BBC Rant No: 6,476

[joebloggs]

not unless they changed the law, i'm sure if it had a tuner in it, you needed a license, wether it was a tv, video recorder, free view box, tv tuner card in your pc or dvd recorder.

but from the licensing web site
'You need a TV Licence to use any television receiving equipment such as a TV set, set-top boxes, video or DVD recorders, computers or mobile phones to watch TV programmes as they are being broadcast.

If you use a set-top box with a hi-fi system or another device that can only be used to produce sounds and can't display TV programmes, and you don't install or use any other TV receiving equipment, you don't need a TV Licence.'

so you can listen to it but not watch it , good for blind people, not good for deaf people thou, bit of discrimination there

i don't see how they would ever know your watching thru the inet, if your pc don't have a tuner, when my bro use to work for the post offfice, b4 bt was formed, his friend use to drive around the northwest in a van finding people without a tv license

[andypaul]

not unless they changed the law, i'm sure if it had a tuner in it, you needed a license, wether it was a tv, video recorder, free view box, tv tuner card in your pc or dvd recorder.

but from the licensing web site
'You need a TV Licence to use any television receiving equipment such as a TV set, set-top boxes, video or DVD recorders, computers or mobile phones to watch TV programmes as they are being broadcast.

If you use a set-top box with a hi-fi system or another device that can only be used to produce sounds and can't display TV programmes, and you don't install or use any other TV receiving equipment, you don't need a TV Licence.'

so you can listen to it but not watch it , good for blind people, not good for deaf people thou, bit of discrimination there

i don't see how they would ever know your watching thru the inet, if your pc don't have a tuner, when my bro use to work for the post offfice, b4 bt was formed, his friend use to drive around the northwest in a van finding people without a tv license

The above post contained an extract from the tv license webpage i guess they have already been though a few courtcases which cost more than they are worth so try to say well you should of written to us to avoid a court battle and just get them stump up the money if they have not informed them of some special circumstances.

But i know of some phills who just have a pc and they download abs cbn progs of the net to watch, like you say they are unlucky to even be asked but i think they should be safe as long as they don't stream the shows live?

[aromulus]

The above post contained an extract from the tv license webpage i guess they have already been though a few courtcases which cost more than they are worth so try to say well you should of written to us to avoid a court battle and just get them stump up the money if they have not informed them of some special circumstances.

But i know of some phills who just have a pc and they download abs cbn progs of the net to watch, like you say they are unlucky to even be asked but i think they should be safe as long as they don't stream the shows live?

Whichever way you read the info, it doesn't really make much difference...
They will win in any case, sooner or later they get you, one way or the other.
When I moved here, years ago, my TV was not even plugged on the wall, or had an antenna. It was still in the spare bedroom together with all the rest of the furniture that I hadn't had time to arrange in the flat, due to re-decorating it.
Well, maybe it was Joe's bro that called on spec, he demanded to see the receiving equipment, and as the telly had a plug on, he plugged it in the wall socket and switched the set on.
The picture without the antenna was not present, but the sound was good.
I only got away with the £1000 fine because I had the licence, but it was for my previous lodgings and not had the time to change the address.
I was issued with a formal warning to change address asap, as he would come back within the week to check.....
He did.... And I was ready.