TV Licence article Discussion

Cornucopia

What about an eBook?

Andy_L

Cornucopia wrote: »

What about an eBook?

What about them indeed? I don't think any of the (B&W) eBook readers will run video (Silverlight's needed for iPlayer)

Nilrem

Cornucopia wrote: »

What about an eBook?

Eink even at it's best can only do about 2 refreshes a second, not really up to the task of video (let alone the hardware in dedicated ereaders is very heavily optimised for displaying just text and the odd picture, so wouldn't have any of the hardware for video*).

There are some eink displays that can work fast enough for video, but they're still experimental (not in production), and colour as a display that could do video at the power consumption of an eink display would be one of the holy grails for tablet computers and advertising displays.


*Video decoding is quite hardware intensive, you either tend to need a general purpose processor with a lot of grunt and the right software (why most PC's can cope with files that dedicated devices can struggle with), or a dedicated decoder chip that can only do very specific formats. To put things in perspective in the early days of DVD you tended to need a £100+ dedicated decoder card for good playback, then it got added as part of the video card.

dovski

If Live tv were paused at the point of watching, I wouldnt then be watching live, so no licence needed iirc ?:money:

wiogs

dovski wrote: »

If Live tv were paused at the point of watching, I wouldnt then be watching live, so no licence needed iirc ?:money:

It would be a live stream/broadcast that you would have paused so a licence would be required.

Vendettag

If I wanted to complain about the TV Licence sending a court summons to the wrong address four times in a row, who would I contact?

Cornucopia

The Court?

Or the BBC. Head of Revenue Management at the address on the complaints page of the TVL website.

metso

I don't have a TV but I do have a Computer which as I understand doesn't require a TV License as long as I don't watch LIVE tv.

How do I prove that I don't watch Live tv?

Is the onus placed upon me or TVL to prove I don't watch LIVE tv?

Is it enough to say I don't watch LIVE tv on my computer?

Thanks

Cornucopia

Like all other offences in UK law, the onus is on TVL to prove that you are breaking the law, if you are.

One of the issues is that they are inclined to say to people who don't need a licence that their set-up needs to be checked. This is not true. There is no legal requirement for them to do this or for citizens to allow it.

By all means tell them (once) that you don't need a licence as you don't watch TV broadcasts. If they then persist, simply ignore them.

badplayer69uk

Hi,

I have a TV License at home, no problem....

I also have a static caravan which I don't have a TV license for as I believe that my home license covers me for there (so long as live TV is not simultaneously being viewed at both premises).

The question is that if I wish to rent out my caravan to guests for holiday breaks - I guess that I would need a 2nd license? To combat this, could I make it a condition that people who stayed in the caravan owned a TV License already? Bit of a grey area.....

Any thoughts?