TiVo : Pin Number Required.......WTF

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

this is what will happen

Great!

[kop32]

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

this is what will happen

But as with most things VM......don't hold your breath!

[Digital Fanatic]

Originally Posted by kop32

But as with most things VM......don't hold your breath!

You can't really say that about the TiVo project, updates and improvements have been regular.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by passingbat

But surely V+ has to follow the same Ofcom rules, and pesumably VM aren't breaking them on the V+?

So, just make tivo behave like V+ for pin protection and everyone will be happy.

That is the plan. Currently we have to wait on the TiVo software getting changed to allow that behaviour.

[RamJet]

Originally Posted by Ben B

Of course, you can actually disable this on the V+ but it looks like they aren't yet allowing this on the TiVo.

thanks - how do you disable the PIN on the V+ box ?

I like to surf up and down the channels & am driven constantly nuts by the need to put in the pin every time I go up or down each film channel - I've given up bothering with the film channels mostly

large media distribution companies like VM really do need to try to meet the needs of their customers esp over films - you can view films all over the Internet without all this hassle

soon people will stop subscribing as they apparently doing big-time in the USA atm

nb : my kids are all grown up now so there are no children <18 here so I really really resent these patronising restrictions

[spiderplant]

You can't disable the PIN on the subscription film channels before the watershed. It's an Ofcom requirement.

Ben B is referring to the ability to remove the PIN request when playing back a recording that was made after the watershed. At the moment you can't do this on TiVo.