25 Aug
2002
25 Aug
'02
8:15 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Unfortunately, the licence now applies if you have equipment capable of
receiving TV transmissions, regardless of the purpose for which it used, so
you can try to convince the authorities all you like...
A monitor, as you used, always avoids the license, so you would still have
been safe, but even owning a VCR or TV and keeping it in the loft requires a
license now.
Cheers,
Dave.
MOST or
RS's efforts to mispackage it won't stop a determined hacker who
is adept with engineering knowledge or a soldering iron.
Will anything :-). Darn it, HP's trick of heat-staking their calculators
together and using undocumented custom chips hasn't stopped me taking
them apart and modifying them ;-).
I hooked up composite video on mine the first day, but waited almost a
So did I. For a very good reason. I was a student at the time. Now in the
UK, you have to buy a license (really a tax) to operate a TV receiver.
Now, a TV set used as a computer monitor doesn't need a license, but it
can be difficult to convince the authorities that you don't use it to
watch TV as well.