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BBC Licence Fee to increase in April

£1.50 increase to £147 - free licences for over 75s still means cuts to be made (March 2017)

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WW
WW Update
I believe all countries with license fees have a per-household rule. These days, devices capable of receiving broadcast signals are everywhere, so collecting license fees on a per-set basis wouldn't make much sense.
DE
deejay
It's per household, though lodgers who rent a room and are not related to the rest of the family are supposed to get their own license. It used to be the case that members of the household could also watch a portable tv set elsewhere, so long as it was internally powered by batteries (this was aimed at caravaners and those handheld b/w sets you could get in the 80s I think - though our caravan tv set was powered by the car battery via a long cable!)
SP
Steve in Pudsey
I suspect I may have asked this before but do genuine black and white TVs have external input support? Or is there a genuine demand to modify them to add a SCART/HDMI socket to archive sets for Freeview purposes?

I'm not sure there's even such a thing as a genuine black and white TV any more (there were black and white sets available after colour 625 came about).

The rule always used to be that the receiver had to be black and white and that ruled out videos as they had 'colour' tuners. That is the case with all TV reception equipment today


Yes, I don't know why they're watching or how they're receiving the signal, but my understanding is also that if you have a colour receiver with a b/w set, you still need a colour license. I don't think anyone makes a b/w Freeview set... unless you know different!!

I think that was relaxed around the time of DSO.
IS
Inspector Sands
In Sweden, viewers pay TV License per house, not per set. Why don't Britain go that way?

So, how many licenses have you been buying every year? Shocked
:-(
A former member
The UK is the same. You can have 15 tvs per licence in each house.
WL
W1LL
Forgive my ignorance, but, given their age, how is it possible to receive Freeview, or DSat for that matter, on a black and white television set?
TV
TVMan
Forgive my ignorance, but, given their age, how is it possible to receive Freeview, or DSat for that matter, on a black and white television set?

You can use a collection of converters and adapters, as demonstrated here:
AS
AlexS
It's per household, though lodgers who rent a room and are not related to the rest of the family are supposed to get their own license. It used to be the case that members of the household could also watch a portable tv set elsewhere, so long as it was internally powered by batteries (this was aimed at caravaners and those handheld b/w sets you could get in the 80s I think - though our caravan tv set was powered by the car battery via a long cable!)

The can watch using a device not connected to the mains is still a thing and is now widely used by students at uni (whose parents TV licence covers them watching on their phones/laptops as long as they are not plugged in).

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