2000’s Media Players Were Weird: [VideoNow, HitClips, and More] | Billiam 

I remember digital watches that played simple melodies (80's hi-tech that came and went, never to return) but toothbrush players? That sounds so dumb I gotta look it up. 😮

I remember seeing commercials for those, they were called Tooth Tunes

My friend had one and the audio quality was terrible.

omg I remember those in like late 2000's. They were quite expensive as well (like 12 bucks over here).

i had a KISS tooth tunes. I. WANNA ROCK AND ROLL ALL NIGHT. AND PARTY EVERY DAY... I.... ugh

I had one. It was honestly ahead of its time. I enjoyed it

I LOVE THIS!

I still have my Video Now. It still works too. My little girl who is 9 absolutely loves it lik

@@mommabear2646 cb... n. 9880088inches

"why the frick does everyone want videos immediately?" -santa, probably

Damn that’s a pretty awesome story

PSP especially for the time was pretty great quality, at night when you were under your covers watching a movie there was nothing like it.

Specifically millennial memories

I completely forgot about the fucking Video Now and that I had one until I saw this video. How did I watch anything on that

Hope he brings up that weird show Storm Hawks, I remembered it a few days ago and reminded my friends of it too

I took my ds to school and 10 kids gather around while im playing at the cafetiria

mr krabs is dummy thicc

Lmao my elementary school confiscated any media players. I ended up cutting a hole in a book to hide my GBA SP to watch Sonic X with my friends at lunch

I had all the kids at a birthday party gathered around watching spongebob on a gameboy advance sp. So lit.

I had the same one! I took mine to school everyday lol

I wish they brought them back :/

tamagotchis

Honstly I love the crystal cases, wish it was still a thing tbh

Jon o got an emogochi thing and it hade those covers and I just let it slowly die

me who still gets happy looking at my translucent pink xbox 360 controller-

Likewise!

To this day, I can quote that episode word for word solely because of my VideoNow

Cap'n Crunch unfortunately I was Amish growing up

The PSP was amazing. Especially for the price. I remember the day they came out there was a mountain of them at Walmart. That mountain stayed there for a year. I guess my area wasn't ready for the PSP. I loved mine. I remember the demo disk it came with that had a bunch of nuMetal videos on it. It didn't take long for it to get hacked and soon I was playing all my favorite snes, NES and Genesis games on it. The actual PSP games were pretty lackluster for a long time after release though. Ridge Racer was good. It eventually got some great shit, but it took awhile and being an early adopter was rough as far as original games. The thing I like the most about the PSP was it's screen. For a mobile device of its time that screen was leagues above anything out. And the cute little UI it had made it feel so advanced. I used it was an all purpose device for many years. Internet, movies, music, games. That little sonofabitch did it all.

Tbh, I should save my money for the PSP soon so I can play the PSP version of Chinatown Wars.

The PSP is still great if you like emulation, retro games, or Homebrew.

It even had a couple of GTA games. Godlike.

Yep, I practically lived on AA batteries for my various incarnations of Game Boy.

Hey my rift controllers use AA batteries tech has not advanced 100% xD

My GBA went 16 hours on two AA batteries! Rokenbok on the other hand... that stuff ate batteries like crazy! 3 batteries for each vehicle (4 for the monorail), and they lasted only a few hours! My current layout takes 28 AA batteries to run everything!

We left them to bake in the sunlight to "recharge" them.

-aX :^(

you mean crayon pop when you said dancing queen?

...AGAIN???

@@M364A I think he means the one by ABBA.

@@sophie_drachen yea, well i am a stupid mind

I had a dvd player. But still used a VCR to record my favorite shows. Strange times indeed

I love reading about technology from those years for that reason. It's quite fascinating and has a charm to it.

I was time-shifting episodes of Lost on VHS in 2005 and streaming them on ABC.com by 2006.

Yeah I’d say once 2006-2007 hit there was a big change in technology. Early 2000s was just a more advanced late 90s.

But it was still fun.

I still have mine

@@princesskristan Well I don't, unfortunately.

I had one and I used it daily. So many scratched Simpsons DVDs

We had multiple players.

Everyone had one.

I had that one too. The baseball episode, the internet one, and my favorite one where Timmy accidentally wishes to turn into a girl.

kinky

Had the one where he wished he was an adult. That was weird, especially in low-res.

Wait you could do that how???

@@dorothypena9245 GBA video cartridges.

Tom Atherton he saved you. I bought a hit clip and regretted it right away 😂.

My Dad Bought me a Portable CD Player in 2002 (When I was 4) ever since then I was Attached to it ever since I still use one of those to this Day since I still Listen to Music CDs from the 90's and 2000's and I'm still Attached to it to this Day since I don't care for Downloading Music on my Phone I had my Spotify for a Year but I Canceled it Months Ago because I went back to using a Portable CD Player and Music CDs I think that's a better option since I'm still Attached to it to this Day I'm Super happy

@@zpushy633sora8 I think there is something wrong with this thing's programming, it seems to be repeating and lacks the ability to punctuate sentences.

@@mortemmalum7228 Or maybe he is a CD player too 🤔

Bet u were pissed at the time lol

I mean, yeah. That's what a sponsorship is.

Ive seen so many raid sponsors that ive memporised the script

Its not the best game, but it's not complete shit either... Id shill for it lol

Same, I'm always waiting for the same key phrases, it's like 'say it.... say it... HE SAID IT! :D '

That shit lost my data after a week. Waste of time dont play

Did you ever see him again?

@@azaleawinchester My brother? Yeaup. We bounced around different Forster home in different cities for about 5 more years. After that, we both just said fuck it and ran away to our parents. Foster system couldn't get us back after :)

@@FrankieHiltz beautiful story man :')

Glad everything worked out for you man.

You’re a good sport about it. Thanks for sharing your story, sounds like the plot of a great short film to be honest(not to downplay it of course).

Ahaha so true

TheTl33 why did you get grounded from it

Idk. I was a kid. Lol. Not cleaning my room, not doing homework. Take your pick

LOL

A part of me wouldn’t like that to happen b/c it means the c-y stuff which happened at the turn of the decade which I barely developed out of recently will continue to be rubbed in my face #Bush43 (?).. ‘Potus 43’ nostalgia is suppose to be the escapism when we barely made sense of ‘Potus 44’ era stuff and are expecting to make it out of the ‘maga’ era, sanely? ‘_’ ..

NEVER all those people are old asf now and I refuse to listen to their music

@@RichardHernandez-pz7bt Yeah that stuff has really aged piss poorly. Especially smash mouth they went from relevance to absolutely no one cared in like a couple of years. I don't think I've ever seen a downfall that quick. But the likes of the now retired Britney Spears, boy bands and the rest deserve to be forgotten like most of the stuff from the end of the 90s to the end of the 2010s.

it already has. There's a ton of early 2000s inspired fashion on Instagram

@@Brodobaby You lost me at Instagram. I'm sure the "influencers" on the gram know best. Lol

Dude same

And they thought that everyone was Xtreme! Late 90-early 2000s was like... the time period where being extreme went mainstream. Little kids with silver parachute pants, Soap shoes, Morpheus sunglasses and frosted tips were all over the suburbs riding their Razor scooters and listening to NuMetal on their Hitclips. I think some of the only surviving remnants of that era are the Xbox and Mtn Dew Gamer Fuel.

@@jokerzwild00 those visuals made my day

Since the 80s and the walkman we have always been on the go. I guess the 1st cellphones werent allow to hold that much space for videos.

hey yo Don’t forget track jeans lmao. Tracksuits were so popular back then that they had to just start putting tracksuit stripes on jeans even. Nelly had a pair of those as well. I remember rocking a pair of those in 2000-early 2001.

@@jokerzwild00 I can hear Limp Bizkit in the background while I read this comment

Hahaha.. very accurate

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Bahahaha

😂😂

Oh my god yes! 😂😂😂😂

REIDSHEDWOLEGENDS

this needs more likes

I know, right!!! Lol

Lol yours is still 1080p? Can't wait til you see a phone with a 1440x3040p resolution, that will blow your mind

@@LT1316 Hahaha. Mine does go that high but most videos on RU-vid don't allow for that resolution choice

@@Crazelord91 haha true, only the techies like to use 1440 or 4k because they have quality content that looks beautiful in that

@@LT1316 Yup

It means the marketing team did a good job and kids are not always the best judge of quality.

But now you're all grown up its like treasuring hunting season finding them. I've got all I wanted as a toy except I got myself a wife instead of a Barbie Doll

At the time that was the best anybody had for portable media. So you wanting one back then is understandable. I'm just thankful smart phones can stream just about anything these days.

I'm surprised I shown restrained on them as a kid I had galaxy brain that day

I still kinda want them......

Everyone is, actually. Because they're being sponsored lul

Actually everyone is paid to talk about it

What are you guys talking about? Everyone I know plays "Raid: Shadow Legends (TM)" how can you guys possibly think that this amazing unique mobile experience, needs a bunch of sponsors. When the name alone, is enough to get people to download the definitive mobile gaming experience that I have waited a long time to play.

Only 1 million download

No one: Not a single soul: Billiam: SHADOW RAID LEGENDS

Kat I remember having the video now black a white as a kid I went to Florida with it around 2004

Kat ya I remember having one being badass. I honestly wanna get one again.

My fondest memory with a portable DVD player was from the mid 2000s’ when my mom took my family to Northern Ireland to visit her relatives. We stayed at a hotel at one point and my mom and her siblings went to go play cards in one room, so my little brother and I hung out in the other one and watched Madagascar about three times in a row on the DVD player.

Not completely related but awhile ago I found my dads old stereo speakers and now I have 2 huge speakers hooked up so I can play dookie by greenday and then I have 2 smaller but still quite large speakers hooked up to my electric drum set

I had one but I spilled yogurt on it, not a great day for me

😂😂

Oh here is a legend

go fuck yourself

Grognak Your name is as generic as your face

lol up yours.

Grognak enjoy mediocrity

You lost your braincells

i love this

Did you give it?

Sir, can you tell us if you actually give the Shrek 2?

Did ya do it?

You still haven't given us an answer

Sire, we request your answer.

....oh gosh why did j Have to think about it.

@dandanthetaximan Tbh, I'm not so sure. I still think you paid too much for them if McD gave them to you for free.

I remember them. I had the britney spears "stronger" song, and nsync "it's gonna be MAY!" Thought they were pretty cool.

I do too I remember being like “well that was a cool 30 seconds”

Mine was given away with a shirt💀

@@MeatEatingVegan777 wtf I had the same two songs and they were the only ones I had....did they come as a set? I dont remember how I got those songs

Aww

Arnold Rimmer BSC lol

This is the most absurd and amazing thing I have ever heard in my entire life

An ArchosJukebox6000 says your marriage to Brittany will be annulled faster than HitClips' hot minute.

2012?

I dunno what model yours was but mine had two volumes. Loud AF and Louder

You horrible person why would you do that if you didn't like the song then you should have just ignored the song not take it and hide it from your sister that's not nice

@@princesszeldaprincess447 lol that's what 6 year old little brothers do when they have to listen to the same 30 seconds of a song over and over.

Princess zelda Princess Did you grow up with siblings? Lol..

Aggies52 I understand, I understand. 😆 Idid crap like that too.

Princess zelda Princess Jesus christ, chill out.

I got my 9/11 play-by-play from fuckin' Howard Stern. If you havn't heard the howard stern 9/11 broadcast, you should.

Thats the most 2000’s thing ever

My first grade teacher just turned the TV on. I just thought we were pledging allegiance for a long time because the tv was up next to the flag.

As if it wasn't on every radio station and tv channel.

@@RestingBeachFace721 Right, but we were in school and our school didn't let us watch TV or listen to the radio school hours.

j u l e s same here! I had that, as well as one of the old spongebob episodes 😂

@@HighTicket2Freedom same but "my life as a teenage robot" lmao

Just watching the same 4 fairly odd parents episodes over and over on my gameboy sp lmao

Same!

Omg same but I had Zoe 101

I was actually thinking it is one of those things where the game pops up a notification about rating the game, and maybe it gently nudges you to give it a 5 star review. I feel like there would be a rule against doing that, but you never know. Stranger things have occurred! Maybe it gives you even more stuff in-game if you give it 5 stars.

Where do I sign up to get paid to whore out this game? };-)>

Nah just dumb kids that only put 5 stars for everything

The image he showed only had 4 1/2 stars and I can't get over that

LRGonzales because they themselves send him the footage, pics of their AppStore ratings, and the script. More than likely they don’t care changing their script

I remember using cheap feature phones as MP3 players while ut and about. The only problem there was nobody would settle on a standard charger or headset format, no iDog for us! Also, did you ever Bluetooth anything to your mates? Loved doing that!

@@GeoNeilUK Initially I infrared-ed stuff, it was literally sitting two pones on a desk and not move them for a couple minutes for a very light file, when we eventually moved to bluetooth it wasn't too wildly different, since you still couldn't do anything while transferring and couldn't move them too much or too far, but at least could pass files while in class. Got so many wallpapers and meme videos. Edit: Heck, I even remember sharing a couple games.

How did you do that?

I did the same thing! I'd record the show when it was on and then transfer it to my walkman. The screen was like 2 inches but it didn't matter. I still could watch Avatar on the bus to middle school.

@@jester9215 i was wondering the same thing if it was just a phone??? how did it even have a headphone jack?? like huhhh i thought we were talkin old school nokia my guy all u can do is play snake... he's tryin to impress us w lies lol

I remember those!!

@「 Charmlesseul 」 Okay, enougb of my stupid nostalgia

I just felt that hit every note of nostalgia.

DUUUUDEEE

I REMEMBER THAT SHIT I STILL CAN'T FIND THE ORIGINAL SONG

Forget silly cartoons! This game has realistic graphics! *like anything else nowadays…*

Cute protogen pfp

I remember my parents would sometimes bring that along when we went on road trips.

My dad had one and would find any excuse to take it out with us. He was very proud of it.

I had one of those too!! Few years later I got a more up-to-date one that attached to the back of the passenger seat. The front of it was all screen with the dvd slot in the back

I very much doubt a DVD player was playing 720p movies.

@@MuchWhittering back in those days, when 720p was the highest resolution you could get, right before 1080p became a thing

i worked at McDOnalds as a teenager when it came out...it was definitely sold there as like a premium toy or something

i forgot but thet gad these cheap little versions that played music

I had that one too!

Yup!

I had one that lasted 6 years

Is that similar to the TV headrest on airplanes?

Facts.

Thrtxxnth ...deletion of the audio jack

Our stuff will be considered old dumb useless by the younger generation or just weird to listen to for music as well Time marches forward and you cant stop no matter much you want, and actually you don't know if they'd remove it or not

That's what I was thinking during the video. I wonder what will replace current tech, and how advanced it will be in order to make what we have nowdays obsolete.

I do that now

raffle baffle you really do. It’s a classic

That's a very good reason to put The Princess Bride into new media formats

It really does though. Such a good film.

raffle baffle it’s very funny mah dude. I think you’ll love it.

@raffle baffle you're not human if you've never seen princess bride

I laughed because I watched a video a couple days ago where they talked about a "mobile game everyone has been getting paid to shill and this is their vague script." It was Raid, you could tell it was Raid, and then watching this video I could almost predict what was going to happen beat for beat. XD Companies need to stop doing the script thing.

youtubers got to eat

At least four other popular RU-vidrs have been promoting it. I know afterprisonshow, and I want to say like, teamsamuraix1. Unfortunately I can't remember who else I've seen promoting this. It's a big lol (edit; just remembered a third was billiam)

exactly dude

@@TheOuroborosLoop unfortunately did you know gaming was shilling it too

I've been hearing about it in forced ads when playing an excellent update of Carmen Sandiego on my phone...

ContactingTheDead same

WHAT??

*Some B O D Y*

I always assumed my right ear had hearing problems because of marching band, but now I know the truth.

Same

I downloaded it once. Got bored after the first week, but I really like Darkness Prevails and the orc waifu was cute for a while, so it was worth it. Not downloading it _again_ , no matter who asks. Still liked the video though. Good content.

There is a hentai game that you can create your own waifus,its called Honey Select.

Imagine how sad you must be to advertise a free to play Mobile Game. Hahahaha pathetic.

Kyra Gotta get that bread somehow, given RU-vid likes to have these knee-jerk Adpocalpyses every now and then to appease certain crowds. 🤔

Blue hot cheetos

@@gushernandez25 Yep. That too.💖

@Michael Mathers It's about the weird stuff we had; besides food. We even had these light-up pacifiers that you push it down, it lights up. It was a toy, though.

I'm really missing the toys in cereal packings

@Michael Mathers Because our food might be junk, but it tastes fantastic. Tasty food sticks with you as a kid.

Smart phones really did change everything. But we couldn't be sure at the time because everyone else was ALSO releasing their "futuristic" products all over the place trying to replace the CD player. They were usually super specific with primitive quality, but there was nothing better. Your choices were either one of these new things, or a CD player or expensive portable TV from the 80's, and the CD player usually won. Being able to burn your own CD's didn't hurt either.

That’s a benefit of the videoNow sometimes parents forget you got the, and you can use them as a last resort I actually watched my videoNow color once in class without the teacher noticing I played it quiet threw my backpack