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Correct, with one addition: watching content is not required –merely recording a TV broadcast falls under the TV license.
Whether that broadcast is over the air or the internet is immaterial, as is the originating country.
So if you watch a TV channel from Botswana on some IPTV website on your tablet you still need a TV license, despite not doing so on a TV and it having nothing to do with bri'ish television.
>now I'm realizing how totalitarian the UK has been
Selling a kitchen knife to a minor is illegal and will land your ass in jail, but if you sell them heroin in Scotland it's all nice and dandy.