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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Jan 9, 2022 3:26:43 GMT -5
One thing about not having a TV hooked up in the UK is you wouldn't have to pay for a TV license to watch all the BBC channels or BBC Iplayer then. That costs £157 for under £75's currently. Over 75's are exempt though the government wants to change that obviously.
My mum turns 75 in April so we'll see what happens around the time.
ITV and other channels have AD breaks in them so no payment is needed. Of course, you can always pay £79 for a year's Netflix and save money there or any various other streaming services like Brit Box or Now TV or just download shows from television websites as some people do then.
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Post by Tim on Jan 10, 2022 0:34:11 GMT -5
Never understood that license fee thing. We don't have that over here.
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Post by Squad 51 on Jan 10, 2022 12:11:50 GMT -5
We pay a fee for public channels which are financed this way. Also not fun, especially when these channels have good media libraries. It gets complicated with the private ones.  |
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Post by Tim on Jan 10, 2022 12:23:23 GMT -5
We have such a channel here in Canada, the CBC. However, we don't have a license fee for it. Of course, the CBC does air commercials, so maybe that's it.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Jan 10, 2022 16:39:33 GMT -5
CBC's probably like the UK channels I mentioned about barring the BBC who don't show adverts then. I recently downloaded an app called Pluto TV which you can get on your laptop or computer as well that's a free non-subscription thing that you don't have to join to watch TV though I haven't properly looked at it yet obviously.
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Post by Tim on Jan 10, 2022 18:53:17 GMT -5
Interesting.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Jan 11, 2022 5:17:40 GMT -5
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Post by Tim on Jan 11, 2022 12:58:49 GMT -5
Just be careful for malware. Sometimes they use sites like that to sneak in.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Jan 11, 2022 13:42:04 GMT -5
Of course yes. I use Norton VPN but am still careful especially after getting scammed last January.
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Post by Tim on Jan 11, 2022 18:05:07 GMT -5
Yeah, you can never be too careful here.
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Post by Dark Avenger on Jan 11, 2022 23:00:23 GMT -5
TV license? We don't have such a thing in Australia.
I did some research on google. Seems countries like the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, and the Netherlands do not have such a thing.
This is new information to me. I literally didn't think that such a thing existed until I saw you guys here from the UK bring it up. WOW! That sucks.
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Post by Tim on Jan 12, 2022 0:37:46 GMT -5
It comes from a time when the BBC was all they had.
Now that is no longer the case, as they have ITV and other commercial networks there. |
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See you tomorrow - after work and shopping. 
