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Digital Switchover B&W
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Will it still be possible to buy a black and white TV licence after the switchover to digital TV?
I remember when video recorders became popular many years ago, they were classed as colour receiving equipment and you needed a colour licence even if you only had a B&W TV. I assume that the digital TV set-top boxes will also be 'colour receiving equipment'?
I remember when video recorders became popular many years ago, they were classed as colour receiving equipment and you needed a colour licence even if you only had a B&W TV. I assume that the digital TV set-top boxes will also be 'colour receiving equipment'?
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Not if you use a cheap set top box that receives only - if it records you must have a colour license.
http://www.culture.gov.uk/Reference_library/Pr ess_notices/archive_2007/dcms036_07.htm
It will interesting to see how long that continues.
Interesting point on that site:
Listeners who use a digital set top box solely to listen to the radio will not require a licence (this will not apply to set top boxes that are able to record television programmes).
http://www.culture.gov.uk/Reference_library/Pr ess_notices/archive_2007/dcms036_07.htm
It will interesting to see how long that continues.
Interesting point on that site:
Listeners who use a digital set top box solely to listen to the radio will not require a licence (this will not apply to set top boxes that are able to record television programmes).
Thanks Ethel.
>Listeners who use a digital set top box solely to listen to the radio will not require a licence.
I can't see how you could use a set top box just for radio broadcasts. I can get radio stations on my Freeview box but it needs to be fed through the TV. Can you buy radios, or connect up a hi-fi unit, to a set top box?
>Listeners who use a digital set top box solely to listen to the radio will not require a licence.
I can't see how you could use a set top box just for radio broadcasts. I can get radio stations on my Freeview box but it needs to be fed through the TV. Can you buy radios, or connect up a hi-fi unit, to a set top box?
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