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The V-chip was invented by Professor Tim Collings. It is patented with US patent number 5 Scarpe Nike Air Max TN Donne Nere Rosse Italia ,828,204 and Canadian patent number 2,178,474.


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Then in 1994 the news of the V-Chip had spread to Europe. In June of that year Collings was invited to Europe to demonstrate his invention. This was done at a conference on Violence on TV held in Paris Scarpe Nike Air VaporMax Plus Uomo Nere Italia , France. A year later, he was invited to Belgium to also demonstrate his invention. This is where US Vice President Al Gore got his first look at the technology. At the time, however, the technology was only able to block one program at a time. By 1997 Scarpe Nike Air VaporMax CS Uomo Nere Italia , however, he was invited back to Belgium when the technology was now capable of handling multiple informational schemes. At this meeting Collings contributed to discussions about TV rating systems formats and encoding schemes.


Finally, on January 14, 1997 Nike VaporMax Flyknit Uomo Nere Bianche Italia , Collings gave the exclusive rights to his V-Chip to Tri-Vision Electronics Inc. The announcement was made at a press conference in Toronto. It was covered by many major Canadian as well as US TV networks.


The next step was to have the V-Chip commercialized. So Tri-Vision and Professor Collings worked together to put out the first commercial V-Chip product which was a Set-Top decoder that was capable of handling multiple informational schemes and also able to operate with existing TV technology. The decoder was shown to the public at the Canadian Cable TV Convention in Edmonton, Alberta in 1997. After that it was then shown at the US Cable Convention in Nashville, Tennessee that same year.


The V-Chip technology has been in consumer use now since 1999. In North America alone, million of sets use the V-Chip to block unwanted TV shows

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