Tv license price hike

[borderbilly]

Just heard the licence is going up, time to pull the plug on it. They can't put us all in jail.

 

[Andy Norfolk]

I stopped paying and watching a couple of months ago. It was the volume of adverts for the BBC that did for me in the end. Of course ITV etc do it, but I'm not paying them.

 

[Van Fisher]

I wouldn't resent paying so much if the quality was better, but there's such a lot of trash on BBC TV in recent years. For entertainment, we mainly watch Netflix these days, which is far cheaper anyway.

 

[otherclive]

Most of our viewing is terrestrial via Virgin Media, only have a minimal subscription to Netflix, and Prime video comes with my Amazon membership. We record most commercial channels for later viewing. Got quite miffed though last night watching Six Nations on ITV as ads appeared on the screen whist some scrums were being set up. Overall we think BBC is good value and our viewing encompasses a great deal of BBC output.
My VM contract runs out later this year and thinking of going for broadband, buying a new 4K recordable Freesat box and going independent on VoIP house phone.

 

[Oscarmax]

Paid our 1st January £174.50 for a pile of rubbish

 

[Dustydog]

If I don’t pay can I still listen to the Beeb radio?

The only BBC program we watch is Match of the Day. Everything else is Sky , Apple, Amazon Prime TV and all the others bar Netflix

 

[otherclive]

Yes radio is free, that’s why it’s called a TV licence. 😱

 

[Van Fisher]

Is it not true that you can be prosecuted just for having the means to watch BBC without a licence, even if its only iPlayer on t'intaweb?

I've always seen that as grossly unfair, i.e. guilty with no option to prove you are innocent.

 

[Sam Vimes]

Is it not true that you can be prosecuted just for having the means to watch BBC without a licence, even if its only iPlayer on t'intaweb?

I've always seen that as grossly unfair, i.e. guilty with no option to prove you are innocent.

No its not true.

I haven't had a TV licence for years but have a TV that's capable of watching live TV. Don't forget its not just BBC but any live TV or iPlayer.

Every couple of years I have to declare that I'm not watching live TV but just watch DVDs and the occassional streaming.

About16 years ago somebody come around to check. The lady asked to come in, saw the TV and then said thankyou and left. It wasn't on.

 

[otherclive]

Is it not true that you can be prosecuted just for having the means to watch BBC without a licence, even if its only iPlayer on t'intaweb?

I've always seen that as grossly unfair, i.e. guilty with no option to prove you are innocent.

To watch iplayer you need a licence even if watched on a tablet. Since you need an account to watch Iplayer I’d think there are ways and means of checking your viewing habits.

If people are so against paying the tv licence just notify the Licence Authority that you don’t watch, and do the honest thing. Don’t watch. Simples.

 

[RogerL]

We'll keep on paying it - seems much better value than the continuous drain of subscription channels which have little or no interest to either of us.

We've discovered that some of the Free-To-Air channels omit the adverts when you stream them!