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SPECIAL FEATURES
2
Press the or button
to select the “V-chip”,
then press the ˇ
or
ˆ
button.
The “Enter Pin” screen
will appear. Enter your 4-
digit PIN number.
3
The “V-chip” screen will
appear. Press the or
button, and highlight the
field for “TV guidelines”.
4
Press the ˇ
or
ˆbutton.
The “TV guidelines”
screen will appear. Press
the or button to
highlight one of the six
age-based categories:
TV-Y Young children
TV-Y7 Children 7 and over
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TV-G General audience
TV-PG Parental guidance
TV-14 Viewers 14 and over
TV-MA Mature audience
5
At this point, one of the TV-Ratings is highlighted.
Press the ˇ
or
ˆbutton: Depending on your existing setup, a letter “U” or “B” will be selected.
(U= Unblocked, B=Blocked)
While the “U” or ”B” is red, press the or button to block or unblock the category.
Press the MENUbutton once to save the TV guidelines. A TV-Rating will be highlighted, and no letters will be
selected. To exit this screen, press the MENUbutton again. To select a different TV-Rating, press the or but-
ton and then repeat the process.
Note 1: The TV-Y7, TV-PG, TV-14 and TV-MA have additional options. See the next step to change any of the follow-
ing sub-ratings:
FV: Fantasy violence
D: Dialog
L: Offensive language
S: Sexual situation
V: Violence
Note 2: The V-Chip will automatically block certain categories that are “more restrictive.” For example, if you block
“TV-Y” category, then “TV-Y7” will automatically be blocked. Similarly, if you block the TV-G category, then all the
categories in the “young adult” group will be blocked (TV-G, TV-PG, TV-14 and TV-MA). The sub-ratings (D, L, S, V)
work together similarly. (See next section.)
Note: These categories consist oftwo separate groups: TV-Y and TV-Y7(young children through age 7), andTV-G through TV-MA (everybodyelse). The restrictions for these two groupswork independently: If a householdincludes very young children as wellas young adults, the TV guidelinesmust be set up separately for each agegroup. (See next step.)
Enter Pin
Enter Pin : - - - -
Function
0~9 Select Exit
V-chip Lock : Yes
TV guidelines ˆˆ
MPAArating ˆˆ
Change pin ˆˆ
Function
Move Select Exit
ALL FV V S L D
TV-Y ˆˆU
TV-Y7 ˆˆU U U: Unblocked
TV-G ˆˆU B: Blocked
TV-PG ˆˆUUUUU
TV-14 ˆˆUUUUU
TV-MAˆˆUUUU
Function
Move Select Exit