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V-Chip Defined
A licensed proprietary system built into a TV set to restrict viewing of programs such as for control a parent may wish to exercise over his children. Programs as broadcast contain encoded audience rating information that the V-Chip technology recognizes and may cause a program to be blacked out.
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Tue Mar 3
- FCC Opens Inquiry Into Media Content-Contro l Technologies - 2009-03-03 23:12:06 - Broadcasting & Cable: FCC Opens Inquiry Into Media Content-Contro l Technologies Questions include rating commercials and fixing the V-chip and ratings system By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 3/3/2009 4:12:06 PM MT
Mon Aug 25
- Orem tech firm invents revolutionary cell phone V-chip: Lutwell Brothers Technologies, an Orem-based technology firm, announced today to the Utah media that the groundbreaking V-chip for cell phones will be available in Fall 2008. The V-chip for cell phones, or ?V-Chip for Cell Phones? as it will be marketed, works similar to the V-chip found in the televisions in homes of concerned parents across America.
Thu Mar 27
- Will Kids Pay the Price for Recall Failures? | Benton Foundation: DTV's are basically computers with really big monitors, right? Then why are the being sold without the ability to be patched automatically? What's worse, thousands of them are being sold in violation of FCC rules for V-Chip 2.0 upgrade ability, which
Mon Dec 3
Wed Sep 5
- "Children's Media Policy Coalition" on the V-Chip: Children Now, the American Psychological Association, Action Coalition for Media Education, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Benton Foundation, the National Institute on Media and the Family, the National PTA and the Offi
Wed Jun 13
- NewsForge | A parent's guide to Linux Web filtering: A parent's guide to Linux Web filtering
Thu Feb 15
- Report urges FCC to limit TV violence - Yahoo! News: FCC has issued a new draft (not yet circulating) that suggests violent content should be regulated like obscene content, with a child-sensitiv e time restriction. In addition, the FCC recommends a la carte programming as a way to provide family-friendl y te
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Tue Apr 18
- The second coming of the V-Chip - page 2 | Tech News on ZDNet: possible opportunity for community based rating distributed in v-chip readable standard?
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