30,000 people in the UK still watch TV in black and white

[PvtCupcakes]

[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;18411777]From Wikipedia "Blind people get a 50% discount on their licence"

That is cold blooded. So how does that work?

some government worker(SGW): "If you want to watch tv, you have to buy a license."
blind guy: "I'm blind."
SGW: "Oh sorry, how rude of me. You can buy one for half price, then you can watch tv."[/QUOTE]

You can listen to the TV, which is half the experience.

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Also it's funny how the BBC encrypts their signals. In the US the over the air channels are totally unecrypted. :smug:

I can hook up an antenna to my PC and watch TV on my PC, and even record it if I want to.

[SomeRandomGuy18]

:patriot:

Fuck TV licenses.

[editline]10:18PM[/editline]

Oh, and fuck illegal guns.

[editline]10:20PM[/editline]

So if you wanted to buy a TV over there, not for watching TV, but to say, play your Xbox, you would have to still pay for a license? Fucking dumb.

[editline]10:20PM[/editline]

Woah mega run-on sentence.

[editline]10:20PM[/editline]

Woah lots of automerges.

[XX-POWER-XX]

black and wite now :P good:) i have collor:P

[MarkG06]

[QUOTE=SomeRandomGuy18;18416924]:patriot:

Fuck TV licenses.

[editline]10:18PM[/editline]

Oh, and fuck illegal guns.

[editline]10:20PM[/editline]

So if you wanted to buy a TV over there, not for watching TV, but to say, play your Xbox, you would have to still pay for a license? Fucking dumb.

[editline]10:20PM[/editline]

Woah mega run-on sentence.

[editline]10:20PM[/editline]

Woah lots of automerges.[/QUOTE]

[quote]You do not need a TV Licence if you only use your TV to watch videos and DVDs or as a monitor for your games console.
You can tell us that you do not need a TV Licence by using our online declaration form. One of our Enforcement Officers may visit you to confirm that you do not need a licence.[/quote]

God wasn't that hard.

[orsenfelt]

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;18414168]You can listen to the TV, which is half the experience.

[editline]09:50PM[/editline]

Also it's funny how the BBC encrypts their signals. In the US the over the air channels are totally unecrypted. :smug:

I can hook up an antenna to my PC and watch TV on my PC, and even record it if I want to.[/QUOTE]

The act of transmitting is encrypting it. You can't just pluck TV out the air with a coathanger and a display device, no matter where you are. You need something to turn the signal from the mess back into TV pictures.

We pay for the privilege of doing that with BBC's signals. If you can prove that you don't use your TV to watch BBC, you don't need to pay a license. However, if you have a TV.. 99.9% chance you use it to watch TV for even 1 second in a year.

[JesterUK]

[QUOTE=conman420;18365996]I laugh at how you have adverts on all of your channels.[/QUOTE]

They are annoying, but to be honest, it wouldn't be the same without them.

[Bl4ck1ce]

[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;18363679]And Doctor Who.[/QUOTE]

And this very fucked up trippy cartoon called "The misadventures of FlapJack"

[The Entropanaut]

I guess they just don't need it. they can imagine the colours better than us lazy americans.