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TV licences - exactly what do you need one for?
Queenieviolet
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Just sat thinking about ways to cut my bills and me and OH got thinking - if we had no TV licence, can we still own a tv as long as it wasn't connected to an arial (eg. to play games consoles)? And if so, would it be legal to watch TV programmes from internet providing it wasn't BBC1? Just a daft question really but it got us thinking! 
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Queenieviolet wrote: »Just sat thinking about ways to cut my bills and me and OH got thinking - if we had no TV licence, can we still own a tv as long as it wasn't connected to an arial (eg. to play games consoles)? And if so, would it be legal to watch TV programmes from internet providing it wasn't BBC1? Just a daft question really but it got us thinking!
Doesn't matter if you're using the tv for just gaming, it's equipment in your home that is still able to receive tv transmission, so you need a licence still0 -
This is from the tv licence site...so you can have a tv set as long as you don't watch live tv you don't need a licence..
Do I need a TV Licence?
You must be covered by a valid TV Licence if you watch or record television programmes as they're being shown on TV. It makes no difference what equipment you use - whether it’s a laptop, PC, mobile phone, digital box, DVD recorder or a TV set - you still need a licence.
You do not need a TV Licence to view video clips on the internet, as long as what you are viewing is not being shown on TV at the same time as you are viewing it.
If you use a digital 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. #6 of the SKI-ers Club :j
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke0 -
I knew this was probably the case really - they're bound to have it all sewn up. Bloody annoying since technically you're only paying for BBC1! Oh well, like I said, just one of those daft thoughts that enter your head late at night (well my head anyway!)
Thanks Chaddy
Just read your post Tanith - so I may have a point after all!1% challenge - £4018 - reduce by 100 payments of £41.0 -
chaddy7604 wrote: »Doesn't matter if you're using the tv for just gaming, it's equipment in your home that is still able to receive tv transmission, so you need a licence still
WRONG! Totally wrong. Another example of tv licensing's ambiguous brainwashing! Owning a TV does NOT require a TV Licence!
Watching LIVE TV does.
End of!
Nothing else. That's it.0 -
danmanchester wrote: »WRONG! Totally wrong. Another example of tv licensing's ambiguous brainwashing! Owning a TV does NOT require a TV Licence!
Watching LIVE TV does.
End of!
Nothing else. That's it.
Woo hoo, now your a stroppy !!!!er aren't you
Get stung by a bee when you where a kid did ya? :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:0 -
This must be one of the top 5 topics to start e-violence!
This and the Apple-Windows-Linux fight.
Those who have already contributed will do best to sit back and watch the scrap unfold - this will make the Gaza Strip look like Kindergarden.
the danmanchesters of the forum will be along soon to start the real insults.0 -
Lol. No I didn't mean to come accross as a stroppy so and so, but I do get a bit amazed at how the "You need a tv licence" myth still exists...simply because one owns a TV. TV licensing want us all to believe this myth.
A TV licence is only needed for one reason, and one reason only: watching live tv via aerial/satellite/virgin or whatever and that's all.
Using a TV for gaming dvd's etc is not a crime!
Nice avatar btw ....0 -
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Queenieviolet wrote: »Bloody annoying since technically you're only paying for BBC1!
No - you're paying for all of the BBC's TV / Radio channels both national and regional as well as other bbc non-commercial enterprises like bbc.co.uk and dab rollout and iplayer0 -
Well I unwittingly assumed (I now know I was wrong m'lord :rotfl: ) that if you had equipment that was able to receive, then you needed a licensedanmanchester wrote: »Lol. No I didn't mean to come accross as a stroppy so and so, but I do get a bit amazed at how the "You need a tv licence" myth still exists...simply because one owns a TV. TV licensing want us all to believe this myth.
A TV licence is only needed for one reason, and one reason only: watching live tv via aerial/satellite/virgin or whatever and that's all.
Using a TV for gaming dvd's etc is not a crime!
Nice avatar btw ....
Take you eyes offa my tats 0
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