RCA F19426 manual Blocking Specific Content Themes, Rating, Field Status field Themes

Using the TV’s Features

Rating	Rating	Content
field	status field	themes

V-CHIP TV RATING LIMIT

Rating	Status	- - Content - -
		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
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

Rating	Rating	Content
field	status field	themes

V-CHIP TV RATING LIMIT

Rating	Status	- - Content - -
		D L S V FV
TV-PG	View	V		B	V V
			^
Press ^/v to view programs with
this content for this rating.
RATING	STATUS	D L S V FV
TV-MA	View			B V V
TV-14	View	V B V V
TV-PG	View	V B V V
TV-G	View				V
TV-Y7	View
TV-Y	View

Content status fields

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.

To block program content:

1.Determine the lowest level of content you don’t want the child to watch.

2.Use the up and down arrow buttons on the remote to scroll through the age-based ratings until the rating that corresponds with the lowest content you do not want the child to watch appears. (In the example above, you would scroll through the ratings until the TV-PG rating appeared.)

3.Press the right arrow button to move the highlight to the field corresponding with the content theme you want to block out.

4.Press the up or down arrow button to change content status from V to B.

All higher ratings’ content theme will automatically change to B.

5.Press OK to return to the menu or exit the screen.

Notes: Broadcasters are not required to provide content themes or age-based ratings. Programs received with no content themes will only be blocked if you block their age-based rating.

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

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