The Blockbuster MP3 player.

[@thefallencore3]

At least they came up with a unique design for the mp3 player, unlike *some* companies.

[@Oyashiro_Chama]

We didnt say they could program.@@caspay21

[@WheeledHamster]

iBeat Blaxx.

[@babayaga7434]

Like apple, releasing the standard mp3 design and calling it their own

[@saurabhkulkarni8854]

At least they had an MP3 player in there, unlike SOME companies.

[@fuzzywzhe]

Why would you want to make something unique? It just makes it less usable. I really don't understand who would buy this. It's quite a bit bulky, even for the time. You need a display, at minimum, black and white, non backlit would be fine. Non rechargeable is a deal breaker as well, again, even for the time. Non rechargeable devices were obsolete by 1995, before that even.

[@Bane_Amesta]

I think this has to be the first nugget, not meant to be into the collection, that actually survived to see another day. What a miracle.

[@roeljanssen1673]

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.

[@mcsomeone2681]

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.

[@DangerousPictures]

@@roeljanssen1673 semiconductors also degrade over time. a single flipped bit inside the flash memory can be all it takes to kill a nugget

[@YokiDokiPanic]

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.

[@brziperiod]

The fact that dank's snake is named frank lmao

[@ahreuwu]

homemade p2p!

[@pear009]

franks or francs..... if it's franks i would be surprised

[@YokiDokiPanic]

@@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~

[@YokiDokiPanic]

@@brziperiod Little did you know that before the Euro was introduced, people in Belgium traded using chubby snakes.

[@mysteryboyee]

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

[@OrbObserver]

Yeah it looks cool but it does a terrible job at actually playing music. Externals are higher quality, internals are bottom of the barrel.

[@okankyoto]

@@OrbObserver Presumably one part of the design team cared, the other team did not

[@SheepUndefined]

@@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.

[@LeafBoye]

​@@OrbObserver😊

[@EchoesAct5-SlamJam]

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

[@prylosecorsomething3194]

They did make Bluetooth earbuds, I have them and they're not good

[@CJOCara19]

Can't wait for Part 3

[@Some-guy-on-the-internet]

Can't wait for a Heinz MP3 player.

[@MarcusFigueras]

They most definitely made an mp3 at some point

[@ephektz]

@@f_worst_nightmare4499 It’s some dopey looking Russian. They don’t know how to do any different. 🤷‍♂️

[@mirrorsandstuff]

This MP3 player has more attention to detail than I ever remember Blockbuster ever having when they existed.

[@JackOfHarts96]

I love how the PKCell perfectly matches the colour of the nugget.

[@d.sadster5684]

same lmao

[@ninjauser3808]

That had to be intentional

[@erwinc.9117]

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

[@Shadowsoul2701]

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.

[@CluelessAnon]

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.

[@SkyTreeStudio]

This is such a high effort and yet still fully phoned in nugget, I love it

[@ffnbbq]

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.

[@Howarrd]

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.

[@fuzzywzhe]

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.

[@GavinoGotIt]

Thanks crazy Aussie man for the review! I have a whole DVD collection and I didn't spend one dime on any of em at Blockbuster lol 😂

[@N_g_er]

MY NIGGA DANK!!!!!

[@Memetime2022]

@@N_g_erbro😂

[@N_g_er]

@@Memetime2022 are you black?

[@DrBagPhD]

Weird flex but okay

[@N_g_er]

@@DrBagPhD damn buddy

[@JakeWestbrook13]

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

[@SuperSmashDolls]

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.

[@SomeDudeInBaltimore]

In 2003/2004? Lots of people were still clinging on to Windows 98 up until Vista.

[@chroma.z]

Windows 10 is older than Win98 was when this thing was released lol

[@denniswoycheshen]

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.

[@franki1990]

What about Manuel? I'm intrigued

[@pollin522]

@@franki1990 They branded him, those bastards

[@dr_popcorn]

​@@pollin522The scars are still very visible, despite his best efforts to hide em

[@tyronetaylor1155]

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.

[@SilverDragonJay]

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.)

[@brainndamage]

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.

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

Or to want to rent a game, but couldn't, because it was ALWAYS out!

[@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger]

@@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.

[@shadowyyCFH]

@@SilverDragonJay 2 hours is a lot harder than a weekend too lol

[@sorcererinasweater7670]

Wade yelling at Frank will always be hilarious to me

[@ZeroKami86]

I can't stop rewatching it

[@Poever]

His name is Wade?

[@jimkoutso2008]

@@Poever yea

[@asystole_]

Wait, I thought his parents actually called him DankPods.

[@DoctorNemmo]

The stream was Frank's idea.

[@aaronboyd5282]

I honestly love how goofy it looks. If you could make one of the portable fiio dacs look like that, I'd use it.

[@teaingaaa]

We need to encourage every company to make mp3 players We need more dankpods content

[@KeegoTheWise]

0:38 sorry mate, the tape says “duplication without written permission from zildjian strictly prohibited” but i just screenshotted it so now i have a copy. looks like ol zildjie is gonna be coming after one of us

[@adamgreenhill110]

The PKcell really matched the color scheme here, truly showing the PKcell magic

[@NigelMontezuma]

0:36 JUST DO IT! DO IT! DO IT NOW! DO THE THING!

[@RinIsArty]

You have to give credit where due, they genuinely made an attempt to make it pretty good.

[@ethancampbell7326]

i actually owned a really old block busters vhs tape cleaner it cleans your vhs player and i would love to send it to ya dankpods mate

[@MisterSouji]

Should have been shaped like a VHS tape. The battery could be stored under the tape hinge.

[@mattdavis9601]

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.

[@Kelswagsinandballin]

9:05 bro going to cook some delicious music 🔥🔥🔥

[@SodaTheProto]

4:04 Whoa whoa whoa, hold on a minute, 1.2MBps i need to get my breath back from that stunning speed

[@ChatonProductions]

Came for the blockbuster mp3 player, stayed for the blockbuster mp3 player, left for the blockbuster mp3 player

[@yuristocat]

I love that my town to this day still has a video rental store, wonderful nostalgia going there

[@nowtfish]

Chimkin samwich

[@theholysoup2691]

I liked your comment

[@singleshot-ik2xr]

I liked your comment

[@Natures-Best777s]

I liked my comment.

[@Walter-The-Cat]

Shut up

[@tomsgrins]

bro tryna get popular like the other 1000 people

[@skylerric3]

I always loved how wide the range of content is! Even though it started with ipods, I like that you weren't scared to diversify.

[@WalcomS7]

I'm still awaiting the day Dank plugs in an ancient MP3 player or driver install CD that is just ancient malware.

[@jacksonhowes4781]

The joy these videos bring! Love seeing relics from my childhood

[@schippa2]

That driver CD looks suspiciously like a Craig disc, but with one extra ring

[@TPLS2]

Its a nice touch that the page numbers on the manual are also making the shape of a ticket stub.

[@ridbensdale]

0:53 started life on the Amiga, which is also the best version.

[@blazernitrox6329]

Really needed this today. Thanks mate.

[@KanskeKristen08]

We all happy when Dankpods posts🎉🎉

[@N_g_er]

MY NIGGA DANK!!!!!!!

[@harleysattlecker401]

Been in hospital for like a month now and dankpods' videos have been getting me through it

[@panagiotispappas1001]

Another prime example of "The biggest companies make the worst junk"

[@dhl-96]

@CrescencioHenry huh

[@theinquisitorisamage1653]

@@dhl-96 its a bot my dude

[@LJCG777]

​@@dhl-96don't interact with them, ignore or report and leave.

[@SIDEKICKDUSTY]

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

[@babayaga7434]

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.

[@BlockbusterAssociate]

I love it! I seen one of these recently for sale on ebay and was thinking about buying it for my Blockbuster collection.

[@ImTand]

Our favorite nugget really goes out of his way to find other, funnier nuggets for us to laugh at 😆

[@ryanpenrod1859]

It's like they came up with the coolest ideas but had to go with the absolute cheapest execution possible. I love it.

[@michaeldcullen]

"The BLOCKBUSTER MP3 player is definitely cool. These are some tips to take care of your device and ensure that it continues to work properly."

[@HHydraZ]

I wonder if blockbuster could make a comeback

[@qwerty_5760]

Probably not, as the only reason people go to the one in Bend Oregon is for the novelty.

[@N_g_er]

MY NIGGA DANK!!!@@qwerty_5760

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

Can't see what the replies are, but, no. DISH owns the assets and uses them in their VOD library.

[@FunkyStudios]

IK Dish is planning on doing something related to reviving Blockbuster as a brand, sooooo maybe???????

[@ToastyMozart]

I think Redbox has pretty much cornered the market on physical rental, and it's tough to beat the operating cost of a vending machine.

[@fijiwatermiche]

you know it’s concerning when it’s short

[@StormChrist]

To be fair I would appreciate a modernized version of this thing.

[@Mad4400]

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.

[@Mad4400]

The decision to use 2.5mm headphone socket instead of 3.5mm would have yielded a not so insignificant saving on the cost of the PCB manufacture. But then to go and include a 2.5mm to 3.5mm adaptor as part of the retail package would have made its overall cost greater than had they went with 3.5mm in the first place.

[@SIartibartf4st]

2:29 Looks like a taser....⚡⚡

[@NemetFox]

visits from Frank are a highlight of my week

[@fireball2275]

do you have to return it the next day though

[@AkuaWalters]

people wont belive the 90s & 2ks were a real time when we talk about the products we used growing up, i constantly use this channel as proof

[@panqueque445]

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.

[@naikigutierrez4279]

They should’ve made it look like a VHS tape.

[@FunkyStudios]

@@naikigutierrez4279 tbf it was made before vhs was considered nostalgic and everyone was more focused on dvd.

[@panqueque445]

@@naikigutierrez4279 That would've been so much better honestly.

[@d3fault1420]

@@panqueque445 another example of "the biggest companies make the worst junk"

[@TehBIGrat]

I remember thinking Dads 256mb flash drive was cool. The cap was held on a braided steel cable.

[@JohanFroloff81]

5:10 Look at that positive terminal depiction. 🤨😄

[@zen4realfightman426]

To be fair, it could only be mini because micro didn't come out until 2007

[@Pyroscity]

1:05 Avgn Finished it

[@Thomas_9822]

Im sick rn and having your videos to occupy me is just amazing. I love what you do and your so funny man

[@CEzikMaj]

MP3 players are legendary devices. I swear our kids will be taught about them at history lessons.

[@MultiTelan]

2:02 I KNEW they started that small! I could only find a 64MB in the archives but I swore up and down my first was also 32!

[@thomaswburkhart]

2:22 looks like the right side of the state of iowa

[@kookwater456]

'High-speed USB data transport (sic)', a whopping 1.2MB/s, hold on to your hats, folks!

[@Wolfofthenightt]

Amazing video, loved every minute of it!

[@Just-A-YouTube-User]

it hasnt even been out for 9 mins

[@Mizai]

"muster the buster"

[@Forrest_O.]

At this point, I expect there to be a Target branded MP3 player. Almost no other branding, just 95% Target.

[@CaptainRex332]

I have a shrek dvd with donkey on it sticking out of the dvd player on my 2011 mac

[@larrylaffer3246]

Ah a relic from Blockbuster's short lived stint into "MP3 Rentals."

[@themightychippy3756]

Im genuinely happy the blockbuster headphones survived

[@894MUSIC]

It’s always a great day when DankPods uploads!!

[@pokemondude222]

Still a blockbuster around where I live happens to be the last one on the planet here in little Bend OR

[@themoondoglua]

same here haha. i visit there often

[@oscarpayne4639]

Hey Dank, just came across Kmicic cymbals. Stainless steel cymbals that actually sound super complex. Maybe something to look at for the drum thing? ❤

[@jakesinclair69420]

That is a weird thing to do to your cymbals

[@PantheonLincoln]

3:12 - "Can you BELIEVE no one bought this?" is one o fmy favourite phrases in a DankPods video.

[@AfferbeckBeats]

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

[@KillingDylvn]

I love you and your videos they make my days better I’ve been watching you on and off for years (i let videos build up then i binge them). You’re hands down my favorite creator i love you dank pods❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@SauceTheSecond]

0:10 out of date movies?

[@kobalt_ren01]

Gotta say, I love the font on the labelling for all this.

[@greenpoison-q2k]

5:45 Bro doesn't know that not all MP3 players pop up with a name in MacOS💀

[@kentuckycryptid]

This is the earliest I've been to a Dankpods video.

[@Friday_V7]

When she claims she's a "virgin" but feels like a blockbuster mp3 headphone jack.

[@RandomSimpsonsfan]

Always a pleasure when you upload

[@unyielding.entertainment]

I take long breaks from watching Dank just so I can binge the videos in a few months. Time for a binge I reckon.

[@evdomos]

I love it. What an interesting and intentional design.

[@MrFullbladder]

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.

[@spambin-f8b]

gotta love finishing a math test and seeing dankpods has just uploaded a new vid, bloody ripper

[@Euphrasie_Meredith]

dank should make an mp3 player at this point

[@Freeman_freeze]

very long time viewer here i just want to say that i love your videos and your the reason i have wasted so much money on headphones. you also helped me get through a hard time

[@Mountain-Man-3000]

Holy hell you Aussies got shafted. VHS movies were never that expensive in Canada...

[@bartek0166]

nice a dankpods video to brighten my day up

[@RequestAssassin]

I know that ol' Grit is going to do it's thing but here, paused at 0:01, I really hope Dank preserves this one.

[@Deja117]

I'm weirdly jealous you have those. Still remember the old blockbuster up the street that's now a buffet... The weird thing is, there's a cinema on the other side of the wall of it. Guess that spot just won't let old movies die.

[@artistwithouttalent]

Oh snap! I love the Oz box art for that Men in Black VHS. That was the first movie I collected different formats of. I don't really have the resources to consider international editions yet, but I might splurge for that.

[@DaEmeTRex]

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

[@chloeprice6813]

Dankpods: watch ->3:22 Me: the flavors are melting on my tongue

[@BanossCalibre]

The hi-hats??

[@cardinalsfan9610]

There's one Blockbuster still in the US (one of the west coast states). My mom is actually from the town that it's in. They sell some merch, and I have a shirt. The Blockbuster logo is on one side, with "last Blockbuster on the planet" on the other side. It gets foot traffic similar to Cashies. Still packed as if the successful Blockbuster of yesterday never left.

[@aisback1990]

At least it’s drag and drop. The newer nuggets didn’t let you even do that without the cursed CD

[@amirpourghoureiyan1637]

could've been a decent usb memory stick for the time lol

[@iqchiko7919]

Lets go your videos Always make my week your content is amazing

[@epicbagels6102]

You Make my day every Thursday!