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maddav
Joined: Dec 01, 2002
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From: Nottingham, UK
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@MTNT68I: I think you still have to pay, as it's just the tuner card being like the aerial to a tv (your monitor), i'm not sure though.
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Rva@
Joined: Nov 11, 2003
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Here in Denmark, we also have to pay licence , they even investigate people who dont pay,, to see if they are cheating ! And its a raw 240 £ a year if you own a color tv !!!
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MTNT68i
Joined: Jul 18, 2003
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nope i dont have to pay... because they say that the quality isnt as in tv's... trust me i have checked it with the minister of culture....
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Pepper101
Joined: Aug 09, 2004
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They also check up on people who don't pay here but it’s questionable how effective their techniques are. We’re all meant to be really scared if we see a grey TV van with a spinning aerial on top.
& you have to pay the same rate for a PC TV card here as it lets you watch colour pics.
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vckay
Joined: May 18, 2004
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How do they make you say for a radio/tv license? Are you automatically registered when you buy the telly ? Suppose you have only cable , are you supposed to pay then too ?
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*Jojo*
Joined: Oct 15, 2003
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My sentiments are same with that with @friscosjoke ! Everything here comes for FREE, minus the TV price, electricity and the cable wherein we pay around US$ 9.00/month just in order to watch BBC/CNN/Bloomberg/HBO/Star Sports/ESPN/Fashion TV (the best)/Rai TV/ etc. There are about 60 in the listings  ! Though when you have a plain TV antenna, you only tend to get to watch local TV station's shows/news etc. and there are only about 12 of them at present  ! |
plasmadog
Joined: May 06, 2004
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From: Beantown, India
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here (india), we have doordarshan, which is state run and have 3 channels that one can catch using an antenna.
but the rest of the cable channels (some 80 odd) come at about (6-7 euros a month), but with commercials. and that's very irritating!! of course!
some places have a Conditional Access System, that u can choose whatever channels u want to watch, and pay only for those.
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Sammy_boy
Joined: Mar 31, 2004
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I quite like the BBC - except for all the repeats, of course! I'm with @vlamm, I find ad breaks extremely annoying, and would rather pay a little 'telly tax' rather than have ads every 15 mins or so.
I can't understand all the fuss over the TV licence - it's what - £130 a year or something? As Cytech says, they pay the equivalent of £200 a year and no-one bats an eyelid. It's no wonder the Australians call us 'whingeing poms'!.
And as for ITV - apart from the odd top-notch drama, they broadcast crap - wall to wall soap operas, 'reality' TV shows, gameshows, and worse, any of the above with so-called 'celebrities' who have had their 15 mins of fame and are desperate for the cash.
Sky (subscription satellite TV) is quite good, though. You have plently of documentary channels, entertainment channels, films, and loads of sport. It's a bit pricey (about £40 a month for all the channels except the naughty ones!) but you get literally hundreds of channels. You get most of the American series first - although a lot of them are rubbish you do get a few gems.
I say we keep the TV licence, and the BBC as it is so we can keep getting good quality, decent, original and thought provoking programmes.
With no sign of 'Celebrity builder from hell's kitchen - Live!' presented by Ant and Dec!
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maddav
Joined: Dec 01, 2002
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From: Nottingham, UK
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@ Sammy-boy: I agree 100% with you on that, ITV is mostly crap, and BBC is mostly great, one thing that really drove me over the edge regarding ad breaks, was when sky one got 24, and on BBC2 it was great, it wasn't the real hour, but it flowed much better, and then on shy, the first ad break for each show was at 21:06 (it started at 21:00), which really got me angry.
That said in America, it's worse, when i was there, they managed to fit 3/4 ad breaks into an episode of the simpsons, whereas sky one only gets one (longer) ad break.
Looks as if there will be no ad-break free simpsons now, since channel 4, are showing the simpsons later this year.
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