topic Pin access in Sky Q

Pin access

Shrimper — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:31:46 GMT

Every time I turn on channel 109 to watch Stargate or Stargate Atlantic or flash, anything like this I'm asked to put a pin number in,I'm asked in other channels as well, in my settings I have restrictions off yet it still askes me for a pin

This is beyond a joke for what violence or sex is on these programs, is there a way to stop putting a pin in

Re: Pin access

Annie+UK — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:59:16 GMT

It's an OFCOM requirement and there is no way to fully turn off PIN request

Q27 : https://annieuk.ddns.net/sky-faq.php?dark

Re: Pin access

oldfella — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:48:51 GMT

@Shrimper wrote:

Every time I turn on channel 109 to watch Stargate or Stargate Atlantic or flash, anything like this I'm asked to put a pin number in,I'm asked in other channels as well, in my settings I have restrictions off yet it still askes me for a pin

This is beyond a joke for what violence or sex is on these programs, is there a way to stop putting a pin in

Hi @Shrimper

As @Annie+UK @has pointed out a pin will sometimes always be required.

See following link

https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Sky-TV/Is-there-any-way-I-can-turn-this-damn-parental-control-off/ba-p/2760207

Re: Pin access

Shrimper — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:59:19 GMT

These people probably get paid good money to sit behind a desk and keep us frustrated by making up these stupid rules,

Re: Pin access

nigea99 — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 19:04:37 GMT

@Shrimper

The best advice to minimise the impact we can give is to reset your pin to something like 1111 which makes it simpler to enter when required

Re: Pin access

TimmyBGood — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 20:17:41 GMT

@Shrimper wrote:

These people probably get paid good money to sit behind a desk and keep us frustrated by making up these stupid rules,

Quite possibly at the time, but they are long retired by now: Mandatory Daytime Protection has its roots in the moral panic over the arrival of 'foreign owned' satellite television in the late 1980s, and the current underpinning legislation of the Broadcasting Code is the Communications Act (2003)

Granting Ofcom the power to permit regulated platforms to remove MDP (or to let their subscribers do so) would effectively require new primary Parliamentary legislation.

Re: Pin access

Shrimper — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 20:08:35 GMT

I'm going to put my pin to 0000 make life easier 😅