Chapter 5. TV Menu Settings

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Parental Lock Menu, continued

U.S. Ratings Menu

Use this menu to turn U.S. rating restrictions on or off and to change the permitted rating levels.

TV Content

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U.S.

 

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TV Rating and

 

 

 

 

 

Restriction

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Supplemental

 

 

 

 

 

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Restrictions

Movie

Rating

Figure 10. U.S. Ratings menu

1.Highlight the U.S. Ratings icon on the Parental Lock menu (see figure 9) and press ENTER to open the U.S. Ratings menu (see figure 10).

2.Press to select On or Off.

3.If you selected On, press to move to the TV Rating box.

4.Press to select the TV rating level you want to allow.

5.Press to move to the TV content categories. This section allows you to specify content blocking in addi- tion to that blocked by the TV rating. See the section on V-Chip ratings for an explanation of TV content categories.

Press to move the highlight among the categories.

Press ENTER to add or remove a check mark for each TV content category you want to block or unblock.

6.Press to move to the Programs Not Rated box. Press ENTER to add or remove a check mark for block- ing or allowing programs that are not rated.

Note: Use care when choosing to block unrated pro- gramming. News programs and emergency bul- letins carry the “None” or “NR” (Not Rated) VChip signal, and they are blocked with this option ac- tive.

7.Press to move to the Movie Rating box. Press to select the movie rating level you want to allow. Detailed information on rating guidelines follows this discussion of the Parental Lock menu.

8.To set the time of day for these restrictions to be in

effect, press to move to the Start box. To make the rating restrictions active twenty-four hours a day, set Start and Stop to the same time. To set the time:

a.With the hour number highlighted in yellow, press repeatedly to change the hour. You can also just press and hold to change the hour.

b.Press ENTER to move the highlight to the minutes.

c.With the minutes number highlighted in yellow,

press repeatedly to change the minutes. Just press and hold to move quickly through the numbers.

d.Repeat these steps for the Stop time.

9.Press MENU to return to the Parental Lock menu or press EXIT to close all menus.

Other Ratings Menu

This TV can recognize new rating systems that may come into effect in the future. The Other Ratings menu allows you to block digital programming based on such alternate rating systems. The alternate rating systems will apply to digital broadcast programming only.

Note: The Other Ratings button remains inaccessible until the TV receives signals for an alternate rating system.

The first time you tune to a channel broadcasting an alter- nate rating system, the TV defaults to the most restrictive setting. Use this menu to change the allowed rating if you are unable to watch a program broadcast with an alternate system.

Figure 11. The Other Ratings menu is available only if the TV receives broadcast signals carrying an alternate rating system.

IMPORTANT

New rating systems recognizable by the TV may be new U.S.-based systems not included in the original V-Chip rating system. The use of “Canadian” in the sample screen is just one possibility.

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Mitsubishi Electronics WD-57831 manual Other Ratings Menu

WD-57831 specifications

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