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On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 4:30:08 -0400, G. M. Watson wrote
(in message <>):

> BTW, why the hell would these morality creeps want to see any of the
> *prevert* movies that the rest of us thrive on, anyway?

A lot of perfectly decent movies have smut added to them to get a different
rating. Americans have this really stupid stigma about watching a "G" rated
movie. As a result, movie makers add violence or swearing to up the ratings.

A really good example is Back to the Future. Excessive swearing was added to
avoid a "G" rating.

Now ClearPlay users can delight to the sound of "Geez Louise, Doc! You
disintegrated Einstein!!!"

In article < >,
Cernovog <> wrote:

> A lot of perfectly decent movies have smut added to them to get a different
> rating. Americans have this really stupid stigma about watching a "G" rated
> movie. As a result, movie makers add violence or swearing to up the ratings.
>
> A really good example is Back to the Future. Excessive swearing was added to
> avoid a "G" rating.
>
> Now ClearPlay users can delight to the sound of "Geez Louise, Doc! You
> disintegrated Einstein!!!"

As an American, I've decided that your post needed fixing:
A lot of ****ing decent movies have **** added to them to get a
different rating. Americans have this really ****ed up stigma about
watching a "G" rated movie. As a result, movie makers add nasty **** or
swearing to up the goddamn ratings.

A really good example is Back to the Future. A hell of a lot of goddamn
swearing was added to avoid the ****ing "G" rating.

ClearPlay users can **** off while we continue to delight to the sound
of "Jesus Christ, Doc! You just disintegrated Einstein!!!"

"Mike Davis" <> wrote in message news:<aOudnS09jb49kh_dRVn->...
> the
> eighty dollar RCA player uses ClearPlay censoring technology to remove or
> skip past as the Brits would say "the naughty bits" of films on DVD.

Finally, an excuse for the Ned Flanders' of the world to buy a DVD
player. It makes DVD's okely-dokely!

-Eric

"Mike Davis" <> wrote in message news:<aOudnS09jb49kh_dRVn->...
> Fellow DVD and Home Theater lunatics,
> You're not gonna' believe this, nor would I had I not read it myself.
> And the BBC is a pretty reputable source. Fueled by money from WalMart, the
> eighty dollar RCA player uses ClearPlay censoring technology to remove or
> skip past as the Brits would say "the naughty bits" of films on DVD.
> Un-effing believable! Here's the link to read all about the abomination
> yourself;
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3611969.stm
> What is this world coming to? All the best, Mike

Wasn't that part of the original promise of DVD though? Using seamless
branching to deliver G, PG, PG-13 versions of R movies?

Here's my cleaned up version of Pulp Fiction BTW...

Opening credits
Musical cue
Closing credits

:^)

I have to admit, I am tempted to get one of these players just so I
can feed it a steady diet of Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill and hard core
pornography. :^)

- Jordan

Jordan Lund wrote on [20 Apr 2004 10:56:49 -0700]:
> "Mike Davis" <> wrote in message news:<aOudnS09jb49kh_dRVn->...
>> Fellow DVD and Home Theater lunatics,
>> You're not gonna' believe this, nor would I had I not read it myself.
>> And the BBC is a pretty reputable source. Fueled by money from WalMart, the
>> eighty dollar RCA player uses ClearPlay censoring technology to remove or
>> skip past as the Brits would say "the naughty bits" of films on DVD.
>> Un-effing believable! Here's the link to read all about the abomination
>> yourself;
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3611969.stm
>> What is this world coming to? All the best, Mike
>
> Wasn't that part of the original promise of DVD though? Using seamless
> branching to deliver G, PG, PG-13 versions of R movies?
>
> Here's my cleaned up version of Pulp Fiction BTW...
>
> Opening credits
> Musical cue
> Closing credits
>
> :^)
>
> I have to admit, I am tempted to get one of these players just so I
> can feed it a steady diet of Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill and hard core
> pornography. :^)

I take it you missed Pulp Fiction on broadcast TV?

Where the screen was blakced out for minutes at a time?

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 22:22:03 -0700, "Mike Davis"
<> wrote:

>Fellow DVD and Home Theater lunatics,
> You're not gonna' believe this, nor would I had I not read it myself.
>And the BBC is a pretty reputable source. Fueled by money from WalMart, the
>eighty dollar RCA player uses ClearPlay censoring technology to remove or
>skip past as the Brits would say "the naughty bits" of films on DVD.
>Un-effing believable! Here's the link to read all about the abomination
>yourself;
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3611969.stm
> What is this world coming to? All the best, Mike

Options are good.

Of course you can argue that naughty bits represent a director's
artistic vision, integrity, etc., but the fact is that sometimes
they're added in because a particular market wants them, not because
the film demands them. Case in point, the "European version" Swamp
Thing which somehow made it to DVD with a couple instances of
tit-baring. Did it add anything to the movie? Of course -- to those of
us who like to look at bare tits. Did it do anything to progress the
storyline? Not really. And apparently they weren't in the American
original.

I imagine, for instance, that Sandra Locke's prospective gang-rape in
The Outlaw Josey Wales could have been implied clearly enough without
getting her nekkid. (I recall this because of the irony that Swamp
Thing's PG-13 rating apparently depended on getting rid of its
relatively innocuous tit showings, while The Outlaw Josey Wales gets
that same rating stripping Sandra Locke with intention to rape.)

I'm glad I have the tit-baring version, but if someone is bothered by
unclothed mammaries, let them filter that out and enjoy the rest of
the movie.

I won't argue the proposition that all movies will be unharmed by
this. But if you don't like that sort of thing you're probably not
going to be watching Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS or Last Tango in Paris
anyway.

I wonder how this will work with "respectable" films that have R ratings like
Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, or the Passion of the Christ.

Metlhd3138 wrote:
> I wonder how this will work with "respectable" films that have R ratings like
> Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, or the Passion of the Christ.
It will work the way they want it to. It's not automatic. Data has to
be loaded into the player to tell it where to skip pictures or silence
dialog. I wonder if they overdub or just bleep for crude language.

dick

>
> Wasn't that part of the original promise of DVD though? Using seamless
> branching to deliver G, PG, PG-13 versions of R movies?
>
Yeah, but that would take an awful lot of encoding. The machine is a
good idea for parents and it will sell. I won't buy one but I would be
interested to see how it works.

That's the way i was when movies would show up on network TV. If I was
familiar with them, I would want to see how they would edit it.

They often get creative. Like when they tinted the elevator murder scene
in Dressed to Kill red (in addition to editing out the actual
slashings)to hide the blood.

Mike

Michael Rogers <> wrote in message news:<>...
> >
> > Wasn't that part of the original promise of DVD though? Using seamless
> > branching to deliver G, PG, PG-13 versions of R movies?
> >
> Yeah, but that would take an awful lot of encoding. The machine is a
> good idea for parents and it will sell. I won't buy one but I would be
> interested to see how it works.

I checked up on it over at http://www.clearplay.com, apparently it
uses preference files which can be downloaded from the website, burned
to a CD and then uploaded to the player. Walmart is also going to sell
the codes pre-burned on CD.

This opens up all new kinds of possibilities. Once the format of the
codes has been hacked (and they will be hacked), it should be possible
to create our own codes to do all kinds of horrible things to DVD
movies. :^)

- Jordan