Help with catchup TV

[Greigster]

I need some advice regarding getting catchup TV please.

I have decided to cancel my TV licence and rely on catchup TV by not watching any live broadcasts.

I have a Samsung smart TV which is about 3 years old.

I can get all main catchup channels with the exception of ITV Catchup.
I have updated the Samsung tv firmware but it is still not showing the ITv catchup app.

Is there a box or dongle that will allow me to get all in one place?

I did look at this thread but it was all in a foreign language allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/thread/53326/amazon-live-tv-box


Thanks for any advice

[leroy4bz]

Im not sure it's that easy to get out of the TV licence, to my knowledge if you your TV is capable of recieving a signal, you still have to have a licence.( someone correct me if I'm wrong)

[glen]

May 22, 2015 17:11:50 GMT leroy4bz said:

Im not suis irele it'sif that easy to get out of the TV licence, to mits knowledge if you your TV is capable of recieving a signal, you still have to have a licence.( someone correct me if I'm wrong)

I think you are correct, whether you watch normal tv is irelevent,if you own a tv you have to pay a licence fee, Its not whether you do its if you can

[Greg]

May 22, 2015 17:11:50 GMT leroy4bz said:

Im not sure it's that easy to get out of the TV licence, to my knowledge if you your TV is capable of recieving a signal, you still have to have a licence.( someone correct me if I'm wrong)

I too may be wrong but I think it's much easier now to bin the license than its used to be due to catchup and Internet advances.

i don't think it As cut and dry as suggested above and there are ways around it 

[Greg]

This might help on the license front

www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/tv-licence

[leroy4bz]

Now! This has got me thinking, off to investigate.

[Pepperty]

My uncle got out of license paying --- he was awaiting the age where it was free! I will ask hime which hoops he had to jump through to get it cleared

[glen]

May 22, 2015 17:25:06 GMT leroy4bz said:

Now! This has got me thinking, off to investigate.

Same here, wonder If you can get a refund

[phatfil]

you need a license for any equipment capable of receiving a tv signal whether you use it or not.. blind folk using 8 hour video tape recorders to record radio broadcasts have been scuppered by this..

just read the link above - i was wrong!!  


the chromecast dongle lets you 'cast' the contents of a web browser to your tv if you use google chrome as a web browser its as simple as clicking the cast icon top right hand corner of the browser.. so browse to itv catchup on the puter and send it to the tv  

[glen]

May 22, 2015 17:24:58 GMT Greg said:

This might help on the license front

www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/tv-licence

Thanks Greg you may have found me some more shinnys money

[leroy4bz]

May 22, 2015 17:31:07 GMT glen said:

May 22, 2015 17:24:58 GMT Greg said:

This might help on the license front

www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/tv-licence

Thanks Greg you may have found me some more shinnys money

Well, you learn something every day! I still believe most folk will bend the rules. It's about time it was scrapped. 

[glen]

May 22, 2015 18:28:13 GMT leroy4bz said:

May 22, 2015 17:31:07 GMT glen said:

Thanks Greg you may have found me some more shinnys money

Well, you learn something every day! I still believe most folk will bend the rules. It's about time it was scrapped. 

In the end everything will be subsciption only, not good

[leroy4bz]

May 22, 2015 18:31:07 GMT glen said:

May 22, 2015 18:28:13 GMT leroy4bz said:

Well, you learn something every day! I still believe most folk will bend the rules. It's about time it was scrapped. 

In the end everything will be subsciption only, not good

I agree. As thy say " there's no such thing as a free lunch"

[Ripshod]

It's not easy to cancel a licence. A mate of mine (a landlord) got fined for having a TV in a house that had no electricity supply, and hadn't for 4 months. So whether you have an aerial or not. Whether you have electricity or not. If the TV has a tuner in it (even if it's just analogue) it's deemed capable of receiving live TV and you have to have a licence. If you have a PC and it's linked to the net, then it's deemed capable of receiving live TV over the net, and you need a licence.

Not too sure where 3G/4G smartphones would stand. Maybe one day??

Seems saying you don't watch live TV means squat - there's no way to prove it. That word 'capable' is capable of anything in law.

[andy01424]

www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/tv-licence

i know that catchup tv is licence free as free from copyright,but what has me wondering lol if i watch Sky TV that is broadcast and unlocked from a different timezone then i am not exactly watching live, yes we know that some tv that you can get acutally comes from another country uncrypted ie tell by the adverts ,now if old BBC trys to snoop on your dear old ip addy then using a VPN scuttles all that then