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The complete list of residences where Freewire TV can be tried is:

  • Woodland Court
  • The Hawthorns
  • 29-33 St Michaels Park
  • 43/45, 51, 61/63 St Michaels Hill
  • 5, 12, 16 Osborne Villas
  • 1 University Walk (Principal’s House, Institute for Advanced Studies)
  • University Hall - (UH added 30th April)
  • Badock Hall
  • Churchill Hall
  • Durdham Hall
  • Hiatt Baker Hall
  • Wills Hall (trial now in all Stoke Bishop halls as of 2nd May)
  • Clifton Hill House
  • Goldney Hall
  • Manor Hall (including annexes and Sinclair House)
  • Winkworth House
  • Deans Court
  • Unite House
  • Chantry Court
  • 115 Queens Rd (Clifton and Centre halls added on 10/05/07)
  • Northwell House

See the original announcement about TV on ResNet for details and to try it.

There are a few people living in some of the small or more distant residences that unfortunately we will not be able to provide TV to:

  • Langford old & new hostels
  • 121 Redland Road
  • Rodney Place
  • 97 Woodland Road

We cannot provide TV to residents in those houses as there isn't enough capacity on the relatively small links we have to them. We are very sorry about this.

Update 2007-06-19: Comments are now closed as there have been no genuine comments submitted recently, only spam. If you want to comment on this article, please contact the ResNet Helpdesk.

Posted by on Monday, April 30th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
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7 Responses to “TV on ResNet trial extended”

rob wrote:
May 10th, 2007 at 9:19 pm

what about Northwell?

Or OS-X/Loonix users for that matter? ;)

Rowan wrote:
May 11th, 2007 at 9:37 am

Northwell House is now enabled too.

We have been assured that there will be a mac client by September, although this is probably too late for most.

We have had some luck using the freewire client under both VMware and Parallels.

yunqing wrote:
May 11th, 2007 at 1:02 pm

just want to know if Sinclair House is covered. I have set up the account and firwire, but always ended up with ‘channel of air’. What went wrong?

Paul (ResNet staff) wrote:
May 11th, 2007 at 3:40 pm

yunqing – As far as I can tell, Sinclair House is covered. If you are still having problems, please contact the ResNet helpdesk.

Ken Walker wrote:
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:25 am

I currently do not have a tv tuner for my laptop, but i believe the TV licensing law allows me to watch TV on my laptop as long as it is unplugged from the mains as then it counts as a “portable TV” running on internal batteries (as stated on the TV licensing for students page)and would be covered under my parents license, would this also be the case if i used IPTV with my mains adapter unplugged?
Ken

Mark (ResNet Staff) wrote:
May 22nd, 2007 at 8:40 am

Ken,
My understanding is that you do need a TV license as your computer CAN and probably WILL run on mains ;-)

The link below is not very clear about battery operated equipment but you can always phone them to get an answer (0870 241 5973).

http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/information/students.jsp

If you can get them to email you then send us a copy.

Martin Radford wrote:
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:27 pm

The exact terms are specified in The Communications (Television Licensing) Regulations 2004, Schedule 1, and refer to a licence:

“(c) for the use anywhere of any television receiver powered solely by its own internal batteries by the licensee or by a person normally living with the licensee at the specified location.”

So the question is: what does it mean by “[a] television receiver powered solely by its own internal batteries” ?

There are, in my view, two possibilities. Either it intends to cover the use of a device which can only ever by powered by internal batteries (i.e. it can’t be run off the mains); or it means a device which can be mains-powered, but isn’t always.

If the former is correct, then your parents’ licence won’t cover you. If the latter, then it will cover you as long as you don’t use it to watch TV with the mains connected.

(You should, of course, check that your parents do actually have a licence!)

Since neither I, nor ResNet, are qualified to offer legal advice, you should follow Mark’s suggestion and contact TV licensing for their position on this. I’d ask them for confirmation in writing, both for your own benefit and to pass on to ResNet.