UKPC parking fine- To pay or not to pay?

[SonyVaio]

Originally Posted by LordSVS

You still need a TV licence to watch BBC iPlayer...

Scott

DOH!!!

With today’s technology, you can watch TV on more devices than ever, whenever it suits you best. This means a TV Licence doesn’t just cover you to watch TV at home on a TV set. You can also watch or record television programmes as they're being shown on TV, through all of these devices:
Computers, including laptops and tablets
Mobile phones
Games consoles
Digital boxes, e.g. Freeview, Sky, Virgin, BT Vision
DVD/VHS/Blu-ray recorders.

As long as the address where you live is licensed, you’re also covered to watch TV outside your home using any device powered solely by its own internal batteries. This includes your mobile phone, laptop and tablet.

Exception: If you only watch catch-up services online, then you don’t need a licence. For example, you don’t need one to use BBC iPlayer, or ITV player, to catch up on programmes after they have been shown on TV.

LINKY!

[SonyVaio]

In light of the above post would you need a TV Licence if you just watched the +1 channels on SKY and record them? My thinking is, technically it is not "as they are being shown" because it is 1hr later?

[LordSVS]

Ah I see. I watch my programs live on BBC iPlayer and it always pops up asking if I have a TV licence.

Scott

[volvorocks]

Originally Posted by SonyVaio

In light of the above post would you need a TV Licence if you just watched the +1 channels on SKY and record them? My thinking is, technically it is not "as they are being shown" because it is 1hr later?

Just like watching anything else on TV, its all pre-recorded, well most of it, before it is shown!!!!!!

[DWM]

Originally Posted by SonyVaio

In light of the above post would you need a TV Licence if you just watched the +1 channels on SKY and record them? My thinking is, technically it is not "as they are being shown" because it is 1hr later?

Nice idea but I think you'd have to say that they're being broadcast twice, and that the second time they are broadcast you are recording them as they are being broadcast. Just like watching any repeat. (Unless of course I've misunderstood what that +1 channels are...)

[DWM]

Originally Posted by SonyVaio

DOH!!!

LINKY!

Originally Posted by LordSVS

Ah I see. I watch my programs live on BBC iPlayer and it always pops up asking if I have a TV licence.

Scott

FFS READ IT this time! DOH!

[LordSVS]

Originally Posted by DWM

FFS READ IT this time! DOH!

Calm down dear, it's only a commercial.

Scott

[Bill_56]

From that recent link to the licensing website...

As long as the address where you live is licensed, you’re also covered to watch TV outside your home using any device powered solely by its own internal batteries.

...So, if need to plug the device in to charge it's batteries, you instantly need a license? Methinks they maybe haven't thought that one through.


We have had a fully paid licence for many decades. But it is in Better Half's name, so every time I buy any TV equipment the licensing gestapo start writing ever more threating letters to me, demanding to know why there's no licence. My response is always the same, after the umpteenth letter, along the lines of...

I will be happy to tell you why I do not have a TV license, but I will charge an administrative disclosure fee of £25, payable in advance. Enclose full payment in your reply, if you still need me to tell you why I have no licence. Please note that I may not tell the truth.

...So far, that letter has never failed to stem the flow of threats. And never once have they showed up on the doorstep.

[Recognized]

Originally Posted by volvorocks

I concede...

How do they know you do not watch it though?

Generally its not a good idea to take anothers word and I do not google all my replies. People reply based on their own experience.

I had a house that was for sale that was partly furnished, along with a telly in it. The amount of letters sent by TV licensing was amazing. As the TV was not watched, (nobody lived there) all were ignored.The TV licence people visited on a regular basis (never met them though as was never there)It got to the point that 'someone' actually managed to obtain a photo of the telly, and thus a licence was needed.The fact there was a telly there meant a licence was needed. It must have cost TV licensing a fortune to follow up. They were relentless.Thats how it was then, so to me own a tv - need a licence, although seemingly not if its just to be used as a monitor.

Regards

This is simple. They already have a database of people who pays. So those houses, that is not in database are without license, some of them have a reason not to have a license are excluded. And you are got a database of houses that need to have a license. Letters+people send to those addresses.
I can confirm that in other countries television are the same as here, without tons of adverts, without a license too.
In Lithuania there is no road tax, it is already included in the fuel price. And there Mot's required once in two years.
And in Latvia car insurance is 50-100 quid for a year. Drivers age is irrelevant.

[Spike1918]

Laws and rules, ah yes?
Remind me again who these laws and rules are in place for, would it be for me, for you or for those that make them?
Look, how many times must I say it I`m NOT society I`m me the individual, I ask for nowt from society, why must it ask anything from me?
I don`t need nannying, don`t need protecting and don`t need folk that care little for me beyond what they can tax out of me taking any kind of interest in me either!
I`m very happy living as much as I can outside societies `norm`, I`m an individual, normal is a setting on a friggin washing machine!