Hang On, did they really drive around scanning to see if people had an unlicensed television in their home or is this from the Mike Murphy Hidden Camera show.
Hang On, did they really drive around scanning to see if people had an unlicensed television in their home or is this from the Mike Murphy Hidden Camera show.
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Used to see these at home, had an engineer tell me one time that they were make believe bullshit to trick people into paying for the licence fee. So many simultaneous signals from the neighbourhood and lack of sensitivity meant they couldn’t detect which house had a TV from beyond the front door.
I don’t get why Irish get bummed out over TV licence costs, yes it’s BS cow cash grab to generate revenue, yet we have bs NCT where some lads will kick tyre and check your car meets emissions and shit, which literally could cost a fiver and still be profitable, yet costs 50quid something nowadays, and you’ll have every person on here pissing on you how it’s the law and your car could snap apart, even thou it might of passed MOT yesterday up the north. Yet same person will brag how they saved 150 in last year because they didn’t open doors to some Inspector and saved themselves.
Take something as fuel where gov tax is 70-90% and people pay regardless, there’s fck all reasonable explanation to keep costs hight but they do regardless, then you’ll have some Muppets not owning cars be pissed someone actually strikes over it.
So why is TV licence any different with some people, surely you bend over for everything else, that’s made up and serves no reason to cost anything aside some nominal fee, yet is extorted into 1000%s revenue.
All I’m trying to say yes skipped in the past paying TV licence, but paid it regardless even thou not watching Irish shite, as it’s the law regardless of how I feel and there’s fck all I could do about it, like everything else, that stranfgles us daily in taxes.
Presumably the noise of the cathode ray tube in older sets would be detectable. I’m not sure if they actually bothered.
no scanning, just scamming
Yep, it was possible to detect the tuning circuitry, with a localised frequency. Remember an old electronics lecturer explaining it… but that’s over 30 years ago, so a little foggy. It was possible anyway to detect the tuning circuits in the tele as the converted the signal from the air. It wasn’t monitoring the signal coming from Rte
The local oscillator within the tuning circuit of the TV could be detected. In today’s RF mash up it would be unlikely to be detectable or proveable.
Back then there was a Radio and a TV – nothing else electronic
The BBC had the same shtick going for years. Subsequent freedom of information requests have proven that exactly zero people were ever caught by them.
About the only saving grace is that presumably some wanker copied the BBC’s idea and nobody in RTE really had *that* much contempt for their compatriot’s intelligence.
They did in England anyway, I remember them when I was a kid and THAT’S not yesterday or the day before lol
So the way they apparently used to work was tvs have a “local oscillator” or used to, i don’t know, and that oscillating signal can be picked up if you have a big enough antenna and amplifier
It was scare tactic it didn’t work
I live in America. No such thing as TV licenses. So we’ve got that going for us.