Introduction

If you have decided that you are fed up with paying a licence fee to the BBC then there are three routes open to you. Firstly you can just carry on watching television and hope that you do not get caught. Alternatively you could give up all forms of video entertainment altogether. However there is a third choice open to you and that is what this blog is all about.

For rather abstruse political reasons 'television' is legally defined to mean watching a live broadcast. If you do not have a TV Licence it is therefore possible, for example, to watch DVDs or to watch content downloaded from the internet (but not live streaming). Video Podcasting allows you to subscribe to your favourite programmes (or 'feeds') and new episodes (or 'podcasts') will be automatically downloaded over the internet to your computer. You can then watch them whenever you like. Link your computer to a Media Player device in your lounge and you can now watch your favourite programmes from your favourite armchair.

Video Podcasting is a developing field and currently has limited media content. The central thesis of this blog is that as it becomes more widely used it has the potential to undermine the TV Licence system in the UK.