I watched many movies through TV Guardian [0] (the old composite cable variant). It connected inline to a VHS/DVD player and read closed captioned for any swear

I watched many movies through TV Guardian [0] (the old composite cable variant). It connected inline to a VHS/DVD player and read closed captioned for any swear words. It would then mute the sound and show the censored CC. Of course it simply looked for words in a database and couldn't mute innuendos or blank out non-heteronormative relations. [0]: https://www.tvguardian.com/ https://www.tvguardian.com/