Tv Licence Rip Off, Time To Stop.

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Neil said:
TV Licence - absolute bargain - TV, Radio, wonderful website. Watching programs without the interruption of advertisments is wonderful. After spending time in the US - where it seemed to me that often there was more than 30mins ads per hour. That's a little hyperbolised but...
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my view on your say and view, forgive me but this is not usa, it is england, and the problem here is that we do not get value for money ,not only in the waves but nowhere at all the issu is as perhaps almost anybody here will find it most anoying"i bloody do" both bbc and itv, when you have a wife as lovelly as they are and come home from work, after freshing up and settle for dinner i for one can not finish my food because ,EMMERDALE, CORO, EAST,FINISH or what crap they put on during these hours, not only i pay to see and hear iritating voices from"so called actors and actresses specially" yes i do have a case what and where my money buys me, i ruther pay for adverts or go singing in the rain, but don't tell me that we must pay of our pockets t0 pay arses who have no idea and can't be bothered to ask us what we would like to wacth,
nando
 
I listen to radio four, about 20 hours a week, so I am happy to pay the fee.
 
I will be moving back to Australia in 2010 and then I can watch all the BBC, I care to on I-player etc and never ever have to shell out for an unfair tax such as that imposed on the British people for broadcasting that they have no choice but to pay for.

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Unless you know the hack you can't access BBC iPlayer outside the UK. And pehaps Australia would be able to produce more than the deplorable shit that it does send us if it had a BBC!
 
nando said:
the bbc charges us an amasing £132.50 a year to watch crap,
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I wouldn't mind paying approx. £2.50 a week to watch crap. As it is, my £2.50 gets me a fair amount of quality BBC television, radio, and internet content.

I presume that you must be strapped for cash? :confused:
 
I think the beeb is decent value for money really, I only ever listen to bbc radio, and the tv channels offer some good quality programmes (compared to the other terrestial channels). I did have Sky but tbh it depressed me having so many channels of complete and utter shite to flick through, such a waste of time, so I cancelled it.

TBH I could live with just having access to bbc tv and nothing else if I needed to. Ah, just imagine, a life without commercials!

Mind you, the inflated fees for some of the top names they use makes me a bit uncomfortable.
 
A couple of years back I got rid of my aerial and had no means of watching broadcast TV so instead I just watched DVD's. As expected I kept on getting TV licence reminders but I just binned them until the authorities sent someone round to inspect my flat. This idiot tried to tell me I needed a licence to watch DVD's...! When I told him that it stated quite clearly on the licencing authorities website that I did not, he changed his mind. He toddled off with his tail between his legs and a week later... I got another licence reminder. Now this amounts to harrassment and that is a criminal offence in the UK.
 
Bob McC said:
I would like to know when, if ever, that was the law. I think you are giving us duff information.
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That was how it was conveyed to me some years ago when I was a student. I accept that there have been some changes to the law since then so please ignore my last posting.
 
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Haselsh1 said:
A couple of years back I got rid of my aerial and had no means of watching broadcast TV so instead I just watched DVD's. As expected I kept on getting TV licence reminders but I just binned them until the authorities sent someone round to inspect my flat. This idiot tried to tell me I needed a licence to watch DVD's...! When I told him that it stated quite clearly on the licencing authorities website that I did not, he changed his mind. He toddled off with his tail between his legs and a week later... I got another licence reminder. Now this amounts to harrassment and that is a criminal offence in the UK.
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My understanding is that as long as you have a receiver capable of receiving TV signals you need to buy a licence. Lack of an aerial is beside the point.
 
From http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/information/index.jsp

Do I need a TV Licence?

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You must be covered by a valid TV Licence if you watch or record television programmes as they're being shown on TV. It makes no difference what equipment you use - whether it's a laptop, PC, mobile phone, digital box, DVD recorder or a TV set - you still need a licence.

You do not need a TV Licence to view video clips on the internet, as long as what you are viewing is not being shown on TV at the same time as you are viewing it.

If you use a digital box with a hi-fi system, or another device that can only be used to produce sounds and can't display TV programmes, and you don't install or use any other TV receiving equipment, you don't need a TV Licence.
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More in the following link:-

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index/your_world/communications/television_licences.htm
 
Following Bob's comment, I checked out a couple of sites. None of them give definitive, unambiguous advice, even the 'official' one.

[edit] the one you quote Dev [/edit]

Seems it's all down to interpretation of how you prove you don't receive TV programmes at the time of broadcast.
 
Dev said:
My understanding is that as long as you have a receiver capable of receiving TV signals you need to buy a licence. Lack of an aerial is beside the point.
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That's my understanding too, this also applies to TV tuners in computers and such like.
 

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