Aussie TV is sh$t
 

At home with the flu - Aussie TV is the pits every channel is basically infomercials followed my more ads.

If there is one thing I miss from the UK is the TV.

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Agree but don't watch it

UK TV is so easy to.get here it's not funny

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The DVDs had got a dusting before my brain leaks out my ears.

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Seriously, don't watch it. We only watch a bit of the ABC and SBS. 7, 9 and 10 are banned in my house - apart from sport. Everything else is streamed or downloaded. If it is broadcast in the US or UK, you can get it here with very little effort and expense


If I ever lived in the UK again there is no way that I would pay for a TV licence (an optional tax IMO anyway. No need to pay). Just use the streaming service that all the channels have

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We have unlimited internet for $25 per month and we just use streaming TV box.Its awesome. You no longer need foxtel or any dish anymore.

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Awesome

This is how you do it

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We have a subscription to Prices & Packages - Select a Subscription that means we can stream UK.

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In all honesty we don't watch any Aussie terrestrial TV. Main reason is the long ad breaks which means a 90 min movie often take 3 or more hours. Also nothing starts on time. We prefer to buy DVDs or use our expat TV subscription and stream from the UK.

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BBC iplayer is the UK taxpayer's gift to the worls - they pay for it, we get it for free

Thanks Poms!

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Don't go near commercial TV in Oz. ..... rule no. 1 when emigrating.

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Unfortunately 9 have the cricket........

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So you want to break the law in the UK, the license fee is payable if you have any device that could receive TV programmes, so, unless you just watch on a computer, then you have to pay a licence fee, any TV is capable of receiving pictures, so needs a licence. If everyone could, and did, stop paying the licence BBC would disappear, and therefore much of what you would want to watch would be no more.

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You are partly right - watching iplayer via a device (media streamer, PC etc) connected to a TV does not require the payment of a tax (licence fee), unless the content being streamed is live (very rare on iplayer, if it happens at all). I have read plenty that shows the TV tax is an optional payment - despite what the BBC says, but will admit this could be a grey area

If the BBC was not funded by the taxpayer, it would be a commerical organisation and nothing would change (apart from ads). Some of the best TV ever made has been done by commercial enterprises - HBO and C4 being prime examples. BBC would carry on being a quality outfit. Life would go on as normal

Easy peasy

As it stands now, UK taxpayers pay for stuff that the rest of the world gets for free. Only fair I say!

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Technology is awesome, I'm another streamer and acquirer from various sources.

I can barely watch commercial TV straight apart from the sport, I refuse to FoxTel.

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... and 10 had the rugby and plastered it with commercials. Mind you the rugby wasn't worth watching :)