TV License People

[threaded]

Quote it to them:

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2004/20040692.htm

Interestingly, or not. During the exchange they said that you have to have a TV licence for a computer.

I pointed out these were just a pair of broken monitors and the base units were in another place, and that does have a TV licence.

[RichardCranium]

Interestingly, or not. During the exchange they said that you have to have a TV licence for a computer.

You only need a TV Licence for a computer if you use it to watch television output online which is being broadcast simultaneously via the airwaves.

So YouTube is OK, but watching Eurovision is not.

[threaded]

You only need a TV Licence for a computer if you use it to watch television output online which is being broadcast simultaneously via the airwaves.

So YouTube is OK, but watching Eurovision is not.

Nope, they definitely said you need a TV licence for any computer, whether it can be used to watch TV or not, working or not. When I mentioned the SGI monitor's base units were elsewhere they pointed out a box with a BBC model B as being a base unit.

It is, I have to admit, one of the reasons I can't stand being in this blessed country for anything more than a few days: petty officials spouting utter crap, everywhere.

[Sysman]

Nope, they definitely said you need a TV licence for any computer, whether it can be used to watch TV or not, working or not. When I mentioned the SGI monitor's base units were elsewhere they pointed out a box with a BBC model B as being a base unit.

The Muppets appear to think that all computers run Windies.

It is, I have to admit, one of the reasons I can't stand being in this blessed country for anything more than a few days: petty officials spouting utter crap, everywhere.

Total strangers bossing you around; it really gets up my nose.

[RichardCranium]

Nope, they definitely said you need a TV licence for any computer, whether it can be used to watch TV or not, working or not.

They are wrong. Utterly, utterly wrong.

A PC with a TV Tuner card, whether used or not, DOES require a TV licence. It is capable of receiving TV transmissions so it is a telly.

An IBM Series Z mainframe used to watch a live TV transmission on the web through a web browser DOES require a TV licence.

Otherwise, computers are not tellies.

A basic mobile phone that can be upgraded is a programmable digital device that can follow a stored series of instructions and so is a computer. So by their logic, it would need a TV licence as would my Ministry of Sound DAB Radio that receives transmitted software upgrades.

Are they TV licence people or burglars?

Report them to the Police; at the minimum they are harassing you.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Total strangers bossing you around; it really gets up my nose.

Amen to that - and it's the British disease!!

[xoggoth]

Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.

Like looking at a certain blog and thinking it might have something other than how to code in Google android you mean?

[blacjac]

They are wrong. Utterly, utterly wrong.

A PC with a TV Tuner card, whether used or not, DOES require a TV licence. It is capable of receiving TV transmissions so it is a telly.

An IBM Series Z mainframe used to watch a live TV transmission on the web through a web browser DOES require a TV licence.

Otherwise, computers are not tellies.

A basic mobile phone that can be upgraded is a programmable digital device that can follow a stored series of instructions and so is a computer. So by their logic, it would need a TV licence as would my Ministry of Sound DAB Radio that receives transmitted software upgrades.

Are they TV licence people or burglars?

Report them to the Police; at the minimum they are harassing you.

Portable devices don't need a licence, as long as the owners main residence has a licence.
Unless they have changes the rules since I was at Uni.


Edit:

But that would probably not stop these cretins