Using the TV’s Features
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Chapter 3
Illustrations contained in this document are for representation only.
Viewing Specific Content Themes
If you block specific content themes, you have the option of going back and changing some of the content
themes back to
(V) View
:
1.
Determine the content themes you want to change to
(V) View
.
2.
Use the up/down arrow buttons to scroll to the rating whose content theme you want to change to
View
.
3.
Press the right arrow button to move the yellow highlight to a particular content theme status.
4.
Press the up or down arrow button to change its status back to
V
.
Note: Only the content theme status corresponding to TV-14 (L) language changes to (V) View. Higher rated
content themes, such as that for TV-MA language, do not change.
V-Chip Movie Rating Limit
Set movie rating limits by blocking movies rated above a specified level.
To access the
V-CHIP MOVIE RATING LIMIT
menu:
1.
Press MENU on the remote control (the
TV MAIN MENU
appears).
2.
Select
Parental Controls
.
3.
Select
V-Chip Movie Rating Limit
.
Blocking Movie Ratings
Once you are in the Movie Ratings menu, follow the same steps described for blocking TV ratings.
1 View
2 Block
V-CHIP UNRATED PROGRAM BLOCK
CHANNEL BLOCK
Channel #
Status
59
HEADLN Block
^
Press ^ or v, keypad, or CH ^/v
to set channel, MENU to exit.
V-Chip Unrated Program Block
This option lets you decide if programs that the V-Chip
recognizes as “unrated” can be viewed. “Unrated” TV programs
may include news, sports, political, religious, local and weather
programs, emergency bulletins, public announcements, and
programs without ratings.
View
All unrated programs are available.
Block
All unrated programs are not available.
Note: You must remember to lock Parental Controls for rating
limits to take effect.
Channel Block
Selecting this option lets you decide what channels can be
viewed.
View
Makes the selected channel viewable.
Block
The front panel and remote control CH (channel)
buttons will tune only to channels that you have
marked as
View
. The remote will still tune to the
blocked channel if you use the digits to access the
channel, but the channel will be blocked.
Lock parental controls after you change the status of
Channel
Block
. If you don’t, the channel block will not take effect.
Note: If you have a digital cable box channels 126-999 can be
blocked but will not be removable from your scan list.
