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Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 06:48 PM EST |
Under British law, a TV is defined as a device that receives broadcast video.
Broadcast, as in "sent in to the ether for anyone to receive".
So if I discover a program I want to watch is on at 7pm, and I log in to the BBC
website to watch "video on demand" at 7:05, it's not broadcast and I
don't need a licence, because it's being sent just to me. But if I'd selected
"watch what is currently being transmitted", that is a broadcast and I
do need a licence. Strange, I know.
Personally, I think I've paid for a licence for only about 7 years. I stopped
paying because I worked out I was paying - okay maybe the adverts saying it's
only 30p a day were correct - but for the time the TV was actually switched on,
I reckon it was costing me £10 an hour!
My wife now pays for our licence, and if it weren't for her I doubt the TV would
even be switched on!
Cheers,
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