QUOTE (Zebra @ Sep 3 2006, 12:07 PM) I find the best solution to what's on television is to not have a television. You wouldn't believe the grief the tv licensing people give me though, they don't seem to believe me.
Party pig looks a bit cheapo I'm afraid
back on topic = I really didn't miss the TV in 3 years of university. However the trend with virtually all my friends was to download the American TV episodes from the internet as they air in the states.
Best thing is - No adverts! An episode of Csi lasts just over 35 minutes instead of an hour.
Matt
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bitter_dave
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I don't have a tv. Well, I do, but it's not connected to an aerial and I don't pay a TV licence - I use it watch dvds. We had the tv licenceing people around shortly after we moved in I showed him the tv, explained that there was no aerial to plug it into, and he took our word for it and we are down on the records as having no tv.
I wouldn't assume that if you have a tv connected to a dvd you have to have a tv licence - although you might have to prove it's not connected an aerial and you may have to rely on the inspector's discretion. As for watching dvds on computers, there is nothing they can do to make you pay a licence.
I believe in the idea of a tv licence, if it's connected to innovative film making that wouldn't be shown on commercial television (but that's sufficently popular to generate mass support). BBC tv falls well short of this I found though - for every hour of excellent natural history programming there are millions of hours of nonsense. God I sound like my dad
I wouldn't assume that if you have a tv connected to a dvd you have to have a tv licence - although you might have to prove it's not connected an aerial and you may have to rely on the inspector's discretion. As for watching dvds on computers, there is nothing they can do to make you pay a licence.
I believe in the idea of a tv licence, if it's connected to innovative film making that wouldn't be shown on commercial television (but that's sufficently popular to generate mass support). BBC tv falls well short of this I found though - for every hour of excellent natural history programming there are millions of hours of nonsense. God I sound like my dad
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eskimobob
There are some very cheap TV tuner USB plug in modules now available for computers. Admittedly, watching TV on a computer screen would be a bit crappy but I can't see them being able to detect you even if they did happen to have a detector van outside (I think the scan for TV frame rate signals which will be different for monitors).
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