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Using the Features Menu
TV-Y (All Children)—designed to
be appropriate for all children,
especially ones ages 2–6. Programs rated
TV-Y are not expected to frighten
younger children.
TV-Y7
(Directed to Older
Children)—designed for children
ages 7 and older. Programs rated TV-Y7
may be more appropriate for children
who have acquired the development
skills needed to distinguish between
make-believe and reality. Such programs
may include mild fantasy and comic
violence (FV).
TV-G (General Audience)—most
parents will consider programs that
are rated TV-G to be suitable for children
of all ages. Such programs have little or
no violence, no strong language, and
little or no sexual dialogue or sexual
situations.
TV-PG
(Parental Guidance
Suggested)—contain material that
parents may find unsuitable for
younger children. This type of program-
ming has one or more of the following:
moderate violence (V), some sexual situ-
ations (S), infrequent coarse language
(L), or some suggestive dialogue (D).
TV-14
(Parents Strongly
Cautioned—contain material that
many parents will find unsuitable for
children under 14 years of age. Such pro-
grams have one or more of the following:
intense violence (V); intense sexual situ-
ations (S); strong, coarse language (L);
or intensely suggestive dialogue (D).
TV-MA
(Mature Audience
Only)—specifically designed to be
viewed by adults and therefore may be
unsuitable for children under 17. Such
programs have one or more of the fol-
lowing: graphic violence (V); explicit
sexual situations (S); or crude, indecent
language (L).
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G (General Audience)—all ages
admitted. Most parents will find
programs that are rated G to be suitable
for children of all ages. Such programs
have little or no violence, no strong
language, and little or no sexual dialog
or sexual situations.
PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
— contain material that parents may find
unsuitable for younger children. Programs
that are rated PG have one or more of the
following: moderate violence, some
sexual situations, infrequent coarse
language, or some suggestive dialog.
PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)—
contain material that parents may find
unsuitable for children under the age of
13. Programs that are rated PG-13 have
one or more of the following: violence,
sexual situations, coarse language, or
suggestive dialog.
R (Restricted)—specifically designed
for adults. Anyone under the age of 17
should view programs that are rated R
only with an accompanying parent or
adult guardian. Such programs have one
or more of the following: intense
violence; intense sexual situations;
strong, coarse language; or intensely sug-
gestive dialogue.
NC-17 (No one under the age of 17 will
be admitted)—should be viewed by
adults only. Programs that are rated
NC-17 have graphic violence; explicit
sex; or crude, indecent language.
X (Adults Only)—contain one or more
of the following: very graphic violence,
very graphic and explicit or indecent
sexual acts, or very coarse and intensely
suggestive language.
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T
he AutoLock™ feature can help
parents control what their children
watch on TV. AutoLock™ does this by
using the content advisories sent by
broadcasters or other program providers.
After you program AutoLock™, it can
respond to the content advisories and
block programs that contain content that
you may consider objectionable —
offensive language, violence, or sexual
situations. You can also use AutoLock™
to block channels that you don’t want
your children to watch.
In this section, you’ll learn how to block
channels and programming that is not
rated, is unrated, or has no rating. You
will also find out how to turn these blocking
features on or off. Following on this page
are brief explanations of AutoLock™
terms and program ratings.
Terms
BLOCKING control — can be thought
of as the “master switch” for AutoLock™.
This control affects the settings you
have chosen for blocking programs
according to movie ratings or TV ratings,
or for blocking programs that have no
rating or are unrated. When the BLOCK-
ING control is OFF, the blocking or cen-
soring of programs is disabled. When the
BLOCKING control is ON, blocking
will occur according to the settings you
have chosen.
BLOCK UNRATED control — if set to
ON, blocks all unrated programs.
Unrated programming consists of the
kind of shows that the MPAA (Motion
Picture Association of America) or the
TV broadcasters have chosen not to rate.
NO RATING control—if set to ON,
blocks all programming with no content
advisory data.
Programming that has No Rating is not
encoded with any rating information
from the MPAA
or the Parental
Guidelines. Any programming could fall
into this category.
BLOCK CHANNEL control—enables
you to block individual channels that you
don’t want children to see.
