On Thursday 04 December 2008 11:05:34 Victor Churchill wrote: > I believe it is the case that a licence is required if you have a > piece of equipment that is capable of receiving broadcast material. > If you have a TV screen that you use for watching pre-recorded > material but can demonstrate that it is does not have a functioning > tuner for off-air reception then you are OK. I do not know if the onus > is on *you* to show that your TV set *cannot* pick up live broadcasts > or on *"them"* to show that it *can* - i.e. whether you are innocent > until proven guilty or vice versa.
I haven't checked recently, but this certainly used not to be the case. I checked it out quite thoroughly when my son was still at school. He was at boarding school and I never watched TV. So the TV set was only used to watch TV in the school holidays. I would have been entitled to a refund for the period of the licence which covered school terms. But it wasn't in fact worth my while financially (because of the way in which they calculated refunds), so I never claimed it. Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
