I unpacked the box, and had this hooked up to watch the first movie within an hour. The only issue with hookup was in modifying the video output to use the HDMI instead of the standard output that came with the ClearPlay. I found this issue talked about in the FAQ's, and resolved it quickly. I rented "Up In the Air", which is a romantic comedy, rated R to test it out. Two F bombs were missed by the filtering right at the beginning, but other than that, I was comfortable enough to put down the remote and relax for the remainder of the movie. I love the levels of filtering, and I suppose I should have lightened them up a little bit for the rated R movie. Some phrases were totally bleeped out which resulted in lost content, but I found it worth it to be able to skip over unwanted content. I think ClearPlay will work best for those PG-13 rated movies, like Benjamin Button. There wasn't much filtering needed, just a few curse words, and sex scenes. The sex scenes filtered out nicely, we see the couple embrace, maybe kiss, then it appears that the camera cuts away (just a little sooner leaving all of the details to the imagination). Overall, love the quality, and any compromise of lost content is worth it. The only other issue I had was with loading the easy updates (loads all available filters instead of one by one for each movie). Customer service quickly resolved this for me, they have a call back system, so I didn't have to wait on the line, and the english speaking representative walked me through re-formatting the usb filter stick. Within minutes, all of the available filters were loaded. I am recommending this to friends, waited a long time to be able to expand the selection of movies in our household. Great job!!
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