Quote Originally Posted by joebloggs View Post
if it has a tuner built in you need a license, if you watch anything on the net thats broadcast live in the UK you need a license, i went thru something similar to you Iani,
Indeedly, I know it used to be the case, there were always those cases of people being sued for a colour license when they owned a VHS recorder but a black and white tv - because the VHS was capable of recording a colour signal.

There must have been a change though, it's on the licensing website, as long as I'm not using the tv to receive signals as they are being broadcast, I don't need one - even though the set is capable of receiving.
So I just haven't tuned it in, and don't have an aerial plugged in - this seems to satisfy them.

I just had a look on the website again, and there's a pdf available, which suggests that as they pestered.......sorry.........visited me once, they won't do again for a period of 2 years, but after then, the property once again should be the subject of being bombarded with letters suggesting I'm a criminal, guilty till proven innocent, buy a license you scumbag etc etc

I don't like this bullying attitude, but hey, this IS the same company that wanted to charge a license for anyone in a car who had a radio (That one got rejected by the government at the time