TV Licence article Discussion

slow_saver

I do see all you guys points of view (oh dear!) Jeez!!... like I said I myself dodged the licence for years during the 80's I did all the tricks when they came a knocking... not answering the door etc... but I finally got caught & they weren't too heavy handed with me... They gave me 7 days to get a licence or the guy said he'd be back. I bought a licence the next day & heard no more.. I was like everyone else begrudging of paying the licence fee until I watched some programmes I really liked & then it dawned on me that with the radio (I listen to R2 during the day) that actually I am getting good value. Put it this way I used to pay for sky to watch the footy but they kept increasing their prices for really nothing more than extra rubbish channels, so... I gave them the boot! Now I just use streaming sites online for my footy.

Cornucopia

There's nothing about a potential change to subscription that fundamentally changes the "value for money" argument. Unless you don't believe that most households would subscribe to the BBC when given the choice, and if they didn't, the BBC would lack the commercial skill to adapt themselves to a much smaller level of funding.

By small, of course, I still mean well in excess of £1bn per year, in all likelihood. So not that small in the grand scheme of things.

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david.richards27 wrote: »

Yes, this the exact letter we received, scared the hell out of us!

Don't let it scare you.

I have at least half a dozen copies, of that particular piece of crap.

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slow_saver wrote: »

I urge all of you who are anti licence to just stop & imagine there were no BBC.

I just did, and it gave me a warm feeling.

cw18

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

I just did, and it gave me a warm feeling.

Love it :T

Me too

taff086

Here's one for you (sorry if it's been covered already - I didn't see it in the last 5 pages....) :

I don't have a TV license, because I only watch catchup TV on my computer or iPad - but my girlfriend (who lives separately) does have a TV license. If your TV license is 'portable' (ie - can watch TV out of the home) does her license cover her/us to watch live TV in my house when she's here?

cw18

It covers her as long as she's watching on an appliance that isn't plugged into your mains or an aerial at your property. So she can't watch on your TV set (if you have one), but could watch on a tablet, laptop or mobile phone as long as they're working on their internal battery.

taragau

? - I watch catch-up tv . If I go back to start of the programme which is live - ie watch programme from beg of transmission whilst programme may be 20 mins old, am I watching live tv or tv that has already been recorded?

Cornucopia

TVL say they regard anything within 2 hours of transmission as effectively live. There is no legal justification for their view.

Personally speaking, I have no interest in watching anything nearly live, if that is questionable, whilst I can watch after a few hours perfectly legally.

Annie369_2

If you enjoy watching BBC programmes on catch-up, on whatever device, even if you never watch them on live TV, then surely you must agree that it is only fair to pay the licensing fee because without that there would not be the excellent dramas, documentaries, news, etc, that only the BBC can produce to high standards, without relying on income from adverts. Every film or drama on commercial channels is interrupted regularly with excessively long commercial breaks; these breaks do not even happen at natural breaks, for example change of scene, but totally randomly and spoil the enjoyment of the programme. I watch all channels - not just BBC - but I prefer to watch BBC because their programmes are not interrupted with 'drivel'.