TV detector vans..myth?

flanum · 20-02-2011 12:53AM #1

So i got a letter the other day (i recently bought a house) saying the new owner hasnr registered a tv licence to this address!! now i watch tv feck all anyway and apart from that i dont have an rte aerial, so i cannot recieve any irish stations... is there anyway they can force me to get a laicence? i have thusfar escaped from buying one (im now 41)! i was hoping to never have to get one.. if it comes to it, ill just get rid of the telly!

Crasp · 20-02-2011 12:54AM

Your laptop and internet can receive RTÉ player --> you need a TV licence.

sorry, misinformation. The laptop would need to receive TV signal to need a licence.

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/consumer_affairs/media/tv_licences.html

Oranage2 · 20-02-2011 12:57AM

tell them you're an asylum seeker, I may be wrong but apparently they don't have to pay for a licence in addition to a grant of €3000 for a satalite, Tv and sound system.

Badgermonkey · 20-02-2011 01:06AM

Once you've a tv on the premises, regardless of whether it's plugged out or not attached to aerial etc. I've a feeling it's mandatory.

Mr. CooL ICE · 20-02-2011 01:36AM

Badgermonkey wrote: »

Once you've a tv on the premises, regardless of whether it's plugged out or not attached to aerial etc. I've a feeling it's mandatory.

Exactly. Even if your TV is broken, it is considered repairable.

If theres anything in the house capable of receiving a TV signal, you need a license for it. This is retarded as a wire coathanger is probably capable of receiving a signal too

HornyDevil · 20-02-2011 01:40AM

5 euros for your telly, if your adamant

phasers · 20-02-2011 01:43AM

dump the tv and watch online!

orourkeda · 20-02-2011 01:45AM

They've heard all the excuses and none of them work

Vego · 20-02-2011 01:48AM

Never bought a tv licence never got any letters to tell me to get one never got a knock on the door from an inspector ....oh I do have a big driveway and big gates

strobe · 20-02-2011 01:54AM

flanum wrote: »

So i got a letter the other day (i recently bought a house) saying the new owner hasnr registered a tv licence to this address!! now i watch tv feck all anyway and apart from that i dont have an rte aerial, so i cannot recieve any irish stations... is there anyway they can force me to get a laicence? i have thusfar escaped from buying one (im now 41)! i was hoping to never have to get one.. if it comes to it, ill just get rid of the telly!

Yes the high tech NASA vans driving round with a satellite dish looking thing on the roof triangulating televisions is obviously a fukking myth man.

Don't pay it. If an inspector comes to your door and says "we sent you a warning. How come you haven't payed up?" tell them you do not have a TV. If they say they don't believe you, say "so fukking what". If they ask to come in and check say "no", then LOL. LOL a lot.

x in the city · 20-02-2011 01:58AM

Badgermonkey wrote: »

Once you've a tv on the premises, regardless of whether it's plugged out or not attached to aerial etc. I've a feeling it's mandatory.

I plug my laptop into my ass and recieve all the tv I want without paying a licence to watch Irelands got talent and celebrity banesteoir bollocks, not to mention jedf*ckinward

mikom · 20-02-2011 02:05AM

flanum wrote: »

is there anyway they can force me to get a laicence?

Tell them you are the policeman from Allo Allo and you do not inderstund.

Capt'n Midnight · 20-02-2011 02:05AM

LordChessington wrote: »

Exactly. Even if your TV is broken, it is considered repairable.

If theres anything in the house capable of receiving a TV signal, you need a license for it. This is retarded as a wire coathanger is probably capable of receiving a signal too

people have picked up radio on their fillings

starbelgrade · 20-02-2011 02:20AM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

people have picked up radio on their fillings

True. You have to be careful what you put in your sandwiches these days.

Little Mickey · 20-02-2011 02:32AM

I have heard that if you remove the RF reciever from the TV and from all devices that are connected to it then you don't have to pay a license.
By doing this you would not be able to receive RTE using an aeriel and could only do so by using sky, chorus etc. who are companies that you are already paying for your TV service.

I stand to be corrected but heard that some time ago.

Bruthal · 20-02-2011 02:33AM

Badgermonkey wrote: »

Once you've a tv on the premises, regardless of whether it's plugged out or not attached to aerial etc. I've a feeling it's mandatory.

Yea once its a tv with a tuner, or any items capabable of receiving and tuning a broadcast transmission signal, you need a tv licence. Its simply a tax called a tv licence so as to get just about every household and business in the tv licence net. Even though there are plenty of uses for a tv these days which dont include watching any tv broadcasts.

If a businness premises wants to show safety videos etc from a DVD player for example, they would have to use a monitor or projector which has no tv tuner in it to be exempt from the licence.

Bruthal · 20-02-2011 02:39AM

Little Mickey wrote: »

I have heard that if you remove the RF reciever from the TV and from all devices that are connected to it then you don't have to pay a liscense.
By doing this you would not be able to receive RTE using an aeriel and could only do so by using sky, chorus etc. who are private companies that you are already paying for your TV service.

I stand to be corrected but heard that some time ago.

If you have the tv with no tuner(monitor), you will still have to pay for the tv licence if you have sky. You still have a device capabable of tuning in the live RTE broadcast. The money you pay sky for their service is nothing to do with the licence fee.

You can now watch RTE on a computer with broadband, so it will be interesting to see what they try with that. To tell people they need a tv licence for having a pc with broadband would be ridiculous. Bad enough the way the licence thing is now.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 20-02-2011 03:01AM

Do what I did, get a projector :P

Tail Wagger · 20-02-2011 03:03AM

flanum wrote: »

So i got a letter the other day (i recently bought a house) saying the new owner hasnr registered a tv licence to this address!! now i watch tv feck all anyway and apart from that i dont have an rte aerial, so i cannot recieve any irish stations... is there anyway they can force me to get a laicence? i have thusfar escaped from buying one (im now 41)! i was hoping to never have to get one.. if it comes to it, ill just get rid of the telly!

Just get rid of the telly, you have no choice but to pay!

Little Mickey · 20-02-2011 03:05AM

robbie7730 wrote: »

You can now watch RTE on a computer with broadband, so it will be interesting to see what they try with that. To tell people they need a tv licence for having a pc with broadband would be ridiculous. Bad enough the way the licence thing is now.

If they could reduce / get rid of the eircom line rental it wouldn't be so bad to pay the tv license fee then, we finally might begin to get a better broadband service for everyone to watch it on as a result

My old PC had a tv tuner card (s-video and RF i/p) and that allowed me to watch the terrestial channels with an ariel, did that make me eligible to pay a tv license?

Yawns · 20-02-2011 03:12AM

Lived in a house and neighbour reported that some1 walked into back garden via open side gate (no lock ) and peered thru window. Turns out to be tv inspector. We got a letter few days later stating that a tv was viewed on premises. GF just went and got a licence. I was fuming tho.

Moved to an apartment and first thing was cancel that damn thing. Like to see him scaling a building to have a look thru my windows now.

Wolfe Tone · 20-02-2011 04:32AM

Get drunk and throw the tv out the window onto the patio, its more fun than it sounds

Pdfile · 20-02-2011 04:40AM

i had them at the door in my old house... 2 times and told them both to **** off... not cause i dont own a licence but it was roughly 3 pm and his overly loud 15 banging woke me up in the worst mood imaginable.

a whole bunch of cuss words and ive yet to get another.

F*** RTE, even if they had good progammes on... i still wouldn't watch it.

Bruthal · 20-02-2011 05:07AM

Little Mickey wrote: »

If they could reduce / get rid of the eircom line rental it wouldn't be so bad to pay the tv license fee then, we finally might begin to get a better broadband service for everyone to watch it on as a result

Yes but having to pay a tv licence just because you own a pc would be ridiculous, the pc owner might have no tv(probably unlikely) but just as an example, if they have no tv and never want to watch tv, but now because they have a pc that could watch RTE online they now must pay the tv licence would be a bit annoying.

I got rid of eircom myself because of the line rental, never made any calls at all but was paying the €25 a month rental.

My old PC had a tv tuner card (s-video and RF i/p) and that allowed me to watch the terrestial channels with an ariel, did that make me eligible to pay a tv license?

Yes this would require a licence under the current licence requirements i think.

stoneill · 20-02-2011 05:10AM

You have a telly - just pay the feckin licence like the rest of us.

Bruthal · 20-02-2011 05:10AM

Anton Short Shepherd wrote: »

Do what I did, get a projector :P

You would have to hide the sky box, satellite dish etc or they will still want you to pay it.

I think if everyone in the country got rid of tv`s overnight and got projectors in the next few days to use instead of tv`s, it would be called a projector licence very shortly.

Jesus Wept · 20-02-2011 05:24AM

stoneill wrote: »

You have a telly - just pay the feckin licence like the rest of us.

no.

cursai · 20-02-2011 05:56AM

I can tell you for a fact its a myth. I have a licence....out of principle!!!
Vague letters like this are sent out. No such way of detecting receivership of a reception. a bluff most people fall for.

Anyway just get a licence cause we all love paying taxes!

20-02-2011 06:01AM

cursai wrote: »

Vague letters like this are sent out. No such way of detecting receivership of a reception. a bluff most people fall for.

Televisions have things called local oscillators in them, they need these to tune in the channel being watched before demodulation.

Using the right kit, it's possible to pick up a signal from a TV over 100metres away.

Bruthal · 20-02-2011 06:05AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Televisions have things called local oscillators in them, they need these to tune in the channel being watched before demodulation.

Using the right kit, it's possible to pick up a signal from a TV over 100metres away.

And tell its from my house and not next door of course, or the endless other electronic items that use oscillator circuits.

20-02-2011 06:10AM

robbie7730 wrote: »

And tell its from my house and not next door of course, or the endless other electronic items that use oscillator circuits.

IF frequency -/+ Local oscillator = TV channel being watched (470MHz - 850Mhz) & narrow beamwidth Yagi and bingo. Plus a portable unit just to be sure.

Simples!

TV detector vans..myth?

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