Tony Arnold wrote: > I agree, but portable devices are covered by your home license and a > portable device is one that does not need mains power. So a student at > University could watch TV on a portable device which would be covered by > his/her parents license back home.
Correct - the important part is "does not need mains power"; it must contain its own batteries inside its own case. I recall from student days that a 14" portable TV with an optional 12-volt power input attached to a car battery, required the student to have their own TV licence, as the battery was not contained within the case of the device. A laptop, however, definitely does have the battery within the case, so a student living away from home could use the laptop to watch TV on their parents' TV licence, provided they never watched TV with the mains charger attached. I just tried out Zattoo myself and was very impressed. I wonder how much outbound bandwidth the peer-to-peer part consumes? -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/