On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 at 14:13, Stefan Trethan wrote:
>On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:59:55 +0200, Russell Shaw wrote:
>
> > Slightly OT, but how do those TV vans detect LCD TVs, TV played on a pc
> > monitor or laptop, and hand-held TVs?
Not as easy as the CRT scanning radiation, but those receivers that
use a standard tuner module will leak some Local Oscillator or
Intermediate Frequency at known frequencies - might be detectable.
>I don't think they detect anything...just knock on your door and ask
I'm told they even have hand-held finders (for the CRT scan radiation?)
Plus, everybody is expected to have a TV, so if your
address isn't on their licence list, you're on their list.
>If you remove the tuner out of the TV you can have it without paying, for
>example to watch foreign satellite TV.
May not apply in the UK. ISTR reading with interest a magistrate's
court judgement that if it received RF broadcast and displayed colour
(even teletext only) then a colour TV licence was needed. They have
to be strict because if they didn't collect this way they would have to
fund BBC from Treasury taxes.
I'm sure both these questions have been done to death on some
TV-oriented group (and uk.legal for the 2nd.) so I recommend Google.
If you turn up anything conclusive I wouldn't mind hearing, off-group.
LenW