Do you think the licensing people would get all excited if I put a telly in my garage? The garage is on my land at the end of the garden but not stuck to the main house. It was just a thought as me and my neighbour often chew the fat in our garages and as he doesn't have a telly it would be good to have the F1 or whatever on for him to watch.
it'll be fine, its your garage on your land, on your land title, so work away
can't imagine it would be a problem
I was thinking about this yesterday. I have a telly in my garage.
Same as you ,on land not conected to house.
Just use it to watch dvds.
I was going to put an aeriel in the loft so I can watch free view.
Interested to see what people say on this.
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Originally posted by emsfactory
I was thinking about this yesterday. I have a telly in my garage.
Same as you ,on land not conected to house.
Just use it to watch dvds.
I was going to put an aeriel in the loft so I can watch free view.
Interested to see what people say on this.
Licence covers up to three telly's at one address IIRC, so you should be ok as your garage is still at your address.
I have one in the garage, great for background sport.
Garage is attached and connected to the sky box via a long ariel cable
I think its ok for the license as its connected to the sky box.... I'll wait for the knock
I'm not falling for that detector van lie. Their site isn't that helpful and when I looked into a few FAQ's one said that their
detector van uses secret stuff and it's that secret their operatives usually work alone! My ar5e! I often wondered how, if me and my neighbour
(if he had a telly) put our tellies back to back with the wall in between and ran the aerials straight upwards, they could ever distinguish one telly
from the other. Also what if i decided to knock a hole through, like a serving hatch so that the neighbour could watch my telly from his own living
room?
Just wondered how far things could be pushed legally. I absolutely despise paying the license and apart from Top Gear I hate the BBC to the point that
if the telly is on in the background, I won't even have it on BBC.
I know that the tv license covers you to use a tv in a caravan or tent or boat. Although they do say that it cant be used at the same time as the one
in the house, but don't know how they'd prove it. So should be fine in a garage. Especially now you can have tvs in cars and stuff. I think
its getting harder and harder to draw the line. I think if your name is on the license and its in your property you should be ok.
Gazza
Some interesting stuff on TV licences here.
when I was at uni every room in halls needed a licence - because every room had a seperate address
assuming that you don't have a seperate adress for your garage you should be fine
(but I think the fine print is on the licence or the stuff that coms with it)
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Originally posted by mcerd1
when I was at uni every room in halls needed a licence - because every room had a seperate address
assuming that you don't have a seperate adress for your garage you should be fine
(but I think the fine print is on the licence or the stuff that coms with it)
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Originally posted by gazzarose
I know that the tv license covers you to use a tv in a caravan or tent or boat. Although they do say that it cant be used at the same time as the one in the house, but don't know how they'd prove it.
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Originally posted by gazzarose
I know that the tv license covers you to use a tv in a caravan or tent or boat. Although they do say that it cant be used at the same time as the one in the house, but don't know how they'd prove it.
Im a bit curious about this one as when I was living at home my parents had a caravan and used to go off for weeks or long weekends and leave me at home and they would take their portable TV with them while I would watch the Big TV at home.
It would probably take too much time to trace through the system for a tv in a caravan as they would have to get the reg of the van then trace the address the van was registered to then check that address had a license
Should be fine, i have one in mine but the garage is in the house so to speak, its a town house with an integral garage, great for getting away from
east enders and holby
I would go for it, i dont think you have anything to worry about as long as you have a licence for the house.
I wouldn't get too excited about detector vans. I was told by an RF engineer they wouldn't be able to detect a flat screen TV anyway and
would only ever have worked when only a few existed in each street, i.e. the number of legal TV's would mean it was almost impossible to locate a
dodgy one.
There is some interesting reading to be had here which from my understanding of the law seems plausible.
http://www.bbctvlicence.com/Detector%20vans.htm
I don't know how TV detectors detect the current generation of flat screen TVs.
With the old CRT screens I seem to recall that the line flyback gives an adequate detectable emission due to large and quick voltage excursions.
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Originally posted by MautoK
With the old CRT screens I seem to recall that the line flyback gives an adequate detectable emission due to large and quick voltage excursions.
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Originally posted by Staple balls
Course, I actually didn't have a telly, no need to with fast internet, and they gave up after about a year.
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Originally posted by Ninehigh
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Originally posted by Staple balls
Course, I actually didn't have a telly, no need to with fast internet, and they gave up after about a year.
Yeah the licence is for recieving a signal, therefore it's technically legal to have a tv without a license if all that's plugged into it is Playstation, DVD and PC. I was going to do this just to wind them up, and have no arial plugged into it whatsoever