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This is very cool comparison. I would really like folks at Netflix/Amazon to take this and build a feature that auto-skips through non-PG rated content so you c

This is very cool comparison. I would really like folks at Netflix/Amazon to take this and build a feature that auto-skips through non-PG rated content so you can watch some of otherwise very great movie/TV content with very young kids. For example, StarTrek. They can call this feature "PGify" :).

captainwhoreal 8y ago
So the scenes where they kill each other are okay but God forbid a nipple? That's sick...
- phyller 8y ago
  Pretty sure parent comment was specifically referring to violence as I don't recall explicit nudity in Star Trek movies (just suggested nudity).
  - gaius 8y ago
    There was a completely gratuitous fanservice scene with Alice Eve in Into Dullness.
    - dwighttk 8y ago
      Yes- completely gratuitous fanservice No- nudity
sjcsjc 8y ago
This is a really good idea. It makes me smile to think that my 15-year-old self would have loved a feature that did the same but in reverse. That was, of course, a pre-internet, almost porn-free world.
cataflam 8y ago
There is (at least) one company providing this kind of services. They tag in the movie all the content with timestamps, and can provide it to a player to skip or not depending on the tag (nudity, violence, etc.). As far as I know, it was manual, but that was already a few years ago. I don't remember the name of the company, but surely it can be found and there are probably multiple such providers. The service was provided to TV operators (satellite, cable or pay-TV) to include in their set-top boxes. PS: of course, as sjcsjc mentioned in a sibling comment, it immediately gives the idea to many people to only show those parts :)
- tyingq 8y ago
  There was. The most well known was CleanFlicks. They were all sued into oblivion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CleanFlicks https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CleanFlicks There's a documentary about it: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1007026/ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1007026/
  - krupan 8y ago
    More recently: VidAngel
    - tyingq 8y ago
      Hadn't seen that. Predictably, also being sued by multiple entities: http://blog.vidangel.com/category/legal/ http://blog.vidangel.com/category/legal/
      - jvagner 8y ago
        Studios have the airplane edits of many movies.. not sure why they won't let you select that on the Netflixes. My 14 yo would be very happy to select those versions.
  - icebraining 8y ago
    Not all; ClearPlay won: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearPlay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearPlay
heinrichf 8y ago
This idea was extensively discussed here in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11354021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11354021
Delmania 8y ago
Better yet you could wait until the kids are mature enough, watch the content, and then discuss it with them.
- derefr 8y ago
  That assumes the stripped content is important in some way. How about when the extra scenes are literally useless to the point of the content and are just "wedged in" as fanservice to increase viewership, in a way where the content is better off without them? This describes nearly every sex scene in a Hollywood movie that I can remember. Though also, separately: I'm an adult, but I'm imagining going home for the holidays to my parents, sitting around at night, picking some movie to watch on Netflix, and it ends up having a sex scene in it. I don't want that to happen! It's not a matter of maturity—I just don't want to share the experience of watching a sex scene with my parents. I'd rather be able to tell Netflix/the streaming box/the TV, to skip those scenes.

captainwhoreal 8y ago

So the scenes where they kill each other are okay but God forbid a nipple? That's sick...

phyller 8y ago
Pretty sure parent comment was specifically referring to violence as I don't recall explicit nudity in Star Trek movies (just suggested nudity).
- gaius 8y ago
  There was a completely gratuitous fanservice scene with Alice Eve in Into Dullness.
  - dwighttk 8y ago
    Yes- completely gratuitous fanservice No- nudity

sjcsjc 8y ago

This is a really good idea. It makes me smile to think that my 15-year-old self would have loved a feature that did the same but in reverse. That was, of course, a pre-internet, almost porn-free world.

cataflam 8y ago

There is (at least) one company providing this kind of services. They tag in the movie all the content with timestamps, and can provide it to a player to skip or not depending on the tag (nudity, violence, etc.). As far as I know, it was manual, but that was already a few years ago. I don't remember the name of the company, but surely it can be found and there are probably multiple such providers. The service was provided to TV operators (satellite, cable or pay-TV) to include in their set-top boxes. PS: of course, as sjcsjc mentioned in a sibling comment, it immediately gives the idea to many people to only show those parts :)

tyingq 8y ago
There was. The most well known was CleanFlicks. They were all sued into oblivion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CleanFlicks https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CleanFlicks There's a documentary about it: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1007026/ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1007026/
- krupan 8y ago
  More recently: VidAngel
  - tyingq 8y ago
    Hadn't seen that. Predictably, also being sued by multiple entities: http://blog.vidangel.com/category/legal/ http://blog.vidangel.com/category/legal/
    - jvagner 8y ago
      Studios have the airplane edits of many movies.. not sure why they won't let you select that on the Netflixes. My 14 yo would be very happy to select those versions.
- icebraining 8y ago
  Not all; ClearPlay won: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearPlay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearPlay

heinrichf 8y ago

This idea was extensively discussed here in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11354021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11354021

Delmania 8y ago

Better yet you could wait until the kids are mature enough, watch the content, and then discuss it with them.

derefr 8y ago
That assumes the stripped content is important in some way. How about when the extra scenes are literally useless to the point of the content and are just "wedged in" as fanservice to increase viewership, in a way where the content is better off without them? This describes nearly every sex scene in a Hollywood movie that I can remember. Though also, separately: I'm an adult, but I'm imagining going home for the holidays to my parents, sitting around at night, picking some movie to watch on Netflix, and it ends up having a sex scene in it. I don't want that to happen! It's not a matter of maturity—I just don't want to share the experience of watching a sex scene with my parents. I'd rather be able to tell Netflix/the streaming box/the TV, to skip those scenes.