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What does the "V" stand for? the Great Canadian Ben 01:03, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
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)
I removed "howdy boy" Picer ( talk) 20:36, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Some of the content needs more references. And the tone, in some places, seems to suggest a bias. Done a little bit of editing, but too tired to do more at the moment... Dhollm ( talk) 23:50, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
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:
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.
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What does the "V" stand for? the Great Canadian Ben 01:03, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
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)
I removed "howdy boy" Picer ( talk) 20:36, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Some of the content needs more references. And the tone, in some places, seems to suggest a bias. Done a little bit of editing, but too tired to do more at the moment... Dhollm ( talk) 23:50, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
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:
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.
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