According to the research of doctors it is a fact that media programs affect the young minds very drastically that influences their personalities and feelings. With the huge world of media around showing lots of programming including adult programs, parents are always in a fear that their children abstain from watching them. But the customers of satellite TV have no worries because they are provided with a highly secure ‘n’ safe parental control feature in their receivers/decoders.
Parental Control Mechanism
For Parental Control, all the receivers/decoders contain V-CHIP technology, which is a blocking technology. What it does it reads the specific information and blocks accordingly. The information is based upon program ratings provided at the beginning of the program or in television guides. What parents can do they can provide this information using their remote or from receiver as well. Parents can lock down the programming in number of ways
- Block the complete channels
- Block specific period of programs
- Block specific rating programs
- Combination of any three
- Set limits on “pay per view” features
Blocking operations or names can be different for different satellite TVs. The details are available in user’s manual, online, dedicated channels for customer supports. Dish network and DirecTV are the two biggest satellite network providers and competitors in USA.
Parental Control in Dish Network
Both dish network and DirecTV provides parental control features with their own extra features. When it comes to dish network it provides its customers with software named “adult guard” that uses V-CHIP technology. The adult guard provides the advantage of V-CHIP technology with some extra features like after activating adult guard you can remove the channel from listings of EPG - electronic program guide so that your children don’t see it. You want to see restricted channel just enter the password and unblock. The ways and procedures of doing these activities vary from receiver to receiver but purpose is the same. Step by step information of activating adult guard is available in system manuals.
Parental Control in Direct TV
Talking about DirecTV it provides the “Locks and Limits” feature that also takes advantage of V-CHIP technology. In your program menu you have options like rating limits, user locks, spending limit, viewing limit, which can be activated step by step instructions provided on system manuals of your receivers. Further more step-by-step demonstrations of some famous receivers are also available online but unfortunately you don’t find one; you can have every information available in your receiver’s system manual.
Conclusion
On the whole satellite TV provides its customers the feasibility of having more and more programming in their TV sets without worrying about their children.
from direct-tv4u.com
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