Mailing List Archive: [S-OT] Sky parental settings

[S-OT] Sky parental settings

Oct 19, 2006, 5:01 PM

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Hi all,

I've just been talking to Sky's customer service department (twice actually to
get to talk to someone with a brain).

They have informed me that no matter what you set the parental settings level
to in the decoder setup it will always prompt you for a pin for anythin rated
18+. Can anyone else with Sky confirm this is true or do I have a special
decoder (DTH-335)?

On-topic-ness; it's really annoying to find the Sky remote and enter a pin
when you change to a movie channel that's playing something 18+

hads

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Re: [S-OT] Sky parental settings [ In reply to ]

andmnz at gordons

Oct 19, 2006, 5:38 PM

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Hadley Rich wrote:
> They have informed me that no matter what you set the parental settings level
> to in the decoder setup it will always prompt you for a pin for anythin rated
> 18+. Can anyone else with Sky confirm this is true or do I have a special
> decoder (DTH-335)?

When we used to have Sky and Sky Movies it would always prompt for R18
movies if they where on during a certain time of the day, from what I
can remember. Something to do with Sky playing R18 movies during the
day and the people lacking the intelligence to use the parental control
settings complaining.

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Re: [S-OT] Sky parental settings [ In reply to ]

mythtvnz at hotblack

Oct 19, 2006, 7:31 PM

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>Hi all,
>
>I've just been talking to Sky's customer service department (twice actually to
>get to talk to someone with a brain).
>
>They have informed me that no matter what you set the parental settings level
>to in the decoder setup it will always prompt you for a pin for anythin rated
>18+. Can anyone else with Sky confirm this is true or do I have a special
>decoder (DTH-335)?
>
>On-topic-ness; it's really annoying to find the Sky remote and enter a pin
>when you change to a movie channel that's playing something 18+
>
>hads
>

I can confirm this. I've got a Pace DSR-2000 and it behaves the same.

It took me 3 phone calls to get to someone who could tell me what was
going on (and the 3rd story totally contradicted what the first 2
told me). If you unlock the decoder it stays unlocked until you turn
it off, or you hit an R programme between the hours of 6am and 8pm
(or thereabouts - can't remember the exact hours).

- Wade

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