Blocking Specific Content Themes

Using the TV’s Features

Hierarchy of Age-Based Ratings

TV-MA	Mature Audience Only

TV-14	Parents Strongly Cautioned

TV-PG	Parental Guidance Suggested

TV-G	General Audience

TV-Y7	Directed to Children 7 years
	and older
TV-Y	All Children

Tip

To reset the ratings to View and V, press the RESET button on the remote.

4.Press the right arrow button to move the yellow highlight to the Status field.

5. Press the up or down arrow button to toggle between View and Block. The status for the rating listed to the left and all higher ratings automatically changes to Block (and B).

6.Press OK on the remote to return to the menu or exit the screen when you are finished.

7.Select Lock Parental Controls from the Parental Controls menu. Enter a password, and if you have not already set your password, you will be prompted to enter it again to confirm.

Rating	Rating	Content
field	status field	status fields

V-CHIP TV RATING LIMIT

Rating	Status	- - Content - -
Rating	Status	D L	S V FV
TV-14	View	V V	V V
	^

Press ^/v to view programs with this rating. Press MENU to exit.

RATING	STATUS	D L	S V FV
TV-MA	Block	B	B B
TV-14	View	V V	V V
TV-PG	Block	B B	B B
TV-G	View		V
TV-Y7	View		V
TV-Y	View

Viewing Age-Based Ratings

After you block age-based ratings, you have the option of changing some of the ratings back to View.

1.Determine which blocked rating you want to view.

2.Use the up and down arrow buttons to select the rating with a status of Block.

3.Press the right arrow button to move the yellow highlight to the rating status field.

4.Press the up button to select View.

Notes:

•The content status fields corresponding to the unblocked rating become View as well. They and the age-based rating status are the only fields that automatically change back to View when you complete

this process.

•You must remember to lock Parental Controls for rating limits to take effect.

	Content Themes

D	Sexually explicit dialogue

L	Adult language

S	Sexual situations

V	Violence

FV	Fantasy Violence

TV-Y	All Children

Blocking Specific Content Themes

You can block programs based on their content. (Content is represented by the D, L, S, V, FV and TV-Y on your screen. See the beginning of this section for details.) When you block a content theme for a particular rating, you automatically block that content theme for higher rated programs as well.

For example, if you do not want your child to watch programs that have adult language (L) rated TV-PG or higher, then you could block out all programming TV-PG and above containing adult language.

Chapter 3