Speaker 1: Disney comes to Google StreetView. I'm Rich Dmiro and this
Speaker 1: is Rich on Tech Daily. Google is launching street view
Speaker 1: imagery of eleven Disney theme and water parks in California
Speaker 1: and Florida and some downtown Disney stores. You can go
Speaker 1: online and see all the new locations right now. Some
Speaker 1: of them include the Animal Kingdom in Orlando, the World
Speaker 1: of Avatar, Epcot, pavilions for the UK, France, Morocco, Japan, Italy,
Speaker 1: Germany and more, Guardians of the Galaxy at California Adventure
Speaker 1: and much much more now. I remember the first time
Speaker 1: that I went to Disney back in the day, many
Speaker 1: many years ago. I went to the one in Florida,
Speaker 1: and it was all such a mystery to me because
Speaker 1: back then there was really no Internet. You would actually
Speaker 1: mail away for brochs, I know, can you believe it?
Speaker 1: So seeing these places for the first time in person
Speaker 1: was just so on inspiring and crazy because you heard
Speaker 1: so much about them and maybe you saw a picture
Speaker 1: or two. But now with these street views, you can
Speaker 1: see everything in glorious three hundred and sixty degrees even
Speaker 1: before you visit. So this is handy for you know,
Speaker 1: just seeing the lay of the land, what you're in
Speaker 1: for planning a trip, all that good stuff, or you
Speaker 1: can relive the trip that you just had there.
Speaker 2: It's really cool.
Speaker 1: I love that Google's doing this, but I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if the next generation is going to feel the same
Speaker 1: way I did when I first saw these structures.
Speaker 2: In real life.
Speaker 1: But it is pretty nice to be able to see
Speaker 1: all this on your computer screen and then in real life. Now,
Speaker 1: if you want to take this to the next level,
Speaker 1: if you have a virtual reality headset like Google Daydream
Speaker 1: or any of the ones that are on the market,
Speaker 1: you can pop that on and look at the street
Speaker 1: view through there. And how cool is that you can
Speaker 1: basically walk through Disney virtually thanks to these new images.
Speaker 1: So I think this is really great. I'm glad that
Speaker 1: Disney did this, I'm glad that Google did this, and
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are going to be
Speaker 1: exploring These will probably become some of the most popular
Speaker 1: street view images on Google.
Speaker 2: If you want to see all the.
Speaker 1: Locations, I have a link to them on my website.
Speaker 1: Richontech dot TV. Netflix now making it easier for paying
Speaker 1: to control with their kids are watching with some new
Speaker 1: parental controls.
Speaker 2: Now first off.
Speaker 1: You can now set a pin to restrict viewing of
Speaker 1: certain maturity levels. So Netflix has a little slider you
Speaker 1: can go from little kids to older kids, teens, and adults.
Speaker 1: Right now, the best you can do, from what I
Speaker 1: can see, is say what age your kid is, like,
Speaker 1: I think it's like two to four, five to seven,
Speaker 1: stuff like that, and also mark their profile as kids.
Speaker 2: This gives you a little bit more granular control.
Speaker 1: And if you really want to get specific, you can
Speaker 1: now restrict certain titles by name. So if let's say
Speaker 1: you don't like your kid watching SpongeBob, you can type
Speaker 1: that into the box and next thing you know, Netflix
Speaker 1: will not allow that title to be played on your
Speaker 1: kid's profile.
Speaker 2: One more thing they're doing that's kind of cool is.
Speaker 1: They're showing you the ratings for programs a lot easier.
Speaker 1: So when you press play, the rating for the program
Speaker 1: will be played in the upper left hand corner. You'll
Speaker 1: see that burned on the screen for a couple seconds.
Speaker 1: So that makes it easier for parents to immediately see
Speaker 1: the ratings. And I've had this problem where my kid
Speaker 1: is watching a show and I'm like, wait a second,
Speaker 1: what's the rating on this program? And you have to
Speaker 1: go back like one hundred steps just to see the
Speaker 1: description of.
Speaker 2: The program to see the rating.
Speaker 1: And this will make it much much easier, so you
Speaker 1: can see it when you press play. All right, something
Speaker 1: Netflix did not make very easy or they did not change,
Speaker 1: is turning off auto play on kids' profiles. Now here's
Speaker 1: the deal. So here's what happens. Sometimes I'll be like
Speaker 1: to my kids, Hey, you can watch one show and
Speaker 1: then it's dinner time or one show, and then you
Speaker 1: have to go outside and play. And of course, as parents,
Speaker 1: we get busy, we get distracted. Next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit longer than you thought, and you
Speaker 1: look at the TV.
Speaker 2: And you're like, wait a second, is that still the
Speaker 2: same show? And your kids are of course going to
Speaker 2: say yes.
Speaker 1: But what really happened is that Netflix played the next
Speaker 1: episode or the next episode or the next episode all
Speaker 1: by itself.
Speaker 2: So if you want to turn this off so that
Speaker 2: the kids don't.
Speaker 1: Just see all the episodes of a show. For adults,
Speaker 1: Netflix makes it pretty easy. You just go into your account,
Speaker 1: you look onto your profile for playback settings, and you
Speaker 1: uncheck the box next to AutoPlay. But for kids, it's
Speaker 1: really tough because I went to try to turn this
Speaker 1: off and it's not easy to find it.
Speaker 2: Did some research. Here's what you have to do.
Speaker 1: First, you have to turn off their kid's profile, which
Speaker 1: is kind of weird. Then you go in and you
Speaker 1: can follow the same directions for adults to turn off
Speaker 1: the auto play. But then you have to reactivate their kids' profile.
Speaker 1: So for a little bit of time, their kids' profile
Speaker 1: is deactivated while.
Speaker 2: You change the settings, and then you reactivate it. I know,
Speaker 2: it's kind of crazy, seems kind of weird.
Speaker 1: It seems like parents should have much more control on
Speaker 1: their account, but again, Netflix is growing and they're just
Speaker 1: kind of realizing all these things they need as they
Speaker 1: go along. All right, full instructions for how to turn
Speaker 1: off the AutoPlay for your kids profile on my website.
Speaker 2: Just go to richon tech dot tv.
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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening. I'm rich Dedmiro, talk to
Speaker 2: you real soon.