Rum_Pirate
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Does not work if you are overseas eg in the Caribbean. 
Watch live tv without a licence
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agurney
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Does not work if you are overseas eg in the Caribbean.
Use a UK proxy ... in the same way that I might use a US proxy to watch Hulu
nrbx
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You don't need a tv license for your boat so long as you have one at home, unless thats changed in the last month since i read the terms.
Thus i'd assume seeing as 99% of boaters would justify this they havn't employed anyone to seek out the 1% who live aboard.
Thus i'd assume seeing as 99% of boaters would justify this they havn't employed anyone to seek out the 1% who live aboard.
ctva
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You know.... I go sailing to get away from the TV and mobiles and the internet....
Flapjack
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oldsaltoz
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Don't bother with any of the above.
Just relocate to Oz, no TV licences here for more years than I can remember.
Even remote areas now get 21 channels mostly digital and many high definition, but all free.
Good luck.
Just relocate to Oz, no TV licences here for more years than I can remember.
Even remote areas now get 21 channels mostly digital and many high definition, but all free.
Good luck.
ProDave
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Ask the caravan club. They have looked into this.
The majority of caravanners plug into a mains hookup, and ARE covered by their home tv licence while on holiday. So it should be the same for boaters.
Conachair
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Use a UK proxy ... in the same way that I might use a US proxy to watch Hulu
http://expatshield.com/
does it all for you.
nmeyrick
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Surely there's plenty of scope for staying within the law - you can watch TV perfectly legally via iPlayer as long as its not as it is being broadcast. This is no problem for me as I usually watch 30 mins or an hour of TV a day, and often not even that.
In fact the idea of watching whatever the schedulers happen to have put on at a given time, rather than the one programme that interests me the most out of the entire last week's output (or indeed the seizeable archive that Channel 4 keep) seems positively stone aged. I guess if you just want something for background for 6 hours or so and don't care what it is then live TV may be more convenient, but even in that case you can watch the entire evening's output on Iplayer by watching an hour after it has been broadcast and stay perfectly within the law.
bluedragon
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Slingbox
I've had mixed results with Slingbox. Upload speed (at your home) is MUCH slower than download speeds with many ISPs and this has been an issue. Also using marina wi-fi or mobile broadband on board boat just adds to the bandwidth problem. We had so many picture freezes we gave up on it a few years back. With the change over to more powerful digital signals in most of the UK now, a DVB USB stick with a decent external antenna works much better for us.
I've had mixed results with Slingbox. Upload speed (at your home) is MUCH slower than download speeds with many ISPs and this has been an issue. Also using marina wi-fi or mobile broadband on board boat just adds to the bandwidth problem. We had so many picture freezes we gave up on it a few years back. With the change over to more powerful digital signals in most of the UK now, a DVB USB stick with a decent external antenna works much better for us.
Jamesuk
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It is otherwise known as 'wait 10 years' and in the mean time buy a Kindle which has none of the issues that you mentioned that I have so far found.
Just so you know I worked on one yacht that had a Seatel system with a dome (the size of a small yacht) on it's communications tower and the reception was good in port but sometimes would be "glitchy" so at the moment even spending the big bucks using sling box is no guarantee of smooth television.
I currently use VPN but require good broadband otherwise there is no point and that means most places. "ahh Kindle time!!"
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