Re: tv license question

2000-09-11 Thread Roffy
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- The License covers any equipment capable of receiving TV signals, so even a TV tuner card on your PC requires one. If you have a TV with no tuner (not many around, but they exist) and you watch DVD on it you are fine. - Original Message - From: Paul Browns

RE: tv license question

2000-09-11 Thread Paul Brownsmith
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- as far as I know, if you have a telly, they consider you to be able to recieve BBC, which means you have to pay. I got caught once, and no matter what I tried, they still fined me. I tried the old "I dont watch BBC..." but that just pisses them off. -Original M

RE: tv license question

2000-09-11 Thread Neil Connolly
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- I think that you would need a liscence for the Video recorder alone, as it is classed as a colour tv, I do not know if you can restrct the frequencies at which it would receive channels, thus removing the BBC crap from it. =( -Original Message- From: Neil

tv license question

2000-09-11 Thread Neil Elkins
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- i've just noticed that despite the fact that i pay them 100-odd quid a year, the BBC only show either shit programmes or shit programmes about how good they think they are. So, does anyone know: Would I still have to pay if I got telewest to switch off the BBC cha