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a good cause for the offroaders!
V8MoneyPit:
--- Quote from: "Wanderer" ---What's the betting that they do someone that can't possibly receive a TV signal yet has a TV for use with a video or games machine.
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The law is simple here. If you own a receiver you have to pay a licence fee. If you have a TV card in your PC, you have to have a licence. If you can prove you have no way of receiving a signal (like you have removed the necessary electronics from the TV), you should be OK since it is then just a monitor. I believe a VHS or DVD recorder also requires a licence because you can still receive the signal and record it.
Sooty:
--- Quote from: "V8MoneyPit" ---
--- Quote from: "Wanderer" ---What's the betting that they do someone that can't possibly receive a TV signal yet has a TV for use with a video or games machine.
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The law is simple here. If you own a receiver you have to pay a licence fee. If you have a TV card in your PC, you have to have a licence. If you can prove you have no way of receiving a signal (like you have removed the necessary electronics from the TV), you should be OK since it is then just a monitor. I believe a VHS or DVD recorder also requires a licence because you can still receive the signal and record it.
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Absolutly corect Steve, I used to be in the trade and had a customer that was fined for not having a colour licence when she (an old lady on her own) had a black and white TV because she had a video recorder that was capable of recording a colour picture even though she could only play it back in black and white.
Poor old biddy was mortified :cry: :cry:
ian_s:
when i was in halls at uni, the tv licence people came knocking, so while they were on the floor bellow, we piled all our tellies in the room of the only bloke who had a tv licence :)
you shoulda seen the face of the guy when he say 14 televisions stacked up at one end of the room.
and there was nothing he could do about it.
strapping young lad:
from memory i thought they could only get you if your door could be locked, otherwise one licence could cover all unlocked doors (like a house)
dont think it was feasible for them to walk around a halls of residence to inspect
doubt the security would let them through the door?
nzrover:
The sooner the UK follow NZ's lead and abolish the licence fee the better.
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