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Is the new Eir/Apple 4K TV licence exempt?

babelfish1990 · 2019-11-10 19:26:26

To date, TV streaming services have been licence exempt in Ireland. Hence if you only watch Netflix or RTE player on a computer monitor (with no TV tuner) you dont need a licence. Since the new Eir/Apple 4k TV service is also a streaming service, does this mean that it is also licence exempt if watched on a computer…

10-11-2019 7:26pm

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To date, TV streaming services have been licence exempt in Ireland. Hence if you only watch Netflix or RTE player on a computer monitor (with no TV tuner) you dont need a licence.

Since the new Eir/Apple 4k TV service is also a streaming service, does this mean that it is also licence exempt if watched on a computer monitor? (Clearly you would need to have no other TV receivers is the house to comply)

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