Cable/satellite and the Enforcement Officer?
Bedsit Bob
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Some day, when the whole country is cabled up, it'll be the end of the Enforcement Officer.
Think about it.
If every home received all its TV programmes by cable/satellite, it wouldn't be possible to watch live TV without a licence.
In that situation, there would be no need for Enforcement Officers, and non-TV watching households could go about their business, un-molested.
All I can say is, Roll on nationwide cabling. :cool:
Think about it.
If every home received all its TV programmes by cable/satellite, it wouldn't be possible to watch live TV without a licence.
In that situation, there would be no need for Enforcement Officers, and non-TV watching households could go about their business, un-molested.
All I can say is, Roll on nationwide cabling. :cool:
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And what makes you think that people will turn their backs on DTT (which is free) and the whole working transmitter network in order to pay for cable services?
What's to stop DTT being supplied (free as it is now) via cable/satellite
Who cares? Why does it bother you? If you don't want it then you don't have to have it......
By the way, they'd be less of a need for enforcement officers anyway, IF people informed TVL about things!
And, as has already been stated, even with Nationwide cabling (which if you really want it may have to paid for by the License fee!), what's to say you're not watching DTT anyway?
Certainly isn't the BBC either yet unlike VirginMedia they can force people who watch live television to fund them
DTT is free
Because it would mean those who are LLF would no longer be pestered by TVL.
They'd still use them, because they don't believe you when you tell them you don't watch TV.
You couldn't, because they'd turn it off (like the utility companies can), to those properties that weren't licensed.
I know a number of people (myself included when i dealt with an issue involving my Nan) who have been open and honest about things. All sorted.
Now, i know it's not always the case, but you just arise suspicion if you play the martyr.
As Peter B once said "Who ever gets forced to pay for a license if they don't need it?" or words to that effect.
It certainly won't - it's FAR too expensive - why would broadcasters massively increase their costs for no gain?.
Cable, even in the cities and large towns as now, is by far the most expensive broadcasting method, for installing, running and maintaining.
And who is going to cable up the 50% of the country not served by VirginMedia (bearing in mind that the costs of the existing cable rollout virtually crippled NTL and Telewest)
As for satellite/cable carrying the existing DTT services, to a large extent that does happen now, however the viewer is charged for those services on cable, Freesat/freesat from Sky is free.
They are employees of Capita and they have as much Legal standing as my moggy !