do i need a tv licence to buy a new tv ?

Scania_Man

Spank wrote: »

You only need a licence to watch live events on iplayer

Thanks for that correction - didn't realise!

joe134

Jeff_Bridges_hair wrote: »

NO you dont. You only need a tv license if you watch live broadcast television.

To my knowledge, you do need a license if you own a TV.
The license is a license to receive transmissions, not for the TV itself,and the TV is capable of receiving them. Even if you only use a DVD/vcr player through it;Otherwise, they would make TV,s without BBC, that,s what the license is for, not the other channels.

withabix

joe134 wrote: »

To my knowledge, you do need a license if you own a TV.
The license is a license to receive transmissions, not for the TV itself,and the TV is capable of receiving them. Even if you only use a DVD/vcr player through it;Otherwise, they would make TV,s without BBC, that,s what the license is for, not the other channels.

The above post is pretty much wrong in every respect.

fwor

joe134 wrote: »

To my knowledge, you do need a license if you own a TV.

Your knowledge is wrong.

This subject has been done to death here before.

If the TV is not capable of receiving live transmissions (e.g. does not have an aerial connected) then you don't need a licence for it.

bigfatface

I am curious to know how they would make TV's without BBC....

joe134

bigfatface wrote: »

I am curious to know how they would make TV's without BBC....

They don,t, that,s why you require a license. If they were allowed to, they would. They are not stupid are they.They want our money.Try telling the detector van, the BBC button doesn,t work.

jayme1

you only require a TV licence is you watch LIVE television (ie as it is being broadcast)

you do not need a TV licence to own a television or anything else that you can watch live TV on.

fwor

joe134 wrote: »

They don,t, that,s why you require a license. If they were allowed to, they would. They are not stupid are they.They want our money.Try telling the detector van, the BBC button doesn,t work.

Why don't you post on a subject that you know something about?

There is absolutely no reason why a TV maker would "not be allowed to" make a TV that could not receive the BBC. For digital TV it would be easy to do, because every channel carries an identifier.

The reason they don't is because it would be pointless. You need a licence for a TV that is capable of receiving ~any~ live terrestrial channel, not just the BBC channels.

deddogblues

joe134 wrote: »

They don,t, that,s why you require a license. If they were allowed to, they would. They are not stupid are they.They want our money.Try telling the detector van, the BBC button doesn,t work.

This has made my day, never laughed so much.

neilwoods

Dont need a license to watch iplayer currently, but that could soon change though. They are looking at plans that will require the use of the TV license to watch iplayer.