FREE Parental Control on PTCI Digital TV!

Parental Controls are a free service to PTCI Digital TV customers. Concerned parents can prevent their children from accessing adult-oriented or other inappropriate programming by following these easy steps on your remote control.
To access Parental Controls:
• Press Menu
• Scroll down to Settings
• Highlight Parental Controls and press Select
• It will ask you for a Pin Number. Default is set at 9999, unless you have changed it.
• This will give you the option of controlling the programming by rating or to actually hide channels.
To Hide Channels:
• Scroll down to Edit, and press select
• Scroll and highlight the channels you want to “Hide”
• Press the Select key on each channel you want to remove. The highlighted button will now say “Off”.
• After selecting channels to be hidden, highlight the “Save & Exit” and press select.
• The channels you have chosen (changed to Off) will no longer be shown on the Guide and can not be seen until you go back into the Parental Controls and turn them ON.
A tutorial is available on online at http://www.ptci.net/digitaltv_support.php. If you have questions about any of our features, most of them can be found under the Help menu. Just press the Help key and scroll down to the feature you are looking for.

You Wouldn't Leave Your House Unlocked - Would You?

You can apply easy down to earth common sense to your computer and Internet with Common Sense Security

Be Smarter Than a Smartphone Workshops

BlackBerry® PTCI Workshop Q&A Sheet



March 22, 2011, 4 PM and 6 PM - PTCI, 2222 NW HWY 64, Guymon, OK (on the way to Wal-Mart)
BlackBerry® smartphone workshop. 4 PM Beginning and 4 PM Advanced sessions. If this is your first BlackBerry® smartphone or if you have upgraded; these workshops are for you. Send us any questions you might have about your smartphone. mailto:comments@ptsi.net    
BlackBerry® smartphone workshop. 6 PM Beginning and 6 PM Advanced sessions. If this is your first BlackBerry® smartphone or if you have upgraded; these workshops are for you. Send us any questions you might have about your smartphone. mailto:comments@ptsi.net
Android™Q&A Sheet
March 24, 2011, 4 PM and 6 PM -  PTCI, 2222 NW HWY 64, Guymon, OK (on the way to Wal-Mart)
Android (HTC, LG, Motorola & Samsung) smartphone workshop. 4 PM Beginning and 4 PM Advanced sessions. If this is your first Android smartphone or if you have upgraded; these workshops are for you. Send us any questions you might have about your smartphone. mailto:comments@ptsi.net
Android (HTC, LG, Motorola & Samsung) smartphone workshop. 6 PM Beginning and 6 PM Advanced sessions. If this is your first Android smartphone or if you have upgraded; these workshops are for you. Send us any questions you might have about your smartphone. mailto:comments@ptsi.net

Don't Be a Thumbskull - Don't Text & Drive

Kevin Ottinger and his BlackBerry®Tour™ Adventure

"My PTCI cell phone works great everywhere." ~ Kevin Ottinger

Kevin Ottinger drives a truck for a living. Like most of us, he listens to the radio while driving. Unlike most of us, he also does impersonations, while driving. One typical-truck driving, radio-listening day, he heard about an impersonation contest that was being offered on “The Howard Stern Show”. Thinking he might try his luck and enter, Kevin recorded his impersonation on BlackBerry® Voice Notes and sent it to Howard Stern on his PTCI BlackBerry® Tour™ cell phone. Howard liked what he heard and invited Kevin to New York to be one of five finalists on the show. Kevin’s travel arrangements to New York were also made with his BlackBerry Tour. He said, “My BlackBerry Tour worked great in New York.” In fact, he stated, “My PTCI cell phone works great everywhere.” Kevin has been interested in doing impersonations for several years, but never suspected his hobby would turn into such an unexpected adventure. He didn’t win, but had a great time. He stated, “None of this would have ever happened without my BlackBerry Tour cell phone from PTCI.”

EQUINOX SUN OUTAGES:

EQUINOX SUN OUTAGES: Many readers reported an intermittent loss of satellite TV reception over the weekend. Was the sun to blame? Yes and no. Senior forecaster Bill Murtagh of NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center explains: "It is likely that the sun caused the problem, but not because of solar flares. Now is the time of year for the 'equinox conjunction,' when the sun lines up with the satellite and the receiving satellite dish. When this happens, radio interference from the sun competes with signals from the satellite and can create noise levels several decibels higher than normal. The problem, which typically persists for 5 to 15 minutes, is referred to as a 'sun outage' and is often confused with sunspot or solar flare activity."

Channeling Networks

From time to time we receive TV network requests from our customers. When that happens, if it’s feasible, we attempt to add them to our lineup. We always want to keep our customers happy and satisfied with their Digital TV service. Over the last year PTCI has added these channels because of customer requests:

• Sportsman Channel
• Speed HD
• FX HD
• Fox Sports Southwest HD and Fox Sports Plus
• The CW
• CNBC and CNBC HD
• SyFy HD
• Oxygen HD
• Oklahoma City networks in HD

Television content providers control access to their networks. Many of them package a group of networks together and require television providers to purchase all of them or none, increasing the cost. (An example of this would be the ESPN Networks which include ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, and ESPN Classic.) Sometimes these networks are not popular and have limited viewership.

PTCI still wants to hear your requests! Whenever you have a special network you would like to have on your PTCI Digital TV, call your local customer service representative or e-mail comments@ptsi.net. We will investigate the possibility of providing them.