Re: Linux TV tuner
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:49:04 +0100, Dom wrote in message
<[🔎] 4F852960.5040606@rpdom.net>:
> On 11/04/12 07:09, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > On 10/04/12 22:24, Lisi wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 10 April 2012 21:50:44 Sian Mountbatten wrote:
> >>> I have decided to get a USB TV tuner so that I can use it with my
> >>> sid(uction) box. I am in the UK. Will I need a TV licence?
> >> I think so. But I also believe that you can get round it by
> >> watching iPlayer
> >> etc. over the internet. IANL of course!
> > Unfortunately you can't. You still need a TV licence to watch via
> > iPlayer. It says so on the BBC web site.
> >
>
> It is true that you need a TV licence to watch programmes that are
> currently being broadcast ("as the programmes are being broadcast,
> simulcast or otherwise made available by the BBC on television").
>
> However, programmes that were are not being broadcast at the time may
> be watched, in the UK only, without a TV licence, for as long as they
> are available on iplayer. The BBC would like to close this loophole.
>
..what happens if e.g. Sian creates her own TV broadcasts,
e.g. by putting a camera and a TV transmitter aboard a R/C
model aircraft, FPV style, but specifically to show common
TV watchers her own version of e.g. life in the communities
around Mount Battenberg?
--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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