........is it just to make sure that everyone has to be 'registered' so you'll who has paid. Also isn't it just another excuse to put up the licence fee. What's to stop them doing it again?
2006-11-19 09:50:47 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Consumer Electronics ➔ TVs
No. There is only so much analogue bandwidth, and TV takes up quite a bit of it at the moment. By moving TV to digital it frees up quite a bit of the spectrum. This should also allow improved TV signals and increased coverage of Channel 5 in areas that are poor.
If you are using Freeview (Digital Terrestrial TV) you don't need to register, and there will be no subscription fees unless you choose to use something like Top Up TV.
2006-11-19 09:58:50 · answer #1 · answered by the_wrabbit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason for getting both radio and television signals on digital is that you can multiplex many channels onto a carrier wave if you broadcast digitally whereas if you broadcast in analogue you can only heterodyne one range. Therefore you need two wavelengths to carry one television station (one for sound and one for pictures). It follows that the advantage is that this clears an enormous range of the spectrum which can then be sold by the RCA to use as communications channels. This means that the government gets a big windfall of cash in one go just like they did with 3g frequencies.
You do have to register a Freeview box with the retailer you bought it from as you do with any television receiving equipment including a DVD recorder (and if he sells it to you without doing that he's breaking the law) by giving your name and address and these details will be passed on to TV licensing who will then check your licence, however the switch to digital has nothing to do with the licence fee and if anything the BBC is losing money by running so many digital channels; BBC Four in particular has such a low audience rate it would not be commercially viable to broadcast it but the BBC has a mandate to cater for all interests. That having been said, it would be better economically to combine BBC Parliament with BBC Four and to merge the childrens' channels into one.
The reason that the licence fee is so high is that the BBC is overbloated with staff who take no part in production and has several different people doing the same job. In bygone years when it was slimmer and being run by people who knew how to write and produce it was one of the finest institutions in the world and produced dramas and comedies of exceptionally high quality. Occasionally when the stuffed shirts don't interfere with the creative process it still does. Theoretically there is an oversight committee responsible to parliament to stop the BBC raising the licence fee above acceptable boundaries but it depends on what you term acceptable.
Consider this- the licence fee is half of a Sky subscription for a year and yet people are willing to pay it without realising it's an ersatz licence fee for channels that show old BBC and ITV dramas and comedies. It's a funny old world.
2006-11-19 18:34:14 · answer #2 · answered by prakdrive 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No you don't have to register to view digital TV. It is broadcast just like the normal TV and can be picked up using a set top box.
They will use any excuse to increase the licence fee.
2006-11-19 17:54:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you do not have to be "registered" to receive digital TV. However, it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the BBC could decide to make their digital TV programmes available on "conditional access". That would certainly mean that you would have to sign up to receive them as you do for some other channels.
However, I rather doubt that the BBC would really want to do this, as they are financed by the government and if not many people were receiving their programmes, it is highly unlikely that they would be allowed to receive a government funding for their services.
2006-11-19 18:08:09 · answer #4 · answered by Rolf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you don't like paying the telly licence fee, then come to Spain. We don't have to pay any fee for watching television.
I wonder if you have to pay that fee when you only have a satellite dish on the roof. I know you can watch BBC free to air from Astra 2D.
2006-11-19 18:13:15 · answer #5 · answered by Eugenio H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont think it has any thing to do with tv licencing but just new technology besides we are paying tv licencens for bbc channels with digital you have loads of options really
2006-11-19 17:55:05 · answer #6 · answered by blessardone 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-11-19 17:53:23 · answer #7 · answered by RomanL77 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋