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Originally Posted by epsilon
VisionTV needs a licence because it sends data over the DTT network for its portal. The services streaming on it don't need a licence at all, so an interesting loophole for channels denied a traditional licence by the regulator or the DCMS. If the streaming service operates their own portal or links to it with MHEG / hbbTV scripts, they would need a DTAS licence to transmit the data.
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I didn't say VisionTV didn't need a license, I just suggested it might not need to be identical as it wasn't a straightforward streamed channel.
If it was that simple a loophole there'd be a lot more channels, and a lot of dodgy channels on the portal services on Freeview. There aren't, so there must be more to it.