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This message was authored by Shrimper This message was authored by: Shrimper

Pin access

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

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This message was authored by Annie+UK This message was authored by: Annie+UK

Re: Pin access

Posted by a Superuser, not a Sky employee. Find out more

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

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This message was authored by oldfella This message was authored by: oldfella

Re: Pin access

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@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/... 

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This message was authored by Shrimper This message was authored by: Shrimper

Re: Pin access

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

This message was authored by nigea99 This message was authored by: nigea99

Re: Pin access

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@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 

This message was authored by TimmyBGood This message was authored by: TimmyBGood

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@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.

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Re: Pin access

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

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