TV to be cued up corectly to take nationally-airing commercials.
However, [lg] is right - it depends on a whole load of other stuff. |
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The beauty of that with F1 races is that you can watch the next lap for the same effect, or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one, or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one,or the next one, or the next one, because the cameras only track the first couple of cars anyway and that Schumacher boy just streets the opposition most days. |
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How does a TiVo know when it should take out advertisements? Could you just use a TiVo, maybe running on a 5 minute delay, to detect ads so you could know when they were coming? |
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