[access-uk] Re: TV licensing again

  • From: Barry Toner <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:34:07 +0000

Hi John,

Where is this from?  The RNIB Goodmans product page?

Regards,
Barry.

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
john coley
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 8:10 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: TV licensing again

Hi Kevin, I've pasted below what it says. Note, although the heading is sound 
only receivers it refers to a digi box, none of which are sound only.

Sound only receivers
You do not require a TV licence if you use a digital set-top box solely to 
listen to television programmes through a hi-fi or stereo system. The set top 
box must be incapable of recording and must not be connected to a device 
capable of showing images.


                    John.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Cussick" <the.big.white.shepherd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 8:01 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: TV licensing again


> This is correct,  you need a TV license if you equipment that can get a
> picture.
>
> It don't matter if you don't have a screen connected and I don't think the
> Rnib actually said you didn't need a license if you don't have a screen.
>
> The only way you don't have to get a license is if you use something that
> can only get the sound a TV receiver,  this has always been the case.
>
> I think if your blind you get the license half price anyway.
>
> So If the rnib have actually said you don't need a license with the smart
> box they are wrong I know I am sticking my neck out saying this but I have
> spoken to lots of people over the years and I know we get the sound free
> but not the picture.
>
> I can't remember when this was written up I think it's an old wireless
> telegraphy rule dating back to 1948 I am not going to post any more about
> this this was my findings.
>
> And if I am now wrong fare enough I would love to be proved wrong but I
> don't think I am wrong.
>
> On 09/11/2011 14:47, Richard Godfrey-McKay wrote:
>> When I looked at this quite some years ago, the licence was required if
>> you
>> possessed equipment capable of receiving a TV transmission.  Look as if
>> they're saying that that position hasn't changed.
>> Richard
>>
>>
>> Richard Godfrey-McKay
>>
>> Telephone: 01738-445 880
>>
>> Mobile: 07791 452 593
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>> Of
>> john coley
>> Sent: 09 November 2011 14:06
>> 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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