User manual
Table Of Contents
- Top cover
- Safety
- Contents
- Welcome
- Connections and setup
- Connecting an antenna, cable, or satellite box
- Connecting external equipment with a composite AV video cable
- Connecting external equipment with an HDMI® cable
- Connecting headphones or analog soundbar
- Connecting headphones to a Roku Voice Remote Pro
- Connecting an AV receiver or digital soundbar
- Preparing for Internet connectivity
- AC power
- Roku remote batteries
- Roku TV remote
- Panel buttons
- Guided Setup
- The Home screen
- Benefits of connecting
- Setting up live TV
- Using your TV
- Status indicator
- Standby mode energy savings
- Getting help
- Opting in to Smart TV experience (U.S. only)
- Watching live TV channels
- Using the Live TV Channel Guide (U.S. only)
- Viewing program information
- Adjusting settings while watching a program
- Pausing live TV
- More Ways to Watch (U.S. only)
- Automatic network recommendation
- Switching TV inputs
- Using Roku Voice commands
- Playing content from USB storage devices
- Playing content from local network media servers
- Setting up a payment method
- Using your TV in a hotel or dorm room
- Using Apple AirPlay and the Apple Home app
- Adjusting TV settings
- Featured Free (U.S. only)
- My Feed
- Searching for something to watch
- Using the Roku Channel Store
- Customizing your TV
- Parental controls
- More settings
- Other devices
- FAQ
- Warranty
- License
- Back cover
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Blocking based on US movie ratings
Most movies in the US are rated by the Motion Picture Association of America, or
MPAA, so the ratings are known as MPAA ratings. TV broadcast signals carry movie
rating data that enables parental controls to block programs that parents don’t want
others to see. The ratings are:
• G – General audiences
• PG – Parental guidance suggested
• PG-13 – Parents strongly cautioned for children age 13 or younger
• R – Restricted
• NC-17 – Not for age 17 or younger
Unlike US TV ratings, there are no individual content types within the ratings. But like
TV ratings, blocking movies with a particular rating also blocks movies with a higher
rating, and unblocking movies with a particular rating also unblocks movies with a
lower rating.
Tip:
Blocking movies with an NC-17 rating also blocks programs with the now-obsolete
X rating, which can still occur in the program data of older movies.
To block movies based on MPAA ratings:
1. From the Home screen menu, navigate to Settings > Parental controls, and
then enter your parental control PIN.
2. In the Parental controls screen, navigate to TV Tuner > Movie ratings.
3. Select the rating level you want to block. You need only select one rating level,
and all higher levels are automatically blocked.
Blocking based on Other ratings
Your TV can block programs having ratings that had not been defined when the TV
was manufactured. It does this by detecting a new Rating Region Table in a program
and then downloading the new table and displaying its rating in the Parental controls.
When the TV downloads a new Rating Region Table, it adds a new option to the list
of rating types: Other ratings. If you see this option in the Parental controls screen,
you have tuned to a station that has implemented a new rating table. Once the new