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[JD]

Is the TV license in the UK any worse than paying a cable bill in the US? It sounds like the only real difference is that it's not optional the way cable is here.

 

[Detached Nacelle]

If and it is a big if a TV license inspector comes to your door, you do not have to let them in, they are completely powerless. "Do you have a tv?" "No" "can I check?" "No." Close door. Job done.

It's a shitty service run badly.

 

[BillJ]

Is the TV license in the UK any worse than paying a cable bill in the US? It sounds like the only real difference is that it's not optional the way cable is here.

I mean, I guess if one is poor they still have access to OTA for free without breaking the law.

Just seems like an odd model, that gives a government owned TV provider a $3 billion dollar a year head start over its competitors.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

^^That is the very thing you cannot do without a tv licence, watch or record anything in the UK that is transmitted over terrestrial airways as it is all under the tv licence, and that includes even watching something on your phone in your home, as there is no free tv options in the UK to watch tv, it is simply pay or do not watch............plus the BBC are hard at work trying to get streaming services under the TV licence banner also, meaning that even streaming netflix or Disney into your home would mean you need a tv licence, and they are also trying to move the licence fee over into being a public service like water, lekky or gas, so everyone has no option but to pay it, something similar to the lekky and gas meter standing charge, it is a utter mess, and all done to keep a greedy not fit fir purpose and out of date corporation in their money.

The BBC should have had the UK tax payers apron strings pulled from its hands decades ago.

 

[StarTrek1701]

^^That is the very thing you cannot do without a tv licence, watch or record anything in the UK that is transmitted over terrestrial airways as it is all under the tv licence, and that includes even watching something on your phone in your home, as there is no free tv options in the UK to watch tv, it is simply pay or do not watch............plus the BBC are hard at work trying to get streaming services under the TV licence banner also, meaning that even streaming netflix or Disney into your home would mean you need a tv licence, and they are also trying to move the licence fee over into being a public service like water, lekky or gas, so everyone has no option but to pay it, something similar to the lekky and gas meter standing charge, it is a utter mess, and all done to keep a greedy not fit fir purpose and out of date corporation in their money.

The BBC should have had the UK tax payers apron strings pulled from its hands decades ago.

UK-Bros.. what happened to you guys?