To continue the off topic theme here,<div><br></div><div>I happily pay my TV license, I think it's great value for money, compared to the other pay services on offer. </div><div><br></div><div>I no longer subscribe to any other pay services, after watching the 5th re run of Drake and Josh when I got home. </div>
<div><br></div><div>There is waste in the BBC for sure, as there is in any big organisation. I hope they can get that under proper control, but I'll accept it while I can listen to Radio 3 and 4 on my long drive to and from work. Then I get access to all the great TV content produced by most of the terrestrial broadcasters. Before I get into 'what did the Romans ever do for us?' I'll stop with ... I like the BBC, it's a leading global brand that represents the UK well abroad.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Returning to the topic, Jason, I have set up a capture card and a home brew IR blaster to control a Virgin set top box in the past. It can be done with mythtv, but I'm not sure if the Virgin TOS allow it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>Brian<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 May 2012 12:06, James Moore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmthelostpacket@googlemail.com" target="_blank">jmthelostpacket@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Perhaps even littler known:<br>
<br>
You "need" a TV license if you own *any* apparatus capable of
decoding live broadcast, from analogue to digital terrestrial to
internet stream - TV, satbox, CATV, *MOBILE PHONE!!*.<br>
<br>
"Bye, Judge, my phone is a Nokia 3310 - if you can get THAT to
decode an internet stream through iplayer, then I'll HAPPILY pay the
TV license fee, but as it is, it makes and receives calls and that's
why I bought it and that's why I haven't upgraded it - it still
works!"<br>
<br>
Oh yeah, I've walked out of Nottingham Magistrates' "Court" with
that one.<div class="im"><br>
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On 08/05/2012 10:46, Brian Pickford wrote:
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<p>Perhaps a little known fact.</p>
<p>You need a TV license to watch live TV from the BBC website </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 8, 2012 9:44 AM, "Jason Irwin"
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On 08/05/12 08:56, Benjamin Crowe wrote:<br>
> I don't have a TV license (but thats another story)<br>
BURN THE HERETIC! :-)<br>
<br>
Do the TV Licensing lot give you any grief? "Sir, you have a
TV* which<br>
is capable of receiving a signal. You must pay."<br>
<br>
In all honesty, you're not missing much. Just lots of
adverts.<br>
<br>
*Maybe you don't have a TV, just big monitors?<br>
<br>
--<br>
Jason Irwin<br>
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