Settin U Your Personal ID Number PiN
4 Press the A or T button to select Change PIN, then press the ENTER button.
5 The Enter New PIN screen will appear. Choose any 4 digits for your PiN and enter them.
As soon as the 4 digits are entered, the Confirm New PIN screen appears. Re-enter the
same 4 digits. When the Confirm screen disappears, your PIN has been memorized.
].'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'_if you forget the PIN, press the remote control buttons in the following sequence, which resets
the pin to 0-0-0-0 : Power Off MUTE _8 , 2 _4 Power On.
How to Set u Restrictions Usin the 'TV Parental Guidelines'
First, set up a personal identification number(PIN), and enable the V-Chip.
(See previous section.)
Parental restrictions can be set up using either of two methods:
The TV guidelines or the MPAA rating.
6 Press the A or _' button to select TV Parental Guidelines, then press the ENTER button.
Press the A or _' button to select one of the six aged based categories:
* TV-Y: Young children. ,, TV-PG: Parental guidance.
* TV-YT: Children 7 and over. .. TV.14: Viewers 14 and ever.
,, TV-G: General audience. ,, TV-MA: Mature audience.
Press the _- button. Press the A or T button to select B or U. (U: Unblocked, B: Blocked)
Press the MENU button to save. To select a different TV-Rating, press the A or T button and
then repeat the process.
The TV-Y, TV-Y7, TV-G, TV-PG, TV-14 and TV-MA have additional options.
See the next step to change any of the following sub-ratings.
* FV: Fantasyviotence. _ L; Adult tanguage.
* D: Sexually sgggestiye dialog, .. s: Sexual situation.
,_ v: Violence.
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The V-Chip will automatically block certain categories that are "more restrictive". For example, if you block TV-Y category, then
TV-Y7 wilt automatically be blocked. Similarly, if you block the TV-G category, then all the categories in the 'young adult" group
will be blocked (TV-G, TV-PG, TV-14, and TV-MA). The sub-ratings (D, L, S, V) work together similarly. (See next section.)
How to set the FV,V, S, L, and D sub-ratings. First, select one of these TV-Ratings: TV-Y, TV-Y7, TV-G, TV-PG, TV-14, or TV-MA
(See Step 7), and press the _. button. The B will be displayed for each sub-rating While B is selected, press the _- button to go to
a sub rating. Pressthe A or _' to block the sub rating. Press the MENU button to save. Toselect a different TV-Rating, press the
A or T button and then repeat the process.
The V-chip wilt automatically block certain categories that are "more restrictive'.
For example, if you block L sub-rating in TV-PG, then the Lsub-ratings in TV-14 and TV-MA wilt automatically be blocked.
These categories consist of two separate groups: TV-Y and TV-Y7 (young children through age 7), and TV-G through TV-MA
(everybody else). The restrictions for these two groups work independently: if a household includes very young children as welt as
young adults, the TV guidelines must be set up separately for each age group.
How to Set u R_s Usin the MPAA Ratin s: G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17, X, NR
The MPAA rating system uses the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) system, and its main application is for
movies. When the V-Chip lock is on, the TV will automatically block any programs that are coded with objectionable ratings
(either MPAA or TV-Ratings).
10 Press the _l,or T button to select MPAA Rating, then press the ENTER button.
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• X: Adults onl_.
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The V-Chip will automatically block any category that is "more restrictive".
For example, if you block the PG-13 category, then R, NC-17, and X wilt automatically be blocked also.
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