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December 11, 2005
DVD player filters out nudity, violence
The world's biggest retailer is offering a DVD player that slices out potentially offensive content from movies, such as nudity, violence and foul language.
The device, available at Wal-Mart for about $70, merges video-editing technology developed by ClearPlay with an RCA brand DVD player.
The DVD player works by cutting scenes or muting parts of the movie, according to guidelines from ClearPlay's staff of editors, said ClearPlay CEO Bill Aho.
"This gives you virtually unprecedented control over movies," Aho said. "You can decide what you want to see and what you don't, and the end result is something that is seamless."
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Posted by dvd software at 05:14 PM | Comments (0)
What’s in a codec?
Sony Pictures caused a bit of a stir in the high-def world the other day when it announced the first full-length film to be authored and encoded on a Blu-ray Disc, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, was compressed using MPEG-2, the same codec used for standard DVDs.
Moreover, in comments to reporters following the announcement, Sony officials indicated that all of the initial batch of titles at launch, from Sony as well as other studios, would also likely be encoded in MPEG-2. Although the format is designed to support two newer, more efficient codecs, Microsoft’s VC-1 and a version of MPEG-4, Sony said it is likely to rely on the tried-and-true MPEG-2 “for the foreseeable future.”
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Posted by dvd software at 05:03 PM | Comments (0)