Finally - No more TV licence for me

darren1980

I had a lot of spare parts lying around that when combined came very close to eliminating my need for a television, and with it a television licence. My television viewing has always been dvds and downloaded files (lectures, etc.), never live television, so I've always been frustrated with having to pay the licence for a box that never received any transmissions.

So today I got rid of the television at last, and replaced it with this:



A spare 24" HP widescreen monitor, spare pair of speakers (quality), Netbook that I only use when leaving the country, and a spare wireless mouse that I can use from an armchair to serve in place of a remote.

The only item I had to buy was the plug in DVD drive, to play all those dvds I've collected. Cost: €41 from Amazon, shipping included. They wanted to charge me €70 in town. As a bonus, the mini dvd drive turned out to be multi region.

It took a little while to get used to, but the picture is as good as my old television, and I have the added bonus of being able to watch all those TED lectures in the sitting room thanks to the wireless internet on the netbook.

Might not work well for a family, but it's perfect for me.

watty

This is got nothing to do with a Television or Broadcast Forum then.

Cutting yourselve off from Live TV Broadcasts is a lifestyle choice. Deciding to do it should be for reasons other than saving the price of about 10 DVDs or 4 games a year.

You should post about this somewhere here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=496

STB

You will go blind from watching that from an armchair!

high heels

They changed the law... If you have a PC monitor/laptop you have to have a TV licence...

All due to RTE Iplayer

Fuzzy Clam

high heels wrote: »

They changed the law... If you have a PC monitor/laptop you have to have a TV licence...

All due to RTE Iplayer

Can you point us to a source for that please...

watty

In fact the opposite is true.

If PC/Laptop/Slate/Netbook has a tuner card or dongle or true IPTV service (such as Magnet) then it needs a TV licence (One licence covers all such things and TVs in your house).

If the video is just Web video such as RTE player or YouTube then it's exempt. As these are not proper Broadcast services.

http://www.lkshields.ie/htmdocs/publications/articles/pub332_broadcasting_act_2009.htm

While the Act provides in principle that a TV licence will be required for all devices capable of receiving a television signal, the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources will have the power to exempt certain devices. The Minister has previously expressed the opinion that devices capable of receiving on-demand digital content over the internet and through mobile phone devices are intended to be excluded from the requirement to hold a television licence.

Larger screen Mobile Internet devices that can make phone calls and have TV tuners won't be exempt. They are thinking of video delivered via 3G or 3G/HSPA not Broadcast reception.

In fact it's little change as the act said Apparatus previously "all devices capable of receiving a television signal" is really no change since 1960 (About 18 Months before RTE started, thus receiving RTE is not needed).

Mike 1972

high heels wrote: »

All due to RTE Iplayer

Whatever happened to "the TV licence is nothing to do with receiving RTE Its for possessing equipment (potentially) capable of receiving television broadcasts........

Fuzzy Clam wrote: »

Can you point us to a source for that please...

What he/she said

watty wrote: »

Cutting yourselve off from Live TV Broadcasts is a lifestyle choice.

Er you make it sound like an opt out process

Ms.Forbes

it looks horrible

really unattractive

what sort of an ape would put that in their living room

an incredibly stupid one i'd say

Minstrel27

Ms.Forbes wrote: »

it looks horrible

really unattractive

what sort of an ape would put that in their living room

an incredibly stupid one i'd say

Eh?