MSE News: You'll need a TV licence to use iPlayer from 1 September this year

KingS6

VisionMan wrote: »

What are they then? Because if you've got a heads up on this everyone would love to know.

I imagine it's more of the same "detection equipment" and relying on people incriminating themselves.

VisionMan

KingS6 wrote: »

I imagine it's more of the same "detection equipment" and relying on people incriminating themselves.

You imagine? Please stop stating your imagination as fact as you may scare people unnecessarily.

If you have a fact, state it. But if you don't, don't.

unforeseen

KingS6 wrote: »

But the BBC have not reciprocated the other way and made it so if you only watch live TV from channels such as ITV, C4 or a even a foreign channel but not BBC channels you are licence fee exempt.

It is not up to the BBC. It is an act of parliament that decrees that a licence is required for live broadcasts.

Your elected representative was one of the people who decided that it would still apply to virtually all live broadcasts when they amended it to add iPlayer recently. BBC just take the money

KingS6

VisionMan wrote: »

You imagine? Please stop stating your imagination as fact as you may scare people unnecessarily.

If you have a fact, state it. But if you don't, don't.

Scare people unnecessarily? How?

Kernow666

its the people who claim to have a B&W license who they should be targeting , they are the ones who are conning the BBC out of 1000s every year

missusP

From the tv licence website. http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/bbc-iplayer-and-the-tv-licence?&WT.mc_id=rdir_tvlcouk-lawchange

You won't need a licence to:
(1) Download or watch S4C TV on demand on BBC iPlayer or listen to radio on BBC iPlayer.
(2) Download or watch programmes on demand from other providers, such as:

• ITV Hub, All 4 or Demand 5
• BT Vision, Virgin Media or Sky Go
• Netflix or Now TV
• Apple, Roku or Amazon

So as long as its not BBC, you will not need a licence yet. (I know this has been stated but I like a quote to be certain)

[Deleted User]

Kernow666 wrote: »

its the people who claim to have a B&W license who they should be targeting , they are the ones who are conning the BBC out of 1000s every year

Like blind people, you mean? :eek:

dan2097

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

Like blind people, you mean? :eek:

Considering serving blind people has a cost associated with it for the BBC (adding an audio description track to popular tv programs) I'm genuinely a bit confused as to why blind people get a discount. If they're worried about the license fee's affordability for certain people they should relate it to income. I wonder if the black and white license still exists for similar reasons, the cost of creating TV programs is obviously unaffected by whether they are viewed in colour or black and white.

victor2

dan2097 wrote: »

Considering serving blind people has a cost associated with it for the BBC (adding an audio description track to popular tv programs) I'm genuinely a bit confused as to why blind people get a discount. If they're worried about the license fee's affordability for certain people they should relate it to income. I wonder if the black and white license still exists for similar reasons, the cost of creating TV programs is obviously unaffected by whether they are viewed in colour or black and white.

Erm, because they can't see it, whether it's in colour or black and white?

TJ17

I am extremely disappointed in the news. I'm not an avid BBC watcher, I rarely ever watch live TV, but I do use iPlayer the odd time when bored to watch something. It's rare, but I do use it.

I'm a student and live in a house of 5, we all have TV's in our room as well as one in the living room and all of our doors lock, are we supposed to pay £727.50 to have access to iPlayer for occasional use? For people like us it makes absolutely no sense.

I don't see why the BBC doesn't just make a deal with a rival such as Netflix and get a pay-per-view for the programmes it puts on there. If it uploaded episodes after airing to Netflix or an alternative that many already pay for, I would be much happier to pay for the service.

Even if iPlayer charged a few pounds a month to use it's service I wouldn't mind paying it. It could add a few adverts, it would make a vastly larger amount of money.

It's just infuriating that they expect me to pay £145.50 for rare access to something. I'm obviously not going to do it.