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Using the W's Features and MenL s
MPAA RATING LIMIT
The MPAA RATING menu lets you decide which movies can and can't be viewed according to the age-
based rating of the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America). The _ locks and unlocks the parental
control settings using a passwordyou select.
If you want your child to watch moviesthat have a PGrating and lower (in other words, movies rated
PGand G), then you could automatically block out all other movies with higher ratings.
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Content Themes
FV
Fantasy Violence
D
Sexually explicit dialogue
L
Adult language
S
Sexual situations
V
Violence
TV RATING
RAZING
FV D
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S V
TV Y
>U
TV-Y7
U U
TV-G
U
TV-PG
U
U U U
U
TV-14
U
U U U
U
TV-MA
U
U U
U
BlockingSpeeifie Content Themes
You can block programs based on their content. (Content is
represented by the FV, D, L, S, and V on your screen.) When
you block a content theme for a particular
rating, you
automatically
block that content theme for higher rated
programs as well.
To block program content:
I.
Determine
the content themes you want to block.
2. Press the down arrow button
to scroll to the rating
whose content theme you want to change.
3. Press the right arrow button
to move the highlight
to a
particular
content theme status.
4. Press the OK button
to change its status to B (Block).
Notes: Broadcastersare not required to provide content themesor
age-based ratings.
YOU must rememberto activate Parental Controls for rating fimits to
take effect.
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Viewing
Speeifie
Content
Themes
If you block specific content themes, you have the option of going back and changing some of the
content themes back to U (Unbloek) :
I.
Determine the eontent
themes you want to change to U (Unbloek).
2.
Press the down arrow button
to scroll to the rating whose content theme you want to change, such
as B under language (L) corresponding
with 1V-14.
3.
Press the right arrow button to move the highlight
to a particular
content theme status.
4.
Press the OK button
to change the status back to U. Your child would then be able to watch
programs with the W-14 adult language content,
but not programs with TV-MA language content.
Note: Only thecontent themestatus correspondingto TV-14 (L)language changesto U (Unblock}.Higherfat_d content
tflemes,such as that for TV-MAlanguage,do not change.
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