Linux PVR as possible self-control of content for families?

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Wednesday 14 March 2007 04:47:13 pm you wrote:

> Nope. DirecTv has a slightly different schedule. As my wife gets both
> east and west coast feeds, your program guide may be different. As for
> the NSFK movie?

Ok, The movie is "Sexual Indiscretion", rated TVMA, showing 4:30 - 5:50 on the 
Pacific feed then.  While it appears from the very brief descriptions 
available to be pretty much about sex, it should be noted that other programs 
rated TVMA include Schindler's List and some episodes of South Park, The 
Shield, Rescue Me and so-on.

I personally don't think there's any harm in children knowing as much about 
sex as they might observantly learn on a working farm, I understand that 
there are reasons you wouldn't want them to watch this program.

I don't feel that children should be allowed to surf around and just watch 
anything that strikes their fancy anyway.  Parents should actively manage 
what their kids watch, selecting programs with some knowledge of their 
content, not just passively accepting whatever spews out of the tube.  

If you have DirecTV, you have parental controls that will block any TVMA 
programming regardless of time slot; you can block the West Coast feeds of 
the premium channels during their "night" programming.  It's not TMC's fault 
you were greedy about your feed, they took reasonable measures not to have 
that on at the time you saw it.

We don't need nannyvision to solve this problem though - we need parents to 
parent.