The past few weeks have been all about the Olympics. We bought a DVR, coincidentally just in time to record Olympic events, and have made full use of it. Olympics coverage is almost 24 hours a day, split between two channels with maybe 1 or 1-1/2 minutes of commercials an hour, if even that. I timed it once, after I read about all the advertisements you need to sit through in the U.S. 
Fewer ads here allows for more coverage of those events you wish you could see more of, like pistol shooting. No offense to people who shoot, but I had no idea that it was an Olympic event until last week. Hours and hours of different types of rifle, pistol and shotgun events was broadcast here.All the commentaries are in German of course which means David often has to play translator for me, but with our new DVR, he can pause the TV to explain to me what's being said and we don't miss a thing. We have learned much about the German athletes and have seen many of their medal-winning performances, but we didn't miss a second of Michael Phelps' swimming nor of the American women's gymnastics team.
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