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Posted: 12/28/2006 3:36:25 AM | Sky plus is the greatest invention since the cordless telephone, i leave the heating on when I'm out so it doesn't get cold!
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Posted: 12/28/2006 4:05:26 AM | My goodness !!!! ...........you watch Sky?.... (at my friend's home) I spent about half an hour trying to find something I'd like to watch on it and gave up !!!!! I'm happy to pay the licence fee for what I like to watch.... I'd pay even more to get rid of the ads..... why do they have to be so LOUD !!!!  | |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 4:25:11 AM | What if you got a telly with wheels on the bottom?
Would it then count as a mobile entertainment centre? 
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Posted: 12/28/2006 4:37:03 AM | Loose Boots, Sky sports and sky movies, i am after all a man. Recorded for watching at my leisure not their timetable.
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Posted: 12/28/2006 6:23:06 AM | Ah well, Spe11, that's the beauty of living on my own,..... I love BBC's digital FREEVIEW.... Sky were not able to give me non stop country music with NO ADS..... in fact, hey! they couldn't give me country music full stop!
I have to admit, I'm not into sport ..... but we get movies with FREEVIEW.....
There is a way around the license though.... they target the house ... so you could try the ARCOS 7000 which has digital FREEVIEW built in... and a portable ariel.... which works! | |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 6:44:42 AM | The TV licence fee is good value for money and I don't mind paying it at all.
The comercial stations broadcast "take your brain out" cr@p entertainment and then improve it with adverts for stuff no one wants. The budget for some of the adverts must be bigger than the programmes, and it shows.
The BBC provides good quality programmes, even the repeats are worth watching, but it's a good job because there are so many of them.
Perhaps if a few more of the folk stealing honest folks money were brought to book we could have less repeats. | |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 6:46:03 AM | Any public service broadcasting organisation that can squander millions
on 'public works of art' and millions on people in red pyjamas doing cartwheel
sequences for 5 second in between programme fillers has not only lost the plot
but does not need my money.
The only thing we need in an age of mass broadcasting is (Eastenders only joking).
a news service and an open broadcasting platform,these could be put out to tender.
i.e.. public service news does not have to be by the bbc.
The days of nanny tv (Watch when we tell you and what we make) are over. | |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 10:32:18 AM | Loose Boots, Non stop country music!! I presume you mean radio?!? You don't need freeview for that... and what movie channels do you get with freeview?
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Posted: 12/28/2006 10:34:25 AM | I think it's a pile of coporate crap
Even if you dont watch like the BBC channels you still have to pay for the use of a TV set
I;d gladley have my TV hardwired so i couldnt pick up BBC's
I know some people that have their tuner removed from their TV sets so they dont have to pay it | |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 12:29:43 PM | msg 19
It was the day that a host of BBC executives and star presenters admitted what critics have been telling them for years: the BBC is dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in favour of multiculturalism.
A leaked account of an 'impartiality summit' called by BBC chairman Michael Grade, is certain to lead to a new row about the BBC and its reporting on key issues, especially concerning Muslims and the war on terror.
It reveals that executives would let the Bible be thrown into a dustbin on a TV comedy show, but not the Koran, and that they would broadcast an interview with Osama Bin Laden if given the opportunity. Further, it discloses that the BBC's 'diversity tsar', wants Muslim women newsreaders to be allowed to wear veils when on air.
At the secret meeting in London last month, which was hosted by veteran broadcaster Sue Lawley, BBC executives admitted the corporation is dominated by homosexuals and people from ethnic minorities, deliberately promotes multiculturalism, is anti-American, anti-countryside and more sensitive to the feelings of Muslims than Christians.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=411846&in_page_id=1770
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Posted: 12/28/2006 12:37:10 PM | Well actually spe11 you do need FREEVIEW for 3C (continuous cool country)..... yes, it's on the radio but you can only get it on DAB in certain parts of the country and in mine... it has to come via FREEVIEW. I'll have to get back to you on the movies.... I don't really take much notice where they come from (too many channels to remember), I just like to watch them !!!! | |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 12:40:18 PM | Even worse than it's commie viewpoint is the BBC's attempt to impose the metric system upon us all.
It's reporters always refer to metres, rather than feet and yards, though I had to laugh when John Simpson (after being nearly blown up in Iraq), said that the bomb exploded yards from him.......even the most rabidly pc forget themselves when under pressure. | |
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Posted: 1/23/2007 6:40:20 AM | I know its old, I was gonna start one but found this in a searh. lol but jus wanted to say i disagree with it!!!
they now even send you text messages to remind you to pay!!!
then 2 days after the text you get a letter - your tv licence is due to expire!
I heard it was to be abolished..... dont know if its true or not! | |
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Posted: 1/23/2007 6:46:54 AM | Far from it Laura! TV license due to go up by £50 over the next 5 years. It was announced a couple of weeks ago on the evening news.
In this day and age, I think it should be subject to an opt in/opt out system, the same as Digital TV packages are.
I watch virtually nothing on the BBC these days. Nothing but repeats and rubbish, so how they can justify a huge increase in license fee I really don't know! | |
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Posted: 1/23/2007 6:51:05 AM | Brace yourself, Laura.......
The license fee is GOING UP in the coming year!
I pay mine. I have Freeview (which includes Film4 - Spe11) so I don't watch a whole lot of BBC.
I do, however, listen to the radio quite a lot through my Freeview, and that sometimes includes BBC Radio stations.
EDIT: You beat me to it, SSGirl! | |
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Posted: 1/23/2007 6:51:35 AM | | GREED GREED GREED GREED GREED seadside girl, i only watch BBC 3, and thats just cause eastenders clashes with the simpsons. i think maybe BBCchannels should be optional, that way - you dont have BBC you dont pay the licence. | |
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Posted: 1/23/2007 6:59:12 AM | | You mean they still charge for a Television license???? well blow me! you learn something new everyday..lol :-) | |
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Posted: 1/23/2007 7:00:29 AM | Oops SJS - sorry...
Laura - very true - it is motivated by greed I think. They say it will enable them to make BETTER TV programmes - I WON'T BE HOLDING MY BREATH!!...lol. | |
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Posted: 1/23/2007 10:01:50 AM | What no one has mentioned is that you have the choice whether to pay the TV licence.
No TV - no licence.
However, the same can not be said for the funding of commercial TV.
We have no choice over that.
The funding of commercial TV is made by every one of us - man woman or child - whether we own or watch a TV or not.
Commercial TV is funded by advertising, the costs of which are transferred directly to the consumer every time we buy the advertisers' products or use their services. | |
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Posted: 1/23/2007 10:14:47 AM | BBC i not a sounding-board for leftists, it just appears so because unlike the various populist newspapers, it is obliged to provide a balanced view and cover both sides of a debate
Example (topical) - with made-up headlines
The Daily Star: "could a queer adopt YOUR son?"
The Daily Mail: "gay adoption: new threat to family values"
the Catholic Herald: "Sodomites to get rights to adopt - Unite to save children from homosexualisation: kill a gay today and win a trip to see the pope"
The Guardian: "Catholics seek legal right to anti-gay prejudice"
BBC: "Catholic church seeking exclusion clause to permit them to refuse gay adoptions: Government wavering" | |
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Posted: 1/23/2007 10:30:20 AM | Considering more people now pay for their television programs to be provided by sky and cable feeds I think it is horrendous charging a second time just for the priviledge of being allowed to keep a TV.
I thought the whole point of the tv licence was to fund the terrestrial channels which were provided and now are provided by cable and satellite anyway.
I dont agree with having to pay for a licence but I pay it anyway because I dont fancy being caught without one and being prosecuted for it.
My parents bought a house years ago, no-one lived in it and it was pretty much derelict anyway, it was adjacent to our own house. The TV licencing people were told it had been declared derelict but they still tried charging my parents for the property, it wasnt until my parents demanded an inspection that they finally decided my parents were telling the truth. | |
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Posted: 1/23/2007 10:41:52 AM |
msg45What no one has mentioned is that you have the choice whether to pay the TV licence.
No TV - no licence.
yes and you have choice, be bugged by parasites with detection equipment constantly or buy a licence for a TV you don't have as my mother would tell you she never had a TV and was plagued by the licencing authority constantly they even applied for a court order to search her house. F***ing W****rs | |
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Posted: 1/23/2007 11:28:14 AM | | TV Tax sucks. I agree 100%. I was shocked to learn that you have to pay to watch TV when I moved here from the USA. After watching some lame shows after 4 years, I'm selling my TV, VCR, and DVD recorder. I've decided to buy a projector and DVD player and just watch DVD's from now on. Yes I know it will cost more then paying for a license. I will miss some late night TV, but I won't be missing Ground Force, Antique Road Show, and the other numerous self improvement shows. | |
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Posted: 1/23/2007 11:46:30 AM | I wouldn't want the BBC to be a commercial station. It is bad enough having adverts every 10 minutes on other channels. I think it is a nice luxury to watch a programme from start to finish with no advert breaks. Well worth the money.
I could very easily do without having a tv anyway.
Perhaps the tv license is the price it is because the BBC has to compensate for the likes of the people on here that don't pay there license. | |
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