How do the parental control and multi-rating features work?
DVD includes parental management features for blocking playback and for multiple versions of a movie on a single disc. Players (including software players on PCs) can be set to a specific parental level using the onscreen settings. If a disc with a rating above that level is put in the player, it won’t play. In some cases, different programs on the disc have different ratings. The level setting can be protected with a password. A disc can also be designed so that it plays a different version of the movie depending on the parental level that has been set in the player. By taking advantage of the seamless branching feature of DVD, objectionable scenes are automatically skipped over or replaced during playback. This requires that the disc be carefully authored with alternate scenes and branch points that don’t cause interruptions or discontinuities in the soundtrack.
DVD includes parental management features for blocking playback and for multiple versions of a movie on a single disc. Players (including software players on PCs) can be set to a specific parental level using the onscreen settings. If a disc with a rating above that level is put in the player, it won’t play. In some cases, different programs on the disc have different ratings. The level setting can be protected with a password. A disc can also be designed so that it plays a different version of the movie depending on the parental level that has been set in the player. By taking advantage of the seamless branching feature of DVD, objectionable scenes are automatically skipped over or replaced during playback. This requires that the disc be carefully authored with alternate scenes and branch points that don’t cause interruptions or discontinuities in the soundtrack. There is no standard way to identify which discs have multi-rated content.
DVD includes parental management features for blocking playback and for multiple versions of a movie on a single disc. Players (including software players on PCs) can be set to a specific parental level using the onscreen settings. If a disc with a rating above that level is put in the player, it won’t play. In some cases, different programs on the disc have different ratings. The level setting can be protected with a password. A disc can also be designed so that it plays a different version of the movie depending on the parental level that has been set in the player. By taking advantage of the seamless branching feature of DVD, objectionable scenes are automatically skipped over or replaced during playback. This requires that the disc be carefully authored with alternate scenes and branch points that don’t cause interruptions or discontinuities in the soundtrack. There is no standard way to identify which discs have multi-rated content.
DVD includes parental management features for blocking playback and for providing multiple versions of a movie on a single disc. Players (including software players on PCs) can be set to a specific parental level using the onscreen settings. If a disc with a rating above that level is put in the player, it won’t play. In some cases, different programs on the disc have different ratings. The level setting can be protected with a password. A disc can also be designed so that it plays a different version of the movie depending on the parental level that has been set in the player. By taking advantage of the seamless branching feature of DVD, objectionable scenes are automatically skipped over or replaced during playback. This requires that the disc be carefully authored with alternate scenes and branch points that don’t cause interruptions or discontinuities in the soundtrack. There is no standard way to identify which discs have multi-rated content. Unfortunately, very few multi-rating d
DVD includes parental management features for blocking playback and for providing multiple versions of a movie on a single disc. Players (including software players on PCs) can be set to a specific parental level using the onscreen settings. If a disc with a rating above that level is put in the player, it won’t play. In some cases, different programs on the disc have different ratings. The level setting can be protected with a password.
