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TV licence costs to rise from April - MSE News

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The cost of a standard colour TV licence will rise to £154.50 from 1 April – an increase of £4...
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Sorry, you've landed on a page that doesn't exist. :huh:
https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/telling-us-you-dont-need-a-tv-licence
surely it would pay to actually check as everyone caught means an extra £100 I expect it would cost less than £100 to actually go and check in person
Interesting point, I don't know how log the old B&W set last and how they easily they can be fixed / replaced but my guess is that those who do upgrade never report it. It is also worth noting that a colour tv with the colour turned off is still classed by TV Licensing as a colour tv.
It is the ability to receive colour that is of interest, not how you set your telly up to display that colour. As a B&W set cannot receive colour it qualifies for an appropriate licence (for backwards compatibility reasons the colour information IIRC is transmitted in such a way that black and white TVs can just ignore, while colour TVs process it).. A TV that can receive colour but has it turned off is not by definition a black and white TV.
None of the old analogue ones will work now.
If you are talking about using a digibox with a B&W TV, then you are actually receiving a colour signal, so surely you will need a colour licence.
A set-up consisting solely of a B &W TV and a normal Set-top Box is permitted as long as the STB has no recording capability.
There are so few left that it wouldn't make a huge difference.