TV licence query

Ratty43

Could you just cancel your TV licence and connect your computer to your TV . Using sites such as http://www.tvcatchup.com/ to watch tv from your computer ?

Kurtis_Blue

Ratty43 wrote: »

Could you just cancel your TV licence and connect your computer to your TV . Using sites such as http://www.tvcatchup.com/ to watch tv from your computer ?

No, not if you are using it to watch live streams.

I-player etc.. would be OK.

societys_child

Ratty43 wrote: »

Could you just cancel your TV licence and connect your computer to your TV . Using sites such as http://www.tvcatchup.com/ to watch tv from your computer ?

Read thro' the preceding 60 posts . . it's all explained . .

Ratty43

Kurtis_Blue wrote: »

No, not if you are using it to watch live streams.

I-player etc.. would be OK.

Ok but how could they actually find out ?

DUTR

Ratty43 wrote: »

Ok but how could they actually find out ?

From your ISP, I won't go through all the posts, it's probably already mentioned but what is so cool about not paying for a TV license? Creates more hassle to avoid paying it than to just pay it and not worry about it for the next 12 months

progressive_uk

I've had various experiences with this over the past 5 years at 3 addresses - I neither own a TV nor watch any live-stream.

Roughly every month/2 months I get a letter threatening me with official investigation (presumably I am on the list of unlicenced properties). I wrote to them relatively early on at both addresses to say that I didn't need one etc. This usually stops the letters for about 6-9 months, then they come again.

In the 1.5 years at my present address, there have been 3 attempted visits, though I've never been in. At my previous address I had a visit whilst present - I explained the situation on the doorstep. They asked to check - I said that they would need a court warrant - they said they were prepared to get one. I decided that in the interests of saving the country some money, I'd let them check, though the guy was probably bluffing.

In an effort to get the letters to stop I've tried all sorts of tacks - from simple explanation of the facts, to suggesting that by pursuing me for watching a television that they were insulting my religion, to pure sarcasm.

Never seen a detector van, but I did invite them to park one on the double yellow lines outside one of the properties I lived in in my sarcasm letter.

If you do write to them, never sign or give your name - I'm sure they could find out, but don't make things easy for them!

progressive_uk

DUTR wrote: »

From your ISP, I won't go through all the posts, it's probably already mentioned but what is so cool about not paying for a TV license? Creates more hassle to avoid paying it than to just pay it and not worry about it for the next 12 months

What hassle? Other than ignoring post and potentially getting one, at worst two visits per year? I find it highly improbable that the TVLA would go to the lengths of asking your ISP to sift through all of your web traffic over a significant period.

If you're genuinely not using a TV then £140 is a good saving considering the minimal hassle.

Kurtis_Blue

Ratty43 wrote: »

Ok but how could they actually find out ?

Sorry my answer was in intended for those interested in the actual requirement for a licence, it was not intended for those little cheapskates who want to cheat the system and watch TV paid for by my licence.

DUTR

progressive_uk wrote: »

What hassle? Other than ignoring post and potentially getting one, at worst two visits per year? I find it highly improbable that the TVLA would go to the lengths of asking your ISP to sift through all of your web traffic over a significant period.

If you're genuinely not using a TV then £140 is a good saving considering the minimal hassle.

Highly improbable yes, impossible no, it would not take long to search really. I know of people who have been convicted for not owning a TV license yet watching TV, I have had a few close calls myself in the past much easier to forgo a few pints of beer a month or just re-adjust the budget to allow for a tv license purchase, a fine will soon claw back any previous missed licenses

Ratty43

Kurtis_Blue wrote: »

Sorry my answer was in intended for those interested in the actual requirement for a licence, it was not intended for those little cheapskates who want to cheat the system and watch TV paid for by my licence.

My question was asking if it was possible and not that i would actually cheat the system.