I haven't watched any of the olympics...one of the benefits of having 2 weeks away from the TV is the discovery that I don't need to watch any live programmes so don't need a licence :)
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I haven't watched any of the olympics...one of the benefits of having 2 weeks away from the TV is the discovery that I don't need to watch any live programmes so don't need a licence :)
Quite agree moon. I haven't watched the olympics either although OH was besotted by them and apparently I'm unpatriotic. My answer was, I don't like sports so how does that make me unpatriotic? LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by moonwitch
You need a license for owning a TV and watching progs whether live or not. :)
Not according to the TV licencing site...nor their staff that have told me and several people I know that we only need a licence to watch live TV.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gill
Here is the info
"You need to be covered by a valid TV Licence if you watch or record TV as it's being broadcast. This includes the use of devices such as a computer, laptop, mobile phone or DVD/video recorder."
"Watching TV on the internet
You need to be covered by a licence if you watch TV online at the same time as it's being broadcast on conventional TV in the UK or the Channel Islands."
Showing your age?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gill
Back in the olden days it was the TV equipment itself that was licensable. That has long since changed (due to the myriad ways TV broadcasts can be received) and it is now the reception of those broadcasts that is licensable.
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You need to be covered by a valid TV Licence if you watch or record TV as it's being broadcast. This includes the use of devices such as a computer, laptop, mobile phone or DVD/video recorder.
I only have a television so that I have a big screen for PS3 gaming and using the PS3 to watch programmes and for watching DVDs.
I don't have cable channels nor freeview either :)
All of the visual stuff I watch is through websites
There's an echo in here...
Hello...Hello...Hello...Hello...Hello...Hello...Hello...
I'm also glad it's over - now I can get some sleep!:)
Fortunately we don't have TV licences down here any more - & believe me, no one would pay to put up with the carp we get foisted on us.
Must admit that I have done pretty well avoiding it - apart from the odd moments while trying to watch the news. TV News seems to have an odd idea of what the most important events in the world are.
Personally, as the licence pays for the BBC**, I think those of us who have no interest in the Olympics are due a rebate.
I suppose now we are back to the bleedin' football.
** Actually it doesn't any more - it is just another tax revenue stream.
Yep, no teeth. :):):)Quote:
Originally Posted by astral276
Please tell me in no uncertain terms where the regs state we don't. You need a TV license to recieve TV signals.
Yes, you do. Which is what we said, but not what you said in your original post:Quote:
Originally Posted by Gill
Ref: http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/Quote:
You need a license for owning a TV and watching progs whether live or not.
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Originally Posted by Gill
I already posted the regulations....
and HERE
Moon - you need a TV licence to watch progs no matter if they are live or not.
astral - you are being pedantic just because I said you need a license for owning a TV, which is true in most instances. If you own a TV and watch broadcasts whether live or not you need a license. If you own a TV and only watch DVD's or video's then you aren't - who can honestly say they don't switch to normal channels?
Is it the 1st April and I've fallen for it?
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Originally Posted by moonwitch
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Originally Posted by moonwitch
The regulations are clear....Quote:
Originally Posted by Gill
I have been busy this year downsizing my lifestyle...and not giving money to the BBC is part of that.
No I am not. What you originally stated was wrong. If you prefer to label me as being pedantic rather than admit that - then feel free. I'll leave you to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gill
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I don't ever switch to normal channels...I don't have any way of my TV to receive signals...no aerial, no freeview box and no other way of receiving programmes through my TV.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gill
Even if I could receive signals, I only watch TV on-line and not when it is broadcast.
I know many people in my situation who legally have no TV license.
I have ‘’only’’ 230 channels on my TV and in the next couple minutes is going to start about 30 movies out of 45 in all my TV movie channels….and I have ‘’big’’ dilemma which one I can watch,…and by the way in this 30 movie channels NO commercials at all I mean after the movie start no break until movie is finished…Well…I find one…
Good night good peoples…..:)....
P.S. License...what is this...?
This mean you need to pay to watch some channels...or....?....
Had three great weeks watching Olympics, im sitting here now with withdrawl symptons at a loss what to do today,think my wife may have left some time last week cant seem to find her this morning.
[QUOTE=BAGHAG999;1473487]Had three great weeks watching Olympics, im sitting here now with withdrawl symptons at a loss what to do today........ [QUOTE]
Same here, so we booked a holiday for OH's birthday in September last night :)
All I can say on the tv licence issue is that when you buy a tv, the retailer , by law, has to pass on your name and address to the TV Licensing people - regardless of what you're going to use the tv for.
There have been instances where people have bought a TV purely for watching DVD's etc and been pursued by the licensing authorities. But if you do not have the means to watch TV as it is broadcast there is nothing they can do. You would have to remove the aeriel and any sky connections for a start, and if it was connected to a computer that computer could not have an internet connection. You could still use an internal aeriel that you whip out whenever you want to watch, but they would have to prove it. They would probably hassle you for a while, but even if they were stupid enough to take you to court you would win. You could however expect to have a detector van parked at the end of the street on a regular basis.
This is a question I would really like a detailed answer to.Quote:
Originally Posted by kreativebargains
What does a TV Detector Van actually detect ? :confused:
apparently they detect a part of the signal that is given off when your TV converts the signal from the aeriel, and can tell what channel you are watching and where in a property the TV is located.Quote:
Originally Posted by MPS16
I have often thought that there would be a market for TV's that cannot work on the BBC channels as you would not need a license. Maybe I should go on Dragons Den and get them to back me.
Afraid you would; the licence is for the reception of broadcast TV signals - the BBC is not mentioned anywhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by kreativebargains
While, theoretically, the licence fee pays for the BBC, the money simply goes into the treasury's coffers - from where the BBC is funded.
As said earlier, the licence fee is just another stream of taxation. The same as most things you are force to cough up for. Road Tax does not pay for the building and upkeep of roads (if it did we would have one of the best road systems in the world), Value Added Tax has nothing to do with value, etc.
<off stream> Why does my spell checker say etc. is misspelled, but offers etc. as a correction?
...or not?Quote:
Originally Posted by kreativebargains
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/1...that-tv-d.html
I would think the biggest tell is (as someone said) the retailer having to notify the sale of a set; that matched against licence holder records.
BTW. Licence enforcement officers (or whatever their title is) have no right of entry to your property - whatever they might try to lead you to believe.
In the bad old days here, they used to just drive around at night, looking for the faint blue flickering glow! :o
In here we don’t have that problems or that much…
If you like to watch regular programs or ‘’zillions’’ channels just call cable or satellite company and you ready to go but you will pay for that monthly…
Or if you don’t like to watch or you can’t pay monthly that’s ok too…
You can always buy DVD Player and hook up on TV and watch what you can buy or you have on DVD disc…but regular ‘’zillions’’ channel not….nothing is free…
If you can’t either one options in that case you no need TV…
In here we don’t have around officers for licenses or similar stuff to go around…is very simple: you like to watch you pay, you don’t like to watch or you can’t pay you will not watch…and life goes on….
For Internet I don’t use for watching much because is not yet invented that big Comp monitors like for my TV for regular retail sales….I just like to see person on TV in full I mean in full size….
But this is only me….right…:cool:....
itll be interestin wen the paralimpiks start
to see wat kinda coverage it gets v the limpiks i.e media etc
why aint the paralimpiks on bbc instead of c4
I thourougly enjoyed the olympics, loved the atmosphere in london, loved going up to the city, went to see both womans and mens marathons, people were so friendly to each other, was looking at a Map deciding how to get to somewhere when this American tourist came up and helped us out (did'nt have the heart to say that I knew where we was going) I thought that was just jolly decent of them.
Am well looking forward to the Para Olympics will be going up town again when its on and will try hard to get tickets,
Though I dont think they put much on the telly for me to watch when I did'nt want to watch the olympics, they even took off programmes that I love to watch, so was well dissapointed with the telly viewing.
As Jay say's will be interesting to see what coverage the paraolympics gets on the box.
Channel 4 bid more about 3 million more than BBC, think BBC thought be no competition.Quote:
Originally Posted by PATRIOT73
atuva? why we had closin ceremony..........limpiks aint ova till next month
Well over or not I dont have the problem with whether or not I need to pay for a tv license.
I dont own a tv, most of my adult life have been that way and even as a child I used to prefer spending time away from tv drawing, making things, reading, writing listening to music and such.
The one thing that really has got my back up in the past though is when I get hounded about a license even having them threatening to come to my house to 'check I havent got one' It really incenses me thay they automatically assume everyone owns a tv. I wrote them a pretty good letter a few years ago and they apologised to me then.
I had a reminder letter again a few weeks ago (quite politely put still) saying as stated originally every two years they will have to keep reviewing my situation in case I now own a tv. They asked me to fill the online form in saying my circumstances havent changed, but even on there I noticed there is still a section that says they may call round to my house to check anytime, just what they say to everyone.
Im sorry but Im not a criminal. I simply dont own a tv (I only watch one if Im visiting people sometimes) it does not give them the right to come into my private home as if I were guilty of something. This is supposed to be a free country and a democracy
Annoying !! I thought that was why they had tv detector vans.
As I said earlier, they do not have a right to enter your property. They need to obtain a search warrant from a court.Quote:
Originally Posted by Salomina27
They are well known for claiming they do have a right of entry - hoping that most will just accept it. If they try it on, tell them to call the police to attend or you will call them on their behalf.