-- Posted by verl mcverl at 11:49 am on Oct. 19, 2008 If you're living in a shared place. would a TV licence cover just your room or the collection of rooms? Just wondering because I plan on watching a lot of TV at Uni. -- Posted by ElephantStone at 11:50 am on Oct. 19, 2008 theres better things to do than watch TV! And if you must know, you can get channel 4 catch up thing on your laptop! -- Posted by sadnessness at 11:58 am on Oct. 19, 2008 If you have one tv in the main house you need one license for the whole house. The licensing company has some weird thing where if your room locks it is a separate apartment. I think there is a website where you can check it out, my brother had to sort it last year but im not quite sure what he did. I know he claimed half of it back because he was only at uni from October to May xD -- Posted by marshmellowman at 12:04 pm on Oct. 19, 2008 It depends what its like, and whether you have a TV in your room alone, or in a shared place such as a living room. If its shared like the living room then a single TV licence for the group is enough alone. However if it's in your room alone, like in Halls of Residences, then you will technically need one for yourself. Unofficially, in halls of residences, and you're staying within campus, whilst you legally need one, they can't really and won't come into your halls and randomly check whether or not you are watching TV illegally. Simply put it is very difficult to enforce. That said get one if you can, I won't advise you to break the law. You can find more details and information at their website here. As for things like 4oD and BBC iPlayer you don't need a TV licence because it isn't a live broadcast. To be honest I've been at uni for 4 weeks and I've barely watched any TV, what I have was on BBC iPlayer and from the TV in our common room. I watch DVDs mostly, I brought lots from home.