sky pin

[terex]

I have never had to enter a pin number on  BBC,  ITV  channel 4/5 or Free view  before the water shed, only on Sky. Even the game Crystal Maze required a pin to watch.

[Invisiblename]

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@terex wrote:

I have never had to enter a pin number on  BBC,  ITV  channel 4/5 or Free view  before the water shed, only on Sky. Even the game Crystal Maze required a pin to watch.

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Guess you don't record anything that warrants it then.  An example that immediately comes to mind is Silent Witness

[R2DANNY2]

I just downloaded a show from C4 on to my sky box  it's 22.56pm and it asked me to put pin in before I can watch it.  How is that a thing ?

[ThePope27]

@R2DANNY2 

To stop kids watching something that they shouldn't, better to be safe than sorry for 2 seconds of your time to enter a 4 digit code!

[terex]

To stop kids watching they shouldn't you mean like Crystal maze. You honestly think that the kids don't know the pin how naive of you.Even Ofom admit that. Why should anyone pay for a service then be controlled what they can watch.

[R2DANNY2]

I get that before 9pm... But at 11pm??

[ThePope27]

@terex,

My kid doesn't know the pin.....

And your not controlled with what you can watch, just take 2 seconds of your time to enter the pin it's not that hard is it really

[ThePope27]

@R2DANNY2,

Check that you dont have ratings set as a pin will be required all times of the day for that 

[TimmyBGood]

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@terex wrote:

Why should anyone pay for a service then be controlled what they can watch.

Largely due to the moral panic when multichannel 'foreign owned' satellite television arrived over three decades ago (long pre-dating streaming services) 

Incidentally, 'what you can watch' has always been controlled by someone.

[Edward6]

Because these general transmission channels cannot offer programming outside of broadcast rules.  So their content must be applicable to time it is broadcast.  Hence no need for PIN.