Kids love watching their favourite shows on TV. But leaving them unattended while you get the dinner on can be risky, especially if they start playing with the remote. Most of the time, the worst that will happen is they'll change the channel, but there is the risk that they’ve accidentally deleted your recordings or activated a setting you’ve never seen before. With this in mind, TalkTalk has launched a Kids remote for its TV service that works with the £5 a month Kids Boost package. Those that subscribe can launch Kids Zone – an area of age appropriate on-demand TV shows including Paw Patrol and Fireman Sam – by using the main TalkTalk TV remote and entering a PIN. MORE: NOT SURE WHICH TV SERVICE IS RIGHT FOR YOU? FIND OUT EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE DIFFERENT PACKAGES Once activated, your children can choose TV shows and play and pause them using the unique circular Kids Remote. Brightly coloured with a wheel that that let's children scroll and a centre button used to select the shows, the remote was designed with the help of 60 school children. Kids are unable to leave the Kids Zone and return to normal programming unless the PIN is entered on the main TV remote. There are some great parental controls built-in as well. Using the main TV remote, parents can hide shows they want their children to watch and set viewing hours so the kids zone can’t be accessed out of set time periods. There’s also a Bedtime function. When activiated a ‘sleepy head’ icon will appear on the left hand side of the screen - this starts a five minute countdown to prepare children that the TV is going to sleep. The bedtime setting, which can be cancelled from the main remote at any point, takes into consideration the amount of time left on any current programme, so there are no tantrums over not getting to see the end of a show. The TalkTalk Kids Remote is priced at £5 while the Kids TV boost costs £5 per month. For more information visit TalkTalk’s website. LIKE THIS? THEN SIGN UP TO OUR HOMES NEWSLETTER FOR MORE!
Telecoms company TalkTalk is offering a Kids remote for its television services to limit children’s access to channels. Photograph: The service ensures that only appropriate channels will be shown when the remote is being used, removing access to other programming until the PIN is re-entered. Viewing periods can be set and there is also a countdown clock to remind children that the television will switch off before bedtime.