Student TV license ?

adam2484

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ihatechoosingnames wrote:

ermm...i think the jails being able to use a shared licence is a better thing, less money for taxpayers isn't it?

also, of course they can stay warm, wash and eat for free..criminals or not, you can't just let people starve or freeze can you ?! you're making it sound like a holiday when in fact jail is pretty much hell for the majority of people who end up there. (just to add, i'm not pro-criminals or anything.. )

Some of em deserve to rot, so yeh u shud have em starve nd freeze lol

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adam2484 wrote:

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Some of em deserve to rot, so yeh u shud have em starve nd freeze lol

freezing slows down rotting
anyway i don't i'll have time watching tv in uni:( at least there is no radio licence

nelliebag

I suppose that you could look at it another way - don't pay your license fee,get taken to court, go to jail and then you wont have to pay your license fee cos its free!!!

kittiwoz

Horne65 is correct that the law was changed and that one license used to cover a halls or hmo, similarly army barracks and old peoples homes, but now it doesn't. It only covers a shared house. However this change isnt terribly recent, it occured some time before I started uni in 2001.

We have solved this problem by not watching telly.

haveagoade

Why should your details be forwarded to tv licencing when you purchase a freeview set top box. You cannot watch tv on a set top box, you can only watch tv on a tv, what if you bought the stb ONLY for recieving digital radio?

djhworld

Just to add a bit of debate on the topic

Hotels pay the BBC one TV lisence per 15 rooms. Meaning say, a large hotel with 90 rooms would only need six lisences.

Students have to pay one TV lisence per room, and generally speaking, on campus accomodation holds 300 - 1000 students.

Unfair? You decide, but to me, the whole thing is a crying shame, the government reaps the rewards from Universities, and I'm pretty sure the officers who scan for non-lisence payers target campus locations to extract those watching TV without one and fining them thousands of pounds.

Cheers BBC. It's not like Eastenders is worth watching anymore, is it?

kittiwoz

Just looked at the first page of this topic and saw the question about whether you need a license for each room with a TV in a shared house.

mhoc wrote:

My daughter is in rented property with 6 others and her room is next to the TV room. All the bils and TV liscence are in the owners name. At the moment she has just her laptop in her room but if she also has her her DVD player I wonder if that then means she would need a seperate lisense?

gizmoleeds wrote:

If she is living in a shared house then as I understand it it all depends on whether or not her door has a key lock - if her door locks, she needs a licence, if it doesn't she doesn't.

The advice regarding it being dependant on whether the door is lockable with a key is incorrect. It is depedndent on whether the house amd all rooms is regarded as being held in common by the tenants, shared, or whether they are regarded as renting individual rooms with shared access to comunal areas, HMO. If you all have your names on the same contract and are jointly liable for the whole of the rent on the house then the propert should be covered by a single license. If you each have seperate contracts and could not be held liable for the shortfall if one of the other tenants left then it is an HMO and you need seperate licenses.

This is from the TV licensing website:

If you are going to be sharing a house, a separate tenancy agreement would normally mean your room is classified a separately occupied place. In this case, if you have a TV in your room, you will need your own TV Licence.

However, if there is only one TV in a communal area, then only one TV Licence is required. Similarly, if your house can be treated as one place shared by all, then only one TV Licence is required - a joint tenancy agreement would normally indicate that there is only one separately occupied place.

Also you do not need a license to own a telly, only to recieve television signals. So if you are using a laptop or even a television for watching pre-recorded DVDs or playing computer games you are not required to have a license. Again from the TV licensing website:

You need a TV Licence to use any television receiving equipment such as a TV set, set-top boxes, video or DVD recorders, computers or mobile phones to watch TV programmes as they are being broadcast.

shylock_2

Gorgeous_George wrote:

So, what if your Sky+ runs off the mains but the laptop TV has internal batteries?

Where can I get 32-inch laptop for my home?



GG

I once connected a digital projector to my laptop and got a very large image. problem is that the projector runs off mains not batteries but since the tv signal is being produced from a battery source (the laptop) would such a combination need a licence?

house47

China produces mobile phones with built in TV tuners (see Ebay and search for 'TV Mobile Phone') they work brilliantly too, I brought a Kebaote K915 off a UK Seller on Ebay a few weeks back. Because the phone works off an internal battery there is no TV license required, perfect for students (fishermen and truckers too - my hubby!). My K915 has a 2.6" touch sensitive screen and is a great bit of kit. It was in English from the moment I put in an O2 sim and came with warranty and customer support.
Brilliant bit of kit and 1/3 of the price of the iPhone :j