Congrats on the new arrival!
But you left it up to us to find the best part of the site:
http://www.tjc.com/Maddy/release.html
Back to the topic: I never thought I would be interested in this technology until I heard that the next Star Wars is PG-13. My daughter is a huge fan of the series and has been looking forward to this for some time. But, she isn't 13 and from what I hear it is quite violent. I guess she will either have to wait, or see a sanitized (and severly shortened) version.
The first time I saw Pulp Fiction was on public TV and it was very hard to follow the plot!
> My TiVo fortuitously recorded an interesting
> documentary a few nights ago:
> "Bleep: Censoring Hollywood." It was a 45-minute
> show, aired on AMC,
> about companies like ClearPlay, CleanFlix, and the
> like, which "sanitize"
> DVDs for bluenoses, I mean, discerning parents, who
> want to watch movies
> that may have adult themes or situations, with the
> parts likely to be
> objectionable edited out.
>
> The show struck me as pretty well-balanced, showing
> the points of views of
> both the sanitizers and the movie directors. It
> covered the Family
> Movie Act, which at that time had been passed by
> both houses of
> Congress, but not yet signed into law. It looks
> like it's not scheduled
> for re-airing anytime soon,[1] but some copyright
> geeks like some of us
> (me, anyway) would find it worth watching if it
> re-airs.
>
> What surprised me is how many companies there were
> out there producing
> edited copies of the DVDs (the CleanFlix business
> model). I was aware of
> ClearPlay and CleanFlix, but the others were news to
> me.
>
> (For my part, I'm not sure how I come down on this,
> legislation aside. I
> don't see works of authorship as purely the author's
> work: I see it as a
> collaboration between the author and the consumer.
>
> The Beatles, for example, may have intended the
> "Sergeant Pepper" album to
> be taken as a whole, but if I want to listen to only
> "Lucy In the Sky With
> Diamonds," and take what I get from that
> experience, that's up to me.
> Hey, one of my favorite CDs is Fayray's "Genuine,"
> but the last track is
> a just too-horrible remake of Blondie's "Rapture,"
> and I just cannot hit
> that skip button fast enough.
>
> I can understand a filmmaker wanting to show his
> work the way he intends
> it to be seen. The balance of "Saving Private Ryan"
> arguably simply
> doesn't work unless you see the scenes depicting all
> the horrors of war
> presented in the first half hour; but if a viewer
> wants to see the balance
> without those scenes, why shouldn't he be able to?
> And why shouldn't he
> be able to delegate that editing to someone whose
> judgment he trusts, so
> that he can see the film without the gore, and
> without the trouble of
> doing all the editing himself (which of course,
> would require him to see
> the gore anyway)?
>
> And, finally, one objection the filmmakers had was
> that, now that films
> are in a digital format and amenable to editing,
> it's not just the
> sanitization-style editing that's possible. Why,
> people could take the
> film and decide what parts to include, and maybe add
> some stuff. They
> could, for example, make a comic film out of a film
> that was intended to
> be serious by the filmmaker. Quite frankly, I think
> that's actually a
> pretty exciting possibility, of creating, not merely
> an edited work, but a
> truly new and different work.
>
> I never watch movies on TV, other than films that
> are sufficiently old
> that I can be pretty sure are not being cut up,
> because I want to see the
> whole thing; but I can see where others might have a
> different point of
> view. I will probably never take advantage of
> products like ClearPlay,
> but I don't see any reason not to allow others to.
> (And, I should
> probably never say never. My only child is just
> seven weeks old.[2] When
> she grows older and we watch movies together, say,
> maybe 10-12 years from
> now, I might really want something like this.))
>
> [1] According to
> http://www.amctv.com/show/detail?CID=63457-1-EST>,
> it
> was scheduled to air only 4/26, 4/27, and 5/1; As I
> said, I only happened
> to catch it because my TiVo fortuitously snagged it
> for me.
>
> [2] I can't help it, I'm a proud papa: pictures at
> <http://www.tjc.com/Maddy>.
>
>
>
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