1.   But Gross said Boucher has talked about making it legal to circumvent blocking devices when one owns the material that is being blocked.

2.   His point was that the blocking device, while free, could still be so inconvenient to obtain that parents would not bother to order it.

3.   How effective the blocking devices are remains unclear.

4.   Its primary purpose is to enable parents to trigger a blocking device called a V-chip, available on new sets sometime next year.

5.   Janet LaRue, an attorney for the Family Research Council, said she is urging families to quickly call their cable companies for a blocking device.

6.   Last month the Senate Commerce committee looked at four TV blocking devices.

7.   Only about one in five families uses a blocking device although twice that many have the technology to do so.

8.   Ten years later, pressure from public interest groups and Congress forced the television industry to come up with ratings codes and blocking devices.

9.   The plan will work with the V-chip blocking device required by the new law, the industry said.

10.   Winneg declined to guess how long it would take tech-savvy students to find ways around such a blocking device.