TV license to watch iplayer!

[flutterbybutterflies]

I can't believe it! Haven't had a tv license for over a decade (refuse to pay for Mostly crap telly so use catch up.
But now can't access iplayer without a license!
Thank God the Olympics & Fleabag have finished. Am I missing out by ditching the iplayer?
There's no way I'm getting a license. Is there a way around paying for a license I wonder?

[flutterbybutterflies]

Puppymonkey it's only iplayer you need the license for. 4ondemand & lots of others still free on catch up.
Disagree re Netflix. Lots of great shows for me & kids

[LemonRedwood]

www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/bbc-closes-loophole-for-whiny-freeloaders-20160902113219

[flutterbybutterflies]

Horrace, DD watching Bing on YouTube as we speak. Max & Ruby banned in our house.

[allegretto]

I hope this means they open it up to overseas viewers now.

[INeedNewShoes]

I haven't had a TV for nearly ten years, but I have been happy to sign up and pay for the license. The only TV programmes I ever watch are on iPlayer and I haven't been 100% comfortable over the past few years knowing that I wasn't making a contribution to the license fee.

I've actually bought myself a TV now because I decided that if I'm going to be paying to watch iPlayer now I want a better picture than my laptop manages.

I'm happy to be supporting the BBC now

I just wish you didn't have to pay double for the first six months; it's a bit of a budget zapper!

[RebootYourEngine]

I dont see the big deal.

I pay £6.99 a month for nowTV and hardly watch it. I pay £12.20 a month for a tv licence and watch bbc every day. Tv licence is probably the better deal.

[Brokenbiscuit]

I definitely get more value from my license fee than I do from Netflix!

[RebootYourEngine]

License - i never get that right.

[allegretto]

How come Filmon can show BBC programmes? Is that legal?

[PhoenixJasmine]

I've just stopped watching iplayer. I only watch anything online- the only thing I really watched on BBC was casualty - I can't justify £145 a year to watch casualty! We have Netflix and Amazon, box sets, YouTube etc. more than enough to fill the odd evening each week I want to watch something.

I might pay to watch Dr Who when it comes back on. Somehow that is worth more to me!

I'd guess, from posts on here and talking to friends, that those of us that were iplayer-only and didnt have a licence before, more people have just stopped watching iplayer rather than pay for it. Honestly I think iplayer should log in rather than just an honesty system, and the option to pay for individual programmes rather than all or nothing.

Btw I really resent the whole if you listen to the radio/use the website you should pay out of some kind of social obligation. There isn't an option to pay for those services. They are not charged for. The BBC is not a charity we can donate to. If there was a radio licence, I would pay for it. If the website was behind a paywall I wouldnt use it - plenty of other free sources of news and information.

[Gmbk]

Flutter 4od etc are also partially funded by the TV license.

£12 per month really isn't a lot.

Filmon looks dodgy but don't really know a lot about it.

[Gmbk]

There is an option to pay for them, the TV license. It's named the TV license but in reality the BBC produces things outside that.

The difference between the BBC and anything with a pay wall is the total lack of advertising.

[DoctorDonnaNoble]

The licence fee also gives us more for our money than we used to get when adjusted for inflation. I have no problem paying it.
I do have an issue with students in halls of residence needing separate licences when residents in care homes do not need separate ones for their rooms.

[TheInimitableMrsFanshawe]

Lemon if I could like your post, I would.

Reboot you were right the first time. License is the American spelling.

[Sandyknickers]

If the op is a freeloader, what are the rest of us who listen to the radio, read the news on bbc online, get the weather online, without paying a tv liscense? Bit rich really to be so accusational.

[SoupDragon]

Legal freeloaders.

[MyLlamasGoneBananas]

Im always amazed at how much trouble people go to in order to save 145 quid a year.
In my experience it's not my less well off friends. My old next door neighbours refused to pay for a TV licence because in their mind it was a rip off but then go to the cinema 2 or 3 times a week.
It's less than £2.80 a week for a licence. I'm not a huge TV watcher but don't there's no way I'd call it a rip off.
I'm actually glad they are charging the licence fee for iplayer. It's well over due.

[flutterbybutterflies]

If the op is a freeloader, what are the rest of us who listen to the radio, read the news on bbc online, get the weather online, without paying a tv liscense? Bit rich really to be so accusational

Thanks Sandy. I was wondering which other ways there might be around buying a TV license (apart from watching YouTube) as I am pretty skint & wd rather spend £145 on a holiday than a TV license.
Obviously I just delete iplayer. No big deal.

[Pemba]

I have had a TV licence for years, but then I do watch a lot of TV.
However I can well understand those who only watch one or two BBC programmes on catchup IPlayer being unwilling to shell out £145 for the privilege.

They are ways round it though - there is the BBC Store where you can buy individual programmes digitally to keep, often shortly after broadcast. If you only watch one or two BBC shows, then this would obviously be cheaper than paying for a full licence. It's usually £1.89 for a single episode, and cheaper if you buy a whole series. They have offers on quite often too. It's normally dramas and documentaries, though, not sure if they have stuff like Bake Off which a lot of people seem to like.

Another thing which is legal apparently is if you download a programme from iPlayer while at someone else's house who does have a licence (with their permission, obviously!) , then watch it back in your own home.

Finally, quite a few BBC shows seem to be on YouTube.

[Gmbk]

Flutter you're missing the moral point of the TV license. It's not like a Netflix subscription. It's more like a media tax to get programming, media, radio etc without adverts. Netflix etc are filled with adverts to make money. The BBC in all its outlets has no adverts.

If you genuinely never use any of the services, then don't pay. Otherwise you are a freeloader and the population should be glad you are in a minority.

[PuppyMonkey]

£145 on a holiday - yep, you might get about half a day for that.

[Pemba]

There aren't any adverts on Netflix.

[NatalieRushman]

We bought a TV license just to watch GBBO. It's worth it, imho

[allegretto]

Natalie - we watched the first episode when we were staying with my parents and DD is hooked! I hate to tell her we can't watch the rest!