Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

>>I've doubled checked and according to the TV license web site:
>>
>>"You must be covered by a valid TV Licence if you watch or record
>>television programmes as they're being shown on TV."
>>
>>And from an article on the BBC news:
>>
>>"The law says that anyone who uses a TV, or any other device, to receive
>>TV signals, must buy a licence."
>>
>>The key thing being there was no receiving of TV signals go on, therefore
>>no license required.
>
> How does this affect devices such as Slingbox I wonder? Presumably there
> is a delay during payload assembly and retransmission of the relayed TV
> signal - does this then count as "live" - as in "as they're being shown" ?
>
> If the answer is yes, how about if they introduced a delay in the feed?
> Surely the signals are then being received *after* being shown on TV then.
>

I imagine they would say that sling came under the "record television
programmes" as a delay buffer would still be recording.