A new tool lets parents mar classic films in the name of cleaning them up!

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for CNET News.com: Trilogy Studios to offer home censor kit.

Software maker Trilogy Studios said it plans to release a home “censorware” product that will cut scenes and language from DVDs to create PG versions of R-rated movies.

The company, which launched a new Web site last week, said it plans to unveil its Movie Mask DVD player by the first quarter of 2002. The software works on PCs and Microsoft’s Xbox game console, telling the device to skip over specific frames in the film that portray violence, profanity or nudity. The company said the DVD remains unaffected, since the censorship instructions reside in the video playback device.

In addition to taking scenes out of a film, the software can be used to put more “wholesome” scenes in. While Movie Mask might cut the violent moments from the opening scene of Steven Spielberg’s World War II epic “Saving Private Ryan,” for example, it also lets parents add educational links to battle maps or a biography of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.

“Choice is the main thing,” said Breck Rice, chief revenue officer for Trilogy Studios. Trilogy wanted to “share some of the great Hollywood movies with…children but wanted to show it at a level that they could handle a little better.”