mistergrumpy
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| posted on 7/6/09 at 01:29 PM |
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Telly In Garage
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.
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blakep82
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| posted on 7/6/09 at 01:31 PM |
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it'll be fine, its your garage on your land, on your land title, so work away 
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mookaloid
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| posted on 7/6/09 at 01:31 PM |
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can't imagine it would be a problem
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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emsfactory
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| posted on 7/6/09 at 01:31 PM |
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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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MakeEverything
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| posted on 7/6/09 at 01:42 PM |
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quote:
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.
Your TV License covers you on other properties does it not? Its been ages since ive read the license itself, but i remember looking into this a while
back.
If youre renting a garage or workshop which isnt attached to the house, your current license should still cover you??
Not sure really. Would be an interesting discussion if the van ever caught up with you though.
Kindest Regards,
Richard.
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r1_pete
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| posted on 7/6/09 at 01:42 PM |
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Licence covers up to three telly's at one address IIRC, so you should be ok as your garage is still at your address.
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coozer
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| posted on 7/6/09 at 03:50 PM |
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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
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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mistergrumpy
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| posted on 7/6/09 at 04:18 PM |
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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.
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gazzarose
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| posted on 7/6/09 at 04:34 PM |
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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
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 7/6/09 at 05:03 PM |
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Some interesting stuff on TV licences here.
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mcerd1
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| posted on 7/6/09 at 05:33 PM |
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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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Ninehigh
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| posted on 8/6/09 at 03:32 AM |
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quote:
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)
Iirc the ruling for that is that it's got a lock on each door.
Having one in your garage should be ok and if the lone guy in the van comes knocking you could always ask for a copy of the law that states that
it's not allowed (I do this every time someone throws the law at me and they can never point it out to me) otherwise as Tubbs said "we
didn't burn him!" 
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Vindi_andy
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| posted on 8/6/09 at 01:31 PM |
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quote:
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
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adithorp
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| posted on 8/6/09 at 03:56 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Vindi_andy
quote:
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
The licence allows use of a portable TV while away from the registered address, but only for temporary use. So it's ok in a caravan while on
holiday but not for your son/daughter at uni'.
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Andybarbet
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| posted on 8/6/09 at 07:19 PM |
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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.
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iank
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| posted on 8/6/09 at 08:20 PM |
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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
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MautoK
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| posted on 8/6/09 at 08:48 PM |
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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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Staple balls
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| posted on 8/6/09 at 09:43 PM |
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quote:
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.
I've heard that before.
In my experience, they just harass you in the hope you accidentally admit you have a telly.
Had a problem with them in a flat a few years ago, insisted they'd detected a telly every month or so because we had no license.
Occasionally they claimed they had a right to enter and search for a telly, I suggested they got police to escort them. Never did happen.
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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Ninehigh
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| posted on 10/6/09 at 09:45 AM |
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quote:
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
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Vindi_andy
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| posted on 10/6/09 at 10:11 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Ninehigh
quote:
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
The problem with this is in some areas near to the transmitters you dont actually need an aerial to recieve the signal.
I can receive a perfectly good picture with a wire coat hanger stuck in the aerial socket
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