[Sirius]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

"Detector" vans are simply empty white vans with dark windows with TV detector written on the sides usually parked in supermarket car parks to itimidate the proles. They rely on ignorance.

There was a time when the only source of radio emissions in the VHF and UHF bands in your house would have been a TV and then it was theoretically possible to detect it. Today there are so many sources of emissions right across the bands and TV can be watched on almost any electronic device, so to claim to detect a TV remotely is fanciful claptrap.

The reason a bozo is sent out to visit is because there is no remote way to detect actual watching of a TV broadcast and even if there was, remote detection evidence is inadmissable in court.

The BBC know this and so continue to pour your licence money away at TVL (A wholly owned subsidiary of the BBC) trying to keep up the pretence that they are all knowing and all seeing when all they really have is a database of all the UK addresses from the electoral register(s) and another of all addresses that pay the tax. The difference is where the bozoes and the intimidation come in.

In fact since we decided to take our names off the public register of electors the TVL letters are now addressed to "The legal occupier" Even the ones that pretend court action is imminent.

Now that makes sense, i have only ever seen two. One was parked in Morrisons and the other in tesco's.