Another dim Olympic/TV question!

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OK. Bear with me. I do not have a TV Licence. I do not watch TV. Four years ago we bought a licence specially, and watched.
Now, we would like to do so again, but can someone PLEASE explain to me - if I just buy a TV Licence, I just get five channels - we don't have set top boxes or anything - and it seems to me, I won't actually see any of the Equestrian bits. Is that right?
I can watch it online (and it is true, you don't need a licence to do so. Yet.) but only postage stamp size and with four of us, that's not so easy.
So,
Is my only real option to buy a set top box as well? How much are they? Do they work?! Would I then get to see everything, or is half of it only on Satellite?
Words of less than one syllable please, thank you for understanding!
 
You can pick up a set top box for about £20 now
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Just beware, though - they can be very very glitchy! Ours cost £30, and it only works when it feels like it (ie. not today
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The equestrian events are on mainstream TV as well - Mum and I watched the dressage on BBC1 at 2am this morning - but the extended coverage then goes onto BBCi. So, if you are content just to see key moments and rounds (eg. all the Brits plus any great/awful rounds from other countries) you'll be fine with mainstream.

Can I just ask, why can you only view the online footage as a 'postage stamp' on your PC? I have the option to make mine full-screen, and it's great!
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Can I just ask, why can you only view the online footage as a 'postage stamp' on your PC? I have the option to make mine full-screen, and it's great!
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Quite possibly because I'm a total numpty.
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Off to try and fiddle some more with the puter ....
 
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Any portable device doesn't need a tv licence. Alot of us used this loophole while in halls at uni.

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well i do hate the tv licence people, when i eventually rang to tell them i didnt watch ******* TV and to stop sending me letters saying i might end up in court, they still threatened to send someone to check.

Maybe they were just trying to scare us some more into paying it when we didnt need to, but they did repeatedly say portable devices had to be licenced to watch live tv. This was last year, dont know if things have changed?
 
also, if you do get a digi-box big retailers such as currys and comet should b able to use ur postcode to check if siganl will be good on it and therefore should cut out glitchiness
 
Ah, those were the days, being a uni student, having a tv, not having one, sometimes havign a licence sometimes not, I did all of those and without fail the TV licence threatening letters would come through the door!

As far as I am aware regarding the portable devices, this only includes hand held TVs and portable TVs in a caravan etc, which were covered by the owner's TV licence at home (i.e. you still needed a licence).
 
I have a digi box that is rubbish because our local station doesnt allow you to get BBC interactive so I do all my Olympic Equestrian Stuff online.

So be careful you might be told you get a digital signal but you might not get BBCi my friend has got Sky freesat and she does.

(my top box was free because my OH mum had it and its a big enough challenge using the phone let alone another remote)
 
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