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Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by illwrks »

progmetaldev wrote: post #61
illwrks wrote: post #7

This is great, I looked into doing something similar when my daughter was little. I didn't get very far and she learned how to use the remote control pretty quickly. I honestly think it was better for her to do it the 'old' way as she's pretty digitally savvy (for her age) than I would have expected. I remember when I was little I figured out how to use the VHS to set timers record shows etc, I think making things di…

I agree, and ultimately think it's also learned behavior, and seeing those at home interested in technology and getting a deeper meaning about things. A lot of comments seem to think that millenials or younger don't have an interest in technology, but I think that's only because they see their older peers or family members perfectly fine with a dumbed down interface to get their needs taken care of. As a 45 year old,…

You’re retelling of your Atari story has resurfaced memories of me fiddling with a Commodore 64 tape drive to make some game work :)

After this post, perhaps tech for kids need to be difficult to encourage learning.

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by sgt »

Freak_NL wrote: post #137
sgt wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, we don't tend to be on our phones near him. Not just to set a good example, but I've found that being glued to your phone isn't really a great thing anyway. For doing real work I sit in my home office with the door closed.

We don't do this either (I hardly look at the thing at home), but just a look at the other parents bringing in their preschoolers at school is depressing. Half of them have their phone out, and the number of parents you see pushing a pram or stroller with a phone in front of them is absurd. We are a minority.

It is truly bizarre, I agree! Everything to chase a bit of dopamine.

And if you peer over and look at what they're browsing, it's mostly junk, social media videos or just mindless scrolling.

It's actually healthier for the brain to be bored in such moments.

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by michaelmior »

left-struck wrote: post #120

> And finally, if you're a non-English speaker, Blu-rays will include a dubbed version in your native language. This is a big plus for the kids, especially when they're as young as mine are now. I grew up in a country where English is not the primary language spoken and when I was young all the cool shows and movies were in English. As a kid this was a huge incentive and went far above and beyond any education I had…

I've found that most streaming services tend to have a good collection of subtitles and audio in various languages as well although I haven't compared that to physical media.

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by michaelmior »

maweki wrote: post #92

I have an extremely similar setup for my 3yr old. He has his NFC cards and select from stuff we find suitable. The TV comes on, one episode runs, TV goes off. He's not fighting over the remote and he has agency. And he's certainly not stumbling his way through YouTube on a tablet. No ads. Very nice for him. It's not yet necessary to track his usage. But I'm well prepared for it. Home Assistant works very well for the…

> I'm sad that Netflix&Co. do not publicize their urls/intents/etc. for smart TVs. I'd be happy to call an episode directly.

I haven't really tried this myself, but this Stack Overflow question seems to have found a solution[0]. Since you're already using Home Assistant, you might want to check out the Google Cast integration[1] although Netflix doesn't currently seem to have a documented solution.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18217559/launching-andro...

[1] https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/cast/

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by boobsbr »

ThatMedicIsASpy wrote: post #157
left-struck wrote: post #120

> And finally, if you're a non-English speaker, Blu-rays will include a dubbed version in your native language. This is a big plus for the kids, especially when they're as young as mine are now. I grew up in a country where English is not the primary language spoken and when I was young all the cool shows and movies were in English. As a kid this was a huge incentive and went far above and beyond any education I had…

When I was 14-18 I watched anime (japanese dubs with eng subs). The censorship of the german dubs got me into it and I hated german subs plus the english subs were faster and the germans often were double translated (jap > eng > ger). My english grades were very good thanks to it. Now I'm exposed more to english (movies, shows, internet, os) than german I've switched to german subs and started watching anime again 20…

> german numbers are one-hundred-five-and-fifty

So are Dutch numbers.

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by phito »

seszett wrote: post #142
left-struck wrote: post #120

> And finally, if you're a non-English speaker, Blu-rays will include a dubbed version in your native language. This is a big plus for the kids, especially when they're as young as mine are now. I grew up in a country where English is not the primary language spoken and when I was young all the cool shows and movies were in English. As a kid this was a huge incentive and went far above and beyond any education I had…

The author is apparently a Dutch speaker, and English fluency really isn't a problem in Flanders or the Netherlands. I think the language is close enough to English that it's easily picked up even watching only dubbed movies as a kid. In contrast friends of mine who mostly watched French-dubbed movies when they were small (because they were close to the border and Club Dorothée was better than whatever was available…

As a French-speaking Belgian living in the Dutch speaking part, in my experience and opinion, it's the opposite. Most French speaking folks can't speak a word of English because everything is dubbed, they are never exposed to the language. Meanwhile, there's no Dutch dubbing (because there's not enough Dutch speaking audience to justify the cost) and they all have fantastic English skills.

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by monkeydust »

xafke wrote: post #94
tzs wrote: post #64

The movies visible in the photos in the article, and their runtimes in minutes, are: 94 The Good Dinosaur 92 Trolls 98 Wall-E 88 The Lion King 103 Moana 81 Toy Story 91 Trolls World Tour 95 Inside Out 103 Frozen II 95 A Bug's Life > We have two boys, and the eldest is permitted a 30-minute TV session in the morning and another in the evening. So...if one of them wants to watch The Lion King or Toy Story they have to…

Author here (surreal to see my post at the top of HN!) My kids are 3 and 2, and they don't watch TV like adults. They watch a bit of movie, get up, walk around, do something else, come back, and watch a bit of another movie or even switch to a TV show. It's weird! I like your idea about flexibility, but they're too young right now. Maybe we'll introduce your "bank" concept when they get older or increase the "TV budg…

> "It's weird"

Not that weird I think... my 5 year old does exactly this. He cant sit through a full movie. My 7 year old also had that issue but now she can.

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by wccrawford »

left-struck wrote: post #120

> And finally, if you're a non-English speaker, Blu-rays will include a dubbed version in your native language. This is a big plus for the kids, especially when they're as young as mine are now. I grew up in a country where English is not the primary language spoken and when I was young all the cool shows and movies were in English. As a kid this was a huge incentive and went far above and beyond any education I had…

As an American that only knew English, Japanese media that was only available without English was my #1 motivation to learn more Japanese. By the time I was low-intermediate, basically everything was fan-subbed day 1, and it killed a lot of my motivation. There were still light novels, but the ones I really want to read are still quite a bit above me, and I have barely progressed since then.

And we're on the verge of AI being able to translate everything in basically real time, spoken or written.

I agree with your estimation of the value of media you want that's not available in your language, in regards to language learning. I'm a little sad that that motivation won't exist for many people in the future, but also happy that they can just enjoy the content.

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by sethammons »

Freak_NL wrote: post #132
xafke wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Author here (surreal to see my post at the top of HN!) My kids are 3 and 2, and they don't watch TV like adults. They watch a bit of movie, get up, walk around, do something else, come back, and watch a bit of another movie or even switch to a TV show. It's weird! I like your idea about flexibility, but they're too young right now. Maybe we'll introduce your "bank" concept when they get older or increase the "TV budg…

> […] but they're too young right now. Indeed they are. I have a five year old who is now old enough to choose his own films and series from a selection curated by us. A system like this would be fine for children of his age. But 2 and 3? They are too young to choose their own media at all. Not because they can't, but because they can't judge the impact. For toddlers you really want to be the one in control about wha…

Ain't overloading nothing. My favorite movie at 5 was Romancing the Stone. Anything non-age appropriate goes right over your head at that age. We are not talking scary nor violent. I liked the movie because of the crocodiles

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by dudul »

oezi wrote: post #122
xafke wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Author here (surreal to see my post at the top of HN!) My kids are 3 and 2, and they don't watch TV like adults. They watch a bit of movie, get up, walk around, do something else, come back, and watch a bit of another movie or even switch to a TV show. It's weird! I like your idea about flexibility, but they're too young right now. Maybe we'll introduce your "bank" concept when they get older or increase the "TV budg…

I have learned that doing just weekends for TV is much better for small kids so they don't get used to TV watching.

Even for not so small kids. With my 7 and 9 yo we do one ~30/40min session during the weekend, and a family movie on the 1st weekend of the month. No TV or screen time outside of these.

I can't imagine having a 3yo watching TV 1 hour a day, especially the movies shown on this video.

That being said, to focus on the technical project, that's very cool!

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