Tv License

there are a couple of websites about that explain the issues.

TV licencing will pester you no matter whether you have agreed with them that you don't need a license. You don't have to respond to them by phone or letter or tell them your name.

They may send people to your door but they have no powers to come in or force you to talk to them or arrest you. If you don't want them at your door send them a letter to tell them that you withdraw your implied right of way to cross your garden path.

It is doubtful that detector vans work and it is doubtful that there are more than a handful across the whole country (according to the website of the company that maintains them)
 
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Ahh, the monthly TV license thread :D

Their whole campaign is FUD, that is the only way it can work unless they encrypt the signal, it's all done through letters, public billboards and decoy vehicles. The truth is that no one has ever been prosecuted as a result of 'detection' equipment.
 
vincent1989 said:
he's slightly wrong. atm the majority (if not all of it) goes to the BBC, but they may be having their budget cut to allow some the the licensing fund to go toward helping ITV out (dunno why, it's a crap channel).
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No I'm not. It's also used to pay for the digital switchover (including a large sum to Channel 4 to do this), the maintentce of transmitters and other infrastructure.

Andy1911 said:
the bbc is crap also
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80% of my time on TV is on the BBC.
 
Andy1911 said:
i have not watched live tv in over 2 years why would i bother when i can download everything i watch.
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You might want to note that if you directly stream anything live off of the internet then you do need a TV licence. But yeah, if your just downloading older stuff or even watching BBC iPlayer then your fine.
 
Westyfield2 said:
BBC costs £11.88 a month.
Sky is £16.50 a month and you can just fast forward through the adverts with the sky+ box that is included in the price.
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BBC is 11.88 a month and has a huge amount of new content on daily (radio as well as TV), most of it sourced in the UK, and no advertising as such

Sky is £16.50 a month and has 99% repeats across the channels that gets you...(and what is new is usually from the US), plus advertising ;)

The fast forward through adverts isn't strictly accurate as it requires a receiver with the capability (Sky+ or HD), as opposed to being available on every box (Freeview PVR boxes can have the same capability to FF through adverts).
 
Werewolf said:
BBC is 11.88 a month and has a huge amount of new content on daily (radio as well as TV), most of it sourced in the UK, and no advertising as such

Sky is £16.50 a month and has 99% repeats across the channels that gets you...(and what is new is usually from the US), plus advertising ;)

The fast forward through adverts isn't strictly accurate as it requires a receiver with the capability (Sky+ or HD), as opposed to being available on every box (Freeview PVR boxes can have the same capability to FF through adverts).
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Yea I know :)

I'm using a Humax PVR on Freeview and it does all I want it to really.

The £11.88 VS £16.50 was an interesting point I'd read elsewhere.


Tbh the best value-for-money setup these days is stick up a Sat Dish, get a Freesat HD PVR/Tuner and have 147 channels for the standard license fee (and more if you tune them in manually).
 
I only really watch the BBC on TV because I don't tolerate advertising anymore. I use their websites heavily as well so I'm quite happy to pay my TV licence.
 
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