2007-07-16 05:20:37 · 8 answers · asked by lawfulwork 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ TVs
Detectors (they're mainly hand-held these days; the time when people turned off the sets when a van was in the street are over) can tell colour from b/w. They can also pinpoint the location of your set to within about 2 feet, and let the inspector know which channel you're viewing.
Detectors also exist, but are expensive and rare, which can use emitted EM radiation to snoop on computers.
Welcome to the open society.
2007-07-16 05:27:33 · answer #1 · answered by Michael B 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
approximately £80. the licensing pickpockets can actual inform you which of them form of (crt-no longer flatscreen) set you're observing because of the fact the quite extreme voltage in a CRT (cathode ray tube) supplies off an more advantageous sign on the medium wave band than a b/w set does and the licensing government have quite comfortable kit that are in a position to %. up those alerts and can tell the version. flatscreen units (the two plasma and liquid crystal reveal) use nowhere close to the mandatory voltage a popular set does to offer a picture so the BBC will might desire to start guessing lower back. and as there are not any b/w flatscreens on the industry they are going to all be lined with a colour licence.
2016-10-03 22:33:09 · answer #2 · answered by rouse 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No and they don't need to.
There is no such thing as a black-and-white TV licence any more - there hasn't been for years. If you have a device capable of receiving BBC television channels (black-and-white TV, colour TV, video, DVD recorder, Freeview box, PC TV card, etc, etc.) you are required to have a TV licence.
That's the law. Full stop. No excuses...
2007-07-16 10:09:08 · answer #3 · answered by Nightworks 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, they can also tell which channel and in which part of the house the TV is being used. In this modern age of computers they don't have to wander the streets as they did originally. Now computers are used to identify the houses were no TV license has been purchased so they only have to check on those properties.
2007-07-16 05:29:53 · answer #4 · answered by focus 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes but can the TV detector van be driven by a guy with broken limbs?
2007-07-16 05:23:36 · answer #5 · answered by Wayne Kerr 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Don't bother looking out for the vans in your area, they just got issued with a handheld that work better than the ones in the vans.
2007-07-16 05:24:12 · answer #6 · answered by john m 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes UK detector vans can, they can read and measure the frequency of the set too.
2007-07-16 05:23:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
yes so pay your licence
2007-07-16 10:05:07 · answer #8 · answered by capcave2002 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋