TV License for PC TV Tuner

ktoal

Do you need a TV license if you own a PC TV Tuner? Lucky, I have a TV license for my ordinary TV, but a friend has only a PC TV Tuner and he's been told to get a license.

Any advise?

MrVestek

Anything that can receive a terestrial television signal under the law needs a tv license, as far as i'm aware.

dabhal

Achilles wrote:

Anything that can receive a terestrial television signal under the law needs a tv license, as far as i'm aware.

True, the law is quite clear on it, anything that can recive TV signals needs a licience, Sure Pat Kenny needs a new merc :mad:

liamo

Strictly speaking, it's the premises that must have a licence. You don't need a separate licence for each television (or TV Tuner) in a single premises - the one licence covers them all.

See here for information.


Liam

Syth

liamo wrote:

Strictly speaking, it's the premises that must have a licence. You don't need a separate licence for each television (or TV Tuner) in a single premises - the one licence covers them all.

See here for information.


Liam

That sounds a lot fairer than making every TV in the house have a TV licene. It has been uncommon for years for there to be more thanm on telly in the house.

Red Alert

you can probably get away with a tuner card if you don't have a cable account. most guys wouldn't think to look for it.

Lump

However, if the building in which the equipment is kept (i.e., the house, etc.) is sub-divided into flats, apartments, separate living quarters, then a separate television licence must be held for each of these quarters. In other words, an individual licence must be held for each separate flat, apartment, etc.

IE If the individual rooms can be locked from the inside or you have a copy of a lease... then your bedroom will be seen as a flat. Hence you need one.

John

RicardoSmith

Red Alert wrote:

you can probably get away with a tuner card if you don't have a cable account. most guys wouldn't think to look for it.

"Get away" isn't legal obviously.

Gizzard

its a bullsht tax anyway

halenger

Lump wrote:

IE If the individual rooms can be locked from the inside or you have a copy of a lease... then your bedroom will be seen as a flat. Hence you need one.

Buh? Just cause you can lock a room from the inside? Don't most rooms in houses have the ability to be locked from the inside?


I was gonna ask if the licence was per premesis or per TV/card/etc. Only recently got a TV card myself and didn't even consider the licence issues, nutil now. We already have TVs though and licence for etc.

parsi

halenger wrote:

Buh? Just cause you can lock a room from the inside? Don't most rooms in houses have the ability to be locked from the inside?


I was gonna ask if the licence was per premesis or per TV/card/etc. Only recently got a TV card myself and didn't even consider the licence issues, nutil now. We already have TVs though and licence for etc.

This seems to deal with flats and apartments (quoted from link supplied earlier in thread)

"However, if the building in which the equipment is kept (i.e., the house, etc.) is sub-divided into flats, apartments, separate living quarters, then a separate television licence must be held for each of these quarters. In other words, an individual licence must be held for each separate flat, apartment, etc."

halenger

Yeah sorry. I did read that alright but I just thought when he referred to "your bedroom" that it was owned rather than just rented places. My bad. *goes back to sleep*

Lump

Gizzard wrote:

its a bullsht tax anyway

In Ireland it is anyway, since they can advertise. In the UK though I have no problem paying it. If the BBC were to introduce ad's on the other hand!

John

halenger

Yeah no ads is fantastic. That's a really good point though. I hadn't really thought of that before to be honest. They must spend a lot of money bringing "big shows" here first - like they used to do with Friends etc. BBC does a lot of its own programs. I think RTE mainly pilfers.

billy the squid

but a friend has only a PC TV Tuner and he's been told to get a license.

any aparatus capible of receiving tv signals need a licence. of course if your with sky you get to pay for RTE twice.

Lump

halenger wrote:

Yeah no ads is fantastic. That's a really good point though. I hadn't really thought of that before to be honest. They must spend a lot of money bringing "big shows" here first - like they used to do with Friends etc. BBC does a lot of its own programs. I think RTE mainly pilfers.

Yea, but it's way more expensive to make your own programmes. So RTE are creaming the license fee, creaming off ad's and then not spending much on programmes.

John

BrianD

Billy the Squid wrote:

of course if your with sky you get to pay for RTE twice.

Not true Billy. You pay Sky Digital to deliver the TV signal to your home just like NTL and Chorus do.