Hiya, a few stupid questions:

(1) If I subscribe digital TV, e.g. Sky, do I need to buy a TV licence separately?

(2) I have referred to TV Licence website which tells that Savings Stamp can save a little on licence fee. How does it work?

(3) I am staying in a private student accommodation. We can watch SKY in our living room TV. If I buy a new set in my bedroom, can I watch SKY simply just using aerial. (there is no TV point in my room)

Regards....

You need a licence, whether or not you watch terrestrial TV.

Don't know about question 2.

To watch Sky in another room, either you need a multiroom subscription or you can watch the same channel on both TVs by having a special remote control link fitted by Sky (they are doing a special free deal on these for new subscribers at the moment). As you already have Sky, they will charge you for fixing up a remote control link

Saving stamps...... you can buy stamps at the post office (£2 each) and save up/or be put towards a licence that way... well thats the only saving stamps i know of anyway

I think you can buy the TV Licence stamps from the Post office, see them for more info but AFAIK they cost £5 each and you just collect them throughout the year until you have saved enough for a Licence.

You can connect a length of coaxal cable (just normal TV aerial) from your SKY box in the living room by the way of a splitter, then just connect the other end of the cable to the set in your room. Only problem is that you would only be able to watch whatevers on in the main room.

Hope that helps!

Originally posted by rachelkyma
(3) I am staying in a private student accommodation. We can watch SKY in our living room TV. If I buy a new set in my bedroom, can I watch SKY simply just using aerial. (there is no TV point in my room)

Regards....

It would be cheaper to get a 'video sender'. It's a little box that plugs in the back of your Sky receiver and 'sends' the signal to another box (anywhere else in the house) connected to your TV.

You don't need a second subscription, no extra aerials or cabling.

The site says that saving stamps are a good way to save towards paying for your licence. It does not actually save you money in terms of a discount.

If you save £2 every week, for example, and then use that to buy a savings stamp then you will not be tempted to spend the money on something else.
By the end of the year you have £104 worth of stamps to put towards the full cost of the licence. You would, in this example, have to add some cash to it as well.

I am sorry if this sounds patronising but I am assuming that English is not the first language here. Hence the question.

Hiya, thanks for everyone. I am not from England so really confused about TV licence....

Hi Cgksheff, glad to have your detailed explanation. I actually didnt quite understand its logic. I misintepreted it as that I would be able to use Stamp card (with stamps) to buy a licence and no need to add extra cash, then to save a little. Haha... I am wrong!!

:D

Also bear in mind that if you live in a student flat (which means you are more likely to not have a joint tenancy agreement), if you want to have a TV in your bedroom you will need another Television licence if anyone else has a television in their bedroom.

If they don't, you need to get the licence for the television in the communal room amended to show your room number, so that it covers your room and the communal room.

Still reckon its a bloody con that we still have to buy a TV licence when you've got Sky.

I mean- you pay enough to sky for the privelege of watching it and then you have to pay £100+ each year for a chuffing licence for a couple o' channels.

i think its stupid too a licence to watch your own Tv ... ah well :)

Did you know that part of the license fee we pay the Beeb is indirectly paid to Sky to broadcast their channels via the satellite! :suspect:

Originally posted by fox20thc
Did you know that part of the license fee we pay the Beeb is indirectly paid to Sky to broadcast their channels via the satellite! :suspect:

Our licence fee also provides the BBC World Service and the main BBC radio channels free of charge on the internet. Not to mention BBC America.