Insignia NS-39DR510NA17 User Manual English - Page 65

NS-39DR510NA17 Blocking Movie Store, TV Store, and News (US TV models only) One of the parental control options is to completely hide the entertainment options that are available directly on the Home screen menu of TVs manufactured for sale in the United States. (The Movie Store, TV Store, and News options are not available on TVs manufactured for sale in Canada). 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 'Movie Store and TV Store'-Removes the Movie Store and TV Store options from the Home screen menu. • Hide 'News'-Removes the News option from the Home screen menu. Tip 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 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. 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, your TV also blocks all content with a higher rating. Conversely, if you unblock a particular level of content, your TV also unblocks all content with a lower rating. For example, if you block TV-PG programs, your 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 your 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. 60 www.insigniaproducts.com