Hitachi Roku TV 50R8 Owner's Manual page 66

Similarly, within the main group, content types can be individually blocked. For example, you can block just coarse lan-
guage in shows with a TV-PG rating. If you do, then the TV also blocks shows 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.
To block TV shows based on US television ratings:
1. From 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 > TV ratings. Choose among the following settings:
• Entire ratings – Highlight the rating you want to block, and then navigate to the right and select the first
option that blocks the entire rating level (and all higher rating levels).
• Individual content types – Highlight the rating that contains the content type you want to block, and then
select the content types you want to block from among those listed. Remember that blocking a content type
in one rating blocks the equivalent content type in all higher rating levels.
Blocking based on US movie ratings
Most movies in the US are rated by the Motion Picture Association of America, or MPAA, so the ratings are known as
MPAA ratings. TV broadcast signals carry movie rating data that enables parental controls to block shows that parents
don't want others to see. The ratings are:
• G – General audiences
• PG – Parental guidance suggested
• PG-13 – Parents strongly cautioned for children age 13 or younger
• R – Restricted
• NC-17 – Not for age 17 or younger
Unlike US TV ratings, there are no individual content types within the ratings. But like TV ratings, blocking movies with
a particular rating also blocks movies with a higher rating, and unblocking movies with a particular rating also unblocks
movies with a lower rating.
Tip: Blocking movies with an NC-17 rating also blocks programs with the now-obsolete X rating, which can still
occur in the program data of older movies.
To block movies based on MPAA ratings:
1. From 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 > Movie ratings.
3. Select the rating level you want to block. You need only select one rating level, and all higher levels are automati-
cally blocked.
Blocking based on Other ratings
Your TV can block programs having ratings that had not been defined when the TV was manufactured. It does this by
detecting a new Rating Region Table in a program and then downloading the new table and displaying its rating in the
Parental controls.
When the TV downloads a new Rating Region Table, it adds a new option to the list of rating types: Other ratings. If you
see this option in the Parental controls screen, you have tuned to a station that has implemented a new rating table.
Once the new rating table has been downloaded to the TV, it remains in the TV until it is factory reset, and you can con-
figure blocking based on the new ratings.
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