> TV's do give out radiation via the CRT tube. If you have a sensitive enough detector, you should be able to detect an operating TV. Then it would just be a simple matter of tringulation to figure out which house it's coming from. As I said, this is just a guess, since in the USA we don't have broadcasting fees, so we don't have detection vans.
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> Makes ya kinda wonder if you could get a TV Detector Detector, which would automatically shut off your TV when it detected the TV van going by ;)
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But how would they tell the difference between a TV and a monitor? They both work on the same principles, I think. Feel free to prove me wrong, anyone.

There's a good 'advert' for the TV license, where a man sees the detector van arrive and a license inspector get out, so he puts a video on to make his telly look like a microwave. Naturally, he gets caught when the tape runs out (they daren't show someone getting away with it), but it's an idea...

My favourite was the Not The Nice O'clock News sketch based on these ads. "Mr. Smith didn't pay his TV license, so the BBC sent him a warning". Shot of his house being demolished. "And his parents... and his grandparents... and his school... and where he grew up. So get a TV license, it's cheaper than a funeral."

Tub"Slightly random, but it was funny"ba