[access-uk] Re: TV licensing again

  • From: "Barry Hill" <barry.hill3@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 14:16:48 -0000

Just to add a little more confusion to the mix, if you don't have a tv with
the Goodmans, and you don't have a computer, would you be able to just get a
black and white tv licence, and that at half price?

Cheers

Barry



-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
john coley
Sent: 09 November 2011 2:06 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] TV licensing again

Hi everybody, a few months or so ago there was a thread regarding the
Goodmans Smarttalk freeview box, and whether or not a licence was required
if someone was using the box for sound only, with no TV plugged into it,
just speakers.
  The general consensus was that a licence wouldn't be required. Checking on
the RNIB website seemed to confirm that.
  As that applies to me I rang the TV licensing authority today to cancel my
direct debit. I explained the situation to them, and told them what the RNIB
had to say on the matter, and the guy, having gone away to check came back
and said that since the box could receive a tv signal at time of broadcast I
would require a licence, whether a TV was connected to the box or not.
  Further to that he said that if I had a computer in my home I'd require a
TV licence, since a computer has the potential of receiving TV broadcasts.
  Since this was completely at odds with what the RNIB said, and what
posters to this list had said I rang the RNIB to check. I haven't heard back
from them yet, but it will be interesting to see what they say.
  According to the guy at TV licensing the only circumstance in which a
license isn't required would be if the box wasn't able to receive a picture,
and was a sound only receiver. Mind you, given what the guy said about the
need for a licence if there was a computer at the address it sounds as if
everyone needs one, since if computers do so would mobiles, since they also
have the potential to receive a TV signal.
                    John.

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