Radio receiver
The valid until the end of 2012 Rundfunkgebührenstaatsvertrag contract defined radio receivers as "a technical device capable of wireless or wired, not delayed auditory or visual or recording of broadcasting are suitable -Darbietungen (radio and television)" ( § 1, paragraph 1, sentence 1 of the RGebStV ).
1 January 2013 the license fee treaty was the broadcast contribution treaty replacing obsolete and thus the legal definition of radio receivers.
Radio receivers
The "classic" devices
Other devices
a selection:
- Video recorder
- Computer with TV or radio card, also as a USB plug-in module
- as " new types of radio receivers " ( according to the State Treaty on Broadcasting Fees, Section 5 (3) )
- Computers that can receive broadcast programs over the Internet ( Internet PC )
- Cell phones with Internet service
Demarcation
No radio receivers are in the sense of the State Treaty on Broadcasting Fee
because they cannot make the television signal visible without an additional receiver.
In the case of a combination of DVB-S or DVB-T receiver and an analog television set connected to it, the DVB receiver is the actual (fee-based) radio receiver; the television can only be seen here as a monitor.
See also
- Digital Multimedia Broadcasting : TV transmission system for mobile devices (e.g. cell phones)
- DVB-H : TV transmission system for mobile devices (e.g. cell phones)
- DVB-T : digital television and radio via antenna
- Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) : Transmission of television programs and films over the Internet
