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Mister R
What does the V-Chip do when activated and/or what happens when a blocked program is on. Also does it affect other consumer electronic products like game consoles or VHS, DVD, Blu-ray players?
Answer
The V-chip works much like closed captioning to send and receive a special code in the programming which indicates the show's score according to a simple numerical rating system for violence, sex, and language. The programs signals are encoded according to their rating using the XDS protocol; this is detected by the television sets' V-chip. If the program's rating is outside the level configured as acceptable on that particular television, the program is blocked.
The V-chip has a 4 digit numerical password in order to keep older children from changing its settings. However, it can be overridden by anyone who read the television's manual to find out how to reset the password to 0000 (built into the V-chip in case the parents themselves forget the password that they set).
The V-chip works much like closed captioning to send and receive a special code in the programming which indicates the show's score according to a simple numerical rating system for violence, sex, and language. The programs signals are encoded according to their rating using the XDS protocol; this is detected by the television sets' V-chip. If the program's rating is outside the level configured as acceptable on that particular television, the program is blocked.
The V-chip has a 4 digit numerical password in order to keep older children from changing its settings. However, it can be overridden by anyone who read the television's manual to find out how to reset the password to 0000 (built into the V-chip in case the parents themselves forget the password that they set).
For a blu-ray player (like ps3) do you NEED and HDTV, or will my really old tv from the 80s work?
Alexis Ric
I don't care about quality, honestly I don't even notice it. For that matter, are there any devices that require an HDTV (by device I mean game consoles and blu-ray players and such)?
Answer
I am not aware of any video device currently sold that only has HD output. You can use the standard A/V cable supplied with the PS3 to output composite video to any old TV that has the standard trio of yellow/white/red inputs for the video, left audio channel and right audio channel, respectively. If it's an ultra-cheap TV, sometimes they only had the coaxial input for cable or an antenna, but if your TV has the yellow, white and red RCA jacks the PS3 can feed it. Even my Panasonic Blu-Ray play that connects to the Internet and plays HD videos from Youtube has the old composite and S-video outputs. You absolutely can use the PS3 on most ancient TVs if you don't mind it looking a bit fuzzy...
I am not aware of any video device currently sold that only has HD output. You can use the standard A/V cable supplied with the PS3 to output composite video to any old TV that has the standard trio of yellow/white/red inputs for the video, left audio channel and right audio channel, respectively. If it's an ultra-cheap TV, sometimes they only had the coaxial input for cable or an antenna, but if your TV has the yellow, white and red RCA jacks the PS3 can feed it. Even my Panasonic Blu-Ray play that connects to the Internet and plays HD videos from Youtube has the old composite and S-video outputs. You absolutely can use the PS3 on most ancient TVs if you don't mind it looking a bit fuzzy...
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