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Wal-Mart sells anti-smut DVD player
Anyone purchasing one of these dvd players will probably just get annoyed when scenes and dialogue get cut out of their movies.
The DGA lawsuit, however, looks fairly silly.
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.
The product comes in the wake of the Super Bowl halftime controversy as well as the FCC fining Clear Channel for indecent content on "The Howard Stern Show." But ClearPlay CEO Bill Aho said the timing is coincidental.
"It's just fortunate," he said. "There is a lot of interest and sensitivity around the topic of potentially offensive media content."
RCA's player is the latest development in a legal battle between the Salt Lake City-based software company and Hollywood. Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Steven Soderbergh 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.
Anyone purchasing one of these dvd players will probably just get annoyed when scenes and dialogue get cut out of their movies.
The DGA lawsuit, however, looks fairly silly.