Might as well bin my TV license ........

Lord Tyrion said:
Happy to answer the question. I don't watch Attenborough, no Olympics (not really interested any more), no doubt would have watched World Cup matches, I do watch Dr Who, enjoyed The Bodyguard and Killing Eve. That is pretty much it. Would that be enough to warrant me paying over a subscription? Not sure, probably not. There is not enough there to worry me if I could not see it. It should be my decision though, not forced upon me.
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So You have gone from not using it - to watching a number of programmes to watching sport events -

What about TMS , 5 Live ? The website
 
Liverpoolphil said:
Obviously you know that means you can’t watch Sky or indeed anything on the telly bar DVD and I believe it also includes Netflix and Amazon prime or Sky go etc etc
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Why on earth would you need a TV license to watch Netflix? :ROFLMAO:

I looked into it last year, without a TV license you can still watch any program online on a catch-up service - i.e. not live but watching it later on - and this excludes BBC's iplayer of course. And you can certainly watch Netflix and Amazon at your leisure. The only thing you need a TV license for is live TV and BBC iplayer.
 
Orikoru said:
Why on earth would you need a TV license to watch Netflix? :ROFLMAO:

I looked into it last year, without a TV license you can still watch any program online on a catch-up service - i.e. not live but watching it later on - and this excludes BBC's iplayer of course. And you can certainly watch Netflix and Amazon at your leisure. The only thing you need a TV license for is live TV and BBC iplayer.
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Interesting... So, when Amazon start showing footie live will you need a licence to watch?
 
I wasn't really looking for an argument about the TV license, (should have chosen a better thread title) I was trying to say how much I enjoy some Youtube film makers, compared to the 'professional' mainstream TV programs.
 
Liverpoolphil said:
So You have gone from not using it - to watching a number of programmes to watching sport events -

What about TMS , 5 Live ? The website
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If you look at my first post I state that I barely use it. That is true, I barely use it. A small handful of programmes that I could easily do without. Football tournaments that happen every two years and are shared with ITV. Easy to watch BBC matches at a pub if I want to. The BBC have no other sport that interests me that I can't see elsewhere. TMS is losing more and more to Talksport so that is less relevant, same applies with football commentaries if I am out and about. The BBC no longer has the stranglehold it once had.

With regards to the website, up to them if they want to scramble it. Easy enough to use another website, plenty of options out there.
 
MegaSteve said:
Interesting... So, when Amazon start showing footie live will you need a licence to watch?
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Anything you watch live as it's being broadcast, you need a license. If you only stream programs later on, on demand/catch-up, and don't use BBC iplayer, you don't need one. So if you're watching football that's being shown live, yes you'd need a license then I think.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
If you look at my first post I state that I barely use it. That is true, I barely use it. A small handful of programmes that I could easily do without. Football tournaments that happen every two years and are shared with ITV. Easy to watch BBC matches at a pub if I want to. The BBC have no other sport that interests me that I can't see elsewhere. TMS is losing more and more to Talksport so that is less relevant, same applies with football commentaries if I am out and about. The BBC no longer has the stranglehold it once had.

With regards to the website, up to them if they want to scramble it. Easy enough to use another website, plenty of options out there.
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The only thing I'd miss out on is Match of the Day. That's all.
 
bobmac said:
I wasn't really looking for an argument about the TV license, (should have chosen a better thread title) I was trying to say how much I enjoy some Youtube film makers, compared to the 'professional' mainstream TV programs.
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Yes I agree, there is some entertaining stuff out here. I consume just about all of my golf through the YouTube Vloggers now. But to just join in with the other debate, I think the licence fee is good value for BBC4 and its radio output on its own. But that is probably just me.

Also the ability to have an organisation that, although it has got its knickers in a twist recently with all the alleged Brexit Bias, is still relatively free from political interference from its paymasters and is not reliant on advertising that will always impact on content, is priceless. I've seen too much US TV to want to go down that route.
 
Same discussions here I see regarding state television as in Sweden. Sweden has taken it one step further from next year. They've just slapped the tv-license onto the tax bill wether or not you have a tv. You simply cannot get away from paying it. This then mean that for a household with a couple living together now needs to pay the license twice. If kids who's working but still lives at home with their parents, they will pay for it as well. Gotta love tax.

More on topic. I mostly watch stuff on youtube now, with the occasional glance at series on BBC that my gf forces me to watch. Never live though.
 
Not sure why the BBC don't just open up to advertising and be done with it, surely a far greater revenue stream than £12 a month. My TV licence renewal just kicked in again last week. Its one of these things I don't even notice till I get my yearly reminder that the DD will continue.
 
Liverpoolphil said:
That didn’t really answer the question though did it - i suspect you and other have used a BBC service over the 12 month period even if it’s the news or listening to a sport event or one Attenborough program or Football Tournament or Olympics etc etc
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Only 2 programmes I can remember watching on the BBC this year.
Bodyguard & Dynasties.
£120 Bargain👍🏻
 
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