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At this point, wouldn't even be surprised if companies like Old Spice made mp3 players Edit: I want to apologize [not really] for the increase of Old Spice ads on this vid, prob bcuz of me
All the electronics and plastics are actually pretty resilient and wil probably still work in 10 years time. It's the batteries that go bad, so if it does not have an integrated (lithium) battery and someone hasn't left an alkaline inside it will probably work. Replacable batteries are considered 'wasteful' but they usually increase product life by an order of magnitude.
As someone who's never paid more than $5 for a VHS and gotten dozens for free it's so hard to believe that some were upwards of $80. My shelves would be holding thousands of dollars if they held their value.
Honestly this nugget is legitimately higher quality then like 99% of what you show us lmao, its actually its own product that isnt just the same chinese junk rebadged for whoever wants it
@@okankyoto IMO its more likely that the marketing team wanted it to look nice, but neither the marketing nor budget cared enough to fund a decent design for the innards.
Yeah, I remember how expensive VHS tapes used to be. Especially official Disney VHS tapes. They would cost more than 2000 Belgian franks ($70 us) so the poor people in my village set up this whole piracy network where one family would go and buy an official tape and then make dozens of copies and sell them for just a few Franks to cover the cost of the original tape. When it was our turn to buy the tape, we got Aladdin. It was the only official Disney tape we had.
@@pear009 I've never really looked up if it was "franks" or "francs" in English since we haven't used that type of currency in 23 years, but it was written franks with a K in Flemish, so that's what I went with~
Wade doesn't give enough credit to blockbuster at least giving out an adapter in the first place, compared to other nuggets with mini jacks that just have their buds and nothing else.
Credit where it's due, it's a different design, has unique dirty buds, and a great manual, this sits way above the bar compared to other stuff that's been on this channel
My mom used to manage a Blockbuster, when they went under, we had almost every game console under the sun but they later sold them at a garage sale sadly. Still very fond memories.
Every game console then, can be simulated on any modern computer. What an interesting time we live in. Glad I'm not a 10 year old kid now, I'd spent my entire childhood playing video games.
4:44 genuinely shocked he didn't mention the absolute banger of a line "The BLOCKBUSTER MP3 player is definitely cool" on the general maintenance page.
The fact that a new injection mold was made for the casing amongst everything else (colour manual, consistent branding), suggests more effort than you think was put into this as a promotional item.
How is it that all those other companies couldn't be bothered to put any actual effort in a nugget, and blockbuster goes as far as branding the driver disk and Manuel.
3:55 Fun fact: literally all of the discs you got with no-name MP3 players that just let you play files dragged on them was that disc. *Everyone* shipped the Win98 USB mass storage driver for some reason, even though 98 was hella obsolete at this point.
My town actually had a vhs and video store for a long time. it only closed like a year or two ago. So sad that children this generation wont really know what its like to rent a game and try and beat it in a weekend.
Now the goal is to beat it before the steam refund time limit is up. (Seriously, let's not pretend those were good days. Its nostalgia, nothing more; nothing of value was lost and I say this as someone who _is_ old enough to remember those dvd and vhs rental days.)
I'm glad that younger generations won't get brainwashed by that sort of media any more. Unfortunately they'll be brainwashed by different forms on the internet but hey, one step at a time, at least there's a 2-way interaction and not just one-way like with movies.
@@SilverDragonJay You missed the whole point if you don't recognize the good in it. It was a more community centered activity - you go to your local blockbuster, grab a dvd or game to rent, have a limited time to play it, then return it. You spend a good chunk of time in the store browsing, you let some random person know "Hey, that's a really good movie" and you strike up conversation. It's not just nostalgia, it was a community hub like the diner or the movie theater/arcade/bowling alley/pizza place/mall/cd store. You go there with a goal in mind but the community having fun, interacting, congregating there is what made it special - with streaming you lose all of that. The limited playability/rewatch accessibility is what made these moments special because instant gratification cheapens everything. These community hubs shut down because they cant compete with immediate gratification, but despite being more technologically connected than ever: our communities are dwindling. Everything is more alienated and solitary without these things, infrastructure falters, and the world just seems so much more bleak on the whole. (Social media was a mistake but by and large I think the Internet was the biggest mistake. Cant put the lid back on it though; all we can do is try to be better at how we handle this stuff.
There's still a Blockbuster in business in Bend Oregon. Went in there the other day, they rent movies like they used to and sell "last blockbuster on earth" merch
I was surprised to see that the Blockbuster nugget was not... blockbusted. This unit is actually pretty decent other than the low max volume. Decent might be too strong or a word; rather, they actually put effort into this and I respect that.
Yeah, seems like the wimpy volume and crappy input grip would make it completely useless. Why would you want a portable mp3 player that needs a pre-amp and disconnects when you start moving around
Not really, this was the standard for mp3s at the time. Creative released garbo like this until Apple came around with a premium product and they had to actually try.
Arduino nano, DAC module, SD card, battery and charger circuitry would fit in the gutted shell with little effort. If you bothered to get a PCB fabricated with all the modules on it, you could double the battery size/life and probably fit a Tb of NAND flash as well.
I respect the commitment in making the player shaped like the ticket stub. But they shouldn't have. They REALLY shouldn't have. The one time a company should've NOT put effort into something.
Long ago, I worked for Blockbuster. My store was one of the top stores in the country for Movie Pass sales when they were direct competing with the Netflix delivery before streaming services were common. This mp3 player was the reward we got along with I believe 4 other stores in the company. The backlash was so great, that Blockbuster reconsidered after about a month and gave us all 8GB ipods with the company logo stamped on the back.
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They could have put the volume wheel in the ticket cutout, but no let's use that for an unusable headphone jack and break out from it with an adapter and then put the volume on an additional adapter on the headphones. With decisions like that, it's a wonder Blockbuster lasted as long as they did
There's one use case I can think of for the earbuds: Use them on Ti calculators that have a I/O port, this port, like the earbuds seem to be, is 2.5mm; people have programmed demos for said calculaors that let them output audio. The volume slider makes it even more well suited for the task; due to the nature of the I/O port it must output a binary PWM signal, which can only be one volume. IIRC, the volume of the calculator was significantly louder than the highest comfortable volume from a smartphone using headphones when looking at direct audio captures from both using Audacity.
There were plenty of mom and pop video stores in my area, until Blockbuster came along in a neighboring town. Sometime later, Hollywood Video showed up in my town, but all the little places were long gone already.
By 94 (when the Mask was out) $30 dollary doos for a VHS was pretty common pricing. The best thing about video rentals was every store had a X many weekly rentals for $Y. So like 5 weekly rentals for $6 bucks was common and people began watching movies at a far greater pace than ever before. With nightly classics on free to air telly people could be watching a dozen movies a week and it was sick.
I kinda miss the video rental experience, like seeing a bunch of thumbnails in a streaming app doesn't seem to do any of the individual movies justice and I have to rely on word of mouth to find what's worth watching but for some reason, browsing shelves of VHS covers back in the day, I would get fascinated with random movies I had never heard of before and would find all sorts of hidden gems and entertainingly dumb b-movies... There's probably some rose-tinted glasses stuff going on there, but still
My mother worked at blockbuster waaayy back when, and this was her bonus for not missing any days at work. She quit not long after that. I still keep it on my desk. Simpler times.
I was waiting for Dank to review one of these 😭😭😭 I had two of these as a child and I broke both of them but the flashlight still worked on it on one of them
we had a blockbuster in town and i remember wandering through before they went bust... and we had something rented from them and it had a return date just after they shut.
I remember when I turned 18 and could finally get my own Blockbuster card and rent whatever I wanted. Almost as exciting as getting my driver’s license! There was just something special about a video store, and I don’t feel the same thing when I scroll through streaming services.
THANK YOU for showing castle of illusion I used to watch videos of the game play when I was 7 I’ve been trying to find the name of the game since some SERIOUS nostalgia washed over me
Here in Greece theserent shops were called video clubs, because people refer to the VCR as THE video [playing machine]. And they were stores where you could go, meet people, talk about movies, etc
This is the only one I really like! Sure it may be junk but it's cute and there's actually effort there like with the custom headphones and color manual.
