Parental Controls; Creating A Parental Control Pin; Blocking Tv Channels; Enabling Parental Control Of Tv Programmes - Sharp 40FD2K User Manual

PARENTAL CONTROLS

Parental controls enable you to decide whether the members of your household can view certain kinds of broad-
cast TV programmes. When a programme is blocked, you can unblock it by entering a PIN that only you know.
Note: Parental controls block content from the TV tuner. Parental controls do not block content on other TV
inputs or content from streaming channels you add to your TV.

Creating a parental control PIN

You create a new parental control PIN the first time you access the Parental controls screen on your TV.
1. From the Home Screen Menu navigate to Settings > Parental controls. The screen displays a numeric
keypad.
2. Press RIGHT to highlight the numeric PIN entry number pad.
3. Use the on-screen number pad to enter a four-digit code, and then press OK.
4. Repeat the process to enter the same PIN again, just to make sure that you correctly entered the PIN you
want to use.
5. Press OK to proceed to the Parental controls screen where you configure the types of programmes
to block.

Blocking TV channels

Only on certain models: Parents can configure parental controls to block specific TV channels that they don't
want other family members to view.

Enabling parental control of TV programmes

The first step in blocking TV programmes is to enable parental controls.
This setting is provided separately to make it easier for you to unblock all blocked channels without requiring
you to unblock them individually, per channel. For example, your kids are going to summer camp for two weeks,
and while they are gone, you don't want to have to deal with unblocking channels that you want to watch by
entering your parental control PIN each time. All you need to do is clear Enable parental controls, and all TV
channels are unblocked. When the kids return, select Enable parental controls again, and all of your previously
blocked channels are restored in a single operation.
To enable parental controls:
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 > Enable parental controls.
3. Make sure that the word (On) appears next to Enable parental controls. If not, press OK to toggle the set-
ting.
To disable parental control of TV programmes, repeat these steps to toggle the Enable parental controls set-
ting to Off, and then press OK.

Blocking channels

You can block any channel you deem inappropriate for yourself or other members of your family.
To block TV channels:
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 > Select channels to block.
3. Make sure that Enable parental controls shows (On).
4. Press RIGHT to highlight the first channel in the channel list.
5. Press DOWN or UP to highlight an individual channel, and then press OK to toggle blocking. A channel is
blocked when it has a check mark next to it.
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