Monochrome Tv Sets

[Hopkirk]

Surely people claiming to be using monochrome sets must be trying it on to save money?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20957218

I doubt if any of those sets had scart sockets, so how would you connect a freeview box?

[sunny-dave]

Freeview Box with RF modulator ...

[Hopkirk]

Oh yes, of course.

(I have no idea what Dave is saying)

[pinkyboyid]

Sky Boxes also have Coax aerial connections

[Buenchico]

As S-D says, a very small number of Freeview boxes include an RF modulator which converts the output from 'AV' (which is what goes into a Scart socket) to 'RF' (which is what goes into an aerial socket0 in the same way that VHS video recorders offered both types of output. (Indeed, if a VHS video recorder accepts either a Scart or 'phono' input, it can still be used as an RF modulator to connect between a standard Freeview box and a TV's aerial socket).

However, very strictly, the use of any device capable of handling colour signals (even if the output of that device is then fed to a B&W TV) requires a colour TV licence. So people who were using a VHS video recorder with a B&W TV set were (at least in theory) required to have a colour TV licence. The same ruling applies to Freeview boxes (but I've never heard of anyone with a B&W TV set being prosecuted, or forced to get a colour licence, simply because it had a 'colour-enabled' device feeding a signal to it).

[Hopkirk]

I still doubt if these people are telling the truth.

I reckon they are working on the theory that if they buy a B&W licence then their address will appear to have a licence so won't go on the hit list.

They are probably right.