Parental Control The V-chip

Parental Control The V-chip Probably the greatest invention of parental control over TV is that the V-Chip. In this article we will see how the chip was invented and came to be.The V-chip was invented by Professor Tim Collings. E 'patented in the United States Patent Number 5,828,204 and Canadian patent number 2,178,474. The first trial of this great invention was made in 1991. The technology was originally called for monitoring by Professor Collings. Finally, the name was shortened to what we now refer to as the V-Chip. Ironically, because the chip was originally designed to lock the figure shows that violence, people thought that the V in V-chip era of violence. This, of course, was not the case.It was not until 1993, however, that the chip does not have a real recognition. At that time the head of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications, CRTC short, Keith Spicer, was so impressed Collings' invention that he met with executives of U.S. television to express his conce about the increasing violence on television . In particular, he raised Collings' V-chip technology from the U.S. and television executives were impressed. At this point the only thing that the U.S. television stations that have been made before the announcement appears in violence. But still nothing has been put in place to block the display of these shows. Despite the interest, however, has not yet done anything to use invention.Then in 1994, the news of the V-chip has spread to Europe. In June of that year he was invited to Europe to demonstrate their invention Collings. This was at a conference on violence on television, was held in Paris, France. A year later he was invited to Belgium to demonstrate their invention. This is when the U.S. Vice President Al Gore got his first look at the technology. Currently, however, the technology could block only one program at a time. In 1997, however, he was invited back to Belgium when the technology is now able to manage multiple information systems. At this meeting Collings contributed to discussions on the classification system of TV formats schemes.Finally coding and January 14 1997, Collings has exclusive rights to its V-Chip for Tri-Vision Electronics Inc. The announcement was been presented in a press conference in Toronto. It has been the subject of many major Canadian and U. S. TV networks to the next step was the V-chip on the market. Therefore, Tri-Vision Collings and teachers have worked together to conduct the first commercial products of V-Chip, which was a set-top box that has been able to manage multiple information systems and technology capable of operating existing , television. The decoder is shown to the public on the Convention on cable television in Canada in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1997. After the exhibition in the U.S. Cable Convention in Nashville, Tennessee year.The same V-chip technology has been in use by consumers since 1999. Only in North America, millions of games use the V-Chip to block unwanted TV   -------------------------------------------------- -----   Michael Russell   Your independent guide to the control of parents   -------------------------------------------------- -----