Polaroid LCD-1550 operation manual TV Parental Guidelines Rating Suggested age, Contents, Age

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V-CHIP (Parental control)

V-CHIP is an electronic filtering device built into your System. This tool gives parents a great degree of control over the broadcasts within their children’s reach. It allows parents to select programs judged suitable to child while blocking the other judged unsuitable. It does so automatically once you activate the V-CHIP feature in your LCD Television.

“V-Chip” will not be selectable from the menu if you do not first configure your secret number.

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FV : Fantasy violence

V : Violence

S : Sexual situation

L : Adult language

D : Sexually suggestive dialog

O : Content rating can be set.

O : The content rating can be set, but this rating is not normally broadcast by TV station.

TV Parental Guidelines

Rating

Suggested age

TV-Y (All children)

TV-Y7 (Directed to older children) TV-Y7 FV (Directed to older children) TV-G (General audience)

TV-PG (Parental Guidance suggested) TV-14 (Parents strongly cautioned) TV-MA (Mature audience only)

Contents

V S L D

O O O O O O O O

O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O

•The U.S. has two rating systems for viewing content: TV Parental Guidelines and movie ratings.

•The TV Parental Guidelines work in conjunction with the V- CHIP to help parents screen out inappropriate television shows for their children.

•Movie ratings are used for original movies rated by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) as watched on cable TV and not edited for television. The V-CHIP can also be set to block MPAA-rated movies

Set up V-CHIP

1 Move to “V-CHIP” by pressing CH (É/ ) buttons.

2 Press VOL right (Ã) button. ENTER PASSWORD screen will be

displayed. Input 4-digit number password.

(If this item is selected the first time NEW PASSWORD

screen will be displayed. Input 4-digit number and repeat it

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•If you select “PG-13”, this will automatically block higher ratings “R”, “NC-17” and “X”.

•Voluntary movie rating system uses only an age-based rating.

•MPAA RATING : Select the desired TV Rating among G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17 and X. See the table below for details.

Voluntary movie rating system (MPAA) Rating Description

	G	General audiences. All ages admitted.
	PG	Parental guidance suggested. Some materials
		may not be suitable for children.
	PG-13	Parents strongly cautioned. Some materials
Age		may be inappropriate for children under 13.
	R	Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying
		parent or adult guardian (age varies in some
		jurisdictions).
	NC-17	No one under and at the age of 17 admitted.

XA rating that has now been superseded by NC- 17.

to register the password in the CONFIRM screen.)

3 V-CHIP menu will be appeared and set up the V-CHIP items

below.

• V-CHIP ON/OFF : ON or OFF selection for V-CHIP function.

• TV RATING : Select the desired TV Rating among UNBLOCK,

TV-Y, TV-Y7, TV Y7 FV, TV-G, TV-PG, TV-14 and TV-MA.

• TV CONTENTS : Adjust each TV Rating with detailed contents.

See the table at next page for detailed TV RATING and

CONTENTS.

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If you forget the password, input 5050 to initialize the password.

• CHANGE PASSWORD :

i)Press VOL right (Ã) button when CHANGE PASSWORD item is selected.

ii) OSD will be displayed. Enter new 4-digit secret number.

iii) OSD will be displayed. Enter new 4-digit secret number again.

After “THE PASSWORD WAS CHANGED” message is displayed, you will have previous menu automatically.

◆Clear the V-CHIP block while V-CHIP block is activated.

1.Press MENU button then ENTER PASSWORD will be displayed.

2.Input the password to clear the V-CHIP block.

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