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It is, does it matter how many TVs you have? Only thing I read seems to be color versus B&W determines the fee?
 
Yeh, B&W TVs attract a reduced fee i.e. if you only have a black & white TV, or TVs. Also, if you're blind you also get a reduced fee; although, incredibly, it isn't actually free. You only need one licence per household. It doesn't matter how many TVs you have. However, as you may have guessed from earlier comments, if you have no TV but have a computer (or decent phone) --you aren't required to have a licence; even though you can quite freely watch TV on them.
 
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I am surprised there is not an HD versus non HD pricing if they differentiate between Color and B&W ...though I suppose adding another fee level would go over like a lead balloon.
 
It's just a historical thing, when people actually had B&W TVs. I can't imagine that many people are eligible for this today. There's been no noises about further sub-categorisation that I've heard of. It's currently £145.50 (a year)...
... so about 3 UK Maiden concerts, give or take! :eek:
 
That still seems excessive, on top of buying the TV to start with plus pay for programming if you have cable/satellite.

Seems it would be simpler, if they really need to collect a fee, to just tack on a fee when a TV is purchased. Weird.
 
They nearly do that: When you buy a TV in the UK you have to give your name & address (postcode) etc. Obviously, you wouldn't normally be requested to give this information when making a purchase of an electrical device (unless some store was trying to sign you up for something) or anything else --but with a TV they take the opportunity to gather this information so that they can check if you have a licence or not. They don't stop you purchasing or anything; but if you didn't have a licence (& let's face it --this would mean you were probably watching on your old TV without a licence, as you purchase your new one) --you'll find a little letter on your doormat a few days after purchase...
 
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CriedWhenBrucieLeft said:
Still not got a TV...
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Who needs TV now-a-days? Just stream stuff online whether on the Networks own website or Netflix, Hulu, HuluPlus, iTunes, bit Torrent, etc, etc, etc.....

Anyway, speaking of Netflix I've been binging on old shows. First I saw Wings all the way through and while not the best sitcom by a long shot it was nice to see a sitcom back when they had PEOPLE on sitcoms and not caricatures a la Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Children's Hospital and other new "comedy" shows. People you can actually relate to and still have it be funny.

I just got done with the first season of Murder, She Wrote. Laugh if yo will, but I loved this show as a kid and in retrospect it is ok. NCIS before NCIS. The only glaring problem with the show is that after writing her first muder mystery Jessica Fletcher, played by Angela Lansbury, seems to be a magnet for real murders. In some, but not all, cases she is called to assist, but mainly she just happens to be at the hotel, island, resort, theater, you name it where the murder takes place. The show has its highlights like solving crimes before the forensics craze of CSI, NCIS, and other 'muder porn' (as south park calls it) shows. It relies on the attention to detail and deduction reasoning of Mrs. Fletcher. Upon closer analysis the show seems to be an homage to Sherlock Holmes except the crimes are solved by an unasuming, nonthreatening, old lady who everybody overlooks at times quite rudely until they realize she's to be taken seriously. Season 1 was great, but just 3 episodes into season 2 and I can't believe it made it to 249 episodes, talk about getting real old real quick, but I'm already commited to it, haha.
 
CriedWhenBrucieLeft said:
Homage to Agatha Christie then.
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Didn't think of it that way, because even though Christie did have a series with the same detective solving everything, her classic stories were UNSOLVED mysteries, like 10 Little Niggers, I mean Indians I mean Then there were None... The original version anyway. When she rewrote it for stage and film she solved the murder which in my opinion made it crap. We don't always need resolution or I should say the lack of a clean ending does not mean lack of closure. Also, the detective was a man.
 
CriedWhenBrucieLeft said:
Indeed. I was referring to Miss Marple (i.e. an "old lady") who appeared in about a dozen of her novels...
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Holy fing crap, completely forgot about that! you're right, thank you.

Forostar said:
@Onhell, you'll love this. The four Miss Marple films from the sixties:
1961 Murder, She Said
1963 Murder at the Gallop
1964 Murder Most Foul
1964 Murder Ahoy!

The inspector doesn't take her seriously so she does all her investigations herself. She gets into some funny but also suspenseful situations. Very different from series you're watching now but good on its own. This fragment is from an early scene of the first film:
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AWESOME! Thank you Foro. will definitely see it and just with the first one's title I see what CriedWhenBrucie Left was driving at. "Murder, She Said"-->"Murder, She Wrote." [facepalm] so obvious.
 
I went to see Prisoners yesterday. Very good film. Really tense with a load of plot twists.

This afternoon I watched Oblivion in DVD. It wasn't as good as the trailers suggested it might be but it was decent at least.
 
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