Harvey Van Sickle wrote:

On 22 Dec 2004, Rob Morley wrote


In article , "Harvey Van
Sickle" says...

On 22 Dec 2004, Grunff wrote


Harvey Van Sickle wrote:


You need a licence if you "install *or* use" (my emphasis)
equipment which can receive broadcast programme services. That
includes not only the tuner inside your telly, but also the
tuner inside your video; it would also include a PC card,
which is another "tuner".

I don't believe this is true. It is what the TV Licensing often
tell you, but that doesn't make it true.

Well, that's what it states on the back of the licence itself, in
writing:

You need a TV licence to install or use any equipment to
receive television programme services -- for example a
television set, video recorder, set-top box, PC with a
broadcast card or any other TV receiving equipment.

So if it's an illegal statement, they're doing it in writing --
which strikes me as unlikely, as I'd have thought it would have
been challenged in court by now.



"to receive television programme services" - if the aerial isn't
hooked up, and the TV isn't tuned in to available broadcast
channels, then it's not "installed" and it can't be used to
receive broadcasts.


Yup -- that's what I said in my first post (it was snipped further down
the thread, so you may not have seen the comment): that the only
exemptions I've heard of have been where people have shown that it
"can't be used to receive broadcasts".

Replace 'can't' with 'can't easily'

An sliced orange can receive TV broadcast, with suitable extra hardware...