All posts by mike7
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Cord cutting is fine provided people stick to the rules. It is now being proposed that using 'catch-up' services such as iPlayer may in future be subject to license fee conditions. Frankly I think this is fair. People who say 'we never watch live tv' invariably seem to stray when there is a major sporting event, EastEnders or programmes their children want to watch.
Obviously there is a lot of criticism, not without some justification, about wastage at the BBC. However in the end you are getting 6 tv channels most of them in HD often in a reception quality that exceeds on-line delivery or via Sky, a wide variety of national and local radio stations and a first class information base on the internet. All of this, for all your family, at 38p a day! You can't buy a quality newspaper for that.
If a mass exodus from paying the licence fee occurs we may eventually only be left with subscription paying services and heavy advertising input such as you see in the USA. Your choice.
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And just add to the above. You are not paying the License fee to watch BBC programmes. You are paying it to receive TV services in the UK. So if you have an aerial and only watch ITV etc, you are still required to pay. The Government have chosen to pay a generous proportion of the licence money to the BBC. I feel that they should pay a proportion to Channel Four which in spite of receiving money from advertising offers a number of quality public service type programmes like Channel Four News. This would keep the BBC on their toes when it comes to taking public money.>
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Tuesday 17 April 2012 9:57AM
You make no mention of an outdoor aerial. Do you still have a Virgin Media service? If you do then you should be connecting your new TV via a SCART or HDMI lead. If you are trying to get Freeview to work from a Virgin Media cable directly I'm afraid you are wasting your time. It doesn't work. To get a Freeview signal you need a conventional TV aerial, preferably roof mounted.