Bonnielass
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Sky tv and tv licence. You pay for rte1, 2, tv3 and tg4 through sky and then pay for the same with the tv licence.What are you paying twice?
Sky tv and tv licence. You pay for rte1, 2, tv3 and tg4 through sky and then pay for the same with the tv licence.
...I think it's such a waste of money, I get Irish channels through SKY and have to pay them. If the world was a fair and just place, SKY should pass on some money to the poor at RTE!
Sky tv and tv licence. You pay for rte1, 2, tv3 and tg4 through sky and then pay for the same with the tv licence.
A radio licence no such thing.You don't pay a TV (or radio) licence to get specific channels - you pay the government a licence fee to have receiving equipment on your premises - i.e. a TV set or a radio receiver (aka "wireless") - for those of us who possess such a document, please read it.
The government decided, on our behalf, to use licence fee revenue to partially fund certain TV & radio channels, but paying a licence fee does not entitle you to receive specific, or indeed any, channels.
While I do agree that AAM will never facilitate people with anything bordering on the illegal etc., in this case even if people would/did consider the other options (e.g. turn off all the lights, watch the TV under a blanket so they can't see in the windows and don't answer the door to anyone) the recommendations would be the same.The advice would have to be, either throw your TV out the window, or buy a licence.
A radio licence no such thing.
Yes. If you have a TV capable of receiving TV broadcasts then you need a license. If you had a TV "monitor" with no tuner which you only used to watch videos/DVDs (and the player had no tuner) then you would not need a license.slightly off topic but someone might know the answer.
recently mr truthseeker and i have noticed we are watching less and less tv and instead watching dvds and clips on youtube - the pc could be used to watch dvds if we choose.
we jokingly said last night we should ditch the telly and just watch the stuff we want to see via youtube and dvds.
are you still required to have a tv licence in this case as you are not receiving channels but watching recorded videos? just curious.
Not sure on this, open to correction, but I was told that what matters is the receiving equipment rather than the TV itself, IYSWIM? So if you don't have a sat dish or a cable hookup or and aeriel of any kind and therefore no capability for watching broadcasts, then you don't need a TV license.
On a similar note, if I don't have a TV and watch streamed programmes on my laptop eg 4OD etc, do I need a TV license?
Jay
To quote from the Broadcasting (Television) Receiving Licence (italics and underlining are mine) :Yes. If you have a TV capable of receiving TV broadcasts then you need a license. If you had a TV "monitor" with no tuner which you only used to watch videos/DVDs (and the player had no tuner) then you would not need a license.
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