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Blocking Movie Store, TV Store, and News
One of the parental control opons is to completely hide the entertainment opons that are available directly on the
screen menu.
To hide screen entertainment opons:
1. From the screen menu, navigate to , and then enter your parental control PIN.
2. In the screen, highlight screen and then select or clear either of these opons:
• – Removes the and opons from the Home screen
menu.
• – Removes the opon from the screen menu.
: To use either of these opons aer you’ve hidden them, you must return to this screen and remove the
check mark from the corresponding command.
Blocking Broadcast TV shows
For broadcast TV, parental controls use informaon embedded in the broadcast signal to determine whether to allow a
program to be displayed. Parents can congure parental controls to block broadcast TV programs that meet or exceed a
specic rang, so they cannot be viewed or heard unless the correct parental control PIN is entered.
: Rang standards dier by country.
Enabling parental control of TV shows
The rst step in blocking TV shows is to enable parental control of TV shows.
This seng is provided separately to make it easier for you to turn parental control of TV shows on and o without
disturbing their sengs. 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 shows that you want to watch by entering your parental control PIN. All you
need to do is clear , and all TV shows are unblocked. When the kids return, select
again, and all of your parental control sengs are restored in a single operaon.
To enable parental control of TV shows:
1. In the screen menu, navigate to , and then enter your parental control PIN.
2. In the screen, navigate to .
3. Make sure the check box next to is checked. If not, highlight it and press OK.
Blocking based on US TV ratings
Most broadcast US TV shows—other than movies—contain rang data that enables parental controls to block shows that
parents don’t want others to view. The rangs are divided into two groups that funcon independently:
• – TV-Y, TV-Y7
• – TV-G, TV-PG, TV-14, TV-MA
Within each of these groups, the rangs interact such that if you block a parcular level of content, the TV also blocks all
content with a higher rang. Conversely, if you unblock a parcular level of content, the TV also unblocks all content with
a lower rang. For example, if you block TV-PG programs, the TV also blocks TV-14 and TV-MA programs. If you subse-
quently unblock TV-14 programs, TV-PG programs are also unblocked, but TV-MA programs remain blocked.
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