Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

TV licences and computers

  • 01-07-2007 1:29pm
    #1
    EdgarAllenPoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,686 ✭✭✭


    Do you need a tv licence to own a computer. Hypothetically if you have no tv do you still need a licence to own just a computer?


Comments

  • #2
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    you are probably better going to the tech section I'm sure it has been discussed before.

    I have thought of dumping the tv , and watching the odd dvd on the computer.

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #3
    johnnyskeleton
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,550 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    If your computer can pick up television signals (i.e. if it has a tv tuner) then it needs a licence.


  • #4
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    johnnyskeleton wrote:
    If your computer can pick up television signals (i.e. if it has a tv tuner) then it needs a licence.
    Correct. Simple as.


  • #5
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Though, the one license covers all TVs in a house right?


  • #6
    jhegarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,441 ✭✭✭jhegarty


    Sully wrote:
    Though, the one license covers all TVs in a house right?

    yep


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    GUIGuy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 246 ✭✭GUIGuy


    Yes the law is simple but there is a big BUT. What is a TV tuner?
    I've only heard the cursory media reports, but from them a licence is any device capable of receiving broadcast telegraphy.

    But many TV type services... cable, Mobile phone services, internet streams etc are not broadcast at all. They are feeds or downlaoded. There was some discussion about this in the media when Vodafone started its Sky service which is not a broadcast... it's a live stream that can be downloaded.

    I imagine that a judge would not look favourably on such appeals though. I heard some time back that the government were going to reform the legislation to bring it up to date with modern conditions.


  • #8
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    I don't have the exact document to hand, but I think the definitions are what separate streamed (i.e. directed) items, such as the Internet, and broadcast (or non-directed) items such as TV and radio.

    The main requirements of the device which needs to be licensed are that they could receive and display such broadcasts.


  • #9
    Jackie laughlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭Jackie laughlin


    Seamus is spot on. The answer is in the word: "Broadcast". Broadcasting can use electromagnetic radiation, cable, net etc. but its nature doesn't change.


Advertisement