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TV Licence

  • 01-11-2007 11:46pm
    #1
    MD-GK
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭


    Does anyone know if a TV licence is required if you install a TV card in your PC?


Comments

  • #2
    JohnC.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,524 ✭✭✭JohnC.


    Yes.


  • #3
    Ulsterman 1690
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭Ulsterman 1690


    But if you already have a (licenced) TV in your house you DONT need a second licence for the card.

    If you have a video or DVD recorder (but no TV) you need a licence as well


  • #4
    Ulsterman 1690
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭Ulsterman 1690


    But if you already have a (licenced) TV in your house you DONT need a second licence for the card.

    If you have a video or DVD recorder (but no TV) you are supposed to have a licence as well


  • #5
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    A tv tuner of any kind requires a tv licence


  • #6
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Only one licence per houshold.

    A Bedsit / flat with no kitchen sub-let can use the main house TV licence. Any accomodation with it's own cooking facility (Microwave + kettle + toaster in a bedset) let out needs its own licence.

    Pocket Portable TV:
    A car / caravan is OK for using main house as long as no mains is used. If it uses mains supply or is a holiday Mobile Home etc then it needs a separate licence.


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  • #7
    Ulsterman 1690
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭Ulsterman 1690


    watty wrote: »
    Pocket Portable TV:
    A car / caravan is OK for using main house as long as no mains is used. If it uses mains supply or is a holiday Mobile Home etc then it needs a separate licence.

    Actually the Irish TV licence (as opposed to a UK one) is issued in respect of a premises and doesnt make ANY provision for mobile/portable use. There is a provision for separately licensing a vehicle bearing a specified registration number though I suspect this is a hangover from the days when *radio receivers needed licences as well and nobody actually bothers with it.

    * One would imagine that by now somebody would have thought of rewriting the regulations though (unless of course they have since the last time I saw one which was sometime in the early 1990's)


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