At 10:11 AM 2/9/96 -0500, olbon@dynetics.com (Clay Olbon II) wrote:
There is one potential side-benefit to the V-chip -- The inverse-V-chip .. I am looking forward to a time when I will never, even accidentally, have my TV tuned to "Full House" ;-)
Just as many people program their televisions using VCR-Plus codes to record the shows they want (using TV Guide as a rating service) it would be easy for any rating service to publish a list of the codes for Approved Shows, Banned Shows, Rated-by-interestingness shows, etc. without putting any government-mandated rating chip in the TVs or forcing the TV producers to rate them (which also has a chilling effect on the shows produced.) #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com / billstewart@attmail.com +1-415-442-2215 # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs