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 38 to 43):

1Secret No. is registered.

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

3“Status” is set to “On”.

Setting a secret number

1Press MENU and the MENU screen displays.

2Press c/d to select “Setup”.

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

3then press ENTER.

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

4press ENTER.

MENU [Setup ... Parental CTRL ... Secret No.]

V-Chip

V-Chip (DTV Only)

Secret No.

Status

Select “New Secret No.”, and then press

5ENTER.

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

New Secret No.

Secret No. Clear

Input Secret No.

 

a a a a

New Secret No.

 

 

 

 

a

a a a

Reconfirm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a a a a

 

 

 

 

Input the same 4-digit number on the

6“Reconfi rm” screen as in step 5 to confi rm.

New Secret No.

Secret No. Clear

Input Secret No.

 

a a a a

New Secret No.

 

 

 

* * * *

Reconfirm

 

 

 

 

a

a a a

 

 

 

 

Press

to start confi guring the

7V-Chip settings. (See pages 41 and 43 for details.)RETURN

8Press MENU to exit.

Setting parental control status

Used to enable or disable the parental control function.

Repeat steps 1 to 3 in

1number.

• The secret number setting menu displays.Setting a secret

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

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

3press ENTER.

Press c/d to select “On” or “Off”, and then

4press 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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