Set TV to watch Freeview (& Other Free Channels) Only

[Nitell]

Hi,

Medion TV

I do not want to buy TV Licence.

I want to set up to watch only Freeview & other Free channels.

However, I have noticed this > Setup > Once complete, your TV will display available Freeview channels, including BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5.

But, BBC, ITV etc. are not free. Can anyone advise me, please?.

Thank you.

 

[opps]

AFAIK, if you are watching free to air channels (in real time) you need a licence.

You might be better off with Prime stick or Roku.

I am not sure though. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will be along soon.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

If you want to watch any live TV, any channel, or catchup on Iplayer - you need a licence. If you watch any other streaming service, you do not.

 

[opps]

If you want to watch any live TV, any channel, or catchup on Iplayer - you need a licence. If you watch any other streaming service, you do not.

I thought than catch up iPlayer was legal? That said, from memory, when you sign up you have to confirm that you have a licence.

I am glad that we have the BBC, I appreciate that other people here will disagree with me.

 

[Lucid]

Hi,

Medion TV

I do not want to buy TV Licence.

I want to set up to watch only Freeview & other Free channels.

However, I have noticed this > Setup > Once complete, your TV will display available Freeview channels, including BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5.

But, BBC, ITV etc. are not free. Can anyone advise me, please?.

Thank you.

If you don't want to pay for a TV licence, then you must abandon any way of watching live TV. This means no TV aerial, no satellite dish+receiver, no cable TV box (Virgin), and being very careful with internet-supplied TV.

Anything you watch from the same channels that are on Freeview / Freesat / Freely where you select "watch LIVE" needs you to have a TV licence. People refer to catch-up TV and say or write "Oh, I watch via catch-up so I don't need a TV licence". That might have been the case when these apps only had a library of programmes that had been broadcast days or weeks earlier, but the watch Live option changes this. It's no longer just catch-up.

As long as you're not watching something delivered via the Internet (what people call Wi-Fi, but it's not really) that is also being broadcast live, (and it's not a BBC channel) then you're okay.

So, what about the BBC's content? Well, that's all off limits. Everything. You can watch no BBC iPlayer programmes at all legally unless you have a TV licence.

 

[foxhole]

Or just don’t pay tv licence , my brother in law and my brother have never had tv licence and never been fined , they just shut the door on anyone making enquires .

 

[big-all]

i am perfectly happy to chip in the around £3 a week for my licence as my state pension will have gone up by around 28% in april over the last 4 years as my increase is being paid for by the youngsters behind me that cant even afford a house

 

[Stuart981]

Even if your TV can receive 'live to air' broadcasts, which pretty much every modern TV can do, provided that you do not actually watch those channels then you do not need a TV licence.

 

[big-all]

Even if your TV can receive 'live to air' broadcasts, which pretty much every modern TV can do, provided that you do not actually watch those channels then you do not need a TV licence.

you have to be careful it used to de "iff the tv is capable to receive broadcasts via the aerial" you "will need a licence" based on the ability simply to receive live tv but with you needing to be caught with your pant down but now its more clear with the simple fact that" you can" being enough but having said that they need proof off your set up and even intent even though the regulations dont require to know your intent the court to prosecute you will consider your intent as simply convicting off a criminal action because the path is available can never be construed as the most likely or actual outcome

in other words used be caught with your pants down to go to court but now just the ability to receive can go to court

 

[Stuart981]

Whilst TV licencing have in the past gained convictions simply because someone's TV equipment could receive 'live to air', that is no longer the case. For example many people quite legally listen to radio on their TV set which requires the TV to receive 'live to air' transmissions via an aerial. There have been many cases brought before the courts where TV licencing have lost due to their inability to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that a set was being used illegally. A TV licencing agent turning on your set and being able to tune it to the Beeb is no longer considered irrefutable proof of illegal use as it used to be in the past.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

I don't think the OP was interested in the legal shenanigans I thought it was technical issue with their TV, perhaps if the OP can respond .....

 

[flameport]

I want to set up to watch only Freeview & other Free channels.

If you are watching Freeview you need a TV licence.
Whether it's BBC channels or not changes nothing.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

I've never liked you flameport.

 

[accelerator]

Or just don’t pay tv licence , my brother in law and my brother have never had tv licence and never been fined , they just shut the door on anyone making enquires .

Or how about pay it like you should? Otherwise, all the people like myself paying for a licence are effectively paying for theirs.

If you don't want to pay for a licence, then don't watch TV!! Find something better to do.

 

[accelerator]

Hi,

Medion TV

I do not want to buy TV Licence.

I want to set up to watch only Freeview & other Free channels.

You need a TV licence, as any channel on Freeview requires a licence. Any channel being transmitted over the air uses the TV broadcasting network and that has to be paid for somehow.

If you don't want to pay for a TV licence, you can't watch anything on Freeview.