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The "radiation" they used to detect came from the aerial, they detected an active local oscillator. These do not exist in digital TV's. Picking up screen signals is easier than you think, hence so much security shielding around military commcens, including isolated mains lines and earth points.
Each of these observations means a substantial complication
for anyone who wants to separate a compromising LVDS
signal of an LCD TV from background noise through periodic
averaging. The high diversity of the timing parameters
and the jitter on the synchronization signals also makes it
difficult to envisage an automatic TV detector predicting from
a broadcast TV signal the LVDS emanations of a TV set,
in order to detect them at a distance using cross-correlation
techniques, especially if the operation of the TV set is driven
by its own crystal oscillators and only loosely phase-locked
with the frame rate of a broadcast signal. Moreover, simple
EMC measures, such as careful layout and ferrite rings, can
substantially reduce compromising emanations from display
controllers and LVDS links.
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I think we'll end up paying a "BBC Tax", then after a few years the government, still strapped for cash, will introduce a tax covering all forms of signal reception. With a name such as Digital Access Tax.
Sounds pretty likely, probably paid as a surtax on any subscription or BB service. Who gets the cash is less predictable as El Gov might just want to pocket the lot.
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Not only do you have to detect a signal, it has to be identifiable as a live TV broadcast and you have to be able to determine it's location. No good detecting next door playing computer games.
Its been the fairest way hence thus so far and if it ain't broke you don't need to fix it.
Except you haven't answered my point. Why do you disregard the unfairness of someone having to pay a charge for an entertainment service they don't receive?
You'd be quick enough to complain if you were being charged for a channel or PPV film you didn't ask for. How is this any different?
Except you haven't answered my point. Why do you disregard the unfairness of someone having to pay a charge for an entertainment service they don't receive?
You'd be quick enough to complain if you were being charged for a channel or PPV film you didn't ask for. How is this any different?
Its more a case of you not answering the question l posed to you earlier as you seem to have developed convenient memory loss when it suits you.
Here is the question again for you.
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Sometimes in life OB one has to think of the large majority rather then a very small minority don't you think so?.
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l am pretty sure there are technical ways of detecting a signal.
Yes it involves a sofa and a tub of popcorn.
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l am pretty sure there are technical ways of detecting a signal.
Pah! It's called peering in your window or listening through the letterbox. Nothing more sophisticated.
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Its more a case of you not answering the question l posed to you earlier as you seem to have developed convenient memory loss when it suits you.
Here is the question again for you.
I framed my question in the light of your question.
Ok, in this case, the answer is no. It's different if you are providing essential services such as education and social care, then yes, everyone should pay as it is beneficial to society as a whole.
But this is not an essential service, it is entertainment. Why should the BBC be thrust down the throats of those who don't want it? There are other channels that are free of charge to watch, after all!
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Another day, another anti-BBC thread from OB...
It's not anti-BBC, it's anti-licence fee. You do like to twist things, don't you, Mr K?
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Pah! It's called peering in your window or listening through the letterbox. Nothing more sophisticated.
I'm glad I re-read that. You said 'peering', not the word I thought you used....
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All designed to keep the proles in order and paying the BBC tax.
Fake, fake, fake.
Over ten years now NOT paying the BBC tax but watching non-BBC output.
If their technology was that good it has failed.
More fool anybody who is still paying this nonsense.
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History is much like an endless waltz: The three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever.
However history will change with my coronation - Mariemaia Khushrenada
All designed to keep the proles in order and paying the BBC tax.
Fake, fake, fake.
Over ten years now NOT paying the BBC tax but watching non-BBC output.
If their technology was that good it has failed.
More fool anybody who is still paying this nonsense.
You will have mail loads of complaints coming through your door old bean as the last time l counted there were about 30 million fools watching good old auntie.
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All designed to keep the proles in order and paying the BBC tax.
Fake, fake, fake.
Over ten years now NOT paying the BBC tax but watching non-BBC output.
If their technology was that good it has failed.
More fool anybody who is still paying this nonsense.
Get the inspectors round to Worthing then ! Are you sure you don't use any BBC services, local and national radio, website, news, weather, iPlayer, BBC content on other channels? A high proportion of cable TV is repeating BBC output, which would have never been made without a licence fee.