Nickelodeon's three new DMPs

It's not all just questionably-useful tween gear for Nickelodeon today -- the company is also releasing a line of DMPs that would be pretty tempting if they weren't festooned with giant pictures of The Naked Brothers Band and SpongeBob. The $40 SpongeBob player holds 500 MP3s and goes for 10 hours on the built-in rechargeable battery, while the $50 Fission Digital Music Player comes in SpongeBob and Naked Brothers varieties and features a motion-sensitive remix feature that allows you to tweak your tunes by shaking the player. The cream of the crop, though, is the $100 Fusion Digital Media Player (yeah, no hurried parents are ever going to confuse those names), which rocks a pretty nice QVGA screen with what appears to be fairly smooth video playback, 1GB of internal storage with SD expansion, and a selection of preloaded and downloadable games. Not bad -- except for the terrible, terrible shame. Check 'em all out -- including some hands-on shots -- in the gallery.

Gallery: Nickelodeon dmps at DigitalLife

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[derek @ Sep 26th 2007 9:21PM]

Why?

[Vizion @ Sep 26th 2007 9:30PM]

kids?

[derek @ Sep 26th 2007 9:36PM]

Kids who are young enough to not want an iPod aren't often listening to music.

[Vizion @ Sep 26th 2007 9:47PM]

Is that why Disney DAP's have a lot of marketshare and continue to sell well? Nickelodeon shows like spongebob are popular so people will buy these for kids.

[JohnTitor @ Sep 26th 2007 10:38PM]

why not just get the kids a Shuffle?
...lol sick joke

Sansa Shaker maybe...

[Fat Cartman @ Sep 26th 2007 11:16PM]

because rich parents buy anything for their rich kids. however, i think they look pretty cool. i'm a spongebob fan, i would like to have one. if not for the usefulness, i'd have it just for the novelty value. people collect these things, u know?

[JeffDM @ Sep 27th 2007 1:33AM]

For a parent with young kids, I think this would be something to look at. The quality probably wouldn't be great, but at least it would put a player in the kid's hands that's not too expensive to worry about. Kids should be taught to treat things nicely, but the target audience for these things might be about at the age where they're still learning that sort of thing.

[Fruition @ Sep 26th 2007 9:51PM]

Wow, I just got a flashback of my Nick Click Digital Camera. That thing was a piece of crap. You could take up to six pictures (or was it ten? I forget), at a resolution of something like 320x240. That was back in like 1999 though, and at the time I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

[linkman2004 @ Sep 26th 2007 11:36PM]

I remember getting one of those for christmas one year. I thought it was pretty sweet at the time.

[daniel j @ Sep 27th 2007 11:03AM]

I really want to get the spongebob player for my nephew for his birthday. Where and when can I get this? I've had no luck in finding actual details

[sue @ Oct 14th 2007 8:32AM]

I just saw it at Target yesterday for $50. My kids have Disney Mix Max and they work great for storing photos, music and showing movies. You can even convert DVDs so they can play on it. Does anyone know if this does the same thing? The box said WMV format but this review says WMA. Ae thing? Also, does it have a bookmark feature so when you turn it off and back on you stay at the same place in the movie?

[PenaltyKillah @ Sep 28th 2007 10:03PM]

Kids products, trust me, are always crap. But I shamefully announce my liking for the design. For a kids player, they are just oozing with HSM-type sexiness. That sounds a bit pedo...

[KK @ Oct 2nd 2007 6:41PM]

I want one. Anyone got the details of the fusion dmp? supported formats...etc?