The DIVX Tapes with Fred Armisen (Office Hours After Hours Exclusive)
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- Enjoy this piping hot peak behind the paywall of the Office Hours Patreon! When Doug discovered these old Circuit City training videos he had to share it with the trin and Fred Armisen.
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Twice a month, in the middle of the night, the player shines a light in your son's room to teach him about the universe.
Underrated comment
Get out of my yard and why are you communicating to my son? Why are you in all black? Behind my bushes shining a light into my house?
@@Vometbomb
_I'm teaching your son about the universe!_
Twice a month, in the middle of the night, the player makes a toll-free call to a billing computer
Nothing out of the ordinary
DIVX RULES.
Wow, that sounds easy! But aren't these disposable discs bad for the environment?
Tim's reaction here is almost on the level of Farley's Colombian Coffee Crystals
And if the player and billing computer form a special connection... Maybe the calls get more frequent. Maybe they start taking a sultry tone.
Impossibly convoluted tech for almost zero return straight out early Awesome Show. I was dying watching this.
My mind immediately jumped to "The Innernette" sketch on watching this.
Right? I love these tech solutions from the 80s and 90s!!! Like how would this be more convenient than just going to a rental store or buying a physical copy of the disc? They can't even sell the product on their training video. What a beautiful, hilarious train wreck of a product.
@@MrEricSir this thing compatible with the cinco MIDI organizer? i don't want to have to buy 'camptown racers' on a whole new format
This is the fucking inspiration for all of cinco
@@joeygarza9550 My fence wood is so moistened
No way. This way around during the early days of T&E. There are many older early-90s videos that are much more Cinco-y.
I always thought Globochem from Mr Show was the inspiration for Cinco
DIVX sounds like the plan for me, but what about my teeth? Shouldn't I have them removed before watching DIVX media?
@@kenneld Good news Ken, you can remove your teeth by biting the bullet and buying Cinco NOW!! All payments to be paid by cash envelope.
I love that one of the questions is, "DivX knows what you watch. Isn't that like Big Brother?" and he responds, "Yes."
The host of the divx video became a news anchor in my hometown
How many buttons do his polos have now?
Juan Conde represent
RVA ALL DAY!
Prove it, take a poop in front of us and turn it into wine
I think the 5-button polo is one of my favorite moments of the entire podcast XD these guys riffing with Fred is just absolute platinum-quality stuff, forget gold.
Doug's genuine surprise of "Wait, these are _disposable?!_ That's how DIVX works?"
The first step in installing your DIVX entertainment system involves removing your teeth so that there is no chance of radiation traveling through your mouth, as DIVX systems work with a dangerous level of radiation that pulsates twice a month while you sleep. Make sure you never leave your DVIX system near your child’s bedroom, or near where children or pets play.
Every DIVX player comes with a tube of premium soothing cream for all those radiation burns!
4:55 is the hardest I’ve ever seen Tim laugh at anything, this is incredible
or doug's yangtze river pun
Well Fred Armisen is a painfully funny fellow
@@lewiscollins1851where can I find this pun
That "well what if the sun don't shine?" was hilarious
@@paulb8030 What if YOU go outta business? lol
DIVX was basically a way for studios to prevent piracy at the expense of user friendliness in the early days of DVD. It was discontinued after a year.
And it made orange shirt enough money that he just became a primarily research focussed college proffessor
No it wasn't, because DVDs were already encrypted. It was a way to prevent loaning them to your friends or selling used ones, and the studios not getting any money from that.
Wait... DiVX has gone out of business?
So it tracks everything I watch _and_ it makes secret phone calls in the middle of the night? Sign me up!
Now people buy a totally separate device which functions primarily as a passive microphone because it theoretically makes buying soap easier (or whatever). 20 years ago a corporate board thought they'd have to get out in front of the fact that they wanted their DVD player be able to update, today we just take it as a given that we are constantly under surveillance or we just don't think about it all.
Those of us of a certain age remember downloading DVD rips in a .divx format off Limewire and Pirate Bay. The creators of that format gave it the file extension .divx as a middle-finger to this Circuit City disposable disk shit. It wasn’t affiliated with DIVX in any way, and it actually ended up being around much longer than the DIVX player and disk format.
p2p file sharing in the early internet was a fun time
FrostWire represent 🎉
"what if YOU go outta business?" lol
The National Video Privacy Act was Reagan's final law he signed in '88. a bi-partisan effort "to ensure video tape rental data privacy for the next century" with the rental data archives made available by the Smithsonian no earlier than 2088.
Tim 'Seder' Heidecker - "Pause it!"
The Timjority Report
That's clearly a 6 button polo
kek
Top button's gone. You'd better believe that all 6 of those would be buttoned up if not. He's a tight neck, lose sleeves kinda guy.
no, it's 12 you can't see lower row
I cannot even comprehend.
Reports say that scientists have almost perfected the 7 button polo...what a time to be alive!
Go out of business!? Are you nuts? That's like asking if Blockbuster would go bankrupt.
“These are all confrontations” 😂
Orange shirt was my college professor and told us about having worked on div x in his youth
WHY IS NO ONE ASKING HIM ABOUT THE BUTTONS !!!?
Did he teach you how to divide by x?
I love how Tim still appreciates this kind of film that he parodies 😂
I really wish they would do more stuff like this. Its always fun
The orange polo actually has 6 buttons.
Twice a month, in the middle of the night, the player will broadcast a buzzing tone at a rate of approximately 4,625 kHz and 25 tones per minute followed by two call-signs before communicating directly to the Kremlin in a message block consisting of one code word and eight digits.
DivX brings back so much nostalgia. Crazy. Haven't thought about or heard that name in years. EDIT: Apparently DivX is not the same as DIVX, the company in this video. The former is an encoding format for videos, which still exists. The latter was a failed attempt to charge people more for renting/buying movies that could only be played on their personal devices. Crazy it didn't take off!
Until this video I thought my proffessor (orange shirt ) had meant he invented DivX when he said something about this in class
Until this video I thought my proffessor (orange shirt ) had meant he invented DivX when he said something about this in class
@@slimekittenv Orange shirt was your professor? Prove it. How many buttons did his polo shirts have? Exactly how long were the sleeves?
Interesting! That's for the correction, I was wondering about all of that
time to install my codecs!
they were just ahead of their time. this is how everything works now
"We have disc recycling bins set up - right next to every 5th Kodak Film dropbox."
I remember thinking DivX was the absolute future. Instead it was the first Cinco product
it definitely was not the first Cinco product 🤣
Even better, there were failed disposable rental DVDs after this that would basically self destruct 48 hours after being exposed to the laser.
@@555Tbird my god..
oh my good god i am crying and laughing pls @ 4:04 the perfect push in when the guy is asked if divx will ever go out of business
I'll stick with my Cinco video cube, thanks
the sopranos bit had me HOWLING
Totally sounds like something Christopher would try and sell Tony on. “T, it’s full-proof. Divx is what the guys in LA are shooting pornos on now.”
Joe Webb goes deep with the Sopranos, brothaman brothaman
vic's laugh is amazing!
Wholesome
Divx sounds like it’s something Cinco created
You guys didn't know that that's what the 2 extra buttons sewn into the shirt are for? It's a little game built into the shirt. You are supposed to add the 2 extra buttons to make 5 and then you have to take a photo and hand mail it to the manufacturer that you've done it.
Half off on your next crate of polos if you are able to add brand-authentic buttons down to the belly button zone?
Imagine if that polo was a full button down. We're talking 17 buttons here.
Yes, please
Full buttown-down polo shirt has a total Cinco vibe.
He’s asking the guy with extra buttons and extended sleeves about environmental concerns.
What?
Twice a month, in the middle of the night, I revisit this video.
"What if YOU go out of business smart guy!"
3:34 “it’s almost impossible to believe that Divx will go under.” HAHHAHAHHAHAHA!
5 buttons + long sleeves = trustworthy. yes, sign me up for divx. i am now a customer.
DIVX (the dvd thing they’re talking about in the video) has NOTHING to do with the DivX video encoding format. Two separate, unrelated things. Carry on.
The Tairy Greene machine is waaay easier to operate.
You hit the nail on the head
holy shit, they literally tried to sell DVDs that you don't actually own the right to watch more than a certain amount of times. What the fuck LMAO
Is that what it is?? I’ve been trying to figure out wtf differentiates it from normal DVD player
It's literally just DRM encrypted DVDs but with no extras from the DVDs except the trailer. It didn't even last a year.
Welcome to reasonable shirts
I feel like I'm being sold a ponzi scheme lmao
"Why do I need to connect the DIVx IV to my vein?"
My favorite office hours clip ❤
no DIVX gold titles were ever released
Lol
I’ve seen this video an unhealthy number of times.
you guys have to post some of Fred’s palindromes, they had me in tears
I'm still waiting for extra long short sleeve wide arm shirts to make a comeback! lol
No DIVX DVDs were pirated during the making of this video.
Didn't hurt at all when they tore all my teeth out
You gotta nice set of pearly whites!
the guy in the blue shirt " I ama not work here, ima customer"
national digital video privacy act, I just made that up
I think if you look closely there is a 6th button on the lapel
It's six buttons
facts
I give this polo five buttons and one midnight, toll-free call.
Hey I was trying to hear about DivX
DIVX released: June 8, 1998
DIVX discontinued: June 16 1999
Thats a 6 button polo
facts
LMAO, my first DVD player from Circuit City was DIVX compatible. I wouldn’t even know where to find a DIVX disc back then. So convoluted…
This exciting DIVX format sounds purfily good to me. Not sure what went wrong.
I don't get outta bed for less than 5 buttons!
A polo with 6 buttons 😂😂
DIVX is a SURE thing!
For those that watched downloaded movies in the early 2000's divx was a common format. Good option to view a near dvd quality rip and burn it to a CD. Problem for divx was nobody bought the divx players which were basically just DVD players that also played divx. A d the software to rip dvd to divx was easily cracked and readily available for free.
you're confusing DIVX with DivX. the codec isn't the same thing as the format.
@@deesnutz42069 You are correct sir. I was confused because I remember there were players that did play the DivX codec. Never knew about these circuit city players.
“I don’t know, they just throw all your stuff away” -Fred
It feels like a cinco product
When all is said and done, and the earth is reduced to a post nuclear hellscape, all that's left will be cokroaches and DivX.
DIVX, from Cinco
I’m dying at the guys shirt
So that's what finally put circuit city out of business
I definitely see some CINCO inspiration here...
A lot of the banter is garbled, and it seems like so much fun
Now we know why Circuit City is dead.
_For your convenience_ she says!
Lady: So, what if Div-X goes out of business? Man: Do you even know about astronomy idiot?
Perfely, a verbal shorthand if you will.
LMFAO! Thanks for this!
1:45 Great to see Glenn Tennis!
5 BUTTON POLO, NOW!!!
I was gonna post this comment. I already had lol
At minute 5:30 Minnesota Vikings QB Kurt Cousins makes a cameo!!!!!!
"Its impossible"...Well, I don't see you now.
5 button polo shirt i dont f@#k around ;)
Pretty sure the guy at 3:21 is Jake Sisko from DS9
Who could have ever seen this not working out?
Check the wikipedia page: the technology literally lasted eight days before they discontinued it.
Sorry, one year and eight days. Still, good question about the business IMHO
This is a CZcams full circle moment
What’s crazy is that they haven’t gone out of business
IT HAS 6 BUTTONS😹
Back when I used to burn movies off of pirate bay and BearShare I would put them in a DivX format and put like four to six movies on one disc... it's was the shiiiiit
Ahh divx, the codec for the people, (at least at the time...)...
DVD, I wish you were my son.
divx was a sick codec though
oh the codec and the divx player are completely unrelated... why the fuck were there two companies in the 90s?
They just breezed past the fact that this thing charged you for subsequent viewings. It asked dad for permission every time you watched something. But Dad only gave it if you handed him a bit of MONEY!
The Grateful Dead would like to know why it needs to be near a phone line.
DIVX by Cinco…here to stay!
bring back the flex play disc ASAP!!!!!
Is that Steve Ballmer at 5:43?
DON’T ANSWER!
What year was this from?