Entering Pin Number

tylerdurden94

Sky seem to require a pin number for the movie channels during the daytime so that you cant watch anything that is inappropriate for that time. What i would like to know if you can help is how do u get around this if you do not have your box connected up to a phone line?

keith_d99

The PIN is not sent to Sky via phoneline so you are ok!

tylerdurden94 wrote: »

Sky seem to require a pin number for the movie channels during the daytime so that you cant watch anything that is inappropriate for that time. What i would like to know if you can help is how do u get around this if you do not have your box connected up to a phone line?

tylerdurden94

I always thought that it had something to do with the phone line because when it asks me to input the pin (which i always assumed was the last 4 numbers of your viewing card) it does nothing.

Am i wrong in assumeing the thing about the pin?

keith_d99

Sounds strange - And you have a valid movies subscription I presume?

When I had movies - I had no issues - and the box has never been connected to the phone line!

tylerdurden94 wrote: »

I always thought that it had something to do with the phone line because when it asks me to input the pin (which i always assumed was the last 4 numbers of your viewing card) it does nothing.

Am i wrong in assumeing the thing about the pin?

tylerdurden94

Yeah we have our subscription years now, so went to watch a movie one day it was requireing the pin and no joy with it.

aidan_walsh

The movies will be PIN locked on Sky's side, so there is no setting on your box you can use to switch that off. You PIN is stored on your box, so you do not need to have a phone line connected to be able to enter it. As long as you enter your PIN correctly, you should be able to watch the movie.

Are you getting any particular error when you enter the PIN?

tylerdurden94

aidan_walsh wrote: »

The movies will be PIN locked on Sky's side, so there is no setting on your box you can use to switch that off. You PIN is stored on your box, so you do not need to have a phone line connected to be able to enter it. As long as you enter your PIN correctly, you should be able to watch the movie.

Are you getting any particular error when you enter the PIN?

Where do i get the pin? Is it the last 4 digits of the viewing card? When i enter a pin it says 2 more attempts left and so on.

ZOLTAN28

Ring Sky - they set up your pin when you order the movies

tylerdurden94

Finally got this problem sorted kinda by accident, downloaded the sky player and i forgot i had sky account set up and just went in and it had loads of differnt options and settings and the one i needed for the pin, so i just set a new pin number and now its working perfect.

xsiborg

just thought i might point out aswel though that in order to change your pin number on your own on the sky box itself you have to have your phone lline connected.