Computer - Television - license

roddydogs

Yes, honest guv the TV aerial on my roof, and the Sky Dish on my chimney arnt for watching Telly, honest i just have them for decoration.
By the way, no TV is ever watched "Live", there is always a delay,so we could all claim "We dont watch live TV"

buglawton

TighterThanTwoCoatsOfPain wrote: »

get out!! tell you what, lets make Gas, Elec, Mortgages, petrol, hell everything cheaper for those that dont have as much money...................................

Hmm I can see OP has really though this fairness thing through. It's fine for 7 adults sharing a household, four of whom could be wage earners, to pay for just one license between them, but not fine for a single student in his halls of residence to receive a young persons/single householder's/student or what-have-you discount.

Marty_J

roddydogs wrote: »

By the way, no TV is ever watched "Live", there is always a delay,so we could all claim "We dont watch live TV"

Good luck with that.

(and you got a thanks by me clicking the thanks button instead of the quote one...lol)

littleowl

buglawton wrote: »

Hmm I can see OP has really though this fairness thing through. It's fine for 7 adults sharing a household, four of whom could be wage earners, to pay for just one license between them, but not fine for a single student in his halls of residence to receive a young persons/single householder's/student or what-have-you discount.

Erm - I am the original OP and don't recall mentioning either pensioners or students?

weegie.geek

roddydogs wrote: »

By the way, no TV is ever watched "Live", there is always a delay,so we could all claim "We dont watch live TV"

There's always one.

It's as live as it's technically possible to be. Don't pretend you don't understand the intended meaning of "live" for the sake of being a pedant.

buglawton

littleowl wrote: »

Erm - I am the original OP and don't recall mentioning either pensioners or students?

Did you notice I quoted from TighterThanTwoCoatsOfPain who was responding to my prior comment (at least I think he was)

superscaper

buglawton wrote: »

Did you notice I quoted from TighterThanTwoCoatsOfPain who was responding to my prior comment (at least I think he was)

But you can see the ambiguity by referring to the "OP"....

roddydogs

weegie.geek wrote: »

There's always one.

It's as live as it's technically possible to be. Don't pretend you don't understand the intended meaning of "live" for the sake of being a pedant.

There alway one who has to be insulting-ever heard of "Tongue in Cheek" obviously not!:rotfl:

Godders

LINKING TO ARTICLES


Hi, Martin’s asked me to post this: There’s an article on the main site you might like to read that gives more information on this subject.

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/tv-licence

littleowl

Godders wrote: »

LINKING TO ARTICLES


Hi, Martin’s asked me to post this: There’s an article on the main site you might like to read that gives more information on this subject.

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/tv-licence

Thanks for that. The article seems to clarify things. So, to return to the original question - if I only watch programmes on the computer without a receiver - no license is required. If I watch on a television set streamed from a computer and not in real time - no license is required. Whew!