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Originally Posted by HarryT
I've never had Pay TV. "Freeview" (digital terrestrial broadcast TV) here in the UK gives you 90-odd TV and radio stations, which is quite enough for me. Pay TV is great if you're really into sport or films, but I'm not.
We had our "digital switchover" at the start of this month (it's occuring in different parts of the UK at different times), at which time our analogue channels stopped transmitting, so digital is all we have now.
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Does that mean you don't pay your licence fee, Harry?
Let me explain...
I realise that Pay TV is synonymous with cable/satellite TV, and I was about to answer the same as Harry. Then it struck me that actually in the UK and NI if you want to watch TV (including cable & satellite channels, according to the CAB) as it is broadcast (ie not on dvd/video/catch up on the internet etc) you are supposed to pay a licence fee. Which effectively means that any TV in the UK & NI is pay tv (not sure how it stands in other countries).
So no, I've never had satellite/cable along the lines of Sky or Virgin; but I do get the terrestrial channels and those on the freeview box. And (even?) with all that choice, it's usually very very hard to find something remotely worth watching. So I don't usually bother with it.