TopTV subscribers watching a sex channel on its proposed separate porn bouquet will have to stop and re-enter their PIN every 30 minutes.
In its application before the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa), TopTV said that viewers watching porn will have to re-enter their PIN after every 30 minutes as a safeguard against a sex channel being left unattended:
All Playboy channels will be configured with a preset time-out period (eg. 30 minutes) after which the PIN must be re-entered. This prevents the channel being left unattended for longer than the preset period.
TopTV has also said that their prepaid subscribers will not be able to gain access to it’s bouquet of porn channels, and that it will only be made available to contract subscribers.
Eddie Mbalo, the acting CEO of TopTV said:
We acknowledge that there is genuine public concern about the protection of children from viewing adult TV content.
Even though we have strict mechanisms in place to give parents full control over the access to these channels, as an extra precaution we have made the decision not to broadcast adult material outside the watershed period, when children are likely to be awake.
TopTV is currently arguing its case before Icasa for authorisation for channels to broadcast soft and hardcore porn in South Africa. TopTV wants to offer three porn channels – Playboy TV, Desire TV and Private Spice – as a separate porn bouquet and with a rating classification of R18 which comes with its own PIN system.
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