>>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. > > How does this affect devices such as Slingbox I wonder? Presumably there > is a delay during payload assembly and retransmission of the relayed TV > signal - does this then count as "live" - as in "as they're being shown" ? > > If the answer is yes, how about if they introduced a delay in the feed? > Surely the signals are then being received *after* being shown on TV then. >
I imagine they would say that sling came under the "record television programmes" as a delay buffer would still be recording. -- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------
