That's what I always thought. Barbara-----Original Message----- From: jeff flint
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 12:55 PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: TV licensing again Hi Barbara A lawyer friend told me yesterday that the law is if you possess a device capable of receiving TV, not if you actually watch it, which is the issue. I had a sighted friend who was prosecuted successfully because he a computer, he really never watched TV, but he could have. Jeff----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Wilson" <barkingbabs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 12:43 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: TV licensing again
Also remember that even if you don't need a licence for a sound receiver, you do if you watch online. Sorry if this has rleady been said.Barbara----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Toner" <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 12:34 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: TV licensing againHi 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 coleySent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 8:10 PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: TV licensing againHi 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 receiversYou 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 againThis 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 theRnib 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 thatcan 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 havespoken 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 wirelesstelegraphy rule dating back to 1948 I am not going to post any more aboutthis 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 BehalfOf 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 requiredif 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 alicense 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 theneed for a licence if there was a computer at the address it sounds as ifeveryone needs one, since if computers do so would mobiles, since they also have the potential to receive a TV signal. 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