TV licensing threats

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iKennett wrote: »

I've played by the rules (imposed on me!); I've made a declaration that no TV Licence is required

The "rules" do not require you to make that (or indeed any) declaration.

Swans1912

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

The "rules" do not require you to make that (or indeed any) declaration.

Agreed. Yet they feel imposed on me...

wiogs

Kayak10 wrote: »

I can only presume your are quite young unlike myself
Up to a few years ago ALL tv was received via an analogue aerial Then we all ( who watched LIVE tv ) went over to digital there was a period where unless you changed your tv or and aerial u needed a converter box.

I am sure your original post meant well and the subsequent comments you have made are well intentioned too, however please don't post comments on things that you obviously do not understand and try and pass them off as fact.

You did not have an analogue aerial then and now you don't have a digital aerial.

wiogs

Kayak10 wrote: »

So as NOT to be accused of " misinformation " I've just looked it up and found this being part of a report on the BBC news site

UK analogue TV signals will end on 24 October 2012, Digital UK has said.

The last place to enjoy the 80-year-old transmission technology will be Northern Ireland.

Afterwards, people who do not subscribe to satellite or cable services will have to buy digital televisions or set-top boxes to continue viewing.

All very interesting and irrelevant to the aerial comment earlier.

wiogs

iKennett wrote: »

Apparently this is a description of the capability as detailed in a document seeking a search warrant from a judge (it was actually given).



http://tv-licensing.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/lifting-lid-on-tv-licensings-pandoras.html

That is a terrifying read.

If people in authority, a judge in this case, believe that sort of shoite then we are all doomed.

Doomed I tell you......

Cornucopia

wiogs wrote: »

All very interesting and irrelevant to the aerial comment earlier.

The underlying point being that the distinction between "analog aerials" and "digital aerials" owes everything to marketing and nothing to science.

MataNui

wiogs wrote: »

That is a terrifying read.

If people in authority, a judge in this case, believe that sort of shoite then we are all doomed.

Doomed I tell you......

Yes, its pretty poor BUT:
It was a request for a warrant so they would have turned up to the judge with this official sounding document and asked for a warrant. there would have been nobody to dispute anything contained in the document as thats not how these hearings work. So the judge would have only had whatever physics/technology based education he personally had to go on and was probably of a mind to grant a warrant anyway.

Reading it again i think anyone with even O' level physics would be sceptical about the claims in the document though. They are saying that they can 'decode' the interference patterns caused by the light reflecting off potentially several surfaces (and we know what happens when you mix light of different colours) to come up with an image they can digitally compare to every currently running tv show on every platform. Its simply not possible to do this reliably. Also the detector van would need a sat-tv feed with access to every channel.

I guess the judge didnt have O'level Physics.

dave4545454

Kayak10 wrote: »

I am NOT a licence dogger :mad: unlike I'm sure many posting on here ARE

Why are you so obsessed with dogging? This is the wrong site for that

Kayak10

MUTTL wrote: »

Thankyou Kayak
SO,I cant watch sky programmes(such as Atlantic)as they happen, if I don't have a license?

I don't know about Sky broadcasts But as far as I know you MUST have a licence to watch ANY live broadcast

Kayak10

silverwhistle wrote: »

For gawd sake don't ask Kayak, based on what I've seen in this thread he'll misinform you.

(PS: No, you can't.)

Incidentally, I mentioned this once in passing but never got a reply, but was wondering whether, as part of their strategy of getting confessions they use sensitive directional microphones? "Well madam, we know you were watching programme X (sorry, don't have a TV) so fess up and sign here...".

If you have nothing constructive to say on here EXCEPT try and be pedantic please DONT If you follow the WHOLE thread you will not much of the so called miss information is based on others saying I'm wrong When they weren't there I WAS :mad: