Looking to ditch my TV license. Is my plan feasable?

J_Wholesale

I only use my current television for watching DVDs and avi files. There's no aerial and no cable or satellite dish on the premises. It just so happens that I've got a spare flat panel monitor which is about as large as the television.

My plan (if it works) is to dump the television (and with it my television license) and hook up my DVD player to the monitor using a scart to VGA cable. This is one I found on eBay.

Does anyone know if this will work? I've got a feeling that after buying the cable I'll find that I've missed something, and that it won't work at all.

Also, with the television and license gone, am I likely to get a visit from a license inspector? And if so, are they smart enough to realise that a monitor and DVD player does not constitute a television?

dreamers75

Any device capable of showing tv, they could say you need one for your phone.


You can watch stuff on your monitor but you still need a licence.

enda1

J_Wholesale wrote: »

I only use my current television for watching DVDs and avi files. There's no aerial and no cable or satellite dish on the premises. It just so happens that I've got a spare flat panel monitor which is about as large as the television.

My plan (if it works) is to dump the television (and with it my television license) and hook up my DVD player to the monitor using a scart to VGA cable. This is one I found on eBay.

Does anyone know if this will work? I've got a feeling that after buying the cable I'll find that I've missed something, and that it won't work at all.

Also, with the television and license gone, am I likely to get a visit from a license inspector? And if so, are they smart enough to realise that a monitor and DVD player does not constitute a television?

Yeah you're right.
You don't need a license as long as you don't posses the "tuner" component of a television.

Does you DVD player have component out?

What will you do for sound? If you're gonna use the monitor speakers, then you'll need to get sound in there too.

J_Wholesale

enda1 wrote: »

Yeah you're right.
You don't need a license as long as you don't posses the "tuner" component of a television.

Does you DVD player have component out?

What will you do for sound? If you're gonna use the monitor speakers, then you'll need to get sound in there too.

The DVD player has a surround sound system of its own. It doesn't use the television for sound.

enda1

Well in that case I guess you're sorted.

SCART should be better than component, my mistake so I guess that's it. I don't see any problems, though wait for the experts.

watty

Scart to VGA adaptors are usually pretty rubbish. It has to de-interlace.

Get a cheap DVD player with HDMI and a PC monitor with HDMI.