Yesterday, 22:31
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An Awesome Dude
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Ah so it would be bad if they did Paul huh??
It would stand out like a soar thumb!!
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Yesterday, 22:31
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#47
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CF Resident Dog
Join Date: Mar 2005
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Re: TV Licence
I thought the TV detector vans were said to be fake.
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Yesterday, 22:36
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#48
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Trollsplatter
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Re: TV Licence
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Originally Posted by SnoopZ
I thought the TV detector vans were said to be fake.
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That’s a conspiracy theory based on the fact that nobody was ever convicted based on TV detector van evidence.
They were a real thing, the documentary evidence is vast, and the claims sometimes made that the vans and documentation around them was just one massive psyop really isn’t credible.
The reality though is that they weren’t very accurate and at best gave enforcers a pointer as to which unlicenced houses to knock at. Then as now it’s almost always confession evidence that does it. The vans were a starting point and a deterrent, as they were quite visible.
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Today, 12:47
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#49
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An Awesome Dude
Join Date: Mar 2009
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I was trying to find a picture of the inside of these vans,im sure its quite hi-tech in there!
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Today, 13:16
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cf.addict
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Glasgow
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Re: TV Licence
I don't think it would've taken very hi-tech kit to spot who was watching TV in those days. You could see the tell-tale signs of flickering light from a TV.
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Today, 13:17
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XIV
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Crawley
Age: 36
Services: Three Unlimited
Posts: 16,656
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Re: TV Licence
There's RGB lighting to hide behind now 
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Today, 14:10
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#52
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Just a Geek
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 4,835
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Re: TV Licence
Thing is though back in the days of yore before the days and even including the early days of Sky we had a lot more quality and less of a reason to not want to fund the BBC. Of course also at this time they were covering up vile acts but still
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Today, 18:08
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#53
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Trollsplatter
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Re: TV Licence
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Originally Posted by Dude111
I was trying to find a picture of the inside of these vans,im sure its quite hi-tech in there!
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Not really - just a receiver capable of picking up interference pumped out by an old-fashioned CRT screen. A directional antenna would assist with working out which house it was coming from. If it seemed that signal was coming from an address that did not have a TV licence, they’d get a knock at the door.
It wasn’t a pointless exercise back in the mid-late 20th century because a measurable number of homes genuinely didn’t have a TV and therefore no TV licence. It’s only from the mid 80s onwards that you could argue that you legitimately owned and used a TV without receiving broadcasts, with home VCRs becoming popular.
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Today, 18:36
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Just a Geek
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 4,835
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Re: TV Licence
The law was just owning a TV I remember being asked for my address when I bought one once so they could report it to them
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