Unlimited TV, or unlimited broadband?

modsandmockers

If your normal practice is to leave the TV switched on most of the time, then I guess there is little doubt that you need a TV licence.

But my own normal practice is to switch on the TV only when I have identified a programme which I really want to watch.

I have finally got around to setting myself up to watch CatchUpTV via an HDMI cable from my computer to my TV. It's brilliant - there's no annoying baggage (except the adverts on ITV), and I can watch the programme of my choice at a time which suits me best.

I have cancelled my £12.12 monthly licence fee, and upgraded my 10GB broadband package to 'unlimited' for an additional £4 a month. This represents a saving of £8.12 a month. The only downside is that I have to wait until the programme has finished before I am allowed to watch it.

Celine_Sison

Hello! for me, I would still choose unlimited broadband because I always prefer to stay online and do my work there. Anyway, you can still watch movies when you have an internet. I think you just to have to be patient with its processing but its all worth it:)

modsandmockers

An interesting change is the attitude of the TV licensing people. About ten years ago, I moved into a place with no TV, and wrote a long letter explaining why I had no need of a TV licence. They continued to bombard me with threatening letters, and they continued until eventually I had NTL cable installed, and immediately bought a licence.

But now, on the TV licensing website, they volunteer the information that there are circumstances in which a TV licence is not required.

The BBC is going to have to find a better way to cover its costs - the 'one price fits all' model dates from the 1950s.

Cornucopia

TVL have no choice, really, but to recognise that technology has changed, and being without a legal need for a TV Licence is no longer exceptional.

I would be wary of trusting them too far - they can be tricky to deal with, and there are examples of questionable conduct both as a matter of policy and with individual TVL door-steppers.