iTunes Canada gets NHL and TV downloads
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Dec 12th 2007 8:47AM
posted Dec 12th 2007 8:47AM
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Finally! we can download shows Legally!
Happy for you, honestly!
I hope it comes in Switzerland in "non geological times" too.
BTW: I'd love to be able to purchase NHL games for the 2007-2008 season. Lucky you (ok, maybe you don't care).
At least some life in the video iTunes is still flowing...
Unfortunately, the NHL "content" consists of the winning game from each of the Stanley Cup Finals of 1975, 1987, 1991, 1994, and 1997.
Clearly you guys haven't paid any attention to exchange rates between your bigger brother and yourselves :) $1.99 CAD is more like $2.05 US :)
Yes but we pay more for everything up here. At least it's a start.
Actually 1.99 Canadian is more like 2.02 American pesos.
http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates/converter.html
Clearly someone doesn't understand sarcasm.
Can these be downloaded right to apple tv.
How about some shows that I would actually want to bother watching? I take it the hold up on this was something to do with Canadian content restrictions?????
Now they just need to add CBC's Intellegence. I can never remember to watch it, and now I've missed a month's worth. The problem with watching obscure CBC shows is that they're hard to find online.
Also, funny how we have to pay for semi-public TV
It's about time.
If Apple offered tv in Canada when it did in the states, I would have bought an AppleTV box the first day. But now that the hype has passed, I may pass.
Now if they would just add some content that I might actually have an interest in watching?
I guess we can assume the hold up on this was due to Canadian content restrictions????
When you say "US pesos" is that a reference to the us dollar losing value or the fact that Latinos are taking over the country?
The latter--only less racist.
who cares, I've been downloading Canadian shows here in the US for a while. (Degrassi)
um... every episode of South Park is available for free on the Comedy Network's website. Why should I pay?
You can't burn it on to a ipod unit from the comedy network site.
Finally! Somebody has cracked an 'official' towards the crappy U.S. dollar! *tear, O, Canada....Our home and native land!...*
This is a nice start, but WAAAY too little, too late.
I'm aware of the issues here, that it isn't so much "Canadian content restrictions" so much as Apple having trouble licensing content from US networks here (I'm guessing that they have to negotiate each individual series here, rather than getting "package deals" from networks.
Even so, it's frustrating that Apple seems to almost ignore the Canadian market. The US and Europe seem to get everything long before we do.
Exactly. Why do they bother? I'd rather they just removed video from the iTunes Store altogether if they're just going to make pathetic, cursory gestures like this. We're used to being treated like we don't exist; why change that when they clearly don't want to?
Oooh.. now I can watch all of our craptacular CanCon on my iPod. Give us the option to buy shows someone actually cares about, K?
As much as I like Apple, they really do treat us Canadians like crap.
No Trailer Park Boys?
That ain't right.
It appears that most U.S. shows are still not offered. That's pathetic. CBC programming does not represent Canadians, CBC programming represents a mythical ideal of an un-Americanized Canada.
You cannot talk Canadian Content without having Trailer Park Boys...that is not right at all, get you're get it together apple!
WHAT? No Coronation Street, how in the fuck am I supposed to get my wife on board with this, OK I watch it too but only a little bit.