FEATURES AND MENUS

In the example discussed previously, you would scroll through the rating field until TV-PG appears, since the highest rating you want the child to watch is TV-G.

4.Use the right arrow to move the yellow highlight to the rating status field.

5. Press the up or down arrow to toggle from View to Block. The status for the rating listed to the left and all higher ratings automatically changes to Block (B).

6.Press MENU or OK on the remote to return to the menu or exit the screen when you are finished.

7.Select Lock Parental Controls from the Parental Controls menu. Enter a password, and if you have not already set your password, you will be prompted to enter it again to confirm.

Hierarchy of Age-Based Ratings

TV-MA

Mature Audience Only

 

 

 

 

TV-14

Parents Strongly Cautioned

 

 

 

 

TV-PG

Parental Guidance

 

 

Suggested

 

 

 

 

TV-G

General Audience

 

 

 

 

TV-Y7

Directed to Children

 

 

7 years and older

 

 

 

 

TV-Y

All Children

 

 

 

 

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 left and right arrows to highlight the Rating Field.

3.Use the up and down arrows to select the rating whose status is Block.

4.Press the right arrow to move the yellow highlight to the rating status field.

5.Press the up or down arrows to toggle between View and Block.

Note that 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.

Pressing RESET on the remote will reset all ratings to View and V.

Rating status field

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

V-CHIP TV

RATING LIMIT

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rating

Status

- - Content - -

 

 

Rating

 

 

 

D L S V FV

 

Content

 

 

TV-14

View

V V V V

 

 

 

field

 

 

 

^

 

 

 

 

status

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Press ^/v to block programs with

 

 

 

 

this rating. Press MENU to exit.

 

fields

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

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

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 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.

Content Themes

DSexually Explicit Dialogue

L Adult Language

S Sexual Situations

V Violence

FV

Fantasy Violence

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RCA P52939 manual Hierarchy of Age-Based Ratings, Viewing Age-Based Ratings, Blocking Specific Content Themes