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Marketed under the trade name "ClearPlay," the concept is simple from a consumer's point of view. If you have ever tightly gripped the DVD player's remote control hoping to hit fast-forward just at the moment a dress is dropped or bullets begin to blast, you now have a far better alternative.
The world today is simply not suitable for young children at times. As busy parents, how can you hope to compete with the steady stream of media being fed to your child all-day, every day? ClearPlay Technology can help.
Selecting a movie to watch with a mixed group can be a daunting task, especially for family gatherings.
(KSL News) When you donate blood, you usually get a snack or a drink and maybe a coupon as a thank you.
But donating blood during the next two months could get you a new plasma television.
ARUP Blood Services is seeking to increase donors by partnering with Utah company ClearPlay and entering all who donate during July and August to win a 42-inch plasma television.
ClearPlay, a company which develops DVD player technology for filtering out "violence, profanity and other adult content," announced yesterday they were debuting a new DVD player for families. The ClearPlay CP-007 will be available for sale on the company's Web site and also through Target for around $80.
A very different show today because I am interviewing Bill Aho of Clear Play. They did not pay for an endorsement or offer any other benefit to me for this interview. I just really like what they’re doing.
There's a new DVD player that --quoting now-- lets families watch regular DVDs without the sex, violence, profanity and other adult content"
Twenty-one finalists have been selected in the fifth annual Utah Innovation Awards.
SALT LAKE CITY, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- vSpring Capital announced today the 2007 class of the vSpring Capital Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs, also known as the v|100.
Inventor Matthew Jarman looks to be out to make the untamed TV landscape a little more palatable for those with sensitive ears, developing an application that'll mute out offensive language based on your potty-mouth tolerance level, or block programs all together if they prove to be unmutable.
But wait: Last week I watched Major League with my son, and we didn't experience one vulgar word, any disturbing violence, any bloody wounds or any scenes of implied or overt sexuality. And it's not because I had my finger on the fast-forward button.
We watched the movie on ClearPlay.
A computer connected to a TV set or Personal Video Recorder (PVR) simply monitors electronic programme guides along with the closed captioning text that accompanies programmes for hard of hearing viewers. Software then searches for dubious key words and the computer decides – based on the user's preferences – whether to block the entire programme or simply mute the sound for a short while.
Inventor Matthew Jarman gives some examples. If the programme uses the words "serial killer", the system could block a programme altogether. The same could go for anything that promises an appearance by Pamela Anderson.
The ruling leaves ClearPlay -- a Utah-based company that produces a DVD player with filters to edit movies -- as the only option left for families wanting cleaner movies.
... Another solution is a DVD player, produced by Utah-based ClearPlay, which edits movies as they are viewed without actually altering the hard copy of the video. ...
Even though ClearPlay is the last company standing after a recent Hollywood legal war concluded early in July, the company's chief executive officer, Bill Aho, still feels a sense of loss.
"While it may be good for ClearPlay, it's bad for parents," Aho said of the July 6 decision by a U.S. district judge who ruled that cutting "objectionable content" from films violates federal copyright law.
Every person I know who has ever watched a cleaned-up film from one of the editing companies has responded the same way. “The movie was great without all the cursing, sex, etc…,” they typically said. “Why do they put all that junk in?”
Because ClearPlay's technology does not involve making an altered DVD copy, it has been shielded from the copyright infringement claims. The debate over movie content filtering activities made its way into Congress, which passed the 2005 Family Movie Act that protects ClearPlay and other software-based filtering companies.
Unless the courts grant a stay of injunction, ClearPlay will have the only product on the market that offers a legal filtered alternative for popular Hollywood movies. The company currently has filters for 2000 movies, with new titles available every week. ClearPlay is also licensing its movie product, as well as other leading-edge parental control technologies, to multiple markets in media and consumer electronics.
Last week's federal court ruling leaves at least one player in the video content war unscathed. Another Utah-based company, ClearPlay, doesn't touch the video but alters DVD players. ClearPlay's technology lets the consumer edit and stays within the law. CEO Bill Aho says ClearPlay wants to take what it does beyond the DVD player to cable, satellite and video-on-demand.
The ruling may focus more attention on alternative means of cleaning up film content before it reaches end users and help some tech firms that have found novel -- and accepted -- alternatives.
Bill Aho, the CEO of ClearPlay, which offers parental filters and other methods of content control, said his firm's technology enjoys the protection of the 2005 Family Movie Act. ClearPlay works from inside a DVD player, filtering out scenes based on parameters set by users, as the movie is being played, but not modifying the content on the DVD.
ClearPlay offers software programs developed for specific titles that users can run on their computer or ClearPlay's proprietary DVD player along with an official copy of the DVD. With this technology, a nude shot of an actor can be altered to show a silhouette, or profanity can be bleeped out. Because ClearPlay's technology does not involve making an altered DVD copy, it has been shielded from the copyright infringement claims.
There is a new tool out to help parents that goes one step beyond looking just for G-rated movies. A new DVD player called ClearPlay System lets parents censor DVD movies. They can edit out offensive language, excessive violence or sexual situations.
ClearPlay system is currently the best affordable solution for filtering DVD content for your family. Its flexibility and multiple configuration options allow you to set the parameters for your family's viewing habits. If you are looking for a dynamic DVD filtering solution that works with your existing DVD movie collection, this is the most viable the market has seen to date.
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