What can TV Licence people actually see?

concerned43

Last year I did not have a license (because i was skint) anyhow a car pulled outside my house, I went upstairs to see who they were, my son was watching a sky movie and i could see the movie being played on a small screen in the car in real time - so I am afraid the BBC do have the technology...scary!!

jillie1974

when you buy a tv the shop ask you to fill in a form with your name and address, this gets sent to the tv license people, who cross reference it with their records and thats is how they know who has/hasnt a tv.

moonrakerz

concerned43 wrote: »

Last year I did not have a license (because i was skint) anyhow a car pulled outside my house, I went upstairs to see who they were, my son was watching a sky movie and i could see the movie being played on a small screen in the car in real time - so I am afraid the BBC do have the technology...scary!!

If he was watching anything it wasn't from your (illegally used !) TV.

It is theoretically possible to determine what channel a TV is receiving by detecting the frequencies the television set is producing to get the received signal down to a frequency from which a picture can be produced.
It is NOT possible to get a TV picture from these frequencies.

As I said previously, even if they did have such technology, it has NEVER been used in Court (admitted by TV Licensing in a written statement in Parliament), because it it is not admissible as evidence.

Silk

Thers a good explantaion about everything here ...
http://www.tvlicensing.biz/detection/index.php

You can even build a TV cloaking device :rotfl:

moonrakerz

Silk wrote: »

You can even build a TV cloaking device :rotfl:

Wrapping it in tinfoil is much more effective !:D:D

moonrakerz

concerned43 wrote: »

Last year I did not have a license (because i was skint) anyhow a car pulled outside my house, I went upstairs to see who they were, my son was watching a sky movie and i could see the movie being played on a small screen in the car in real time - so I am afraid the BBC do have the technology...scary!!

Just another comment on this: If he was watching Sky Movies from your TV (which he wasn't !) he would have been committing a criminal offence himself as he wasn't in possession of a Sky card and was therefore "hacking" !

property.advert

There is no TV detection. It is all just a ruse to scare you into buying a license for something you do not want and which you have not signed a contract to either receive or pay for. As far as I am concerned, they can stop beaming it into my living room.

At university, I had someone come to the door and ask what that blaring TV was in the living room. We don't have a TV I told him, ignoring the crowd watching the Formula 1 and drinking beer in the living room. I asked to look in their van for the 23rd century technology they claim to have but I reckon all I'd have seen would have been a portaloo and a collection of electoral rolls cross referenced with those who had not bought a license. I once bought a TV from Argos but they apparently sent the licence request to Mr M Mouse, 1 Disneyland, Florida.

preable

They wont like whats on my screen lol i mean it corrie xD