Help with Sky Movies?

emmaroids

lol its no hardship pressing 5 buttons now is it.

cdbrown

Just right down the last four digits of the sky card (unless you've changed the pin). It's not hard to do.

Moneymaker - I don't think it was meant that way. Probably should have said that it's ridiculous for those people that don't have kids to not be able to disable this function.

hjb123

Im still struggling with this. There are four adults in the house and theres only me that had the pin number to prevent anyone else spending etc on it, now they have to have the pin number to be able to watch some films before 9pm. The pin number is now written down near the sky box, i put my foot down at having it written on teh back of the remote!

cledor

hjb123 wrote: »

Im still struggling with this. There are four adults in the house and theres only me that had the pin number to prevent anyone else spending etc on it, now they have to have the pin number to be able to watch some films before 9pm. The pin number is now written down near the sky box, i put my foot down at having it written on teh back of the remote!

Have you tried the procedure given in post #6 ?

hjb123

cledor wrote: »

Have you tried the procedure given in post #6 ?

Yep and it still requires a PIN if watching a rated film before the 9pm watershed

cledor

hjb123 wrote: »

Yep and it still requires a PIN if watching a rated film before the 9pm watershed

Sorry but it does on my Sky Pace Digibox.

Deleerious

I'm the same. I've turned off my Parental Controls however i still have to input the code to see the same films that have been on all week... Sigh...

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cederic

It's frankly stupid. If you switch away from the film channel and switch back, it wants your PIN number again. If you're switching to check whether another film on another channel has reached the part you want to watch, you have to enter the PIN number twice.

Worse than that, it's currently 10.42pm. I just changed channel to Robocop, starting at 10.40pm, and it wants my PIN number. At 10.40pm. On a subscription channel, when I'm very clearly over 18, the sole occupier, the guy that pays the bills and own far more violent films on DVD, which, incidentally, have been shown on the BBC uncut. There is no justification for requiring a PIN number.

Except one : I'm thinking this is being used to prevent people from recording films unattended. If you have to enter a PIN number then you can not record the film.

If this is an attempt to make me buy Sky+ then it's going to fail. The reduced choice of films caused by the channel change, the increase in hassle trying to watch the films that are on and the loss of half the football to another company means I'm getting very close to cancelling Sky entirely. Time to write to them and ask whether they really hate their customers this much,.

poe.tuesday

it is not there to stop you recording the movies. Sky started putting on movies that were no suitable pre-watershed and the only legal way around this that complies with the ITC regs is to have the pin control - this gives viewers more choice, but I do agree, it is an inconvience but surely it's only a minor one?