truthseeker
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a terrestrial aerial?
You can actually go one further and pick up TV tuners for your PC, [broken link removed], so the lines between TV and PC are getting blurred more and more.then again, if you have an internet capable pc with which you can watch youtube videos - presumably it would only be a matter of surfing to a site that IS showing streamed broadcasts (like say channel 4's website) - therefore your internet capable pc is indeed a receiving device and subject to tv license laws.
Yes thats very true - and likely to continue as technology moves forward - so pc's will likely come 'tv ready' in time.You can actually go one further and pick up TV tuners for your PC, [broken link removed], so the lines between TV and PC are getting blurred more and more.
The wording of the legislation is slightly archaic and clumsy but most reasonable people will know what the intent is - basically if you have any sort of TV tuning gear that can receive TV broadcasts (terrestrial, cable, satellite) then you need a license. Having a PC and viewing YouTube clips does not require a license if the PC does not also include a TV tuner. And so on. No need to think up wacky situations that match the letter but not the spirit of the law in my opinion folks. Obviously nobody is expecting people to have a TV license for their coat hanger or iron in their blood stream etc...And if that's the case can you be done for having a coat hanger, which can be used as a tv aerial
Great...think thats my best bet thanks a millYes, you can pay by direct debit which works out at €13 each month.
To go back to the OP, yes they are strict issuing fines. If its the first time its €634 and double that if its a repeat offence.
Someone I know who was caught was given 30 days to get a license , and if they did that was the end of it...
To go back to the OP, yes they are strict issuing fines. If its the first time its €634 and double that if its a repeat offence.
The fine is for not having the licence. You will have to pay it and still have to get a TV Licence.
Prosecution is a last resort after offenders receive two reminders and a visit by an inspector to issue a final warning
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
heard on the news this morning that your exempt from needing a licence if you go down this route
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