Chapter 5: User profiles
This chapter tells you how to modify and select user profiles. Its contents include:
•User profiles basics
•Editing user profile names
•Editing channel lists
•Setting ratings limits
•Allowing or blocking pay per view purchases
•Setting a pay per view spending limit
•Setting the screen color and translucency
•Setting the current user profile
•Locking and unlocking your DIRECTV® System
User profile basics
If your DIRECTV Receiver is going to be used by more than one person in your household, you should consider setting up user profiles for each user.
The Profiles section of the Menu system allows you to:
•Set ratings limits for the DIRECTV Receiver (applies to all users).
•Set pay per view spending limits for the DIRECTV Receiver (applies to all users).
•Edit channel lists for the DIRECTV System, and customized lists for individual users.
•Change the color and translucency of the Menu and Guide screens for each user profile.
•Set which user profile is currently active.
•Lock and unlock the system (controlling when the ratings limits, spending limits, and channel restrictions are active).
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