TV Guardian has invested in upgrading and re-marketing an HD TV Guardian. Evidently they tried to negotiate with cable and satellite providers to use their software but it was a no go. The stand alone is expensive $165. I would have paid a sub fee to dish for the software to be incorporated in my DVR. Oh well, I guess the bean counters have their reasons. I know, I know, why would anybody want this? I have kids and I will watch some programming I would otherwise be uncomfortable with.
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So use the parental control features built into the receivers that is there now. They work quite well. 
As an installer, I point out the parental locks to my customers all the time. Especially my Latino customers getting Playboy. I show them how to lock out Jrs. room (after I check and make sure its working right.
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TV Guardian uses the closed captioning to monitor vulgarities and mutes the sound when they are detected. It also shows captions at that point with the vulgarities removed. You can watch some programming without the foul language. Parental controls block the entire program.
So use the parental control features built into the receivers that is there now. They work quite well.
You know, I hear plenty of complaints like the OP but also from people who know of, but choose NOT to use the V-chip or like technology, and a recent study confirmed that the vast majority of parents don't even know they have such features already on their TV, cable and satellite boxes. Yet they complain about content their kids watch when they (the parents) are not home. Go figure.
As far as this software goes, if a TV show has offensive language, etc., then that is a show that should be entirely blocked, anyway. It's like letting the 10 year olds watch The Real World even though MTV bleeps all the naughty words and obscures any nudity, but SO WHAT! It is still clear to take in all the young adult sex, drinking, violence, back-stabbing, cheating on boy/girl freinds, lying, stealing, being arrested, spitting on people, and general very poor examples for any 10 year old. A "potty mouth" removed TV show or movie is still going to be inappropriate for children. How about having a false sense of security with the software presenting a bleeped version of the wife-swapping movie Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice? It is still very clear to anyone--even 10 year olds-- what the movie is about and what the couples do and eventually do. Also, lots of "in bed" scenes and frank discussion of child inappropriate subjects with NO naughty words. V-chip it, really is the only way for proper control of what the little kids watch.
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I remember the old TV Guardian had also a "religious" mode so when u where watching such programming it would not censor words like God or Jesus. Then again, would not be easy to turn the thing off if you where watching EWTN?
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With an E* box the V-chip very likely won't work. Since it works on the same technology as CC (line 21 VBI) and that doesn't work w/ the VIP's I doubt that the V-chip will work.
With an E* box the V-chip very likely won't work. Since it works on the same technology as CC (line 21 VBI) and that doesn't work w/ the VIP's I doubt that the V-chip will work.
As much as I hated that Motorola DVR my cable company had, the one thing that was great about it was being able to block a program by title. I could block all Jerry Springer's programs just by picking one showing out of the guide and blocking "All"(No offense to Jerry fans). It was simple and great...I felt that was the best filter/blocker I ever had. Don't understand why this isn't stander feature on all DVRs, specially the VIPs.
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