Mr. Clean Available for DVDs
[Archived in Entry, New Dvd Player]
bluevertical on 2004/04/19:
„Analysts question how successful the new DVD player will be, especially considering that an existing parental control technology, the v-chip, is barely used.“
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„Clean Available for DVDs WIRED MAGAZINE Associated Press Apr. 18, 2004 People wanting to automatically mute the foul language in Seabiscuit or skip the violence in The Patriot have a new option -- a DVD player from RCA that filters content deemed objectionable. Thomson, which owns the RCA brand, will sell the players in some Wal-Mart and Kmart stores as well as on Wal-Mart's website starting this month even as the filtering software they employ faces a legal challenge from Hollywood....“http://www.blueverticalstudio.com/05/archives/ cat__technology.html#000974 - Cached - Similar Pages
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„From The Guardian:Claire CozensThursday April 18, 2002Film director David Lynch has joined the growing campaign against the Vivendi chief executive, Jean-Marie Messier, saying the sacking of Pierre Lescure will lead to a "McDonald's-style standardisation" of cinema and television.The critically acclaimed director said the decision to fire Mr Lescure as the chief executive of Canal Plus marked the end of a golden era, which had brought together an independently minded European film producer and the best of a Hollywood studio."That's all finished now. We are entering an era of standardisation and of mass-produced cinema," he says in an interview with French newspaper Le Monde.Lynch's last two films, Mulholland Drive and The Straight Story, were produced by Canal Plus's film arm, StudioCanal.As the president of this year's Cannes film festival and the winner of last year's best director award for Mulholland Drive, Lynch has a particular interest in the health of the French film industry.He said his role as jury president would take on added significance following the departure of Mr Lescure and expressed concern that a "certain kind of cinema" could disappear along with its champion at the pay TV company.StudioCanal has a long history of backing successful but offbeat films; recent credits include Billy Elliot and The Others. The company also has a three year film deal with Mike Leigh, the director of Secrets and Lies.Describing Mr Messier as "charming and intelligent", Lynch said the French businessman must have had his "head turned by the Californian sun" and the lure of Hollywood-style profits."France has an incredibly strong tradition of film-making, helped by a regulatory system that has permitted it to retain a local industry," he said.“http://www.lynchnet.com/archives/apr2002.html - Cached - Similar Pages
„Looks like Wal-Mart will be carrying a DVD player with the ClearPlay-developed technology that strips nudity, violence, and foul language from DVDs. There is a catch, natch: the $70 DVD player doesn't detect the moral transgressions as they play, but instead uses pre-loaded filters that must be purchased from ClearPlay,...“http://www.stargeek.com/item/100271.html - Cached - Similar Pages
„The Bravo D3 home HD DVD Media Player will support the Windows Media 9 video compression codec, which is capable of playing back high-definition videos recorded in WM9 on standard DVDs. The unit outputs signals through component video and DVI-HDCP at resolution levels including the 480i, 480p, 1,080i and 720p formats, the company said. The player is expected to ship in the second quarter of 2004 at a $349.99 "target retail."“http://www.stargeek.com/item/91399.html - Cached - Similar Pages
„Therefore, I am quite excited by a report in the SF Gate that two major retailers, Wal-Mart and K-Mart, will soon be selling a DVD player that has some annotation capabilities (DVD player to edit movies: Technology allows viewer to bypass offensive content ). Now, unfortunately, these players only allow one to skip existing content, although you might be able to do some pretty interesting stuff with that *cough*PhantomEdit *cough*. Still, this is annotation.“http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/ 002938.html - Cached - Similar Pages
Found at a page of Ernest, posted on 2004/04/08
„Over the years I've amassed quite a collection of DVDs. It's hard for me to remember which titles I've already bought, so I decided that the easiest way to keep track of them would be to make a list that I can always access.“http://www.neuroticfishbowl.com/dvd.html - Cached - Similar Pages
„AP - People wanting to automatically mute the foul language in "Seabiscuit" or skip the violence in "The Patriot" have a new option a DVD player from RCA that filters content deemed objectionable.“http://www.stargeek.com/item/99802.html - Cached - Similar Pages
„"WASHINGTON - A House subcommittee chairman said he was prepared to introduce legislation that would allow viewers to use a filtering technology to skip scenes considered objectionable in DVD movies.“http://www.cotse.net/privacy/monitor.htm - Cached - Similar Pages
„("DVD CCA"), is a trade associationand the sole licensor of the technology that allows consumers to view moviesthrough digital technology known as Digital Video Discs or "DVDs." This isthe next generation of technology for the motion picture industry, much inthe way that music compact discs have replaced records. To prevent copyingof the motion pictures, the DVDs are encrypted, that is, the digital signalis "scrambled." The proprietary technology at issue here, called the ContentScramble System, or "CSS," allows digital data to be decrypted (or unscrambled)so that the underlying copyrighted images -- such as motion pictures -- canbe viewed on DVD players or on personal computer DVD drives. CSS thus providesprotection for the valuable intellectual property of the motion picture industry.Access to the CSS trade secret technology is granted only to those licenseesthat provide the software and hardware to enable consumers to view motionpictures and who agree to a stringent set of controls to protect theconfidentiality of the CSS system.“http://256.com/gray/dvd/v521.htm - Cached - Similar Pages
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