Re: tv license question (a new one!!)

On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 09:19:50 GMT, Mike_B <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

In message <qcWdnX1NO_CXCh_ZRVnyvQ@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, huLLy
<villageidiot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Gaz wrote:

Essentially you plug in your aerial for freeview, or your skybox, and
connect it to your broadband.


Now, would a tv license be required in the following scenario,
student in halls of residence, uses PC to connect and watch this
stream from a slingbox, the computer doesnt have any other tv
recieving capabilites (such as tv card)?

Gaz

Yes, there is a tuner in the Slingbox.


The PC world site states "With the Slingbox, you are simply streaming TV
content you have already paid for via your TV license and
satellite/cable connection."

this may imply that the TV license you already have covers you as it is
in fact your home TV reception that you are watching, you are simply
watching it from a remote location. Interesting.

That statement above is almost certainly either working on the
assumption that you will still only be watching from somewhere else on
your home network, or it is misinformed about what the TV licence
allows.

Although having said that, it *would* be allowed if there was nobody
watching TV in the licensed premises, and the student was normally a
member of the household there.
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