TV licence?

BD10NNF

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Hi peeps

Not sure if this is in the correct area for this but I have a quick question.
Do I need a TV licence if I only use my TV for my XBOX?
Yes the TV has built in freeview but I don't use it and I think that I would need a freeview box now seem as its the old style freeview and not the digital. I hardly ever watch TV live at all. If I do it's normally football but I mainly watch that at a friends or family members house. I do watch 4OD and BBC iPlayer so not sure if they count.
The TV licence site isn't very clear at all on this so I've come here looking for help.

Cheers
 
you don't need one unless you're watching live TV - think we've had this sort of thread pretty regularly in here

don't plug and Ariel in/don't tune the TV and you're probably good to go

you don't even need to let the inspectors into your house or even talk to them... will save yourself some junk mail/hassle if you just go on the website and let them know you're not watching live tv

xbox, iplayer, 40D (as long as you're not streaming something which is currently being broadcast live) is all fine without a licesne
 
The place where I am at now has a licence but its not in my name. Its in my family members name. I'm asking because I will be leaving soon and will have to get one if I watch live TV.

TV licence website is just confusing.
 
Hyburnate said:
Ooops :p So yeah OP, my original post. You only need it if you're watching live TV in your own home. Basically:

Take the aerial out of the room and stop paying.
Or keep the aerial in and cough up.
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You don't have to remove the aerial at all. The law is just not to watch.
 
Honestly, if I were in your place, I'd just not pay it and not wire the TV up, and on the odd chance you want to watch the match just go down the pub and watch it there. You'll still be saving yourself money, unless you splash £145 in one pub run...

e; No, but it's the rule of thumb, just like leaving an hour gap on live TV.
 
Hyburnate said:
Honestly, if I were in your place, I'd just not pay it and not wire the TV up, and on the odd chance you want to watch the match just go down the pub and watch it there. You'll still be saving yourself money, unless you splash £145 in one pub run...

e; No, but it's the rule of thumb, just like leaving an hour gap on live TV.
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I'm thinking that the stuff I normally watch I can stream later on from demand channels. I was getting so much conflicting advice. People were telling me if you receive a signal you have to pay. If you have any equipment that can watch, record or stream TV then you have to pay.
I thought if I never hooked the TV up to the aerial I don't have to pay but If I use my PC for demand sites then I did.

Looks like people on here though are all coming back with the same answer of no. So I won't be paying.

Do you have to let them know at all?
 
BD10NNF said:
Do you have to let them know at all?
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you don't have to but it only takes a couple of minutes to do so and at least will stop you from getting silly letters from them for a couple of years

I had a bunch of letters waiting when I moved into my current house and a visit from some complete tool in the first week of moving in... sent said tool away and just went onto their website to inform them I didn't watch TV... two years on I've not had any visits and only recently had a letter just asking me to confirm that I still don't watch TV
 
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