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

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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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@RockSleeper 2 жыл бұрын

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_en Жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

@Vometbomb 9 ай бұрын

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?

@elrondhubbard7059 7 ай бұрын

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

@mnfreeman 2 жыл бұрын

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

@mrjameson9146 2 жыл бұрын

Nothing out of the ordinary

@Continuouz93 10 ай бұрын

DIVX RULES.

@alistercaddy1208 10 ай бұрын

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

@bellybombs 8 ай бұрын

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

@goodolarchie 8 ай бұрын

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

@SaucyMcSaucer 3 жыл бұрын

This is the fucking inspiration for all of cinco

@nivlacyevips 2 жыл бұрын

@@joeygarza9550 My fence wood is so moistened

@nebulousisgod 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@kenneld Жыл бұрын

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

@bardsamok9221 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@hhantel Жыл бұрын

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

@skaneverdies 3 жыл бұрын

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

@MrEricSir 3 жыл бұрын

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

@chainlightning58 3 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@onecurbatatime 3 жыл бұрын

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

@gnarsore 3 жыл бұрын

How many buttons do his polos have now?

@russellwaynemorton 3 жыл бұрын

Juan Conde represent

@justinclair77 3 жыл бұрын

RVA ALL DAY!

@greglinsmythe3375 2 жыл бұрын

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

@elrondhubbard7059 7 ай бұрын

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

@Booksaplenty1 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@sz5876 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@rabiroden 3 жыл бұрын

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

@420JackG 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@bernlin2000 Жыл бұрын

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.

@themutante2321 3 жыл бұрын

Tim 'Seder' Heidecker - "Pause it!"

@AloisWeimar 3 жыл бұрын

The Timjority Report

@swish007 2 жыл бұрын

"what if YOU go outta business?" lol

@ruthie8785 5 ай бұрын

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.

@HenryBloggit 10 ай бұрын

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.

@elrondhubbard7059 7 ай бұрын

p2p file sharing in the early internet was a fun time

@gradycp 3 жыл бұрын

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

@lewiscollins1851 2 жыл бұрын

or doug's yangtze river pun

@willywonka7812 2 жыл бұрын

Well Fred Armisen is a painfully funny fellow

@troydegnan3001 Жыл бұрын

@@lewiscollins1851where can I find this pun

@paulb8030 10 ай бұрын

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

@Ohenry92 2 ай бұрын

@@paulb8030 What if YOU go outta business? lol

@ThisFinalHandle 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Lachie55 3 жыл бұрын

That's clearly a 6 button polo

@ben_ivey 3 жыл бұрын

kek

@chainlightning58 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@bernlin2000 2 жыл бұрын

I cannot even comprehend.

@phillip5245 2 жыл бұрын

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

@marzilyas 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Hyxtryx 9 ай бұрын

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 4 ай бұрын

Wait... DiVX has gone out of business?

@steelberg23 2 жыл бұрын

“These are all confrontations” 😂

@slimekittenv 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Asle_Kaspersen 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ylette 2 жыл бұрын

Did he teach you how to divide by x?

@redolentthought7085 3 жыл бұрын

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

@ryanaiden 2 жыл бұрын

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

@broncotrolly 11 ай бұрын

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

@trancebodega2739 2 жыл бұрын

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

@deedotyou 2 жыл бұрын

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

@JNelsonArt 2 жыл бұрын

I'll stick with my Cinco video cube, thanks

@BoeBins 10 ай бұрын

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

@birth0fserpents 3 жыл бұрын

the sopranos bit had me HOWLING

@Vonliktenstien 3 жыл бұрын

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.”

@subliminalvibes 3 жыл бұрын

@@Vonliktenstien I think KZfaq didn't allow me to link you to the video but if you look up "Sopranos methamphetamine" and jump to 40 secs, you'll find the pure gold you described. 👌 God I miss that show.

@QQ-yi6yg 2 жыл бұрын

Joe Webb goes deep with the Sopranos, brothaman brothaman

@jonnyturtleneck7153 2 жыл бұрын

Divx sounds like it’s something Cinco created

@levelanchorage 3 жыл бұрын

vic's laugh is amazing!

@NathanOxenfeld 2 жыл бұрын

Wholesome

@johnulcer 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@slimekittenv 3 жыл бұрын

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

@tranzco1173 3 жыл бұрын

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

@MarvinMonroe 3 жыл бұрын

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

@NoName-hj6cs Жыл бұрын

time to install my codecs!

@walexander8378 3 жыл бұрын

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

@kyleanderson2949 Жыл бұрын

Yes, please

@nebojsadurmanovic2268 Жыл бұрын

Full buttown-down polo shirt has a total Cinco vibe.

@MrHeathzilla 3 жыл бұрын

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

@djangofett4879 3 жыл бұрын

it definitely was not the first Cinco product 🤣

@555Tbird 3 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

@@555Tbird my god..

@stevieb89 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Gannooch 6 ай бұрын

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

@landetinuti758 2 жыл бұрын

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

@jahsina Ай бұрын

What?

@broncotrolly 10 ай бұрын

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

@thebearthebeard7438 2 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@tjacksondolph4026 2 жыл бұрын

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

@x0rn312 3 жыл бұрын

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

@ThisFinalHandle 3 жыл бұрын

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

@mulatso7959 2 жыл бұрын

The Tairy Greene machine is waaay easier to operate.

@Mega_Mikey 2 жыл бұрын

You hit the nail on the head

@henryyuliano3288 2 жыл бұрын

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

@arenard765 3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to reasonable shirts

@Continuouz93 Жыл бұрын

The orange polo actually has 6 buttons.

@marfaxa 3 жыл бұрын

no DIVX gold titles were ever released

@gradycp 3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@humanonearth1 2 жыл бұрын

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

@tunelowplayslow5623 Ай бұрын

My favorite office hours clip ❤

@panchoverde5078 3 жыл бұрын

Hey I was trying to hear about DivX

@lalodominguez7121 2 жыл бұрын

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

@MrVisde 2 жыл бұрын

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…

@HenchGuyBlast 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@tzazella751 2 жыл бұрын

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

@boppob1343 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@hipsterelephant2660 Жыл бұрын

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

@subliminalvibes 3 жыл бұрын

Tony Soprano would never go for DIVX. He loved his Laserdiscs!

@seemose 3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@IheartDLX 3 жыл бұрын

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

@StingrayOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

LMFAO! Thanks for this!

@timothylong3722 3 ай бұрын

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

@antoinej18 Жыл бұрын

A polo with 6 buttons 😂😂

@bbbbbb223 Жыл бұрын

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

@keeKeeConnolly 3 жыл бұрын

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

@gradycp 3 жыл бұрын

You gotta nice set of pearly whites!

@Bootrosgali 3 жыл бұрын

A lot of the banter is garbled, and it seems like so much fun

@PlaybackMansion 2 жыл бұрын

It's six buttons

@lanewalp8727 2 жыл бұрын

facts

@eligreene635 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Lortenerfrisk 2 жыл бұрын

Thats a 6 button polo

@lanewalp8727 2 жыл бұрын

facts

@AloisWeimar 3 жыл бұрын

national digital video privacy act, I just made that up

@DR-420-69 2 ай бұрын

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

@bcook7591 2 жыл бұрын

DIVX is a SURE thing!

@phillip5245 2 жыл бұрын

1:45 Great to see Glenn Tennis!

@Ricoxemani 3 жыл бұрын

It feels like a cinco product

@kyleanderson2949 3 жыл бұрын

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

@0ctag0nZer0 2 жыл бұрын

I definitely see some CINCO inspiration here...

@SwoopGD 3 ай бұрын

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.

@eltonjohnson 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like something you'd find from those VCR Party guys.

@Valspartame_Maelstrom 3 жыл бұрын

bring back the flex play disc ASAP!!!!!

@colinbradfield72 3 жыл бұрын

I’m dying at the guys shirt

@dewsplash 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@dewsplash 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@gregfelice1969 3 жыл бұрын

DIVX, from Cinco

@Bisquick 3 жыл бұрын

_For your convenience_ she says!

@isthatyoujaunwayne4183 2 жыл бұрын

This is a KZfaq full circle moment

@brianmoore493 2 жыл бұрын

Perfely, a verbal shorthand if you will.

@rashauncassells7643 2 жыл бұрын

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

@MeissnerEffect Жыл бұрын

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

@mightysprocket 2 жыл бұрын

DIVX by Cinco…here to stay!

@geo8367 3 жыл бұрын

Who could have ever seen this not working out?

@DrimawayValorant Жыл бұрын

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

@Hattothefuture 3 жыл бұрын

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

@vedicardi 3 жыл бұрын

divx was a sick codec though

@vedicardi 3 жыл бұрын

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

@orgabaa 2 жыл бұрын

What’s crazy is that they haven’t gone out of business

@NuttGreez Жыл бұрын

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

@LukeMcGuireoides 2 жыл бұрын

5 BUTTON POLO, NOW!!!

@LukeMcGuireoides 2 жыл бұрын

I was gonna post this comment. I already had lol

@brianearle1219 Жыл бұрын

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

@lanewalp8727 2 жыл бұрын

IT HAS 6 BUTTONS😹

@m1tank13 2 жыл бұрын

Is that Steve Ballmer at 5:43?

@ruthie8785 5 ай бұрын

DON’T ANSWER!

@byHexted 2 жыл бұрын

Bruh they really thought people were gonna drive to the nearest disc recycling bin when they’re done with the movie

@TomasLaverty1000 2 жыл бұрын

Now we know why Circuit City is dead.

@andrewholmes3116 2 жыл бұрын

5 button polo lmaaao

@clownhands 10 ай бұрын

DIVX == digital zone theory

@stevemurch3245 11 ай бұрын

Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball

@Exodus26.13Pi 3 жыл бұрын

DVD, I wish you were my son.