It actually works very well. While some skips are noticeable (especially if they skip over background music), many skips are unobtrusive.
You have up to 14 settings available to filter different content. My personal settings allow most language to pass by unfiltered (except for the F-word), and sex dialog is okay (but actual nudity is not). I'm okay seeing some violence, but spare me the really gory. There are 4 sex categories, 5 language categories, 4 violence categories, and one 'other' category. These categories are based on the same system that the MPAA uses to rate movies. It is also fairly objective. A reasonable person can look at a scene and determine that the current scene does, indeed, have nudity. The same person can listen to someone's dialog and say, yes, that was a swear word.
When my kids watch movies with me, I go back and turn all of the settings on.
While the movie selection is small now, they will be growing. And many movies are simply not able to be filtered while still retaining the ability to tell a story. ClearPlay recognizes that, and won't release a filter for a movie that would lose critical dialog or plot cohesion. (That is probably the most subjective part of the filtering process, however.)
ClearPlay also does not intend to "re-rate" the movie, so you can't just choose 'G'. If I was to actually say, though, many R movies come down to PG or PG-13 (depending on their original subject matter), while some can come down to a 'G' level. However, that is completely up to the user: ClearPlay simply filters out everything according to the published lists of MPAA guidelines, and you, the user, have the ability to choose what you want to see and what you do not want to see.
It's actually a DVD player, and it does exactly what you mention. The ClearPlay feature is a replacement for parental controls on the RCA player, and, by default, is turned off when it ships.
When you set up the ClearPlay feature, you can even throttle the amount of filtering that is applied to the movies you watch. Are you okay with sex dialog, but the actual boobies bother you? Then set it up so that it filters nudity, but not sexual dialog. Are you okay with some violence, but showing gory close-ups aren't okay? Then turn off the standard violence filter, and leave Graphic Violence turned on. Are you okay with some swearing, but the F-Word every few minutes is a little tedious? Set it up.
Finally, and most importantly, it works in conjunction with rating limits. Set up your player so that it requires a password on PG-13 and up. When you play a movie, you can turn off ClearPlay for specific movies (i.e., if you know the movie doesn't bother you), but still have the rating restrictions for when your kids try to play a movie.
All those features are available to make the experience as customized as possible.
Lol. I like it. I have no doubt that someone will eventually figure out the ClearPlay filter format and release just such a thing.
The player gets its updates from a filter CD. You download the filter file to your computer, and burn it to CD.
While this is true, in theory, very few DVDs are actually created with the multi-program-chain that would allow you to do this for real. That would certainly allow the directors to create their own airline version DVDs without a third party doing it.
Lucky for you, when you put in a movie, it will show you what is filtered, what wasn't filtered, and you, the user, have the choice of setting up filters based on 14 categories. The categories are based on MPAA standard rating categories. There are 4 sex categories and 4-5 language categories (so you can filter the F-word, for instance, but not sh**)
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Well, ClearPlay probably won't attempt to try to filter such a movie.
It actually works very well. While some skips are noticeable (especially if they skip over background music), many skips are unobtrusive. You have up to 14 settings available to filter different content. My personal settings allow most language to pass by unfiltered (except for the F-word), and sex dialog is okay (but actual nudity is not). I'm okay seeing some violence, but spare me the really gory. There are 4 sex categories, 5 language categories, 4 violence categories, and one 'other' category. These categories are based on the same system that the MPAA uses to rate movies. It is also fairly objective. A reasonable person can look at a scene and determine that the current scene does, indeed, have nudity. The same person can listen to someone's dialog and say, yes, that was a swear word. When my kids watch movies with me, I go back and turn all of the settings on. While the movie selection is small now, they will be growing. And many movies are simply not able to be filtered while still retaining the ability to tell a story. ClearPlay recognizes that, and won't release a filter for a movie that would lose critical dialog or plot cohesion. (That is probably the most subjective part of the filtering process, however.) ClearPlay also does not intend to "re-rate" the movie, so you can't just choose 'G'. If I was to actually say, though, many R movies come down to PG or PG-13 (depending on their original subject matter), while some can come down to a 'G' level. However, that is completely up to the user: ClearPlay simply filters out everything according to the published lists of MPAA guidelines, and you, the user, have the ability to choose what you want to see and what you do not want to see.
It's actually a DVD player, and it does exactly what you mention. The ClearPlay feature is a replacement for parental controls on the RCA player, and, by default, is turned off when it ships. When you set up the ClearPlay feature, you can even throttle the amount of filtering that is applied to the movies you watch. Are you okay with sex dialog, but the actual boobies bother you? Then set it up so that it filters nudity, but not sexual dialog. Are you okay with some violence, but showing gory close-ups aren't okay? Then turn off the standard violence filter, and leave Graphic Violence turned on. Are you okay with some swearing, but the F-Word every few minutes is a little tedious? Set it up. Finally, and most importantly, it works in conjunction with rating limits. Set up your player so that it requires a password on PG-13 and up. When you play a movie, you can turn off ClearPlay for specific movies (i.e., if you know the movie doesn't bother you), but still have the rating restrictions for when your kids try to play a movie. All those features are available to make the experience as customized as possible.
Lol. I like it. I have no doubt that someone will eventually figure out the ClearPlay filter format and release just such a thing. The player gets its updates from a filter CD. You download the filter file to your computer, and burn it to CD.
While this is true, in theory, very few DVDs are actually created with the multi-program-chain that would allow you to do this for real. That would certainly allow the directors to create their own airline version DVDs without a third party doing it.
Lucky for you, when you put in a movie, it will show you what is filtered, what wasn't filtered, and you, the user, have the choice of setting up filters based on 14 categories. The categories are based on MPAA standard rating categories. There are 4 sex categories and 4-5 language categories (so you can filter the F-word, for instance, but not sh**)