Guest The Pom Queen Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 In the paper today it stated that over 13,000 homes were using a black and white TV. REALLY!!!!!! Don't they think it could be that the black and white license is nearly £100 cheaper:rolleyes: Can you even buy black and white TV's anymore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tickled Pink Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 I think you can still get them in rare places... I used to treat a patient in the UK that was (well still is!) blind. They still enjoyed listening to the soaps etc, the news, and could follow period dramas etc. However, they didn't want to pay a colour TV licence for something they, and I quote, 'didn't fully use'. - I know you could argue they are watching the channel... but anyway. They recieved numerous quite threatening letters from the TV licencing people, threatening court, they basically didn't believe that this person had and used a black and white TV, and therefore justified the reduced licence fee. This person sent letters, with proof that they were blind. In the end the only way it was resolved was that someone from the department actually came to their house to check for themselves! This was quite upsetting for the person as they felt their honesty and intergrity was under question, they felt their privacy was invaded, took them a while to get over that one. I really felt for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VERYSTORMY Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 We had a little black and white portable until we moved to Oz in 2008. Would have brought it but didnt have the room and it would probably still be our main TV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest26012 Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 I would have thought they'd be collectors items now lol! People pay a lot for black and white photos. It would be weird to watch tv in black and white now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritChickx Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 I was born into colour tv, don't think I could watch black and white tv. I do love B&W photography though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjg Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 What's a black and white tv? One painted in a zebra pattern? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalis Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Anyone with a black and white tv would be a laughing stock, and rightly so. They were selling pocket colour tv's in about 1992 #noexcuse. Apparently most women in UK prisons are there for TV Licence non payment. Myself, I've yet to see one of these mysterious rarely seen tv detector vans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noworriesmate Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Alot of people aren't aware that you can own a TV without a license, you just cannot have it connect to an ariel (or cable if you have that) We used to have a tv for watching DVD's but did not watch TV and had the ariel cable taped up. We had numerous letters and we wrote back each time saying we did not watch TV. Finally one night somebody came to the door and asked to see our tv, they came in looked at it and then left saying that's fine and we never heard from them again. They actually have to catch you watching it for it to become an offence. NWM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noworriesmate Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 oh yes, funnily enough, it's not an offence to watch BBC iplayer online as long as it's not live TV - if you watch live tv on the internet without a license it is an offence. NWM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalis Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Alot of people aren't aware that you can own a TV without a license, you just cannot have it connect to an ariel (or cable if you have that) We used to have a tv for watching DVD's but did not watch TV and had the ariel cable taped up. We had numerous letters and we wrote back each time saying we did not watch TV. Finally one night somebody came to the door and asked to see our tv, they came in looked at it and then left saying that's fine and we never heard from them again. They actually have to catch you watching it for it to become an offence. NWM No ****? One of the rarely seen tv detector inspectors came around? I've got this mental image of them saying "that's fine" after them doing a very briefy check for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noworriesmate Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 No ****? One of the rarely seen tv detector inspectors came around? [ATTACH=CONFIG]17945[/ATTACH] I've got this mental image of them saying "that's fine" after them doing a very briefy check for some reason. No idea if they had a van or not but they were in the house for 2 seconds - looked at the tv, saw the aerial cable taped up in the corner and walked out. NWM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalis Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 No idea if they had a van or not but they were in the house for 2 seconds - looked at the tv, saw the aerial cable taped up in the corner and walked out. NWM Haha I knew it! Thanks for clearing it up though, someone said once they were commission paid freelancers. Wouldn't fancy that job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newjez Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 I had to admit that TV licenses are something that I still can't get my head around. I still can't understand why you would do that. Oz seems to fund the ABC perfectly well without all the palava. Why can't the gov just take the money out of income tax? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 I had to admit that TV licenses are something that I still can't get my head around. I still can't understand why you would do that. Oz seems to fund the ABC perfectly well without all the palava. Why can't the gov just take the money out of income tax? The BBC is the largest news organisation in the world and already is accused of being a government mouthpiece. Having a seperate licence (and be responsible for its collection) was partly to show the BBC was independent. P.S. the detector vans are bluff. They rely on correlating databases of TV sales against licences to decide who to target. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest littlesarah Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 I had to admit that TV licenses are something that I still can't get my head around. I still can't understand why you would do that. Oz seems to fund the ABC perfectly well without all the palava. Why can't the gov just take the money out of income tax? I guess because that's how it's always been, & I think a lot of people don't object to paying for the BBC if they think the output is good (bearing in mind there have been 2 terrestrial channels and 4 radio stations for a long time, and of course now there are several more radio & TV stations available via digital). Personally, I miss radio 2 and radio 3, although I do like a lot of ABC news radio output. I still get my fix of BBC radio comedy via the internet. Although, I have to admit that it used to strike me as pretty ironic that I valued the content I could get without a licence more than the content for which a licence is required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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