Do I need a TV licence? UK?

Question

I'm moving into halls of residence for uni soon. I would like to take a TV to watch DVDs and also play on a games console, but do I need a TV licence if its not plugged into an aerial so can't recieve TV signal?
Or am I going to have to buy a TV licence to use it just for this?

Answer 1

You don’t need a TV Licence if

You don’t watch or record television programmes as they’re being shown on TV – on any device

If you don’t watch or record television programmes, or you only stream TV programmes online after they’ve been broadcast – through on-demand services like YouTube, BBC iPlayer and 4oD – you don’t need to be covered by a

TV Licence.



Or all of these are true 1.Your out-of-term address is covered by a

TV Licence

2.AND you only use TV receiving equipment that is powered solely by its own internal batteries

3.AND you have not connected it to an aerial or plugged it into the mains.





Your parents' TV Licence will not cover you while you are away at university unless you only use a device that's powered solely by its own internal batteries. You must not plug it into the mains when using it to receive TV.

If you don’t need a TV Licence...

Please let us know. We may confirm this with a quick visit. We need to do this because, when we make contact on visits, almost a fifth of people are found to need a TV Licence.

Answer 2

No TV Licence is needed if you don't use any of these devices to watch or record television programmes as they're being shown on TV - for example, if you use your TV only to watch DVDs or play video games, or you only watch programmes on your computer after they have been shown on TV. You are supposed to inform them though and they put it on a database.....bit of a cheek huh?

Answer 3

You dob't need one technically, but should get one to keep the license authority off your back.



Or get a monitor, which is a TV without the TV tuner. They cannot say anything about those.

Answer 4

This question gets asked so many times.

The TV licensing authority have no legal right of access to your room if they ask if you have a TV, say no. Simples !

Answer 5

I was about to say yes but if the BNP think it should I'm going to say no just on the principle that I don't want to agree with them. xx