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ClearPlay ruins movies by taking all the good stuff out
Are you a lazy parent who wants to protect your kids from the horrors of movies made for adults but are too lazy to pay attention to what they watch? Well, good news! For you, I mean, not your kids. They'll still be stuck with crappy parents no matter what tech I dig up for you. But for you, I have ClearPlay, something that'll allow you to skip over the pesky details of parenting and get back to the drinking you love so much.
Yes, ClearPlay DVD players are designed to automatically skip over all the fun parts of movies: the swearing, the sex, the drug use, and the violence, making even Natural Born Killers appropriate for the little ones, if not really confusing. It filters over 2,500 movies currently, with more on the way. Sure, you could just buy kid-friendly movies, but that'd take too much effort, right?
ClearPlay, via Coolest Gadgets
By ScreenRant..com at 9:02 PM ON 12/11/07
Wow, what an even handed post. Yeesh. People aren't interested in this to watch a hard-R movie with their toddlers. There are lots of PG-13 movies that have some scenes that I might not want my daughter to see even though overall the movie is great. Or heck, how about a PG-13 version of The Matrix?
I'm betting that despite your jab at parents, you aren't one.
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By Lou at 10:56 AM ON 07/14/09
"Sure, you could just buy kid-friendly movies"
Apparently you are unaware just how not kid-friendly so many "kid-friendly" movies these days are. As someone alluded to, ClearPlay is obviously not meant for you to allow your 3rd grader to watch "The Clockwork Orange," and it doesn't replace good parenting. But it can certainly enhance it. And it can broaden the scope of movies a parent can feel comfortable allowing their kid to watch to include a lot of PG or PG-13 films that are mostly OK, but may contain a scene or word here or there they'd like excised. And those films may contain content or themes that give a responsible parent a chance to talk to their kid about and broaden their understanding of the world, whereas w/o it the same parent may be reluctant to show the film at all because of the scenes omitted.
Not to mention, ClearPlay is also for the many adults who don't even have kids that just prefer to watch movies without certain content, which is their business.
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