[49690] in Cypherpunks
Re: Benefits of the V-Chip
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Fri Feb 9 23:03:17 1996
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 19:57:25 -0800
To: olbon@dynetics.com (Clay Olbon II)
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
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.)
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