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Using the tv’s features, Blocking specific content themes, Chapter 3 43 – RCA F36TF720 User Manual

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Using the TV’s Features

Chapter 3

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4.

Press the right arrow button to move the yellow highlight to the
Status field.

5.

Press the up or down arrow button to toggle between View and Block. The
status for the rating listed to the left and all higher ratings automatically
changes to Block (and B).

6.

Press OK on the remote to return to the menu or exit the screen when you
are finished.

7.

Select Lock Parental Controls from the Parental Controls menu. Enter a
password, and if you have not already set your password, you will be
prompted to enter it again to confirm.

- - Content - -

V-CHIP TV RATING LIMIT

Rating

Status

TV-14

View

^

D L S V FV
V V V V

RATING

STATUS

TV-MA

Block

TV-14

View

TV-PG

Block

TV-G

View

TV-Y7

View

TV-Y

View

D L S V FV

B B B

V V V V
B B B B

V

Press ^/v to block programs with
this rating. Press MENU to exit.

Content
status fields

Rating
status field

Rating
field

Tip

To reset the ratings to View and V, press the RESET
button on the remote.

Hierarchy of Age-Based Ratings

TV-14

Parents Strongly Cautioned

TV-G

General Audience

TV-Y

All Children

TV-PG

Parental Guidance Suggested

TV-Y7

Directed to Children 7 years
and older

TV-MA

Mature Audience Only

D

Sexually explicit dialogue

L

Adult language

S

Sexual situations

V

Violence

FV

Fantasy Violence

TV-Y

All Children

Viewing Age-Based Ratings

After you block age-based ratings, you have the option of changing some of the
ratings back to View.

1.

Determine which blocked rating you want to view.

2.

Use the up and down arrow buttons to select the rating with a status
of Block.

3.

Press the right arrow button to move the yellow highlight to the rating
status field.

4.

Press the up button to select View.

Notes: The content status fields corresponding to the unblocked rating become
View as well. They and the age-based rating status are the only fields that
automatically change back to View when you complete this process.

You must remember to lock Parental Controls for rating limits to take effect.

Blocking Specific Content Themes

You can block programs based on their content. (Content is represented by the
D, L, S, V, FV and TV-Y on your screen. See the beginning of this section for
details.) When you block a content theme for a particular rating, you
automatically block that content theme for higher rated programs as well.

For example, if you do not want your child to watch programs that have adult
language (L) rated TV-PG or higher, then you could block out all programming
TV-PG and above containing adult language.

(Steps explained on next page)

Content Themes