problem with the tv licence is that it is for the receiving equipment not the broadcast it self
so if you do have a tv with no broadcast feed it is still a full cost licence unless you have black and white or are blind or a pensioner over the age of dead
( fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Sat 12 Nov 2011, 19:24, 3 replies)

I went for years without a TV licence but still had two TVs in the house. I wrote to them telling them that the TVs were only used for watching videos/dvds. They wrote back telling me that so long as they were tuned away from regular channels and thus incapable of receiving them that was ok.. however, should I be discovered with a tv capable of receiving broadcasts (by dint of being tuned into them) then because I'd already told them I wouldn't, then I'd be prosecuted to the full extent they could. This was a few years back though, perhaps they changed the laws.
(Freakmandu, Sat 12 Nov 2011, 19:41, closed)

I don't think it is for the recieving equipment.
It's for installing it.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Sun 13 Nov 2011, 2:17, closed)

that's what they want you to think

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 13 Nov 2011, 17:09, closed)