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Chapter 5. TV Menu Settings 69
U.S. Ratings Menu
Use this menu to turn U.S. rating restrictions on or off and
to change the permitted rating levels.
U.S. Restric-
tions On/Off
TV Rating and
Supplemental
Restrictions
Restriction
Hours
Movie Rating
TV Content
Categories
Figure 10. U.S. Ratings menu
1. Highlight the U.S. Ratings icon
on the Parental
Lock menu (see figure 9) and press
ENTER
to open the
U.S. Ratings menu (see figure 10).
2. Press to select On or Off.
3. If you selected On, press to move to the TV Rating
box.
4. Press to select the TV rating level you want to
allow.
5. Press to move to the TV content categories. This
section allows you to specify content blocking in addi-
tion to that blocked by the TV rating. See the section
on V-Chip ratings for an explanation of TV content
categories.
• Press to move the highlight among the
categories.
• Press
ENTER
to add or remove a check mark for
each TV content category you want to block or
unblock.
6. Press to move to the Programs Not Rated box.
Press
ENTER
to add or remove a check mark for block-
ing or allowing programs that are not rated.
Note: Use care when choosing to block unrated pro-
gramming. News programs and emergency bul-
letins carry the “None” or “NR” (Not Rated) V-Chip
signal, and they are blocked with this option ac-
tive.
7. Press to move to the Movie Rating box. Press
to select the movie rating level you want to allow.
Detailed information on rating guidelines follows this
discussion of the Parental Lock menu.
8. To set the time of day for these restrictions to be in
effect, press
to move to the Start box. To make the
rating restrictions active twenty-four hours a day, set
Start and Stop to the same time. To set the time:
a. With the hour number highlighted in yellow, press
repeatedly to change the hour. You can also
just press and hold to change the hour.
b. Press ENTER to move the highlight to the
minutes.
c. With the minutes number highlighted in yellow,
press repeatedly to change the minutes.
Just press and hold to move quickly through the
numbers.
d. Repeat these steps for the Stop time.
9. Press
MENU
to return to the Parental Lock menu or
press
EXIT
to close all menus.
Other Ratings Menu
This TV can recognize new rating systems that may come
into effect in the future. The Other Ratings menu allows
you to block digital programming based on such alternate
rating systems. The alternate rating systems will apply to
digital broadcast programming only.
Note: The Other Ratings button remains inaccessible
until the TV receives signals for an alternate rating
system.
The first time you tune to a channel broadcasting an alter-
nate rating system, the TV defaults to the most restrictive
setting. Use this menu to change the allowed rating if you
are unable to watch a program broadcast with an alternate
system.
Figure 11. The Other Ratings menu is available only if the
TV receives broadcast signals carrying an alternate rating
system.
Parental Lock Menu, continued
IMPORTANT
New rating systems recognizable by the TV
may be new U.S.-based systems not included
in the original V-Chip rating system. The use
of “Canadian” in the sample screen is just
one possibility.