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• 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: 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.
To block movies based on MPAA 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 > Movie ratings.
3. Select the rating level you want to block. You need only select one rating level,
and all higher levels are automatically blocked.
Blocking based on Other ratings
Your TV can block programs having ratings that had not been defined when the TV was
manufactured. It does this by detecting a new Rating Region Table in a program and then
downloading the new table and displaying its rating in the Parental controls.
When the TV downloads a new Rating Region Table, it adds a new option to the list of
rating types: Other ratings. If you see this option in the Parental controls screen, you
have tuned to a station that has implemented a new rating table. Once the new rating
table has been downloaded to the TV, it remains in the TV until it is factory reset, and you
can configure blocking based on the new ratings.
New Region Rating Tables can have independent rating levels, or rating levels that
interact in the same ways as the built-in US TV and MPAA Movie ratings.
Tip: If your TV downloads a new Region Rating Table, you’ll have to experiment with its
settings to understand how to use it.
Blocking based on Canadian English ratings
Canadian-English language and third-language programs that are broadcast in Canada
are rated by the Action Group on Violence on Television, or AGVOT. TV broadcast signals
carry rating data that enables parental controls to block shows that parents don’t want
others to view based on content containing violence, language, sex, or nudity. The ratings
are:
• C – Children under 8 years
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