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I know parental controls aren't the highest priority for many people here, but for those of us with families, this issue is very important.
The locking mechanism is inappropriate. My only options are to unlock everything for 4 hours or forever. I can't unlock one particular program for my son (say, that has strong language), while protecting him from changing the channel to inappropriate programs (say, hard core sex).
UltimateTV structured the options better: you unlocked just one show or all shows, and then you unlocked "until power off," or forever. The 4 hour time window is aribitrary and is either too short or too long.
While I'm at it, there's an ease of use issue here. Why are the titles blocked? I have to unlock the unit just to browse? That's silly. Let us see the titles, but only when trying to view the show do we have to unlock them.
The locking mechanism is inappropriate. My only options are to unlock everything for 4 hours or forever. I can't unlock one particular program for my son (say, that has strong language), while protecting him from changing the channel to inappropriate programs (say, hard core sex).
UltimateTV structured the options better: you unlocked just one show or all shows, and then you unlocked "until power off," or forever. The 4 hour time window is aribitrary and is either too short or too long.
While I'm at it, there's an ease of use issue here. Why are the titles blocked? I have to unlock the unit just to browse? That's silly. Let us see the titles, but only when trying to view the show do we have to unlock them.