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RTE, soarview and tv license

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  • #102
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    dont pay a tv license, simples.


  • #103
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    TheChizler wrote: »
    Would you need a firearms licence if the act of hunting was banned? I suspect so. You're paying for the right to possess the equipment, what you can do with it is irrelevant.

    If a firearm is put beyond use then you don't need a licence for it. That's what Saorview has done to non-digital TVs. Additionally, to date, if you could prove that a traditional tv had no tuner or had it's tuner disabled beyond use by an electrical shop you didn't need a licence for it.


  • #104
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,550 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    If a firearm is put beyond use then you don't need a licence for it. That's what Saorview has done to non-digital TVs. Additionally, to date, if you could prove that a traditional tv had no tuner or had it's tuner disabled beyond use by an electrical shop you didn't need a licence for it.
    AFAIK
    The broken TV defence worked in the UK , not here.


  • #105
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    “People were on email in five or ten minutes to tell me what a dreadful idea it was and they had never had a TV in their lives. You can only conclude they are accessing public service content on the RTE website,” he said.

    LOL
    This is moronic. RTE's website for news is a joke and I rarely touch it with a barge pole, I get my news from irishtimes.com, independent.ie and reuters for international, all of which are funded by ads (as indeed is RTE's website, making it extremely dubious how they can also charge people for using it)


  • #106
    rab!dmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭rab!dmonkey


    Lads, just be glad you're not in the UK, trying to figure out if you need a TV license or not.

    Atleast they get a decent return for their money over there.


  • #107
    TheChizler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,474 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »

    If a firearm is put beyond use then you don't need a licence for it. That's what Saorview has done to non-digital TVs. Additionally, to date, if you could prove that a traditional tv had no tuner or had it's tuner disabled beyond use by an electrical shop you didn't need a licence for it.
    I don't agree with the law that states that you are capable of repairing your broken tv therefore pay for it, is still exists unfortunately. However your unbroken tv could still pick up a PAL-I signal IF it was broadcast and whether the broadcast is available or not isn't an issue. Only possessing the equipment is.


  • #108
    marcsignal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    ilovesleep wrote: »
    With RTE going ditigal and requiring a saorview box to get a siginal for television, would the tv license law become old and outdated?

    Everyone associated with RTE should be sent to the concentration camp.


  • #109
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,550 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    rab!dmonkey wrote: »
    Lads, just be glad you're not in the UK, trying to figure out if you need a TV license or not.
    So if you make a box that holds a TV and UPS you're grand over there :pac:
    Atleast they get a decent return for their money over there.
    As do we :D

    *hugs FTA satellite receiver*


  • #110
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    TheChizler wrote: »
    I don't agree with the law that states that you are capable of repairing your broken tv therefore pay for it, is still exists unfortunately. However your unbroken tv could still pick up a PAL-I signal IF it was broadcast and whether the broadcast is available or not isn't an issue. Only possessing the equipment is.

    Someday some of the population will realise thats the whole point. They could not care less if it only works on mars. They just want your money, and will link any aspect of tv broadcasts, even ridiculous ones such as a tv that only works in china, with needing to pay the rte fee.

    Many see that as legitimate as its a tv that will work somewhere. But in reality, if everywhere on earth turn off their analogue signals on wednesday, an amendment would have been made to ensure the analugue tv was still liable.

    Such an amendment is there already anyway. If you have a tv which can be connected to a saorview box, you are liable just in case you go out and buy one. Which in my opinion is farcical.


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