> Stephen Rowles wrote: >>> They seem unable to believe that some people actually don't have a TV. >>> My >>> friend deliberately never replies to the letters and makes them come >>> round. >>> >>> I think the last time they did and he refused to let them in. He told >>> them >>> he didn't have a TV. The investigator challenged him "but you've got a >>> TV >>> aerial." I love his response "I've got a pint of milk in the fridge. >>> Doesn't mean I've got a cow in the back garden." >>> >> >> That is really weird... before I was married my fiancee lived in a flat >> and had a TV/Video combo, but no TV license, she just used to get >> video's >> out of the Library and watch them. The first time the letter came she >> simply replied with "I have a TV, but it is not tuned and I don't watch >> TV" and never got pestered again :) >> >> Will be interesting to find out how well that works, I intend to do the >> same thing in the new year (after recording lots of Christmas telly) > > That is odd because I thought you were licensing the set(s) at your > address and and not the right to receive and watch broadcasts as such. > > Me, I quite like the Beeb or various components thereof and don't mind > shelling out for the service. It'd be a sad loss if we went fully > commercial IMHO. > > Sean
I just find I don't watch TV, or even have time to watch TV, with a 7 month old child around ;) I've doubled checked and according to the TV license web site: "You must be covered by a valid TV Licence if you watch or record television programmes as they're being shown on TV." And from an article on the BBC news: "The law says that anyone who uses a TV, or any other device, to receive TV signals, must buy a licence." The key thing being there was no receiving of TV signals go on, therefore no license required. -- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------
