stopping the tv license?

[skybluepearl]

Not quite AIBU but wanted to post here due to high traffic.

We don't watch that much TV and have a limited number of channels due to living in a hilly area. On the whole TV seems quite seems rubbish these days. I do really enjoy sitting down to watch a film and the odd interesting programme though. The kids have a maximum of one hours screen time each day -they choose between wii/computer/TV.

I'd really like to rejig things. Maybe stop paying the TV licence/stop watching TV and join love films? Have thought about maybe watching i-player on TV through the Wii - but am not sure if we still have to pay our TV licence for this?

How are things set up in your house if you don't watch normal telly? How did you find making the change?

BTW, for anyone who didn't know. You can download the BBC's annual report. It details income and expenditure of the services.

www.bbc.co.uk/annualreport/

Sorry, I'm relatively new here, I keep forgetting links are different.

link to annual report page

pozzled - "But I can't help thinking that they will need to make changes to the license system in the near future."

BBC's Mark Thompson has indicated there will be an iPad app for the iPlayer by the end of the year (2011) at a monthly cost of under US$ 10 (though it will not include live TV as it goes out, as far as I could tell, and will only be available to the rest of the world, NOT UK). That's about 75 quid a year.