Date   : Sat, 30 Mar 2002 10:57:06 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: Circuits involving a SAA5050?

Sprow <rsprowso@...> wrote:
> Re: the TV license debate, as I understood it you need a license if you
> own equipment *capable* of receiving broadcast TV regardless of whether
 
Correct.  The wording of the Telegraphy Act specifies equipment capable of
receiving broadcast television signals regardless of whether it is
directly or redistributed via a rediffusion system, such as cable TV or a
tower block distribution system.
 
So, that also rules out ripping out the RF demodulator from your TV and
connecting your cable box to the TV via the RGB connectors.
 
-- 
J.G.Harston <www.mdfs.net>
Former Channel 5 Television Engineer