The user-interface is very simple. You can turn ClearPlay ON or OFF with a single setting. You can also customize your filter preferences by adjusting 14 different filter settings (that gives you 16,384 potential user configurations!). Based on your settings, content will be skipped over or muted during playback of the movie. Great care and effort is taken to ensure that although certain content is removed, the continuity of the story is maintained, and the presentation retains its entertaining value. Many say the end result is similar to an airline or television presentation of the movie.
It seems to me that they are providing you with choice. Suppose you just don't want to hear profanity; you just have it mute the soundtrack. Don't like violence? Turn that off instead, or in addition. The amount of editing is up to the user.
The law may have been enacted to benefit a single company, but there's no reason competitors couldn't spring up. You'd think Hollywood would be in favor of this technology, since the only choice people have at the moment is to avoid the movie entirely. This might actually increase sales to people who would otherwise not even consider watching the movie.
The easiest way for the movie studios to "defeat" somebody making a profit from this would be to author DVDs with the filters built in. Imagine: choose a menu option for no violence, and the movie would play back, skipping scenes chosen by the filmmaker. They hold onto their intellectual property, make sure the result isn't some hatchet job, and by providing the filter on the DVD itself, take away the market from ClearPlay. And you don't need a special DVD player to do it, either, unlike ClearPlay's solution.
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The user-interface is very simple. You can turn ClearPlay ON or OFF with a single setting. You can also customize your filter preferences by adjusting 14 different filter settings (that gives you 16,384 potential user configurations!). Based on your settings, content will be skipped over or muted during playback of the movie. Great care and effort is taken to ensure that although certain content is removed, the continuity of the story is maintained, and the presentation retains its entertaining value. Many say the end result is similar to an airline or television presentation of the movie.
It seems to me that they are providing you with choice. Suppose you just don't want to hear profanity; you just have it mute the soundtrack. Don't like violence? Turn that off instead, or in addition. The amount of editing is up to the user.
The law may have been enacted to benefit a single company, but there's no reason competitors couldn't spring up. You'd think Hollywood would be in favor of this technology, since the only choice people have at the moment is to avoid the movie entirely. This might actually increase sales to people who would otherwise not even consider watching the movie.
The easiest way for the movie studios to "defeat" somebody making a profit from this would be to author DVDs with the filters built in. Imagine: choose a menu option for no violence, and the movie would play back, skipping scenes chosen by the filmmaker. They hold onto their intellectual property, make sure the result isn't some hatchet job, and by providing the filter on the DVD itself, take away the market from ClearPlay. And you don't need a special DVD player to do it, either, unlike ClearPlay's solution.