Wired News: Mr. Clean Available for DVDs

Wired News: Mr. Clean Available for DVDs
As I recall, dimly past the advent of law school, the capability of DVDs to carry multiple ratings-versions of movies was one of the reasons I initially got excited about the format. That vision has never appeared in the form which I thought it would - different versions on the DVD itself - however, this player seems to be filling that (supposed) gap.
Of course, Hollywood is pissed.
In essence, this is the digital equivalence of putting your hand over your kid's eyes or ears during a questionable scene - something that honestly doesn't work that well in the analog world, but has the capability of seamless operation in the digital.
Big content has been wrong about demand in the past. The real proof of the pudding here will be if it sells a whole bunch (and it's a pretty good DVD player even without the content filtering), and if it allows families that would not have done so in the past to maybe pick up that DVD copy of the Matrix, or Gladiator, or Shawshank Redemption.