Yep!!!!Originally Posted by jagabo
Big brother trying to control and tell us what we should be doing and how we should be raising our kids and running our families!!!
Can anyone say "tipper gore"
Funny how the OP brought this thread back up after a year 8)
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Originally Posted by jagabo
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I just stumbled across this old post and had to say something when I read the Clinton comment.
To put it to rest, i was just annoyed that my television at the time was constantly asking me to set up the parental controls (and no, it couldn't be turned down or off) for everything. Yet if I blocked the offensive religious material (Y and G ratings!?!?) I'd block all the nifty nature documentaries on PBS/BBC as well. At the time I thought it better to remove a "chip". I've long since switched to tuner cards and a C-Band dish.
Americans found US TV to be offensive!? hope all those people never leave the country or they'd just all die from what's on TV elsewhere. I receive East and North Asian TV from Japan and former USSR territories where topless and nudity (respectively) are common not just in film but on television and in COMMERCIALS. European KIDS shows with topless women teaching math, reading, and science in (their) early morning and mid afternoon programming.
As for the mod, probably time to close out this thread...:
to recap
V-Chip was a chip at first and could be removed; and is now firmware and can't be removed
was implemented to ease the [term] people who [term] [term] [term] in the sky
does not block offensive religious content or the Fox Fantasy Channel blowhards
Does block learning aids and acceptable erotic entertainment
would require blocking of PBS/BBC to enforce a ban on fantasy nonsense.
no longer relevant to me. No controls of any kind in my imported tuner/capture cards. FREEDOM
Covered?
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Originally Posted by lostinlodos
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Originally Posted by usually_quiet
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I predict the day will come when it will be possible to block any type of content a parent wishes to make unavailable to their children, including the sort of content the OP finds most objectionable. This would be accomplished using filters, similar to what is done with email. It would work particularly well for US OTA since ATSC broadcast standard includes the ability to transmit program descriptions as well as the name of the show. This could be done now for those who watch TV using a computer, assuming the TV cards pass along the information.
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what a baked thread LOL!!!!
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Damn, I took the cover off my old Magnavox hoping I could spot a physical "v-chip" to remove. See, the problem I'm having is that the v-chip is malfunctioning somehow, causing the volume of the tv to have serious static and making the volume really low. It's like the chip keeps popping on and off. I'm pretty sure this is what it is b/c whenever I go into the menu and turn the chip off, the volume goes back to normal. But it won't stay off or something. Any idea what to do about this?
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There is no physical V-Chip. It has nothing to do with parental locks. Look in the menus for a selection to reset firmware to factory default.
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Allowing the consumer to block things is a relatively new phenomena. I bought a nice 19inch TV for $5 at a thrift shop and a $15 digital converter from Craig's List, and I block all channels except PBS. No more ads, no more offensive programing. Problem solved.
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What a wacko thread! I'm sure most TV's, PVR's set top boxes in Oz have a "parental control" item in the menu. But no one uses it and no one gives a s*** about censoring in the home. The thing that had me ROTFLOL was someone objecting to paying for this or that they didn't use - give me a break! as if dropping these features off would lower the cost more than a few cents and then there was the usual objection "It's the principle!" I am reminded of a quip by the very late Sir Compton McKenzie (I paraphrase)
"I don't believe in principles!
Principles are merely the excuses we use to do those things we know we ought not to do or to do those things we know we shouldn't do...!"
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