TV tuner for uni so don't have to pay tv licence

I'm starting uni and they said you have to pay tv licence unless you have a tuner that runs on it's own power (i.e. does not plug into the mains) and has it's own atena (i.e. your not using the cable from the arieal on the roof) so i found this tv tuner http://www.avermedia.com/avertv/Product/ProductDetail.aspx?Id=447

it seems to tick all the boxes so that i wont have to pay tv licence, can someone confirm this does? or recomend me one? Thanks

 

The small antenna bundled with these tuners will only pick up a usable signal if you are close to a transmitter. Have you checked on the transmitter location.

John

 

Which country do you live in? If UK then you will still need a license to view live tv streams. If outside of th UK then I'm unsure

 

Hi.

Everytime you buy a tv or dvd player or tv tuner in the UK, the store takes your name and address and sends it to the BBC so they know they should pay a tv licence it`s currently £139.50 a year!!

EDIT : I think the BBC get something like 2 billion £ a year in licence fees!!

 

ye, i live in the uk and know that its £140 a year but i got this leaflet thing in the post and said if i meet the citeria my parents tv licence will cover me, btw, the uk is the only country in the whole world that requires people to pay a tv licence

 

and where would i check the transmitter location thing?

 

I would double check with TV Licensing first to be sure

 

does this help http://www.wolfbane.com/cgi-bin/tvd.exe?

 

If you mean FREEVIEW , DIGITAL TV then click on the link below

http://www.freeview.co.uk/availability

 

if you live at home with your parents in the uk, and they have a licence, can you goto uni for lectures etc and watch tv with a card or do you have to buy another licence.

thanks

 

not if you buy your devices from the internet (ebay...) or a street market

I'm just saying this since my landlord pays his TV licence

Edit:
OK if you have a receier than you owe to pay. But why do you have to pay if you have a TV and a DVD player, and you use you TV only to watch DVDs?

 

If the TV has a built in tuner and can pick-up BBC channels , you have to pay for a licence by law, even if you dont watch them.

If you could connect a DVD player to a computer monitor, then you would not have to pay the licence, as you dont have a tuner and cannot receive BBC channels.

 

FREDTED40x well if ur term time address is at ur parents then you dont have to pay a tv licence as the tv licence is per household and not per person.

Someone above said the quality of the signal i would recive would be dependent on how close i was to a transmitter with the antenna it comes with, and if i can recive a decnt quailty pic then i would purchase it as it does meet the requirements (obviously phone beforehand to make sure) and if it didnt recive a decent pic i musthook it up to the main antenna and disconnect it when i don't use it and just say that i use the antenna it came i with

 

Wrong, you only pay if you actually receive any TV signal. For laptops, I don't think you need to as it states you don't need a license if the receiving device is powered by an internal battery.

That's what me and a friend studying law concluded anyway

 

Well it's just another tax that people living in the UK have to pay.

I thought that the TV licence was a means to leae the BBC(s) ads free. Since they started putting advatisments in their website they should concider reducing the Licence fees.

 

Just check here http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/information/students.jsp there is all the info you need there!!! I tried to post this last week but sumthing happened

 

This quote is from tvlicensing.co.uk

Does this means that if someone owns a TV or else but doesn't receive any TV program, he/she is not obliged to purchase a TV licence?