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Enabling parental control of TV programs
The first step in blocking TV programs is to enable parental control of TV programs.
This setting is provided separately to make it easier for you to turn parental control of TV
programs on and o without disturbing their settings. 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 programs that you want to watch by entering your parental control PIN. All you
need to do is clear Enableparentalcontrols, and all TV programs are unblocked. When the
kids return, select Enableparentalcontrols again, and all of your parental control settings are
restored in a single operation.
To enable parental control of TV programs:
1. In 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 > Parental control of TV shows.
3. Make sure the check box next to Enable parental controls is checked. If not, highlight
it and press OK.
Blocking based on US TV ratings
Most broadcast US TV programs—other than movies—contain rating data that enables
parental controls to block programs that parents don’t want others to view. The ratings are
divided into two groups that function independently:
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Youth group – TV-Y, TV-Y7
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Main group – TV-G, TV-PG, TV-14, TV-MA
Within each of these groups, the ratings interact such that if you block a particular level
of content, the TV also blocks all content with a higher rating. Conversely, if you unblock
a particular level of content, the TV also unblocks all content with a lower rating. For
example, if you block TV-PG programs, the TV also blocks TV-14 and TV-MA programs. If
you subsequently 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 language in programs with a TV-PG rating. If you do, then the
TV also blocks programs with coarse language in the higher ratings (TV-14 and TV-MA).
Subsequently unblocking coarse language in TV-14 ratings does not unblock coarse language
in TV-MA programs, but it does unblock coarse language in TV-PG programs.
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