Wal-Mart Sells Anti-Smut DVD Player - Democratic Underground

russian33

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Wed Apr-14-04 09:35 AM
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Wal-Mart Sells Anti-Smut DVD Player

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Wal-Mart is selling the world's first DVD player that can seamlessly skip over violence, swearing, nudity and other potentially offensive movie content. The $79 unit features technology by ClearPlay and is manufactured by Thomson Inc. under its RCA brand.

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RCA's player is the latest development in a legal battle between the Salt Lake City-based software company and Hollywood. Steven Spielberg (news), Martin Scorsese (news), Steven Soderbergh (news) and other members of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) filed suit against ClearPlay in September 2002, when the filtering product was available as a computer program.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=598&ncid=790&e=10&u=/nm/20040413/film_nm/film_walmart_dc

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mobuto

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Wed Apr-14-04 09:45 AM
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1. This is awesome!

If they can do this, then they can surely come out with an anti-Kevin Costner feature, that will allow the sensitive viewer to skip over any and all scenes containing the star of "Wyatt Earp" and "Waterworld."

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LTR

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Wed Apr-14-04 09:55 AM
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2. Finally, a way to get rid of Jar-Jar Binks!

Edited on Wed Apr-14-04 09:55 AM by RatTerrier

Star Wars Ep. 1 - The way it should be!

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mouse7

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Wed Apr-14-04 09:59 AM
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3. Clear Play filtered "The Passion of the Christ" leaves 1 min 3 secs

63 seconds of "The Passion of the Christ would remain to be viewed after ClearPlay filtering.

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russian33

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Wed Apr-14-04 10:30 AM
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7. yeah, but that's the catch...

"Passion of Christ" is one of those movies that won't be filtered....But when you watch Casino or Goodfellas, you'll get opening and closing credits only probably

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PROGRESSIVE1

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Wed Apr-14-04 10:01 AM
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4. Can they make an "Anti-Conservative Artists DVD" player?

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skooooo

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Wed Apr-14-04 10:03 AM
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5. Thank god!! I need something like this..

...because lord knows I can't control the amount of smut I watch without some help!!!

THANK YOU WALMART! (Mart of Darkness)

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zbdent

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Wed Apr-14-04 10:28 AM
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6. love to see the sales figures

Hmmm, one per store.

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