Magnavox 32MV319R/F7 Owners Manual_EN - Page 49

Blocking Featured Free or Movie Store and TV Store (U.S. only) One of the parental control options is to completely hide the entertainment options that are available directly on the Home screen menu. To hide Home screen entertainment options: 1 From the Home screen menu, navigate to Settings > Parental controls, and then enter your parental control PIN. 2 In the Parental controls screen, highlight Home screen and then select or clear either of these options: ● Hide 'Featured Free' - Removes the Featured Free option from the Home screen menu. ● Hide 'Movie Store and TV Store' - Removes the Movie Store and TV Store options from the Home screen menu. Tip(s) ● To use either of these options after you've hidden them, you must return to this screen and remove the check mark from the corresponding Hide command. Blocking Broadcast TV shows For broadcast TV, parental controls use information embedded in the broadcast signal to determine whether to allow a program to be displayed. Parents can configure parental controls to block broadcast TV programs that meet or exceed a specific rating, so they cannot be viewed or heard unless the correct parental control PIN is entered. Note(s) ● Rating standards differ by country. Enabling parental control of TV shows The first step in blocking TV shows is to enable parental control of TV shows. This setting is provided separately to make it easier for you to turn parental control of TV shows on and off without disturbing their settings. For example, your kids are going to summer camp for two weeks, and while they are gone, you don't want to have to deal with unblocking shows that you want to watch by entering your parental control PIN. All you need to do is clear Enable parental controls, and all TV shows are unblocked. When the kids return, select Enable parental controls again, and all of your parental control settings are restored in a single operation. To enable parental control of TV shows: 1 In the Home screen menu, navigate to Settings > Parental controls, and then enter your parental control PIN. 2 In the Parental controls screen, navigate to TV tuner > Parental control of TV shows. 3 Make sure the check box next to Enable parental controls is checked. If not, highlight it and press OK. 49 .English Blocking based on US TV ratings Most broadcast US TV shows-other than movies-contain rating data that enables parental controls to block shows that parents don't want others to view. The ratings are divided into two groups that function independently: ● Youth group - TV-Y, TV-Y7 ● Main group - TV-G, TV-PG, TV-14, TV-MA Within each of these groups, the ratings interact such that if you block a particular level of content, the TV also blocks all content with a higher rating. Conversely, if you unblock a particular level of content, the TV also unblocks all content with a lower rating. For example, if you block TV-PG programs, the TV also blocks TV-14 and TV-MA programs. If you subsequently unblock TV-14 programs, TV-PG programs are also unblocked, but TV-MA programs remain blocked. Similarly, within the main group, content types can be individually blocked. For example, you can block just coarse language in shows with a TV-PG rating. If you do, then the TV also blocks shows with coarse language in the higher ratings (TV-14 and TV-MA). Subsequently unblocking coarse language in TV-14 ratings does not unblock coarse language in TV-MA programs, but it does unblock coarse language in TV-PG programs. To block TV shows based on US television ratings: 1 From the Home screen menu, navigate to Settings > Parental controls, and then enter your parental control PIN. 2 In the Parental controls screen, navigate to TV tuner > TV ratings. Choose among the following settings: ● Entire ratings - Highlight the rating you want to block, and then navigate to the right and select the first option that blocks the entire rating level (and all higher rating levels). ● Individual content types - Highlight the rating that contains the content type you want to block, and then select the content types you want to block from among those listed. Remember that blocking a content type in one rating blocks the equivalent content type in all higher rating levels. Blocking based on US movie ratings Most movies in the US are rated by the Motion Picture Association of America, or MPAA, so the ratings are known as MPAA ratings. TV broadcast signals carry movie rating data that enables parental controls to block shows that parents don't want others to see. The ratings are: ● G - General audiences ● PG - Parental guidance suggested ● PG-13 - Parents strongly cautioned for children age 13 or younger ● R - Restricted ● NC-17 - Not for age 17 or younger Unlike US TV ratings, there are no individual content types within the ratings. But like TV ratings, blocking movies with a particular rating also blocks movies with a higher rating, and unblocking movies with a particular rating also unblocks movies with a lower rating. Tip(s) ● Blocking movies with an NC-17 rating also blocks programs with the now-obsolete X rating, which can still occur in the program data of older movies.