[ubuntu-uk] watch tv on ubuntu!

[Matt Daubney]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:56:47PM +0100, Stephen O'Neill wrote:
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> Andrew Oakley wrote:
> | A laptop, however, definitely does have the battery within the case, so
> | a student living away from home could use the laptop to watch TV on
> | their parents' TV licence, provided they never watched TV with the mains
> | charger attached.
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> I think that the "it has a mains supply but I don't use that I use
> batteries" is the same argument as "I have a TV but only use it for
> watching videos"?
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On this point, we have a couple of TV's here, but they're all hooked up
to games consoles/dvd players. Indeed, we rang up the TV licence people
and sent them a letter (keeping copies of course) stating that we had
TV's at the address but none of them receive broadcast. At our first
address we had that we did this they sent a man around who tried
flicking them onto various channels, then look around for any aerials or
connections, found none and left. 

The whole iPlayer/IPTV thing is a very interesting can of worms and
makes me wonder if the TV licence stuff may need rewording very soon.

On another note, I'm the only person who has called the police on a TV
licence man in halls. Came barging into our flat showing no ID and
didn't even knock, so I rang the police and he left. Had he knocked and
shown some ID it might have been different....

-Matt Daubney
(Apologies for the offtopicness of this post)