Setting-up limited TV access for family

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I suggest Roku. There are a good number of just weather, sports, news channels AND they have a decent number of family oriented/kid safe channels. And the new models are very fast and easy to set up.

[June2]

Some situations are not cut and dried.....some elderly parents are very sick, bedridden and or in hospice. It may be the last few months on this earth. I chose to make my mom comfortable and happy. If that meant she wanted cable and a variety of viewing options, then so be it. No my house my rules in that situation.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Put up an old-school antenna with a digital tuner and see what you can get.

At my house with that rig I can get 52 channels. Mostly ones like MeTV that show reruns from a time before our civilization imploded.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Some of the Canadian series have REAL Liberal values though.

I recently saw one of their cop shows where a prosecutor was arguing that the best way to decrease crime in Vancouver was to legalize prostitution.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

My mom is elderly and enjoys Hallmark.

[EVO X]

I’d also like a way to limit hours.

If you have the latest equipment from your cable provider, you maybe able to do both TV and Internet. Mine does.

[Buckeye McFrog]

TV is a wasteland. Get a library card and borrow some books.

The library near me seems to function as a no-charge DVD rental store.

[V K Lee]

One service streams Christian movies but little else (no sports, news).
PURE FLIX
Sports your local stations
News your local stations

[mmichaels1970]

Top 10 Christian Roku Channels

Get a Roku box (~$40 one time). You can connect it to the ONE TV you want to control. You can put that TV anywhere you receive a wifi signal.

You can create a PIN with a Roku account that will prevent someone from downloading additional channels without your say.

As for auto-disable during certain times. That might be a bit trickier. If you're a bit techie, you could go into your internet router settings and set authorization for your TV's MAC address to be enabled during those times, but that might be a bit complicated.

The easiest way if you want TV "out" after 10PM or something would just be to pull the plug on your internet router and cut EVERYTHING off after 10.

If you want live sports, you'll need to go the digital antenna route (~$40 one time).

[al_c]

Antenna.

[AppyPappy]

If the elderly person is used to watching whatever they want, this will get difficult.

[al_c]

Excellent recommendation. EWTN has a Roku channel.

[_Jim]

EWTN via the internet.

Mother Angelica would approve ...

[riri]

Just wait until they can download "knowledge" into your brain.

[Repent and Believe]

If I were a Vatican II Catholic, yes, I would be pretty worried about my secular commie pope (who is an anti-Christ). Being a truly traditional Catholic, however, I need not worry about the man, but rather seek to convert all men to the true Church and true Popes from Saint Peter through Pius XII our last true pope (d. 1958).

Thank you for your earnest concern.

[Repent and Believe]

You are onto something. H-m-m-m-m.

Thanks for your legitimate concern.

[Do_Tar]

Many newer TVs have “parental controls” built in. You set the rating level, TV-G, TV-PG, etc.
As stated by others, over the air antenna is the cheapest way to go if it works for you.

[SamAdams76]

I use the library on a regular basis - I see the DVDs, the playstation games, and whatnot, but it’s always just books for me - and plenty of books are still available.

[Repent and Believe]

With Roku can you set it up so that without the password (to change it) you get as few as only one program if you so wish to restrict it to?

[mmichaels1970]

With Roku can you set it up so that without the password (to change it) you get as few as only one program if you so wish to restrict it to?

No. I wouldn't say so. You could restrict to one CHANNEL. But not one program on one channel.