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TV license?

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  • 17-10-2008 10:52pm
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    corblimey
    Registered Users Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭


    Can anybody help me? Under what circumstances can I have a TV but not need a license? I'm seeing slightly different info depending on where I look. citizensinformation.ie states that if I have a TV (even a broken one) that is capable of getting a signal, I need a license. But it also states that if I watch TV on my computer I don't need one. So if I have a HDTV hooked up to my PC, what do I need to do to ensure I don't appear on one of those poxy radio ads about licenses? Is showing the clear lack of satellite dish and/or aerial enough? Couldn't I conceivably be watching TV with some rabbit ears that I hide every time someone comes to the door?


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    Karoma
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    Once you own equipment capable of receiving television or radio signals, you are required to purchase a license. The 'but not if you're watching on a compootar' clause was with on-line streaming, etc. in mind.
    /wanders off wondering re: "poxy radio ads" ...did their scaremongering actually work?


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    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,852 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    If your TV or monitor is capable of receiving a signal, you need a license..

    End of..!

    EDIT: Damn you K!


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    corblimey
    Registered Users Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭corblimey


    basquille wrote: »
    If your TV or monitor is capable of receiving a signal, you need a license..
    I guess my grey area is in your use of the word 'capable'. Technically, every single TV and monitor is 'capable' of getting a signal depending on if you hook it up to an aerial, a tv tuner card, a sky digi box, whatever. If I threw away my TV tomorrow and bought a new one, but left it in the box sitting on my couch, it's still capable, so I would need a license?

    I think you're probably right, I'm just trying to get it all laid out. I know that about 20 minutes (seriously) after I moved into my new gaff I had an inspector at the door asking about my license. I had to bring him in and show him my TV sitting in the middle of the sitting room floor to explain that while I was going to get a license, I wasn't currently watching TV at all. I think he still thought I was trying to pull a fast one.


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    Karoma
    Registered Users Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    corblimey wrote: »
    I guess my grey area is in your use of the word 'capable'. Technically, every single TV and monitor is 'capable' of getting a signal depending on if you hook it up to an aerial, a tv tuner card, a sky digi box, whatever.
    Not every monitor is... if the monitor was designed with a tv tuner - then yes;you need a license. Otherwise, if it's a bog-standard monitor, no.
    If I threw away my TV tomorrow and bought a new one, but left it in the box sitting on my couch, it's still capable, so I would need a license?
    You kinda answered your own question with your little story, but yes. You need one. It's equipment designed to receive television...it's "capable" of receiving television.


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