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Surely nobody really gets away with that tactic? It won't fool the detector vans?

• lawless123 10y ago
  >It won't fool the detector vans? Does anyone actually believe that? :-)
• lorenzhs 10y ago
  Detector vans are mostly a hoax. It's thought that they worked by detecting electromagnetic radiation given off by CRTs, if they worked at all. Those are obsolete, so the point is moot anyway. But how should they be able to tell apart a TV and a computer monitor? Furthermore, you can use a TV and not connect it to an antenna—Smart TVs and Chromecast/Roku/Fire TV/Apple TV/... make that a perfectly viable use case. Such use isn't subject to TV licencing in the UK, only watching live broadcasts (including streaming) is.
  • aninhumer 10y ago
    >only watching live broadcasts (including streaming) is. Also using BBC iPlayer even for non-live content now requires a TV licence.
    • lorenzhs 10y ago
      Apparently this changed in September 2016. Previously, watching non-live content didn't require a TV licence.
• jlebrech 10y ago
  detector vans are a lie, especially now there are no CRT tvs. the "vans" they did use could detect the radiation coming out of the tv that matched the tv signal they were watching. also useless for blocks of flats.