IronGate said:
I don't know why they say you have to be connected to a phone line. As long as we've had satellite TV (10 years?), they've told us that, but then hook it up without the phone line, and everything works.
Now, you need to figure out the parental locks, and block the PPV channels. You can unlock those channels on a case-by-case basis, but you'd have to determine from your own setup if you can unlock only a single receiver, or if the whole house is simultaneously unlocked.
Oh, they are locked NOW, believe me! But we still have no idea if anyone else watched movies or 'events' without telling us. Luckily, we learned early on that it works without the phone line. Sorry I missed that in SS's previous post! Because the one TV is right in the living room and I don't want to be hearing 'F-this and F-that' when I go thru, I've blocked everything but PG-13 (which is bad enough to this old lady). I will allow R in the guest room, but not in public areas.
I feel like an idiot, tho. I was so surprised that it worked that I took the $5, didn't give them change, nothing but, 'Thanks for telling us.'
I'm going to mail the money back with a card for $10 off their next stay and thank them again for telling us. We could have had a bill for 100's of dollars by next month and not even know it was happening.