Useful adjustment settings

Secret number setting for parental control

Allows you to use a secret number to protect certain settings from being accidentally changed.

IMPORTANT:

Three conditions must be met to enable the V-Chip (see pages 40 to 45):

1 Secret No. is registered.

2 V-Chip/V-Chip (DTV Only) settings have been made.

3 “Status” is set to “On”.

Setting a secret number

1Press MENU to display the MENU screen, and then press c/d to select “Setup”.

Press a/b to select “Parental CTRL”, and

2then press ENTER.

3Press a/b to select “Secret No.”, and then press ENTER.

V-Chip

V-Chip (DTV Only)

Secret No.

Status

4Select “New Secret No.”, and then press

ENTER.

Input the new 4-digit secret number by using 0

–9.

New Secret No.

Secret No. Clear

Input Secret No.

 

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New Secret No.

 

 

 

 

a

a a a

Reconfirm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a a a a

5Input the same 4-digit number on the “Reconfi rm” screen as in step 4 to confi rm.

New Secret No.

Secret No. Clear

Input Secret No.

 

a a a a

New Secret No.

 

 

 

* * * *

Reconfirm

 

 

 

 

a

a a a

 

 

 

 

6Press RETURN to start confi guring the V-Chip settings. (See pages 43 and 45 for details.)

7Press MENU to exit.

Setting parental control status

Used to enable or disable the parental control function.

1Repeat steps 1 to 2 in Setting a secret number.

• The secret number setting menu displays.

2Input the 4-digit secret number by using 0–9.

3Press a/b to select “Status”, and then press

ENTER.

4Press c/d to select “On” or “Off”, and then press ENTER.

•Select “On” to enable and “Off” to disable Parental CTRL.

V-Chip

V-Chip (DTV Only)

Secret No.

Status

On

 

Off

 

 

 

5Press MENU to exit.

NOTE

•You can skip step 1 and 2 above while in the Parental CTRL screen.

•The “V-Chip (DTV Only)” will only be selectable when a new rating system can be downloaded via digital broadcasting in the U.S.

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