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An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by iamyourcanary »

joseda-hg wrote: post #190
ThatMedicIsASpy wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by lobochrome »

xafke wrote: post #107
lobochrome wrote: post #16

Really cool. But why not just have them handle the blu rays directly? Unless - you ripped them to your Plex and resold them…

OP here. Fair question! I have all the disks. They're in the garage gathering dust. My kids are 3 and 2, so letting them handle the disks isn't a great idea right now. Might do that one day though!

Mine are 3 an 0. The three year old handles them fine - but kids are different;)

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by eadmund »

This is an awesome example of the kind of innovation which overlong copyright prevents.

There’s no particularly good reason that it should be legally impermissible for someone to build and sell a system like this loaded with movies from before, say, 2010 (or 2000, or whatever), but instead what the prospective entrepreneur would be legally able to include would be … Steamboat Willie, and other films of that vintage (as an aside, while Disney’s had a pretty rough couple of years, I’m pretty sure that Steamboat Willie being out of copyright has nothing to do with any of that).

This sort of experience shouldn’t be limited to children of high-tech folks with access to 3D printers: it should be possible for any child — or adult!

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Post by anthk »

foobarian wrote: post #217
fhe wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

for me it was computer games, specifically Civ 2. Imagine playing that as a second-grader with zero English. But I had strong motivation, and ploughed through the game, dictionary in hand.

At least you had graphics. Zork I did it for me, I still remember my first word: "forest". Never could figure out wtf a "stiletto" is though, it wasn't in the ancient dictionary I had at the time.

As I Spaniard I could still guess 'forest' could be somehow related to 'forestal', which is something related to the woods/countryside.

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Post by richardlblair »

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…

> The TV comes on, one episode runs, TV goes off.

I'm curious how you track that? I don't have HA connected to plex yet, but I will. I suppose there might be an event when the 'track' changes?

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Post by edu »

niedbalski wrote: post #110

We realised that even a lot less cool than nfc, just put an inexpensive blueray reader + disc movies next to the tv and no internet connection was the best option for us.

I'm going this way, also our local library has a very nice selection of movies in DVD so we can expand the experience to going there and picking up.

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Post by jimbokun »

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…

That's funny I thought you were going to say it helped you learn Japanese.

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by meigwilym »

noduerme wrote: post #146
theodric wrote: post #139

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I have this general feeling based my 21 years bouncing around Europe that subtitle countries have better English than dub countries, although I'm not proposing that the link is causative

My perception from traveling to 40+ countries is that countries where dubbing is common do so for the reason that the population is more illiterate and lower-educated in general, and that trend just extends to having less fluency in other languages.

Did you visit Britain?
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