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TV in the UK is weird. They drive up and down the streets scanning for CRT TVs RF signals and extort homeowners for "taxes".
by nubinetwork 4y ago
TV in the UK is weird. They drive up and down the streets scanning for CRT TVs RF signals and extort homeowners for "taxes".
- helsinkiandrew 4y agoNo they don't, they use the database of license holders to find addresses of those without a license. CRT detection was stopped in the sixties and there's some evidence that the "Detector Vans" were mainly tactics to scare people without licenses into getting one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van
- nubinetwork 4y agoWell, it also doesn't help that you can't buy a CRT TV anymore, but I digress.
- PhasmaFelis 4y agoNot really relevant if they stopped doing it decades before flatscreen TVs became available.