should tv licence be payable when analogue signal ends?

Charlton_King

What about viewing non-live 'broadcasts' like catch-up tv or on-demand services?

Is no distinction drawn between watching real time output and what, in essence, amounts to recorded stuff?

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Charlton_King wrote: »

What about viewing non-live 'broadcasts' like catch-up tv or on-demand services?

Is no distinction drawn between watching real time output and what, in essence, amounts to recorded stuff?

If you are watching tv programmes via iplayer/4OD then you don't require a license, however if you're using the catch up facility on Virgin Media then you do because you have the ability to watch live tv.

Charlton_King

anewhope wrote: »

If you are watching tv programmes via iplayer/4OD then you don't require a license, however if you're using the catch up facility on Virgin Media then you do because you have the ability to watch live tv.

And what if I'm watching 4OD via Virgin Media...?!

moonrakerz

anewhope wrote: »

then you do because you have the ability to watch live tv.

The fact that you have the "ability" is totally irrelevant - you need a licence to watch or record live TV - that is all.

As I have said many times before you can have a house full of televisions, all connected to aerials, all tuned to TV stations but provided you don't watch live TV you do not need a licence.

superscaper

moonrakerz wrote: »

Be careful ! I am afraid that you could well be the one spouting rubbish here !

If you are receiving radio through a television either directly or through a set top box then you do need a TV licence. You only escape the need for a licence if the equipment producing the audio is not capable of producing video as well.
The logo on your TV screen saying "Radio 1", or what ever, is still classed as "television" !

Funny, I don't remember saying anything about listening to the radio through the TV. My post may have been ambigious because I wasn't explicit but if you want to disagree at least disagree with something I actually literally said and avoid interpolating and extrapolating what's written. :rolleyes:

moonrakerz

superscaper wrote: »

Funny, I don't remember saying anything about listening to the radio through the TV.

"You could have a TV connected to a freeview box which is connected to a TV aerial and if you only use it to listen to digital radio then you do NOT need a license"

No need to be "interpolating and extrapolating", that is what you wrote - clear, concise and unambiguous !:rolleyes:

tomsolomon

What about satellite?
I object very strongly to having to pay for my TV twice over.....:mad:

I subscribe to Sky and pay over £200 a year why the hell then should I have to pay for something I dont even watch??????

BBC content is rubbish, and I have plenty of other channels.
TV Licence is obsolete, and should be treated so. Whats going to happen in years to come when actor and technical staff salary's and the equipment they use to produce to the programs becomes too expensive, is the BBC going to charge everyone a grand a year for TV a licence?
And that's even before these bloody fat cat's get their 25% pay rise.

I say nationalise it and bring it into line with the independent advertising companies.

And scrap the bloody licence before people start rioting.....