Playboy tv

[tigertim]

Hi,

Did anyone see Playboy tv last night , apparantly they showed a hardcore girl/girl episode of Full Contact Girls. What with Spice showing a hardcore episode of something last week and now with TAC stopping showing any hardcore, it seems a bit of a mess , who's showing what. If TAC, Spice and Playboy all come under the same umbrella group maybe they are trying to spread it around so no one in particular can get the blame,if they get into trouble. Personally i think they should all broadcast one hardcore show per night, and see what happens,as i dont think Ofcom would pull rank on just a couple of shows per night as long as the previews were clean.

tiger

[bluetit]

i saw it and yep it was hardcore.fisting no less.

cheers bt

ps anyone thinking of subscribing to xxxplicite DONT i did last week for one month ie 3.99 one night 8.99 one month.after reading that it was stronger on this forum.it is a bit stronger but after the first 2 nights there have not been any new progs.just repeats

[Paul Tavener]

Yes Xplicit does show an awful lot of repeats, but are also showing g/g hardcore unlike TAC.

The current situation with adult services is very puzzling. I will try to contact Ofcom and some of the adult broadcasters to find out whats going on next week.

[tigertim]

Very nearly a full night of hardcore on Playboy last night, 12 till 4 showing episodes of Sandy Babe Abroad, ironicaly the 1 hour of softcore squeezed inbetween thoose episodes was a film called Sandy does Hardcore. Nothing on TAC again , it does seem odd that as one channel stops its hardcore broadcast another starts, must be some collaboration going on somewhere.

tigertim

[Paul Tavener]

Very good to see stronger content on Playboy, but I do have some reservations. People are probably best advised not to subscribe to TAC at the moment due to the recent degradation in service quality.

If anyone has taken out a subscription to TAC specifically because of the recent changes to content then I would complain to Playboy and either ask for your money back or asked to be switched to Playboy TV.

For those thinking about subscribing it might be worth thinking carefully about subscribing to Playboy at the moment, as there is no guarantee that they won't switch the content back to TAC, Spice or drop it entirely at some point in the future.

[Cornish Chris]

Hi Paul...If you subcribe to TAC you actually get Playboy TV for free as well.
So I would imagine that the owner are swopping and changing on which channel they air a bit of harder material...must admit it is a bit of a pain knowing which channel to tune into.
As far as I know there has not been a total policy change as anything that they buy still has to be edited to a super soft version, so they must envisage having to air total softcore for some time to come.

Cheers CC.

[Cosine]

It used to be the case you got both but now they charge a little extra (+?5) for the extra channel(s).

Cheers, Mike.

[trapanicus]

I still think it's being intelligently handled.

The three channels that keep coming up in the debate about actual hardcore are all available from one service provider for whatever it is ?13.99 or 15.99 a month- can't remember.

They're cetainly collecting a lot of data - and could use it to say something like :

"We tried it on "Spice" where subscribers expect the limits to be pushed (That's what they advertise) We tried it on TAC and we even tried it on Playboy where subscribers didn't expect it and we got no complaints in any of the three tests.."

But It it frustrating knowing what channel to try even if you subscribe - let's just hope it's all worth it later in the year..

[Viking]

I subscribed to Explicitxxx after reading on here that it was stronger than the rest. unfortunately they only show the same programmes again and again. I haven't seen anything new for weeks. they state on their website that they show new programmes every night and that you won't see the same programmes for a long time.
This is all absolute crap and anyone thinking of subscribing should'nt bother.
I had the Adult channel on a Free trial when they were showing 1 programme uncut after 12 but they are now back to showing ancient soft softcore again.
It is about time the Sattelite porn companies explained to us exactly what they are playing at before we all ignore them completely and twist our dishes towards europe

[Paul Tavener]

Viking, unfortunately you are correct.

I think the current advice to viewers should be don?t subscribe to any of the channels at the moment until it becomes clear what is going on. If you must subscribe don?t subscribe to TAC and be aware that Playboy might loose its h/c content just as easily as TAC did. If you have subscribed to TAC on the basis of recent reports then I would ask Playboy for a refund or a swap to Playboy TV (unless you already have both). I don?t know what they will say but they damn well ought to let people move across and it certainly would do them no harm to be informed very clearly that the punters do not like the way they have back peddled on TAC. We have had enough problems in the past with the regulator, now the regulator is showing some signs of sensibility the broadcasters have lost the plot!