RCA 1539213A manual Viewing Age-Based Ratings, Blocking Specific Content Themes, Menu

Using the TV/VCR Features

3. Press 2 to change the rating status from View (V) to Block (B). The status for this rating and all higher ratings automatically changes to Block (B) (indicated by the rating limits in the rating status area turning red). Note that all associated content is also automatically blocked.

4. Press MENU to exit and return to the PARENTAL CONTROLS

menu.

Viewing Age-Based Ratings

After you block age-based ratings, you have the option of going back and changing some of the content ratings back to View (V).

1. Determine the rating you want to view that is currently blocked.

2. Press 1 to scroll to the rating, such as TV-14, whose status is

Block.

3.Press 2 to change the status to View. Your child would then be able to watch all programs with a TV-14, TV-G, TV-Y7, and TV-Y rating

Note that TV-14’s content status fields at the bottom of the screen automatically change to a view state, indicated by green letters. These are the only fields that automatically change back to green when you complete this process.

Blocking Specific Content Themes

You can block programs based on their content. (Content is represented by the D, L, S, V, and FV on your screen. See page 11 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 would also block out all programming TV-PG and above containing adult language.

To block program content:

1. Determine the lowest level age-based content you do not want the child to watch.

2. Press 1 until the lowest age-based rating whose content theme you do not want the child to watch appears on screen.

3.To change the content theme to Block (B), press the number on the remote that corresponds with the content theme you want to block:

• Sexually explicit dialogue (D) =		3	•Violence (V) =	6
• Adult language (L) =	4		•Fantasy violence (FV) =		7

• Sexual situations (S) = 5

4.After you press the number, the V for the content theme should change to a B in the content status field. In the ratings settings area, all higher ratings’ content theme status will automatically change to Block indicated by the letters turning red.

5. Press MENU to return to the PARENTAL CONTROLS menu.

• Press RESET to return all rating limits to VIEW.

Remember: You must Lock Parental Controls for rating limits to take effect.

TV/VCR Features

V-CHIP TV RATING LIMIT

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Rating Status D L S V FV TV-PG Block B B B B

TV-MA B LSV TV-G V TV-14 B DLSV TV-Y7 VFV TV-PG B DLSV TV-Y V

Press MENU to exit

Changing the TV-PG rating status from View (V) to Block (B) causes the higher ratings and content to block out as well.

V-CHIP TV RATING LIMIT

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Rating Status D L S V FV

TV-14 View V V V V

TV-MA B LSV TV-G V TV-14 V DLSV TV-Y7 VFV TV-PG B DLSV TV-Y V

Press MENU to exit

Viewing Age-Based Ratings: Press

2 to change the status back to View.

V-CHIP TV RATING LIMIT

12 3 4 5 6 7

Rating Status D L S V FV

TV-PG View V B V V

TV-MA V LSV TV-G V TV-14 V DLSV TV-Y7 VFV TV-PG V DLSV TV-Y V

Press MENU to exit

Selecting TV-PG and the content theme Adult language (L) blocks all programs with Adult language (L) rated TV-PG and higher.

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