The DIVX Tapes with Fred Armisen (Office Hours After Hours Exclusive)

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  • Опубликовано: 29 сен 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.
    Watch the rest of this episode of AFTER HOURS, get into THE JOEL HOEL and find much more HOT CONTENT at / officehourslive

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  • @SaucyMcSaucer
    @SaucyMcSaucer 3 года назад +217

    This is the fucking inspiration for all of cinco

    • @nivlacyevips
      @nivlacyevips 3 года назад +4

      @@joeygarza9550 My fence wood is so moistened

    • @nebulousisgod
      @nebulousisgod 2 года назад

      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.

    • @byHexted
      @byHexted 2 года назад +1

      I always thought Globochem from Mr Show was the inspiration for Cinco

    • @kenneld
      @kenneld Год назад +4

      DIVX sounds like the plan for me, but what about my teeth? Shouldn't I have them removed before watching DIVX media?

    • @bardsamok9221
      @bardsamok9221 Год назад

      @@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.

  • @broncotrolly
    @broncotrolly Год назад +1

    the guy in the blue shirt " I ama not work here, ima customer"

  • @ahouse8600
    @ahouse8600 Год назад +1

    What year was this from?

  • @galaxophone
    @galaxophone 3 года назад

    lol divix... and I always thought it was div ex

  • @mnfreeman
    @mnfreeman 3 года назад +217

    Twice a month, in the middle of the night, the player makes a toll-free call to a billing computer

    • @mrjameson9146
      @mrjameson9146 2 года назад +23

      Nothing out of the ordinary

    • @Continuouz93
      @Continuouz93 Год назад +1

      DIVX RULES.

    • @alistercaddy1208
      @alistercaddy1208 Год назад +7

      Wow, that sounds easy! But aren't these disposable discs bad for the environment?

    • @bellybombs
      @bellybombs 11 месяцев назад +2

      Tim's reaction here is almost on the level of Farley's Colombian Coffee Crystals

    • @goodolarchie
      @goodolarchie 11 месяцев назад +1

      And if the player and billing computer form a special connection... Maybe the calls get more frequent. Maybe they start taking a sultry tone.

  • @skaneverdies
    @skaneverdies 3 года назад +193

    Impossibly convoluted tech for almost zero return straight out early Awesome Show. I was dying watching this.

    • @MrEricSir
      @MrEricSir 3 года назад +23

      My mind immediately jumped to "The Innernette" sketch on watching this.

    • @chainlightning58
      @chainlightning58 3 года назад +16

      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.

    • @kashthrills
      @kashthrills 2 года назад +15

      @@MrEricSir this thing compatible with the cinco MIDI organizer? i don't want to have to buy 'camptown racers' on a whole new format

  • @RockSleeper
    @RockSleeper 2 года назад +154

    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.

    • @dusk_ene
      @dusk_ene Год назад +2

      Underrated comment

    • @FunlandRobot
      @FunlandRobot Год назад +4

      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?

    • @Elrond_Hubbard_1
      @Elrond_Hubbard_1 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@FunlandRobot
      _I'm teaching your son about the universe!_

  • @onecurbatatime
    @onecurbatatime 3 года назад +82

    The host of the divx video became a news anchor in my hometown

    • @gnarsore
      @gnarsore 3 года назад +18

      How many buttons do his polos have now?

    • @russellwaynemorton
      @russellwaynemorton 3 года назад +3

      Juan Conde represent

    • @justinclair77
      @justinclair77 3 года назад +3

      RVA ALL DAY!

    • @greglinsmythe3375
      @greglinsmythe3375 2 года назад +1

      Prove it, take a poop in front of us and turn it into wine

    • @EhrenLoudermilk
      @EhrenLoudermilk 24 дня назад

      ​@@gnarsoreever get an answer for this? Asking for a friend

  • @Booksaplenty1
    @Booksaplenty1 2 года назад +40

    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.

    • @jaxonpickett6372
      @jaxonpickett6372 5 месяцев назад

      Every DIVX player comes with a tube of premium soothing cream for all those radiation burns!

  • @onlinetuna
    @onlinetuna 3 года назад +81

    That's clearly a 6 button polo

    • @ben_ivey
      @ben_ivey 3 года назад +2

      kek

    • @chainlightning58
      @chainlightning58 3 года назад +6

      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.

    • @frankcerra3216
      @frankcerra3216 3 года назад

      no, it's 12 you can't see lower row

    • @bernlin2000
      @bernlin2000 3 года назад +1

      I cannot even comprehend.

    • @phillip5245
      @phillip5245 3 года назад +1

      Reports say that scientists have almost perfected the 7 button polo...what a time to be alive!

  • @ThisFinalHandle
    @ThisFinalHandle 3 года назад +44

    Go out of business!? Are you nuts? That's like asking if Blockbuster would go bankrupt.

  • @rabiroden
    @rabiroden 3 года назад +56

    So it tracks everything I watch _and_ it makes secret phone calls in the middle of the night? Sign me up!

    • @420JackG
      @420JackG 3 года назад +3

      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.

  • @sz5876
    @sz5876 2 года назад +17

    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.

  • @HenchGuyBlast
    @HenchGuyBlast 2 года назад +6

    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.

  • @bernlin2000
    @bernlin2000 2 года назад +27

    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.

  • @swish007
    @swish007 2 года назад +9

    "what if YOU go outta business?" lol

  • @themutante2321
    @themutante2321 3 года назад +35

    Tim 'Seder' Heidecker - "Pause it!"

  • @hhantel
    @hhantel Год назад +29

    I love that one of the questions is, "DivX knows what you watch. Isn't that like Big Brother?" and he responds, "Yes."

  • @marzilyas
    @marzilyas 3 года назад +37

    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.

    • @slimekittenv
      @slimekittenv 3 года назад +4

      And it made orange shirt enough money that he just became a primarily research focussed college proffessor

    • @Hyxtryx
      @Hyxtryx Год назад +1

      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.

    • @ApolloVIIIYouAreGoForTLI
      @ApolloVIIIYouAreGoForTLI 7 месяцев назад +1

      Wait... DiVX has gone out of business?

  • @Elrond_Hubbard_1
    @Elrond_Hubbard_1 10 месяцев назад +9

    Doug's genuine surprise of "Wait, these are _disposable?!_ That's how DIVX works?"

  • @slimekittenv
    @slimekittenv 3 года назад +20

    Orange shirt was my college professor and told us about having worked on div x in his youth

    • @Asle_Kaspersen
      @Asle_Kaspersen 2 года назад +3

      WHY IS NO ONE ASKING HIM ABOUT THE BUTTONS !!!?

    • @ylette
      @ylette 2 года назад +2

      Did he teach you how to divide by x?

  • @gradycp
    @gradycp 3 года назад +57

    4:55 is the hardest I’ve ever seen Tim laugh at anything, this is incredible

    • @lewiscollins1851
      @lewiscollins1851 2 года назад +1

      or doug's yangtze river pun

    • @willywonka7812
      @willywonka7812 2 года назад +9

      Well Fred Armisen is a painfully funny fellow

    • @troydegnan3001
      @troydegnan3001 Год назад

      @@lewiscollins1851where can I find this pun

    • @paulb8030
      @paulb8030 Год назад +7

      That "well what if the sun don't shine?" was hilarious

    • @Ohenry92
      @Ohenry92 5 месяцев назад

      @@paulb8030 What if YOU go outta business? lol

  • @HenryBloggit
    @HenryBloggit Год назад +7

    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.

    • @Elrond_Hubbard_1
      @Elrond_Hubbard_1 10 месяцев назад +1

      p2p file sharing in the early internet was a fun time

    • @Kansanite
      @Kansanite Месяц назад +1

      FrostWire represent 🎉

  • @boppob1343
    @boppob1343 2 года назад +9

    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

    • @tomhorrid
      @tomhorrid 2 года назад

      Is that what it is?? I’ve been trying to figure out wtf differentiates it from normal DVD player

    • @hipsterelephant2660
      @hipsterelephant2660 2 года назад

      It's literally just DRM encrypted DVDs but with no extras from the DVDs except the trailer. It didn't even last a year.

  • @JNelsonArt
    @JNelsonArt 2 года назад +4

    I'll stick with my Cinco video cube, thanks

  • @landetinuti758
    @landetinuti758 2 года назад +28

    He’s asking the guy with extra buttons and extended sleeves about environmental concerns.

    • @jahsina
      @jahsina 4 месяца назад

      What?

  • @trancebodega2739
    @trancebodega2739 2 года назад +13

    they were just ahead of their time. this is how everything works now

  • @johnulcer
    @johnulcer 3 года назад +76

    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!

    • @slimekittenv
      @slimekittenv 3 года назад +1

      Until this video I thought my proffessor (orange shirt ) had meant he invented DivX when he said something about this in class

    • @slimekittenv
      @slimekittenv 3 года назад

      Until this video I thought my proffessor (orange shirt ) had meant he invented DivX when he said something about this in class

    • @tranzco1173
      @tranzco1173 3 года назад +5

      @@slimekittenv Orange shirt was your professor? Prove it. How many buttons did his polo shirts have? Exactly how long were the sleeves?

    • @MarvinMonroe
      @MarvinMonroe 3 года назад +1

      Interesting! That's for the correction, I was wondering about all of that

    • @NoName-hj6cs
      @NoName-hj6cs 2 года назад +1

      time to install my codecs!

  • @MrHeathzilla
    @MrHeathzilla 3 года назад +23

    I remember thinking DivX was the absolute future. Instead it was the first Cinco product

    • @djangofett4879
      @djangofett4879 3 года назад +2

      it definitely was not the first Cinco product 🤣

    • @555Tbird
      @555Tbird 3 года назад +3

      Even better, there were failed disposable rental DVDs after this that would basically self destruct 48 hours after being exposed to the laser.

    • @NN-sp9tu
      @NN-sp9tu 2 года назад +1

      @@555Tbird my god..

  • @Continuouz93
    @Continuouz93 Год назад +3

    The orange polo actually has 6 buttons.

  • @walexander8378
    @walexander8378 3 года назад +16

    Imagine if that polo was a full button down. We're talking 17 buttons here.

  • @redolentthought7085
    @redolentthought7085 3 года назад +10

    "We have disc recycling bins set up - right next to every 5th Kodak Film dropbox."

  • @mulatso7959
    @mulatso7959 3 года назад +17

    The Tairy Greene machine is waaay easier to operate.

    • @Mega_Mikey
      @Mega_Mikey 2 года назад +1

      You hit the nail on the head

  • @steelberg23
    @steelberg23 3 года назад +9

    “These are all confrontations” 😂

  • @ruthie8785
    @ruthie8785 8 месяцев назад +3

    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.

  • @jonnyturtleneck7153
    @jonnyturtleneck7153 2 года назад +5

    Divx sounds like it’s something Cinco created

  • @thebearthebeard7438
    @thebearthebeard7438 3 года назад +14

    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.

    • @kyleanderson2949
      @kyleanderson2949 2 года назад

      Half off on your next crate of polos if you are able to add brand-authentic buttons down to the belly button zone?

  • @ryanaiden
    @ryanaiden 2 года назад +16

    I love how Tim still appreciates this kind of film that he parodies 😂

    • @broncotrolly
      @broncotrolly Год назад +2

      I really wish they would do more stuff like this. Its always fun

  • @marfaxa
    @marfaxa 3 года назад +12

    no DIVX gold titles were ever released

  • @stevieb89
    @stevieb89 2 года назад +3

    "What if YOU go out of business smart guy!"

  • @keeKeeConnolly
    @keeKeeConnolly 3 года назад +7

    Didn't hurt at all when they tore all my teeth out

    • @gradycp
      @gradycp 3 года назад +3

      You gotta nice set of pearly whites!

  • @birth0fserpents
    @birth0fserpents 3 года назад +21

    the sopranos bit had me HOWLING

    • @Vonliktenstien
      @Vonliktenstien 3 года назад +11

      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.”

    • @QQ-yi6yg
      @QQ-yi6yg 2 года назад

      Joe Webb goes deep with the Sopranos, brothaman brothaman

  • @deedotyou
    @deedotyou 2 года назад +4

    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

  • @x0rn312
    @x0rn312 3 года назад +4

    I think if you look closely there is a 6th button on the lapel

  • @levelanchorage
    @levelanchorage 3 года назад +30

    vic's laugh is amazing!

  • @ThisFinalHandle
    @ThisFinalHandle 3 года назад +9

    No DIVX DVDs were pirated during the making of this video.

  • @TomasLaverty1000
    @TomasLaverty1000 2 года назад +2

    Now we know why Circuit City is dead.

  • @arenard765
    @arenard765 3 года назад +4

    Welcome to reasonable shirts

  • @panchoverde5078
    @panchoverde5078 3 года назад +5

    Hey I was trying to hear about DivX

  • @MoonBull13
    @MoonBull13 2 года назад +3

    I feel like I'm being sold a ponzi scheme lmao

  • @tzazella751
    @tzazella751 2 года назад +2

    5 buttons + long sleeves = trustworthy. yes, sign me up for divx. i am now a customer.

  • @timothylong3722
    @timothylong3722 6 месяцев назад +1

    This exciting DIVX format sounds purfily good to me. Not sure what went wrong.

  • @rashauncassells7643
    @rashauncassells7643 2 года назад +3

    So that's what finally put circuit city out of business

  • @Gannooch
    @Gannooch 9 месяцев назад +1

    3:34 “it’s almost impossible to believe that Divx will go under.” HAHHAHAHHAHAHA!

  • @DR-420-69
    @DR-420-69 5 месяцев назад +1

    DIVX released: June 8, 1998
    DIVX discontinued: June 16 1999

  • @Lortenerfrisk
    @Lortenerfrisk 2 года назад +2

    Thats a 6 button polo

  • @AloisWeimar
    @AloisWeimar 3 года назад +3

    national digital video privacy act, I just made that up

  • @IheartDLX
    @IheartDLX 3 года назад +7

    you guys have to post some of Fred’s palindromes, they had me in tears

  • @MeissnerEffect
    @MeissnerEffect Год назад +1

    Lady: So, what if Div-X goes out of business? Man: Do you even know about astronomy idiot?

  • @humanonearth1
    @humanonearth1 2 года назад +3

    I'm still waiting for extra long short sleeve wide arm shirts to make a comeback! lol

  • @RankedThreeGuys
    @RankedThreeGuys 6 месяцев назад +1

    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.

  • @MrVisde
    @MrVisde 2 года назад +3

    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…

  • @PlaybackMansion
    @PlaybackMansion 2 года назад +2

    It's six buttons

  • @tjacksondolph4026
    @tjacksondolph4026 3 года назад +3

    "Why do I need to connect the DIVx IV to my vein?"

  • @eligreene635
    @eligreene635 3 года назад +4

    I don't get outta bed for less than 5 buttons!

  • @Ricoxemani
    @Ricoxemani 3 года назад +4

    It feels like a cinco product

  • @gregfelice1969
    @gregfelice1969 3 года назад +2

    DIVX, from Cinco

  • @bbbbbb223
    @bbbbbb223 2 года назад +1

    I give this polo five buttons and one midnight, toll-free call.

  • @GullySyde28
    @GullySyde28 3 года назад +2

    5 button polo shirt i dont f@#k around ;)

  • @brianmoore493
    @brianmoore493 2 года назад +1

    Perfely, a verbal shorthand if you will.

  • @BoeBins
    @BoeBins Год назад +2

    Twice a month, in the middle of the night, I revisit this video.

  • @tunelowplayslow5623
    @tunelowplayslow5623 4 месяца назад +1

    My favorite office hours clip ❤

  • @shaymcvay
    @shaymcvay Год назад +1

    I've never had a credit card >:T and I am NOT a loser ☝

  • @henryyuliano3288
    @henryyuliano3288 3 года назад +2

    I’ve seen this video an unhealthy number of times.

  • @bcook7591
    @bcook7591 3 года назад +4

    DIVX is a SURE thing!

  • @PossumMedic
    @PossumMedic 3 года назад +1

    Please stop talking through the video!

  • @enp82003
    @enp82003 3 года назад +1

    Kinda sounds like Disney plus and Netflix...

  • @tayloreh
    @tayloreh 2 года назад +1

    Then they pull out your teeth.

  • @antoinej18
    @antoinej18 Год назад +1

    A polo with 6 buttons 😂😂

  • @Exodus26.13Pi
    @Exodus26.13Pi 3 года назад +3

    DVD, I wish you were my son.

  • @lanewalp8727
    @lanewalp8727 2 года назад +1

    IT HAS 6 BUTTONS😹

  • @goodolarchie
    @goodolarchie 11 месяцев назад

    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!

  • @chadleyb79
    @chadleyb79 2 года назад +1

    Prfmectaly

  • @geo8367
    @geo8367 3 года назад +2

    Who could have ever seen this not working out?

  • @johnrivers3813
    @johnrivers3813 Год назад

    Wait so you’d be charged for every time you watch a movie? But you already bought it. Fuck it I’m going back to VHS

  • @DR-420-69
    @DR-420-69 5 месяцев назад

    DIVX released: June 8, 1998
    DIVX discontinued: June 16 1999

  • @Hattothefuture
    @Hattothefuture 3 года назад +1

    At minute 5:30 Minnesota Vikings QB Kurt Cousins makes a cameo!!!!!!

  • @0ctag0nZer0
    @0ctag0nZer0 2 года назад +1

    I definitely see some CINCO inspiration here...

  • @thugvida
    @thugvida Год назад

    did anyone actually have this? is this how we got all the videos with the divx logo on the bottom right of videos?

  • @EaZyKiNg
    @EaZyKiNg 24 дня назад

    @1:20 the fact that it's actually a 6 button polo 😂😂😂

  • @Andrew-np4nw
    @Andrew-np4nw 2 месяца назад

    Pretty sure the guy at 3:21 is Jake Sisko from DS9

  • @dewsplash
    @dewsplash 3 года назад +13

    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.

    • @deesnutz42069
      @deesnutz42069 2 года назад +3

      you're confusing DIVX with DivX. the codec isn't the same thing as the format.

    • @dewsplash
      @dewsplash 2 года назад +1

      @@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.

  • @MissingNumb
    @MissingNumb Год назад

    Ahh divx, the codec for the people, (at least at the time...)...

  • @brianearle1219
    @brianearle1219 Год назад

    The Grateful Dead would like to know why it needs to be near a phone line.

  • @BushyHairedStranger
    @BushyHairedStranger 3 года назад +1

    Is this a Landmark Forum encounter group??

  • @DrimawayValorant
    @DrimawayValorant Год назад

    "Its impossible"...Well, I don't see you now.

  • @LukeMcGuireoides
    @LukeMcGuireoides 2 года назад +1

    5 BUTTON POLO, NOW!!!

    • @LukeMcGuireoides
      @LukeMcGuireoides 2 года назад

      I was gonna post this comment. I already had lol

  • @hugohugo37
    @hugohugo37 3 года назад +2

    DIVX lasted ONE year.

    • @DrVRhodes7541
      @DrVRhodes7541 2 года назад +1

      One month shorter than the video used to explain DIVX. One month shorter than it took to button up that shirt.

  • @kyleanderson2949
    @kyleanderson2949 3 года назад +6

    “I don’t know, they just throw all your stuff away” -Fred

  • @vedicardi
    @vedicardi 3 года назад +3

    divx was a sick codec though

    • @vedicardi
      @vedicardi 3 года назад +4

      oh the codec and the divx player are completely unrelated... why the fuck were there two companies in the 90s?