TV License loop hole?

Ollieda

Does anyone know if by using the Aver Digital TV adaptor and connecting it to your laptop to watch TV requires a TV license. The website claims that you watch digital terestrial on it not normal terestrial. Therefore if you used this with a laptop and didnt have a normal TV would you have to pay a TV license as you weren't watching normal terestrial TV (as long as you don't use the terestrial areial that comes with it)?

Poppycat

I am sure you do.

rsykes2000

You still need a licence if you are receiving digital terrestrial TV. Otherwise when the switch to digital comes round in a couple of years,the BBC loses *all* its funding...

greyster

I'm sure you do but it must be hard to prove having all this small PC stuff, as opposted to a TV sitting on a table.

firespire

A battery powered deviced is exempt from TV licencing I believe. As a laptop uses a battery here is an argument that no TV licence is required but you may have a legal battle in court so I would buy the licence.

wazza

firespire wrote:

A battery powered deviced is exempt from TV licencing I believe. As a laptop uses a battery here is an argument that no TV licence is required but you may have a legal battle in court so I would buy the licence.

in a way you are right. going back around 20 years (wow time does fly) as a student at a uni i can have a portable black and white tv at my accommodation and don't need a licence as long my home/parents house has one. I think this still applies.

Ollieda

Oh well, I was so sure I was onto a winner there! Still getting one of these and a license beats getting a TV and a license. My brother's TV cost him over £70 (althoguh it did have a built in dvd player). So a good laptop with one of these and a license is a computer, dvd player and tv all in one.......at least I am saving some money after all!

Ivrytwr3

Any item that is CAPABLE of receiving a TV signal must be licensed.

A few year ago i had to escort a TV licence guy around a military base. We got to the Officers mess and start ed knocking on doors, this young officer comes to the door and the guy went through the usual spiel. "Do you have a tv?" etc, the officer answers no to every question, the officer starts to close the door and we are moving to the next door. Suddenly the door comes back open, the young officer steps out and asks if his laptop, which he occasionaly watches TV on is included.

The TV guy says, "Yes it is Sir, now how would you like to pay for your new licence?"

Doh!!!!!!!!!

regulator_2

wazza wrote:

don't need a licence as long my home/parents house has one. I think this still applies.

I dont think this does, if i remember reading their website correctly. A b+w tv has a reduced rate license fee.

p1an0player

Wow..

So is all the advertising about the detector vans just rubbish then? (that's not a rhetorical question)

Jamz

p1an0player wrote:

Wow..

So is all the advertising about the detector vans just rubbish then? (that's not a rhetorical question)

Yes it is, how can a van pick up a device that only receives and not transmits.

Also BTW if some new rule changes come in anyone owning a PC with an internet connection will have to pay a licence fee cause BBC are making programs available over the net