[Nottingham] Media Centre Linux distro?

[Brian Pickford]

To continue the off topic theme here,

I happily pay my TV license, I think it's great value for money, compared
to the other pay services on offer.

I no longer subscribe to any other pay services, after watching the 5th re
run of Drake and Josh when I got home.

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.

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.

cheers,
Brian
On 8 May 2012 12:06, James Moore <jmthelostpacket at googlemail.com> wrote:

>  Perhaps even littler known:
>
> 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!!*.
>
> "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!"
>
> Oh yeah, I've walked out of Nottingham Magistrates' "Court" with that one.
>
>
> On 08/05/2012 10:46, Brian Pickford wrote:
>
> Perhaps a little known fact.
>
> You need a TV license to watch live TV from the BBC website
> On May 8, 2012 9:44 AM, "Jason Irwin" <jasonirwin73 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 08/05/12 08:56, Benjamin Crowe wrote:
>> > I don't have a TV license (but thats another story)
>> BURN THE HERETIC!  :-)
>>
>> Do the TV Licensing lot give you any grief?  "Sir, you have a TV* which
>> is capable of receiving a signal.  You must pay."
>>
>> In all honesty, you're not missing much.  Just lots of adverts.
>>
>> *Maybe you don't have a TV, just big monitors?
>>
>> --
>> Jason Irwin
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