50R5 Owner’s Guide

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Blocking based on US movie ratings

Most movies in the US are rated by the Moon Picture Associaon of America, or MPAA, so the rangs are known as

MPAA rangs. TV broadcast signals carry movie rang data that enables parental controls to block shows that parents

don’t want others to see. The rangs are:

• G – General audiences

• PG – Parental guidance suggested

• PG-13 – Parents strongly cauoned for children age 13 or younger

• R – Restricted

• NC-17 – Not for age 17 or younger

Unlike US TV rangs, there are no individual content types within the rangs. But like TV rangs, blocking movies with

a parcular rang also blocks movies with a higher rang, and unblocking movies with a parcular rang also unblocks

movies with a lower rang.

: Blocking movies with an NC-17 rang also blocks programs with the now-obsolete X rang, which can sll

occur in the program data of older movies.

To block movies based on MPAA rangs:

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

2. In the  screen, navigate to .

3. Select the rang level you want to block. You need only select one rang level, and all higher levels are automa-

cally blocked.

Blocking based on Other ratings

Your TV can block programs having rangs that had not been dened when the TV was manufactured. It does this by

detecng a new Rang Region Table in a program and then downloading the new table and displaying its rang in the

Parental controls.

When the TV downloads a new Rang Region Table, it adds a new opon to the list of rang types: . If you

see this opon in the  screen, you have tuned to a staon that has implemented a new rang table.

Once the new rang table has been downloaded to the TV, it remains in the TV unl it is factory reset, and you can con-

gure blocking based on the new rangs.

New Region Rang Tables can have independent rang levels, or rang levels that interact in the same ways as the built-

in US TV and MPAA Movie rangs.

: If your TV downloads a new Region Rang Table, you’ll have to experiment with its sengs 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 Acon Group on

Violence on Television, or AGVOT. TV broadcast signals carry rang 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 rangs are:

• C – Children under 8 years

• C8 – Children 8 years and older

• G – Generally suitable for all age groups

• PG – Parental guidance suggested for viewers under 14 years

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