3, The "V-Chip" screen will appear. Press the A or _' button to select "TV Parental
Guidelines", then press the ENTER button.
4, The "TV Parental Guidelines" screen will appear.
Press the A or T button to select one of the six aged based categories:
' TV-Y: Young children
• TV-¥7: Children 7 and over
, TV-G: General audience
, TV-PG: Parental guidance
• TV-14: Viewers 14 and over
• TV-MA: Mature audience
5, At this point, one of the TV-Ratings is selected.
Press the ENTER button. Depending on your existing setup, the" _" symbol will
be selected. (Blank = Unblocked, _ = Blocked)
While "_" is selected, press the ENTER button to block or unblock the category.
To select a different TV-Rating, press the A or T button and then repeat the
process.
>Allow all: Press to unlock all TV ratings. / Block all: Press to lock all TV ratings.
>-The TV-Y_TV-Y7, TV-G_TV-PG, TV-14 and TV-MA have additional options.
See the next step to change any of the following sub-ratings:
FV: Fantasy violence / D: Sexually Suggestive Dialog / L: Adult Language /
S: Sexuat situation / V: Violence
>-The V-Chip wilt automatically block certain categories that are "more
restrictive". For example, if you block "TV-Y" category, then TV-Y7 wilt auto
matically be blocked. Similarly, if you block the TV-G category, then atl the cat
egories in the "young adult" group wilt be blocked (TV-G, TV-PG, TV-14 and
TV-MA). The sub-ratings (D, L_S_V) work together similarly.
(See next section.)
6,
How to set the FV,D_L_S and V sub-ratings.
First, select one of these TV-Ratings: TV-Y, TV-Y7, TV-G_TV-PG, TV-14 or TV-MA
(See Step 4) and press the I_ button. The "_ "symbol will bedisplayed for each
sub-rating.
While "_" is selected_press the ENTER button to go to a sub rating.
Press ENTER to block the sub rating. To select a different TV-Rating_press the
A or T button and then repeat the process.
>-The V-chip will automatically block certain categories that are "More restrictive".
For example_ if you block "L" sub-rating in TV-PG, then the "L" sub-ratings in
TV-14 and TV-MA will automatically be blocked.
7, Press the EXIT button to clear all the screens. (Or proceed to the next section_
and set up additional restrictions based on the MPAA codes.)
>-These categories consist of two separate groups: TV-Y and TV-Y7 (young
children through age 7) and TV-G through TV-MA (everybody else).
The restrictions for these two groups work independently: If a household
includes very young children as well as young adults_the TV guidelines must
be set up separately for each age group. (See next step.)
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