Talk:V-chip

message: What does the "V" stand for? the Great Canadian Ben 01:03, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Take your pick. Then again, you could always mention both in the article. - Someguy0830 (Talk | contribs) 09:30, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How is it that Wikipedia can have over 1 million articles, but I run into the same 3 people everywhere I go? --tjstrf 06:27, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There are some extremly active wikipedian's who are everywhere. Bawolff 06:22, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  V-Chip? 

message: Does this even need to be a part of the article? I have removed it unless someone here can give me a valid reason. :: Colin Keigher 04:53, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paraodies and Spoofs 

message: I removed "howdy boy"  Picer (talk) 20:36, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleansed the page from vanadlism 

message: Shamefully, Tim Collings jumped in at the right time and claimed to be the inventor of the V-Chip.  This was simple fraud that brought him a lot of instant fame.  The real history goes back as far as the Linkabit Corporation in 1982 with the development of the VideoCipher I satellite scrambler box that included a built-in "adult material blocker".  Millions of these boxes were sold. The patent history is very obvious and I have summarized it here:
*Pat: 4,398,216   Field ,   et al.  (August 9, 1983)  Multiple signal transmission method and system, particularly for television 
*Pat: 4,554,584  Elam ,   et al. (November 19, 1985)   Video and audio blanking system 
*Pat: 4520404  Von Kohorn 	(May 28, 1985)  System, apparatus and method for recording and editing broadcast transmissions 
*Pat: 4685131  Horne 		(August 4, 1987)  Program blocking method for use in direct broadcast satellite system 
*Pat: 4,888,796  Olivo, Jr. 	(December 19, 1989)  Program material screening device 
*Pat: 4930158  Vogel 		(May 29, 1990)   Selective video playing system 
*Pat: 4930160 Vogel 		(May 29, 1990)   Automatic censorship of video programs 
The only significant development since the early concept was a patent (US5,195,135) to allow blurring of selected portions of the screen and/or audio. This produced a much less objectionable output than the full-block only option with the V-Chip.
--SurfManDoug (talk) 21:38, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inventor of the V-Chip 

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message: Please rewrite the lead section to clarify that this is "long irrelevant":  CapnZapp (talk) 22:32, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irrelevance