TV or no TV?

[Squeamous]

I have a TV but I got rid of my freeview box and canceled the free TV package with Virgin (harder than you'd think) so I don't have to pay the TV license. Been that way since November and I haven't missed it at all. I just watch movies, TV shows and porn via PC on the TV ...

You still have to have a TV licence....a PC counts as receiver equipment.

[Snee]

I'd have thunk they needed a TV-card or something for that.

Dunno, though, not living in Britain. But that's how it works here. Although they'll try and change that once they've put everything shown on the state run telly online.

[Barbarossa]

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.

[Barbarossa]

That's unenforcible, shirley

[Snee]

Which is?

[Barbarossa]

What I posted.

I replied to my own thread for dramatic effect

[Squeamous]

You can tell them to take a flying jump. There was a case recently of a vicar who refused to let the inspectors into his home to prove that he didn't have a TV. He said it was up to them to prove they had grounds to believe he did have one. I think he won....I should look it up.

[Swift]

Tv for news and sports the rest I'll get from my PC

[Snee]

What I posted.

I replied to my own thread for dramatic effect

Which thread?

[Snee]

You can tell them to take a flying jump. There was a case recently of a vicar who refused to let the inspectors into his home to prove that he didn't have a TV. He said it was up to them to prove they had grounds to believe he did have one. I think he won....I should look it up.

I had some woman from the organisation which tries to enforce it here call me up late at night, last year. I kept denying I had a telly, she got all mad at me. Kinda' pissed me off in the end. I dunno what she got so mad about, had the sound off the telly turned pretty low in the background. Not as if she could tell, or at least not for sure.

And she threatened to send someone to check on me. Pretty much said she was going to in the end. I was all "k, do that". So she hung up on me.

No one came to check if I had a telly. I was quite disappointed I was.