Prism DuroSport, anybody?

Maybe this is old news to all of you, but this was the first time I had heard about it …

Remember in the episode The Injury, when Dwight sees Pam playing with her new MP3 player, the Prism DuroSport? He remarks, ” … they’re like an iPod, only they’re better. ‘Cause they’re chunkier and more solid.”

Well, now you can order your very own!

Er … just ignore the scathing review from Medialoper, the potential bleeding from the nose and eyes, and the fact it doesn’t actually play music in MP3 format. (Because “nothing kills an artist’s career faster than large amounts of people having access to their music.”)

And yeah, don’t be alarmed that it has its own hate site, www.prismdurosportsucks.com.

Thanks to flotsette for the tip!

(And flotsette says, “Apparently it was done by the show writers. Be sure to click ALL the links, it goes on forever, and it is HILARIOUS.”)

17 comments

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   1. Denise (ddker)  Sat. Jun. 17, 2006 | 2:39am

   That is funny. I like that it has longer battery life (on the first charge). And it’s great that the very first FAQ is if it’s radioactive! The FAQ’s are probably the best part.

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   2. Brian  Sat. Jun. 17, 2006 | 4:59am

   Holy crap. It took me a while to figure out it was a joke. (It’s early.) I thought it was some weird, European outfit. Then I’m like, why are they advertising for a new CFO?

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   3. Matt  Sat. Jun. 17, 2006 | 6:11am

   Haha, I love the hate site. I like how the only category of posts is “Complaints”.

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   4. heidi  Sat. Jun. 17, 2006 | 7:33am

   the support schedule is amazing….i want to work for that company, they are off almost half the year.

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   5. flotsette  Sat. Jun. 17, 2006 | 11:56am

   I think my favorite part is the “Patented Super High-Intensity Toggle” with 72 positions! They have a pdf file of a “toggle template” that just shows 72 tickmarks — without indicating what they do… and it says to refer to the website for their function! And where you click to allow the song to play is one position away from where you click to delete the song and report yourself to the RIAA! ROTFL

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   6. tanster  Sat. Jun. 17, 2006 | 1:25pm

   flotsette, that is so funny — the toggle template was my favorite part! :)

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   7. Genevieve  Sat. Jun. 17, 2006 | 8:41pm

   The review was done as an April Fool’s joke by a fan, but I can’t figure out if the Durosport website itself was created by Office fans or by the writers. Either way, it is very funny.

   The best post has to be on the one titled “Cassette Player Died” on the PrismDuroSportSucks blog. The poster explains his/her 18,000 mp3 collection was inadvertantly all converted into dt6 format, and now must be converted into cassette tape to be played. And the cassette player on their Prism DuroSport 1 just died. I’m still giggling about it.

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   8. NSpector  Mon. Jun. 19, 2006 | 12:18pm

   Hi you guys. Over at theofficeforum.net we were trying to figure out who might be the source of these sites. I wrote to B.J. (at myspace) and asked him if the writers had done it and he actually wrote back to me! Here’s what he said:

   “It isn’t us!! We were delighted and bewildered to find it.

   B.J.”

   This was confirmed too by dunderball who did some digging and found that the sites are not owned by NBC. So the mystery continues . . . .

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   9. tanster  Mon. Jun. 19, 2006 | 12:21pm

   NSpector, nice investigative work, thanks for the update!

   Hope you can solve the mystery … :)

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    10. NSpector  Mon. Jun. 19, 2006 | 12:23pm

    Oh, I should have added that whoever the owners of the websites are (all registered through GoDaddy.com) use a service that hides their identity.

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    11. NSpector  Mon. Jun. 19, 2006 | 12:25pm

    You’re welcome, tanster. And your site is really incredible — thank YOU!

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    12. flotsette  Tue. Jun. 20, 2006 | 5:53am

    Hm, nice sleuthing. Sorry to misinform – I just took someone’s word for it that the writers did it. I notice the day this entry was posted, they did an update for the first time since April. Nice!

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    13. Ben  Thu. Nov. 30, 2006 | 10:05pm

    Well the Prism DuroSport is actually a Creative Zen Microphoto, which by the way is better than an iPod. I have one and it is asesome. It surprises me that Creative didn’t want to advertise, especially with a show as immensly popular. But I have to give props to the writers. Good work.

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    14. Zim  Wed. Jan. 17, 2007 | 10:14am

    I could have sworn it was a Sansa e200, it seemed more oblong than a Microphoto. Hm, oh well.

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    15. Momo35  Tue. Dec. 4, 2007 | 7:50am

    Here is the rebuttal to the review by Medialoper…hilarious!

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    16. Danny  Tue. Mar. 11, 2008 | 1:01am

    so i just called the “emergency support number” and got an answering machine saying “stevens’ residence”.

    weird.

    -danny

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    17. Dan G  Mon. Aug. 10, 2009 | 1:16pm

    I don’t know why they call it a Prism Durosport anyway..? The MP3 player that Pam’s using is a Creative Zen Micro.. Nice little player :)

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