Firestick was one of the best things I've bought, it's easy to safely jailbreak it and load anything you want. Shortly after getting rid of my TV licence I also dumped the shitshow Virgin Media - and my TV has more content and works better than it ever has - on every channel.
It's what you use the device for that means whether or not you need a TV licence to watch the content on it. Most people will watch content on the iPlayer and say screw the BBC if there is ever a show or program on there I want to watch I will watch it and just put I have a licence in the box that pops up asking that question. I regularly do it for the women's football matches and I haven't had any letters saying that I've being using the iPlayer app to view content.
I have a firestick to watch Amazon Prime also to access my Plex server. I don't watch any live TV. But I do use BBC Sounds for catching up radio programmes which no licence is required.
I do not recommend jailbreaking devices to watch live tv from Sky or Virgin Media but I do recommend people ignore comments about watching live TV if theres a 30sec delay as current laws takes any form of delay from live broadcasts into account. So to reiterate. It is a criminal offence to watch any broadcast... LIVE... channels without a TV Licence. So NO circumventing. This reply is here after reading through the comments where some people give bad advice.
Firestick user here and I watch Freevee, ITVX on demand, Pluto TV and Apple TV+ and I’m happily not (and never will) be a license payer. BTW great video Jon.
I have 2 smart TVs and I just use all ov the other apps such as Prime Video and Netflix. I still receive threatening letters from them despite me telling them that I don't need to pay for their license.
Removing iPlayer and not having an account is a sure fire way of staying legal for BBC content, but for live broadcasts for other channels it is not as easy since there is no barrier between live tv and catch up content. I very much doubt you would get caught since there is nothing in it for ITV etc. Most licence free viewers just don't like the stuff they dish up on live tv anyway.
Haven't got a telly and i don't intend to buy one even my neighbour on the left that's connected to my bungalow hasn't got one either, she told them to go and stick it up where the sun don't shine.
just checked to compare live/broadcast/digital ITV to what is listed as "live" on their website. there seems to be a 30 seccond dellay when streamed through the website. due to this dellay it could be reasonably argued that viewing ITV through their website is not watching live at the time of broadcast and would not require a licence. and idea if this actually requires a licence ? if it does how much would ITV need to increase theis dellay by for viewers to be exempt?
It's still classed as a live broadcast, they could delay it by 24 hours but it's still live TV. That's why all the plus1 channels are still live broadcasts.
@@slacko1971 no plus1 chanels are still classed as live tv because they are being broadcast again and viewers are watching them at the time of (re)broadcast. even having a plus 1-year chanel would need a licence if it is being broadcast. duno where you got that 24 hour from. streamed shows/chanels through a website only need a licennce if viewed at the time of broadcast - that why any dellay could be really important.
my only point was streaming something online with a dellay is not watching at the time of broadcast and shouldnt require a licence watching something like +1 is watching at the time of broadcast because it is being broadcast (again but still being broadcast) at that time. nothing to do with how long the dellay is its that viewers watching online are viewing ITV AFTER it has been broadcast due to the dellay you only need a licence to view them at the time they are broadcast
The issue I have now, is. That the updated appendix refers to TV companies. Which they've implied may include the larger RU-vidrs if they wre streaming?
The TV License may be abolished one day, however it will become a tax like it is where I live in the EU. No way of getting out of it. If you are registered to live in the country and have an address, you must pay whether you watch TV or not.
And TalkTV keep saying anyone with a TV has to pay for a licence, and they're supposed to be anti-licence, but are in fact part of the problem with that kind of false information. They get loads of comments saying it's not true but continue spurting out the same nonsense anyway.
Yeah that won't work as a defence against not having a licence, in the same way that watching the +1hr channels won't either, it's still being broadcast live. The time it takes to encode, transmit, and decode the programs doesn't stop it being considered live, at least, I'm pretty sure that's the case.
@@theskidmarkoforion4829True, but if they had data to link the iPlayer account to an address then it would be a simple process to get it and then they could gather all the evidence without you knowing, while you happily watched, giving them more evidence. I wouldn't risk it without a VPN myself.
In a word.. NO. It doesn’t matter where the station is transmitting from If it’s still ‘live’ tv. But then you say live and streaming in the same sentence, so that’s a bit confusing. Streaming ‘on demand’ content is fine, as long as it’s not a live broadcast.
Most livestreams (RU-vidr content) on RU-vid do not need a licence but you cannot watch live broadcast channels (Sky News, GBNews, TalkTV etc) as they are official broadcast channels. You can't watch foreign channels either (RTL, Fox News etc) live either.
Internet tv is not broadcasted because it is not radio frequency. Antenna , Cable, Satellite are broadcasted because they use radio frequency.. Multicast IPTV allows several people to connected to the same stream at once. If u watch live internet tv on a fire stick , it may not be streamed from BCC's servers.
2:18 So if I pause live tv and watch it with a delay, so its coming from a storage device thats ok? Instructions unclear. It feels like that could be deliberate.
That sort of thing always makes me laugh. Eastenders is on several times a week, EVERY week. Football is live on BBC once in a blue moon. Many of the programmes I watch have a 6 week series once a year if I’m lucky. Yet soap fans moan like hell if their fix is taken off air once, even if they do have 4 other episodes THAT WEEK to watch (and the missing episode will in all likelihood be rescheduled).
Why can't the BBC just say it like that in one small paragraph, instead of all the confusing and contradiction on the shitty threatening letters. That'l l be the day.🤔
That used to be the case but no longer. It's now based on how equipment is used, not what it's capable of. Every smartphone CAN receive live TV, but that doesn't mean you need a TV licence just because you own a smartphone.
Nope. that's not how it's worded. IN LAW. Whether the sitting magistrates handing down the fines for non payment of the TVL tax understand that, is quite another matter.
