[sytelus]

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" :).

[cataflam]

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]

There was. The most well known was CleanFlicks. They were all sued into oblivion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CleanFlicks

There's a documentary about it: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1007026/

[icebraining]

Not all; ClearPlay won: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearPlay

[krupan]

More recently: VidAngel

[tyingq]

Hadn't seen that. Predictably, also being sued by multiple entities: http://blog.vidangel.com/category/legal/

[jvagner]

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.

[sjcsjc]

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.

[Delmania]

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

[derefr]

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.

[heinrichf]

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

[captainwhoreal]

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

[phyller]

Pretty sure parent comment was specifically referring to violence as I don't recall explicit nudity in Star Trek movies (just suggested nudity).

[gaius]

There was a completely gratuitous fanservice scene with Alice Eve in Into Dullness.

[dwighttk]

Yes- completely gratuitous fanservice

No- nudity