Somewhat related: I wanted to track watch time, and perhaps set a time limit with Plex and HomeAssistant. Has anyone come up with a solution I can cheat off of?
An NFC movie library for my kids
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Re: An NFC movie library for my kids
#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I'm also a French speaker living in Flanders with a Flemish partner, and children who speak both languages. I'm pretty sure the ease of speaking English for Dutch speakers comes mostly from the closeness of the language (as evidenced by my comment on people who watched French-dubbed anime as kids, not Japanese original or English-dubbed). And TV content for children (including De leeuwenkoning or Een luizenleven , to…
As a counterargument, my German I learnt from Derrick I believe is much better than the English of equal educated German people I have met. I'm pretty convinced that the dubbing in Germany has a lot to do with it.
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#243> 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…
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Re: An NFC movie library for my kids
#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am slowly preparing myself, but the usage tracking made me wonder. What are you planning to do?
So whenever the card is held to the reader a script starts and plays the media and shuts down the TV after the episode has run. It's easy enough to measure the accumulated script runtime and disable the reader once a daily allowance has been reached. Though I am not a fan of an allowance like that. Nevertheless, tracking the script runtime is easy enough. It's a family TV, but a private TV can easily be tracked via p…
Do you have episode run time just baked into each script or does it track via some other HA event to know when to turn off?
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#245This 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 (…
That kind of innovation is quite common abroad. No one is paying for content or cares about copyright in poorer countries. There is more content now then there are eyeballs or time available to consume any of it. What happens to value and price of product when there is more of it produced than consumed?
Keep an eye on the financials of the streaming services; at the moment few are profitable, and they will increase their prices and/or decrease their spending on new productions.
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#246I've been buying CDs as well as burning FLAC albums I have on blanks for basically this same reason, the limited choices and slightly higher switching costs is more enjoyable to me. And CDs still cost about as much as they ever did, which means they're much cheaper now with inflation.
I found vinyl CD labels [1] that I can print on my color laser printer that look pretty decent, it only takes a few minutes to burn the CD, find an image of a retail disc and put it in the label's Canva template.
My car is a 2017 and it still has a CD player, and I also found a fairly inexpensive portable player [2] that charges with USB-C, the anti-skip is pretty impressive now. I can put it in my pocket and walk around or clean the house and I've never had it skip, it will actually spin down the disc when it's read far enough ahead.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C2V9D3FD
[2] https://klimtechs.com/products/klim-nomad-portable-cd-player...
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#247Amazing write up and work in general putting this together - this is such an ideal form of the word "hack" in its incredibly low cost, durability, and usefulness. I was staggered when I saw your build cost list - I know ESPs are in the realm of "Cheap AF" but all of those NFC cards also for $9?! This is one of the few reasons I would shop Alibaba! We're talking around $15 total for the full NFC setup if you can print…
You can get loads of NFC tags as stickers extremely cheap. I think using the cards is better here just for durability but if you're willing to put in a bit more DIY and accept a slightly less durable final product you could print it on a heavy card stock and stick one of the innumerable NFC stickers to that then laminate.
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#248Loved reading that and realising that the author has hit on something. I do wonder though, who was looking after the house and kids whilst the author spent all the time researching and building!
Re: An NFC movie library for my kids
#249This 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 (…
If there's a business case to be made, companies like Netflix might release a physical product for this... but I doubt they would, because of the investment and time required vs the revenue. Spotify tried something with an in-car device, but they cancelled and recalled the product pretty quickly.
Streaming services rely on volume; for them, hardware just isn't worth it.
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#250Awesome. Reminded me of Yoto, an internet radio style thing for kids that uses little NFC cards. https://us.yotoplay.com/ Techmoan reviewed it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mQECKOkkqk Less directly was Tonies, an audio player for kids that uses NFC on Skyrim style figures to trigger stories. https://us.tonies.com/ Techmoan did a video on that too (it’s how I know about both): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…
If you are looking for a FOSS alternative to tonies, yoto and such I would also recommend the DIY TonUINO project. The boards are built into boxes, toys (from fire engines to plush) and whatever sparks imagination. https://discourse.voss.earth/t/tonuino-gehaeuse-galerie/786/... Most of the community speaks German, but there is also an English section https://discourse.voss.earth/c/international/11 The source code is…
There is also the similar Phoniebox community which is using Rasperry Pis:
https://phoniebox.de/
Here is my build that fits into a wooden police bus. The figures put on the driver seat start the music: https://github.com/Bronkoknorb/hermibox