RCA D52W20 User Guide & Warranty - Page 22
Blocking Specific Content Themes, Viewing Specific Content Themes, V-Chip Movie Rating Limit - v scroll
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Using the TV's Features Hierarchy of Age-Based Ratings TV-MA Mature Audience Only TV-14 Parents Strongly Cautioned TV-PG Parental Guidance Suggested TV-G General Audience TV-Y7 Directed to Children 7 years and older TV-Y All Children Content Themes D Sexually explicit dialogue L Adult language S Sexual situations V Violence FV Fantasy Violence Tip To change all V-Chip movie or TV ratings to View, press the 0 number button. Blocking Age-Based Ratings You can automatically block all program ratings above a specified age-based rating level. To block programs with higher ratings: 1. Press the up or down arrow button to scroll to the rating corresponding with the lowest rating you do not want the child to watch. 2. Press the OK button to toggle between View and Block. The status for the rating listed to the left and all higher ratings automatically changes to Block (and ). 3. Press the up or down arrow button to highlight Go back and press OK. 4. Select Lock Parental Controls from the Parental Control menu for rating limits to take effect. Viewing Age-Based Ratings After you block age-based ratings, you can change some of the ratings back to View. 1. Press the up or down arrow button to select the rating with a status of Block. 2. Press OK to select View. Blocking Specific Content Themes You can block programs based on their content. (Content is represented by the D, L, S, V and FV on your screen.) When you block a content theme for a particular rating, you automatically block that content theme for higher rated programs as well. To block program content: 1. Determine the content themes you want to block. 2. Press the down arrow button to scroll to the rating whose content theme you want to change. 3. Press the right arrow button to move the yellow highlight to a particular content theme status. 4. Press the OK button to change its status to . (In the example to the left, you block the language (L) corresponding with TV-14. The language for TV-MA is blocked as well.) Notes: Broadcasters are not required to provide content themes or age-based ratings. You must remember to lock Parental Controls for rating limits to take effect. Viewing Specific Content Themes If you block specific content themes, you have the option of going back and changing some of the content themes back to ( ) View: 1. Determine the content themes you want to change to ( ) View. 2. Press the down arrow button to scroll to the rating whose content theme you want to change, such as under language (L) corresponding with TV-14. 3. Press the right arrow button to move the yellow highlight to a particular content theme status. 4. Press the OK button to change the status back to . Your child would then be able to watch programs with the TV-14 adult language content, but not programs with TV-MA language content. Note: Only the content theme status corresponding to TV-14 (L) language changes to (V) View. Higher rated content themes, such as that for TV-MA language, do not change. V-Chip Movie Rating Limit Set movie rating limits by blocking movies rated above a specified level. To change menu: 1. Press MENU on the remote control (the TV MAIN MENU appears). 2. Select Parental Control. 3. Select V-Chip movie rating. 20 Graphics contained within this publication are for representation only. Chapter 3