Sharp Lc43lb371u User Guide

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Customizing your TV
There are several things you can do to personalize your TV.
Rearrange tiles
Whenever you add a TV input tile, it’s added at the top of your Home screen. Whenever you add a new streaming channel 
from the Roku Channel Store, it’s added at the bottom of your Home screen.
You can easily rearrange the order of the tiles on the Home screen to suit your viewing preferences. For example, you might 
want Antenna TV to...

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Edit broadcast TV channel lineup
When you set up the TV tuner as described in Setting up Antenna TV on page41, your TV adds all the channels with good 
signals that it could detect in your area. It’s likely that you now have more channels than you want in your channel list. 
To edit the channel lineup, from the Home screen, navigate to Settings>TV inputs >Antenna TV>Edit channel lineup. 
You’ll see a screen listing all of your...

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Change themes
Another way to customize your TV is to change its theme. The theme establishes the look and feel of your TV through colors, 
designs, and fonts.
To change the theme, in the Home screen menu navigate to Settings>Themes. In the Themes screen, choose from the 
following options:
•My themes—Highlight a theme, and then press OK to switch to that theme. 
•Custom settings—Tur n Featured themes on or off. When Featured themes...

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Configure parental controls
Parental controls enable you to control whether the members of your household can view certain kinds of broadcast TV 
programs. When a program or feature is blocked, you can unblock it by entering a parental control PIN that only you know.
Creating a parental control PIN
The first time you access the Parental controls screen, you must create a new parental control PIN. Thereafter, whenever you 
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Blocking based on US TV ratings
Most broadcast US TV shows—other than movies—contain rating data that enables parental controls to block shows that 
parents don’t want others to view. The ratings are divided into two groups that function independently:
•Yo u t h  g r o u p—T V-Y, T V-Y7
•Main group—TV-G, TV-PG, TV-14, TV-MA
Within each of these groups, the ratings interact such that if you block a particular level of content, your...

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Blocking based on Canadian English ratings
Canadian-English language and third-language programs that are broadcast in Canada are rated by the Action Group on 
Violence on Television, or AGVOT. TV broadcast signals carry rating data that enables parental controls to block shows that 
parents don't want others to view based on content containing violence, language, sex, or nudity. The ratings are:
• C—Children under 8 years
•...

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What happens when a TV show is blocked?
After you've set up parental controls, TV shows and movies can be blocked:
• When you change channels and the new channel is playing a program whose rating exceeds your settings.
• When a new show comes on the channel you are watching and its rating exceeds your settings.
When a program is blocked by parental control settings, your TV displays a blocked message:
 
Whenever this blocked...

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Resetting parental controls
So now your kids have grown up and gone away to college, and you no longer want to deal with blocked programs. 
To erase all parental control settings:
1From the Home screen menu, navigate to Settings >Parental controls, and then enter your parental control PIN. 
2In the Parental controls screen, highlight Reset parental controls.
3Follow the instructions on the screen to confirm that you want to erase...

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Changing caption settings
You can change many different settings that affect the appearance of captions. 
To change caption settings, from the Home screen menu, navigate to Settings >Captions, and then press the RIGHT arrow. 
At this point, you can choose the following options:
•Captions mode—Choose Off, On, Instant replay, or When mute. 
•If you choose On, your TV displays captions whenever they are available in the program...

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Scanning for broadcast TV channels again
There will be times when you need to create a new channel list. For example, you:
• Change cable providers
• Reorient your TV antenna
• Move to a different city with different channels
Whenever you need to update your TV channel list, you can repeat the channel scan.
To repeat the channel scan, from the Home screen menu, navigate to Settings > TV inputs > Antenna TV > Scan again for...