(10-03-2012 00:04 )mr mystery Wrote: If parents are concerned about children seeing babe channels after the UK recognised water shed showing non explicit semi naked or tastefully done non explicit nudity on tv marked clearly adult on the freeview EPG and want these shows banning then surly they must want all the non adult channel programs that show far worse material banning as well , such as programs that show extreme violence or sexual violence , use explicit language , show full frontal nudity etc , the babe channels are clearly not even 18 cert in strength , the girls don't use bad language on the mic and no full frontal nudity is shown .
I am not sure of the model number of my 2 Thompson freeview box's but but 1 is around 3 years old and 1 is 5 years old both have recently had new software downloaded to them including parental control .
I do get what your saying, I cannot speak for the thoughts on the members of 'mumsnet', I have never even heard of the site until reading this thread and learning scotishbloke had joined so I cannot comment on their members views on violence or language. All we know is that someone has raised a concern over babestation.
At risk of the sin of derailing the thread, as for the Thompsons the DTI6300 was designed for exclusive use of top up tv, a mid 2000's flop for those unaware, I bought a reconditioned box as I wanted a cheap freeview recorder, this has had many firmware updates over the last couple of years but each does not deal with its core faults, its currently sitting on top of my wardrobe, i will try and tune it in tomorrow and delete everything except babestation and Dave to see what happens
. One of the faults is that the delete/rename function of channels, I have also had an Alba box before without this function. However in the bedroom I now have a technika box with these functions and is fully HD optimised, its a nice compact size which gives it a straight advantage over the older rather bulky DTI6300, it is a tesco own brand and was only about £30 so that would be
'simplymarko's pick of the week' for any concerned mums looking for a replacement freeview box to protect their little rascals. Set up is easy but it does only have 1 scart connector which can be a pain but a seperate dual scart can be purchased quite cheaply if you are running more than 1 device into the tv, much as I use the Xbox which allows me access to Sky stations through Xbox Live, but the stations DO NOT include babestation, elite or any others so this may be another option to give to the parents who insist on giving their offspring access to digital TV although that opens up a whole new issue of toddlers playing violent computer games such as the Call of Duty series or various shoot em ups that you have these days (im more a driving sim fan myself)
- EDIT i see you have a DTI6300 too, bloody noisy things!