GrumpyJo
Standard Member
Just curious to know if any TV manufacturers provide the ability to "lock" their inbuilt Apps with a pin code etc.
We have 2 young children ages 6 & 8 who get up really early in the morning switch on the TV, load up You Tube to watch other people play games ! It's driving us crazy.
We do our best to try to limit what they can and can't do and to ensure that what they want to watch is suitable and free from foul language etc but this all seems to fall apart when it comes to TV's security.
We have the Hisense 65N6800 which allows you to lock channels, inputs etc, and set time locks also which is good but irrelevant when the channels and inputs are locked untill say 09:00, but all the kids need to do to bypass the locks is simply press the "You Tube" button on the remote and it loads up regardless of the time. A fundamental flaw in my opinion.
The latest example of how bad it's getting is when I had to get up for work at 03:45, I went downstairs and my 8yo daughter is sitting in the lounge, in the dark watching someone playing the Sims 4 on You Tube. Needless to say I went a bit crazy at her but you see our dilemma here. She can sneek around undetected without creaking any floorboards, which in our house is a miracle in itself at such a rediculous time of the morning when she really needs to be sleeping.
If there were the ability to have some sort of lock on these inbuilt Apps and she knew she couldn't access them when she likes she wouldn't have any choice but to try to get back to sleep.
So my question to owners of TV's out there is thus : What make/model of TV do you own that has inbuilt Apps with the ability to lock them with a pin etc like our mobile phones
We have 2 young children ages 6 & 8 who get up really early in the morning switch on the TV, load up You Tube to watch other people play games ! It's driving us crazy.
We do our best to try to limit what they can and can't do and to ensure that what they want to watch is suitable and free from foul language etc but this all seems to fall apart when it comes to TV's security.
We have the Hisense 65N6800 which allows you to lock channels, inputs etc, and set time locks also which is good but irrelevant when the channels and inputs are locked untill say 09:00, but all the kids need to do to bypass the locks is simply press the "You Tube" button on the remote and it loads up regardless of the time. A fundamental flaw in my opinion.
The latest example of how bad it's getting is when I had to get up for work at 03:45, I went downstairs and my 8yo daughter is sitting in the lounge, in the dark watching someone playing the Sims 4 on You Tube. Needless to say I went a bit crazy at her but you see our dilemma here. She can sneek around undetected without creaking any floorboards, which in our house is a miracle in itself at such a rediculous time of the morning when she really needs to be sleeping.
If there were the ability to have some sort of lock on these inbuilt Apps and she knew she couldn't access them when she likes she wouldn't have any choice but to try to get back to sleep.
So my question to owners of TV's out there is thus : What make/model of TV do you own that has inbuilt Apps with the ability to lock them with a pin etc like our mobile phones