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Originally Posted by Stuart
I believe they will also say you need a TV licence if you own a device that is capable of receiving a colour TV broadcast. As a Cable or Satellite TV box would be. At the very least, with a Cable TV box and an active subscription it would be extremely difficult to prove you didn't watch live TV. After all, it's not just a case of detuning the box or cutting something inside to prevent reception.
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If you have a tv subscription then it would be hard to prove you don't watch tv, even if you only use it to listen to the radio channels and stream catchup tv. It's no easier to prove you only watch catchup even without a subscription though. I got my parents a little box that just streams content like the catchup, which has no tuner so in theory a better scenario than the cable/sat box yet at the same time the licence lot will try and say you have a tv connected and that tv can receive it.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Isn't it for the Beeb to prove that you did watch live TV, not for the viewer to prove he didn't? If you have a good explanation that they cannot disprove, surely the ball is in their court?
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It is. You don't have to talk to the tv licence guys at all, or let them in your house or enter in to any correspondence with them. If they see a flashing light from your property, they have to prove it was live tv rather than a DVD or catchup tv. They have
never convicted anyone of dodging or not paying the tv licence based on detector van evidence, because they don't use them.
Even if you only watch catchup or dvd's etc, they will still harass you. If you don't talk to them at all, you save yourself the hassle they will give you for whatever you say.