€160 to watch what on TV?

DanGlee · 13-01-2010 09:19PM

If you bought a massive 32" monitor and had good Broadband that cold stream TV from BBCi Player (and before a smart ass chirps in, you could spoof your IP address!

) and maybe Hulu and many other internet channels, football, everything. You might need a few quid for subscriptions, but it would be cheaper than TV Licence / Sky / NTL etc.

Technically you don't have a TV licence?

Actually, on that note... here is a ponder on the same lines. I have a monitor with built in freeview (which is not available in Ireland) if that would my only display, would I need a TV licence for that?

DiarmaidGNR · 13-01-2010 09:21PM

LordChessington wrote: »

The UK has over 11 times more people to pay the fee. 11 times the fee = 11 times the quality

BBC also have many more channels as well as more radio stations, RTE gets money from ads and from the government as well. RTE is another bloated piece of ****, - like aer lingus and leinster house. If TV3 can do it, - why can't RTE?

Guy:Incognito · 13-01-2010 09:28PM

DiarmaidGNR wrote: »

BBC also have many more channels as well as more radio stations, RTE gets money from ads and from the government as well. RTE is another bloated piece of ****, - like aer lingus and leinster house. If TV3 can do it, - why can't RTE?

BBC gets revenue from ads too, just not on BBC 1,2,3 and 4 television.

Mike 1972 · 13-01-2010 09:30PM

DanGlee wrote: »

Actually, on that note... here is a ponder on the same lines. I have a monitor with built in freeview (which is not available in Ireland) if that would my only display, would I need a TV licence for that?

Daft as it sounds yes you would.

Freeview is available in some Border areas and parts of the East coast

DanGlee · 13-01-2010 09:34PM

Freeview is available in some Border areas and parts of the East coast

Actually, I heard a little while back that it was coming to the whole of Ireland, but that could have been before Freesat?

Its kind of a balls that if you can't get freeview (if you live at the far south, then you still have to pay for a TV licence.

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 13-01-2010 09:36PM

My name is URL wrote: »

RTE & the government believe that the software they use is an "apparatus capable of exhibiting television broadcasting" and that needs to be licensed :rolleyes:

Anyone with a device capable of receiving videos of me dancing around, singing into a hairbrush on youtube needs to pay their fair share of my expenses.
Oh wait, I'm not the government

mikom · 13-01-2010 09:38PM

My name is URL wrote: »

an "apparatus capable of exhibiting television broadcasting" and that needs to be licensed

Gonna need a licence for my mirror as well so.

HardyEustace · 13-01-2010 09:47PM

I think it's the fact that it's used to pay the likes of Pat Kenny, Joeeeeeeee Duffy and Gerry Ryan <<pause while I suck back the bile from my throat> vastly over-inflated salaries.

Who decided they were worth > 800,000 / year EXACTLY?

WIZE · 13-01-2010 09:54PM

How to I setup to pay for my Licence monthly

mikom · 13-01-2010 10:03PM

Most Haunted wrote: »

How to I setup to pay for my Licence monthly

Drop trousers..... bend over......... await Kenny, Ryan, Shortt, etc.
Rinse... repeat.

bonerm · 13-01-2010 10:07PM

DiarmaidGNR wrote: »

BBC also have many more channels as well as more radio stations, RTE gets money from ads and from the government as well. RTE is another bloated piece of ****, - like aer lingus and leinster house. If TV3 can do it, - why can't RTE?

BBC also has to appeal to more demographic groups due to having a greater cultural diversity. Judging by their output RTE seems to be only obliged to make programmes for the middle-aged-middle-class and single unmarried idiots in thier late 20's who'll laugh at any old shíte on a weeknight?

BTW I think the reason so many people resent paying the licence (other than the fact that RTE produce wall-to-wall rubbish) is that the station is inevitably compared to BBC (which is undeniably the best broadcasting service in the world). RTE can never win in that situation. It's like LeagueOfIreland football vs the Premiership.

WIZE · 13-01-2010 10:11PM

mikom wrote: »

Drop trousers..... bend over......... await Kenny, Ryan, Shortt, etc.
Rinse... repeat.

I didn't ask you what your doing right now .

mikom · 13-01-2010 10:18PM

mikom wrote: »

Drop trousers..... bend over......... await Kenny, Ryan, Shortt, etc.
Rinse... repeat.

Most Haunted wrote: »

I didn't ask you what your doing right now .

Close............. but today happens to be a skirt day.

Overature · 13-01-2010 10:21PM

do you not want to watch Operation Transformation that started tonight on rte 1 about fat people losing weight?

El Weirdo · 13-01-2010 10:27PM

<Ollie> wrote: »

... and the axed Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (€6 a year salary), I think we compete very well for such a small country.

No wonder Wossy told the Beeb to fuck off then. Surely he could demand a higher salary elsewhere.

Biggins · 13-01-2010 10:31PM

Overature wrote: »

do you not want to watch Operation Transformation that started tonight on rte 1 about fat people losing weight?

LOL My wife is on that!

She loses weight on it and I lose weight in my wallet paying for it!
Go figure!

Mike 1972 · 13-01-2010 10:48PM

DanGlee wrote: »

Its kind of a balls that if you can't get freeview (if you live at the far south, then you still have to pay for a TV licence.

Even if one lives in a part of the country which cant even get a terrestrial signal from RTE they are still liable for the licence fee if they own a TV set (or TV enabled device)

My name is URL · 13-01-2010 10:49PM

Biggins wrote: »

LOL My wife is on that!
She loses weight on it and I lose weight in my wallet paying for it!
Go figure!

Oh Biggins, what mischief will you get up to next?!

ScumLord · 13-01-2010 10:52PM

LordChessington wrote: »

The UK has over 11 times more people to pay the fee. 11 times the fee = 11 times the quality

It's this kind of attitude that's ruining this country, more money doesn't automatically make things better. Throwing more money at the hospitals wont fix bad management and throwing more money at a tv show won't make up for complete incompetence in every other area.

sold wrote: »

But all I watch is 15 mins of news at 6 to 9pm. any maybe primetime the odd time. Thats it, To be honest what is there to see for those of us who work and get home a 6pm?

It is foolish to be paying for something you rarely use. Anything worth watching on RTE can be seen on the RTE player without paying the TV licence. There are other legal ways of getting tv shows, I watch channel4, completely legally on their website, the RTE player and blinkbox.com, they're still not up to the standards of some illegal sites that use divx but I don't really miss anything and I don't have to sit through crap just because there's nothing else on.

Biggins · 13-01-2010 11:06PM

My name is URL wrote: »

Oh Biggins, what mischief will you get up to next?!

LOL Me? Wot about my wife!
She's taken up a course of pole dancing in order to lose weight for the programme! :eek:
Seriously!

(I'm paying for that as well but I hope to gain from it too

)

jif · 13-01-2010 11:38PM

the money would be much better spent paying someone to kick whoever comes up with the programming in the face. I would pay €260 for that.

mikemac · 13-01-2010 11:42PM

Not just for TV and radio

Your licence fee pays for not one but two symphony orchestras, a quartet and a choir.
Free concerts are organized around the country all year around.

Well, not quite free as it's your licence fee paying for it

Victor · 13-01-2010 11:58PM

sold wrote: »

How is it that TV3 can stay in business without the Licence fee?

TV3 are entitled to some licence fee money.

Kipperhell · 14-01-2010 09:53AM

To compare BBC with RTE is really just plain stupid. Besides the rather large difference in population they also have had the common wealth to resell their programs to from it's inception. RTE doesn't have a world service to gain extra revenue at the same level.

The licence also pays for broadcast regulation to insure transmissions do not conflict.This allows things like the fire service and ambulance operate.

I also got to wonder do people avoid everything shown on RTE such as the big US shows that appear on RTE before many other channels. Did people not watch children's shows on RTE? If people pay money to get transmissions via cable, satellite etc... that are showing programs already shown on RTE is that not just paying twice? So if you ever watched Friends, Lost, Sopranos, Scrubs, 24 etc... you could and may have watched them on RTE. They do have to pay to show these.

Cabaal · 14-01-2010 10:08AM

Lets see
- Your not paying your TV license to watch RTE your paying it because you own a receiver
- Even if you had a TV that coudn't pick up any Irish channels but could pick-up BBC etc you'd still have to pay it
- RTE do not get all the money
- People in the UK also pay a TV License fee

Its a tax, no different to your Motor Tax (no its not Road Tax and no it doesn't all pay for our roads)
Do you also complain about Motor Tax?

Trankton · 14-01-2010 10:15AM

Cabaal wrote: »

Do you also complain about Motor Tax?

YES!!

monkeypants · 14-01-2010 10:17AM

ScumLord wrote: »

Anything worth watching on RTE can be seen on the RTE player without paying the TV licence.

Are you sure about that? I'm pretty certain that you are supposed to have a licence to watch it. Needs clarification as to what devices are covered in what circumstances. In the UK I know that if you're watching TV on your mobile in your house, it's covered by your TV licence. If you watch TV on your mobile in someone else's house, it's also covered by your TV licence. However, if your battery starts to fade and you plug in your mobile to charge in someone else's house, then your licence doesn't cover that. Not sure if the other person's licence does.

Cabaal · 14-01-2010 10:41AM

Trankton wrote: »

YES!!

Well you still have to pay it

Trankton · 14-01-2010 10:42AM

Cabaal wrote: »

Well you still have to pay it

Very true but doesn't mean I won't complain about it

Cabaal · 14-01-2010 10:43AM

monkeypants wrote: »

Are you sure about that? I'm pretty certain that you are supposed to have a licence to watch it. Needs clarification as to what devices are covered in what circumstances. In the UK I know that if you're watching TV on your mobile in your house, it's covered by your TV licence. If you watch TV on your mobile in someone else's house, it's also covered by your TV licence. However, if your battery starts to fade and you plug in your mobile to charge in someone else's house, then your licence doesn't cover that. Not sure if the other person's licence does.

In Ireland you don't have to have a license for a mobile phone or PC...however the legislation kinda does allow for it but its not enforced in anyway.

- You do have to have a license for any device which has a tuner in it, this includes TV tuners for your PC, VCR's, DVD players and of course TV's

- You need one license per premises, you can have as many TV's as you want in that premises once you have a license.

- Both in UK and Ireland you can watch the likes of RTE Player and BBC iPlayer on PC's, Macs, PS3's or mobiles without a license because these are not actually broadcasts, they are recordings.

€160 to watch what on TV?

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