50R5 Owner’s Guide

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Blocking Broadcast TV shows

For broadcast TV, parental controls use informaon embedded in the broadcast signal to determine whether to allow a

program to be displayed. Parents can congure parental controls to block broadcast TV programs that meet or exceed a

specic rang, so they cannot be viewed or heard unless the correct parental control PIN is entered.

: Rang standards dier by country.

Enabling parental control of TV shows

The rst step in blocking TV shows is to enable parental control of TV shows.

This seng is provided separately to make it easier for you to turn parental control of TV shows on and o without

disturbing their sengs. 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 , and all TV shows are unblocked. When the kids return, select 

 again, and all of your parental control sengs are restored in a single operaon.

To enable parental control of TV shows:

1. In the  screen menu, navigate to , and then enter your parental control PIN.

2. In the  screen, navigate to .

3. Make sure the check box next to  is checked. If not, highlight it and press OK.

Blocking based on US TV ratings

Most broadcast US TV shows—other than movies—contain rang data that enables parental controls to block shows that

parents don’t want others to view. The rangs are divided into two groups that funcon independently:

•  – TV-Y, TV-Y7

•  – TV-G, TV-PG, TV-14, TV-MA

Within each of these groups, the rangs interact such that if you block a parcular level of content, the TV also blocks all

content with a higher rang. Conversely, if you unblock a parcular level of content, the TV also unblocks all content with

a lower rang. For example, if you block TV-PG programs, the TV also blocks TV-14 and TV-MA programs. If you subse-

quently 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 lan-

guage in shows with a TV-PG rang. If you do, then the TV also blocks shows with coarse language in the higher rangs

(TV-14 and TV-MA). Subsequently unblocking coarse language in TV-14 rangs 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 rangs:

1. From the  screen menu, navigate to , and then enter your parental control PIN.

2. In the  screen, navigate to . Choose among the following sengs:

•  – Highlight the rang you want to block, and then navigate to the right and select the rst

opon that blocks the enre rang level (and all higher rang levels).

•  – Highlight the rang 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 rang blocks the equivalent content type in all higher rang levels.

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