RCA MR68TF700 manual V-Chip Unrated Program Block, Channel Block, Using the TV’s Features, Chapter

Using the TV’s Features

Rating field	Rating
	status field

V-CHIP MOVIE RATING LIMIT

Rating Status

NC-17 View

^

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

RATING	STATUS
NR	Block

XBlock

NC-17 View

RBlock

PG-13	Block
PG	View

GView

Viewing Movie Ratings

After you block movie ratings, you have the option of changing some of the rating status buttons back to View:

1.Highlight the Rating field and press the up and down arrow buttons to find the rating you want to view.

2.Press the right arrow button to highlight the rating Status field. Press the up and down arrows to change the button from Block to View.

For example, if movies with a rating of PG-13 and higher are blocked, you can change the rating status corresponding with NC-17. Your child would then be able to watch all movies with a G, PG, and NC-17 Rating.

3.Press OK to exit the screen, and be sure parental controls are locked.

PARENTAL CONTROLS

1 V-Chip TV Rating Limit

2 V-Chip Movie Rating Limit

3 V-Chip Unrated Program Block

4 Channel Block

V-CHIP UNRATED PROGRAM BLOCK

5 Front Panel Block

6 Lock Parental Controls

0 Exit 1 View

2 Block

		PARENTAL CONTROLS
	1	V-Chip TV Rating Limit
	2	V-Chip Movie Rating Limit
	3	V-Chip Unrated Program Block
4		Channel Block
	5
		Front Panel Block
6					CHANNEL BLOCK
		Lock Parental Controls					Status
0		Exit	Channel #
					59	HEADLN	Block
				^

Press ^ or v, keypad, or CH ^/v to set channel, MENU to exit.

V-Chip Unrated Program Block

Selecting this option lets you decide if programs that the V-Chip recognizes as “unrated” can be viewed. Note that “unrated” TV programs may include news, sports, political, religious, local and weather programs, emergency bulletins, public announcements, and programs without ratings.

View All unrated programs are available.

Block All unrated programs are not available.

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

Channel Block

Selecting this option lets you decide what channels can be viewed. View Makes the selected channel viewable.

Block The front panel and remote control CH (channel) buttons will tune only to channels that you have marked as View. The remote will still tune to the blocked channel if you use the digits to access the channel, but the channel will be blocked.

Don’t forget to lock parental controls after you change the status of Channel Block. If you do not, the channel block will not take effect.

Note: If you have a digital cable box channels 126-999 can be blocked but will not be removable from your scan list.

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