scott wrote:

> But still, for the price, there are some exceptional programs and 
> coverage of sports events.  Was there any other broadcaster in the world 
> that covered pretty much every winter olympic event with no adverts?  
> Watching football on ITV (the commercial channel) is painful, the show 
> is essentially adverts with breaks for the national anthems and the 
> 45:00.0000000 halfs.  Most of the documentaries the BBC produce are 
> world-class.  I'd happily pay my license fee for just the sport and 
> documentaries.

I don't watch sport, but the BBC has David Attenborough. That alone 
makes it pretty much worth it.

They also used to have all sort of other sciency stuff that I enjoyed, 
but apparently dumb is the new intelligent, so we just get crap now. :-(

>> Let's face it, watching TV adverts is like a bad acid trip.
> 
> Most of them are painful to watch, yes.

I especially like the advert for adverts... WTF?

>> PS. In theory if you don't own a TV you don't have to pay for a TV 
>> license. In reality, *everybody* has to pay.
> 
> I didn't have a TV for several years and never paid.  After I got the 
> first letter from them, I just replied and said I didn't have a TV, 
> never heard anything else from them after that.

Really? Interesting. Obviously I've never tried this [I don't have a 
house, after all], but people who do have told me that basically if you 
say you don't have a TV, they won't believe you and will demand that you 
pay a license anyway.

> I don't think that's quite true - they take your word for it unless they 
> can prove otherwise (by detecting conventional TV receiving equipment in 
> your home, or I guess nowadays detecting your IP address accessing live 
> TV).

What do you mean "your" IP? I don't know about you, but my IP address 
appears to change every 24 hours...

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