Are new TV sets capable of receiving SABC signals?

abruton

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I wanted to buy a new TV screen, and Game wanted me to have a TV license. I told them we do not watch TV and as far as I can see the TV screen is unable to view the SABC television signal. I would need a decoder (classified as a television receiving equipment) to see the SABC television signal.

Am I right? Can I take Game to task for trying to force me to get a TV license for a device that can not receive a television signal?

Can the new television sets be called TV's?

I agree that they could ask people to have a license to buy/receive free the new set top boxes, but not the TV.

Any legal comment?
 
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What makes you think that new tv sets aren't capable of receiving SABC signals? :confused:

If it has a tuner then you need a license.
 
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How did you confirm the TV screen cannot receive a TV signal..? If a TV has a tuner, you will need a TV licence which is what the SABC has confirmed at some stage for which I can't find the reference now..

That being said, if the TV you were wanting to buy does not have a tuner, most sales reps at stores are potentially not going to care about that fact because they have been told that to sell a TV the customer must produce a TV licence..
 
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There is no input to plug in the old analogue TV signal as far as I can see, so no, I'm unable to view SABC.
 
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abruton said:
There is no input to plug in the old analogue TV signal as far as I can see, so no, I'm unable to view SABC.
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It's not about being able to view SABC. As others have pointed out, it's simply whether the device has an RF tuner capable of receiving UHF and/or VHF tv signals. If it does, the local law says it needs a licence. Doesn't matter whether it has a screen or not.
 
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abruton said:
I wanted to buy a new TV screen, and Game wanted me to have a TV license. I told them we do not watch TV and as far as I can see the TV screen is unable to view the SABC television signal. I would need a decoder (classified as a television receiving equipment) to see the SABC television signal.

Am I right? Can I take Game to task for trying to force me to get a TV license for a device that can not receive a television signal?

Can the new television sets be called TV's?

I agree that they could ask people to have a license to buy/receive free the new set top boxes, but not the TV.

Any legal comment?
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You are horribly wrong
 
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abruton said:
I wanted to buy a new TV screen, and Game wanted me to have a TV license. I told them we do not watch TV and as far as I can see the TV screen is unable to view the SABC television signal. I would need a decoder (classified as a television receiving equipment) to see the SABC television signal.

Am I right? Can I take Game to task for trying to force me to get a TV license for a device that can not receive a television signal?

Can the new television sets be called TV's?

I agree that they could ask people to have a license to buy/receive free the new set top boxes, but not the TV.

Any legal comment?
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You can still watch with a R30 bunny aerial.
 
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abruton said:
There is no input to plug in the old analogue TV signal as far as I can see, so no, I'm unable to view SABC.
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Then it's not a TV, it's a monitor. I'm pretty sure that if was in the TV section at game, it's going to have an rf input.
 
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