TV license

Understand the manufacturers have to pay TV license to Thomson. Is it still
valid of the patent as TV has invented for long time?

In the UK, the users must pay TV license of 131.5 pounds per year. Is it
still valid in the UK or any change in the fee?

Thanks,

Scott

In message , Scott
wrote


In the UK, the users must pay TV license of 131.5 pounds per year. Is
it still valid in the UK or any change in the fee?


Still valid and 142.50 pounds for colour TV

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On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:52:26 +0800, "Scott"
wrote:

Understand the manufacturers have to pay TV license to Thomson. Is it still
valid of the patent as TV has invented for long time?

In the UK, the users must pay TV license of 131.5 pounds per year. Is it
still valid in the UK or any change in the fee?

'Licence' in the UK :-)

On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:48:02 +0100, Alan
wrote:

In message , Scott
wrote


In the UK, the users must pay TV license of 131.5 pounds per year. Is
it still valid in the UK or any change in the fee?


Still valid and 142.50 pounds for colour TV

Worth every penny to avoid the commercial channels.

Steve

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On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:23:42 +0100, Stephen Wolstenholme
wrote:

On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:48:02 +0100, Alan
wrote:

In message , Scott
wrote


In the UK, the users must pay TV license of 131.5 pounds per year. Is
it still valid in the UK or any change in the fee?


Still valid and 142.50 pounds for colour TV

Worth every penny to avoid the commercial channels.

Definitely.

A couple of years ago our local evening paper was complaining about the
local BBC putting video clips of local news events on the BBC website.
The local paper thought this was unfair - it wanted to put its own clips
on its own website but couldn't stand the competition. I get the local
evening paper six days a week. It costs just over 200 pounds each year
for much less content that the BBC outputs in a year.

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Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

In article , Stephen
Wolstenholme writes

Worth every penny to avoid the commercial channels.

Agreed. The advertising on ITV is getting ever more desperate. It
won't be long before they adopt American-style advertising, where as a
film progresses, the adverts come in every 15 min, then 10, then 5.

Weren't the commercial channels supposed to have been forced to transmit
a signal when the adverts started to allow people to record a programme
without the ads? What happened to that?

Another bugbear is the way the volume leaps when the adverts start.
It's inconsiderate. If I want to listen to the ****ing adverts, I will,
don't force them on me. Is there a petition or something against this?

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Mike Tomlinson wrote:

Weren't the commercial channels supposed to have been forced to transmit
a signal when the adverts started to allow people to record a programme
without the ads? What happened to that?

I don't recall that ever being the case. PDC codes on ITV/4/5 have always been
arranged to capture the ads that surround and interrupt programmes, and the
same applies to the recording flags on D-Sat and DTT platforms.

Some VCR manufacturers have attempted to make their products detect when a
break might be occurring, but that's about as far as it gets.

Why would the regulator force the commercial channels to create a system that
would allow viewers to avoid their funding system !?

Advertising funded programming is looking more and more un-viable, and there
are really too many advertising funded channels on Freeview so the situation
is becoming unsustainable. ITV are rumoured to be considering making ITV2,3,4
subs only on Sky.

Of course the real cheeky buggers are Sky, who charge you a subscription, to
watch channels that also contain advertising breaks !


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On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:36:30 +0100, Mike Tomlinson
wrote:

In article , Stephen
Wolstenholme writes

Worth every penny to avoid the commercial channels.

Agreed. The advertising on ITV is getting ever more desperate. It
won't be long before they adopt American-style advertising, where as a
film progresses, the adverts come in every 15 min, then 10, then 5.

ITV adverts are already every 15 minutes most of evening.

Weren't the commercial channels supposed to have been forced to transmit
a signal when the adverts started to allow people to record a programme
without the ads? What happened to that?


There was a box in the top right hand corner that always use to appear
a few seconds before the adverts? I haven't noticed it recently but
that may be because I rarely watch any commercial channels these days.
Another bugbear is the way the volume leaps when the adverts start.
It's inconsiderate. If I want to listen to the ****ing adverts, I will,
don't force them on me. Is there a petition or something against this?

I often go to sleep when my wife insists on watching crap like the X
Factor. The increase in volume is to make sure I wake up to watch the
adverts

Steve

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In article , Mark Carver
writes

Why would the regulator force the commercial channels to create a system that
would allow viewers to avoid their funding system !?

You want to watch in real time, you get the ads whether you like it or
not (e.g. live football). Record and have the option to skip the ads.
I can do it with my PVR anyway, I just FF past the ads, but I thought
there had been agreement (this would have been several years ago) to
transmit a signal to indicate the start and stop of the ads, but can
imagine that this would have been heavily opposed by the advertisers.

IMO Freeview has been a disaster. Yes, we have digital telly, but with
too many channels of complete crap a la the American model. This thing
of repeats+1 of repeats (C4+1, More 4, Dave, Dave ja vu) is a joke. Why
not use that bandwidth to transmit the five current terrestrial channels
in HD instead?

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Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:

There was a box in the top right hand corner that always use to appear
a few seconds before the adverts?

Cue Dot. Used internally within the ITV network to signal to the regions when
a break was coming up during a networked programme. The regional control rooms
then knew to be ready to fire off their adverts.

You still see it from time to time, usually during live programmes, where the
exact timings for a break cannot be determined and therefore the automation
system is free running.


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