Once in a lifetime, a generation comes along who rises to the challenge of destiny, and meets their historic obligations to their nation and their world. We speak, of course, of 5th-generation iPods, the only ones that’ll work with this Philips DVD P

When we happen to meet someone who knows about Woot, whether it’s at a party, a business function, or the VD clinic, they always want to know one thing: where the hell is that t-shirt I ordered last month? After we calm them down by blaming everything on SmartPost, they sometimes ask a second question: how do you guys get such great deals?

Gather round, o miserly ones, and hear the tale of the Philips DVD Player with iPod Dock. See, this is the kind of thing that seems like you’d never see on clearance: a portable DVD player from a recognized manufacturer, with a 8.5” LCD swivel screen, Dolby Digital audio, and an SD/MMC card reader for playing DivX video clips. Not only can it function as an iPod dock and recharging station, it can actually play videos and music straight from the iPod. Pretty awesome, huh? Philips should have no trouble moving these, right?

Except that it only works with 5th-generation iPods (30G, 60G, and 80G) – not earlier ones, and not the most recent ones.

Which means you can’t take advantage of the new iTunes movie rentals, because those don’t work with 5th generation iPods.

And the celebrated Dolby Digital audio doesn’t mean much when you’re listening through this player’s mediocre little speakers.

Wow, that didn’t take long. In just three short sentences, the Philips DVD Player with iPod Dock went from sure-fire hit to landfill candidate. And that’s where we came in. Wherever there’s an iPod accessory with limited iPod compatibility…wherever there’s a big, clunky portable DVD player…wherever there’s a dusty pile of something in somebody’s warehouse that people have lost all hope of ever selling…there you’ll find Woot.

And no, we still don’t know where your t-shirt is.

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