Where to Buy CBHD Players and Discs
Current stockist status
No research pass found a reliable current commercial stockist of CBHD players or discs, or any live indexed listing. Searches covered eBay, Worthpoint, Kongfz, Xianyu, Taobao, Yahoo Auctions Japan, Mercari, Ruten, Carousell and Discogs (on the order of 32 queries in one pass). Chinese C2C platforms block most search indexing, so “not found” is not proof nothing is listed-Xianyu and Kongfz must be searched by hand in their apps. The Shinco CBHD-9100 is listed as discontinued in Chinese product databases. Manufacturing ended quietly around 2010-2011 without an official sunset announcement; sourcing means niche archival markets.
Platform-by-platform results
| Marketplace | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| eBay (all regions) | Nothing CBHD | Ordinary Shinco DVD players only (e.g. DVD-860, DVD-1000); GBAX-era imports exceptionally rare |
| Worthpoint | Nothing | “CBHD” returned unrelated acronym uses |
| Kongfz 孔夫子 | Nothing indexed | Important for discs; search in app/site |
| Xianyu 闲鱼 | Nothing indexed | Primary source for players/discs per field knowledge; search manually |
| Taobao / Tmall | Nothing indexed | Sold discs in-life (some under $5); search manually |
| Zhuanzhuan / Pinduoduo / JD | Nothing indexed | Manual search |
| Douban | Nothing indexed | Item pages and trade groups are catalogue sources |
| Dangdang / Joyo-Amazon | Legacy only | Sold discs in 2009; use Wayback |
| Yahoo JP / Mercari / Hard Off | Nothing | Japanese hits were articles only |
| Ruten / Shopee TW / Carousell HK | Nothing | HK saw only very limited imports |
| AliExpress / Amazon | Nothing found | – |
| Discogs | No CBHD releases | China Record label pages only |
| LDDb forums | Active trading threads | Collector trading |
Historical retail geography
Mainland China: GOME and Suning (sales deals August 2009), Dazhong, plus online Joyo-Amazon, Dangdang and Taobao. Hong Kong: very limited imports. United Kingdom: GBAX imported the TCL THBD-1008 in October 2009 at £259.99 with 14 discs, and briefly imported small shipments of players and Warner discs into Europe. The GBAX product page, photos, manual, packaging and customer discussion may survive in web archives and are a preservation lead. Grey-market auction listings appeared occasionally during the format’s life.
Historical price benchmarks
| Item | Price | When / source |
|---|---|---|
| Shinco CBHD-9100 | ¥2,580 with 15 discs | Jul 2009, PConline/ZOL |
| Shinco CBHD-9100 | ¥2,999 | 2009, 电脑报 No. 30 |
| Shinco CBHD-9100 import | about $300 | Oct 2009, AVSForum |
| CBHD players, Guangzhou | ¥1,599-2,500 | Jan 2010, av269 |
| Shinco CBHD-3800 | ¥2,980 guide | Yesky |
| TCL THBD-1008 | ~¥1,999 | Apr 2009 |
| TCL THBD-1008 UK | £259.99 | Oct 2009, GBAX |
| CBHD discs | ¥50-70 launch; ¥55 typical | 2009 |
| CBHD discs | ¥28-55 | Jan 2010 Guangzhou |
| CBHD discs Taobao | under $5 | AVSForum era |
Search terms
Use on Xianyu, Taobao, Kongfz, Ruten, Yahoo Auctions and eBay:
- Simplified Chinese: CBHD, 中国蓝光, 中国蓝光高清, CBHD光盘, CBHD碟, CBHD影碟机, 蓝光高清视盘机, 高清光盘, 中国蓝光 二手, 新科CBHD-9100, 新科9100, 新科3800, 新科 HD-3700U, TCL THBD-1008, THBD1008, THBD-1038.
- Traditional Chinese: 中國藍光, 中國藍光高清.
- Japanese: CBHD ディスク, 中国版HD DVD, 中国ブルーハイディフィニション.
- English: CBHD player, CBHD disc, China Blue High Definition, Shinco CBHD-9100, TCL THBD-1008.
Buying recommendations
- Search Xianyu and Kongfz by hand for 中国蓝光, CBHD, 新科 9100 and THBD-1008; set saved-search alerts. A buying proxy such as Superbuy can handle Xianyu purchases.
- Expect nothing on eBay or in Japan for finished CBHD goods.
- Collector route order: Chinese second-hand market → Japanese/Asian auction market → eBay/import sellers → collector forums → other Chinese used-goods platforms.
- Check LDDb forum trading threads and HD DVD preservation communities.
- Before buying repair donors, photograph the pickup label of a known CBHD unit.
- Ask sellers for photos of 说明书 and 保修卡-boxed units often still include printed manuals absent from the web.
Disambiguation tip: eBay “Shinco” hits are almost always standard DVD players. Confirm CBHD model numbers (CBHD-9100, CBHD-3800, HD-2100, HD-3700U, THBD-1008, THBD-1038) and look for bundled CBHD discs or the blue CBHD logo on the fascia before paying collector prices.
Why indexed search fails on Chinese C2C
Xianyu (goofish.com), Kongfz, Taobao and Zhuanzhuan often hide listings from external crawlers. Claude pass 2’s “nothing indexed” results across roughly thirty-two queries therefore mean “nothing visible to automated search,” not “zero units exist in drawers in Changzhou or Shanghai.” Manual app search with the Chinese strings listed above, saved alerts and buying proxies such as Superbuy remain the practical path. Japanese marketplaces returned articles rather than goods; Hong Kong saw only very limited imports historically; eBay currently shows ordinary Shinco DVD players that are not CBHD-capable.
Historical retail geography still guides where stock might surface: GOME, Suning and Dazhong stores once carried Shinco decks; Joyo-Amazon and Dangdang category pages from 2009 survive in Wayback and can yield title lists even when buy buttons are dead. GBAX’s UK THBD-1008 page at £259.99 with fourteen discs is a preservation lead for packaging photography and manuals if archive captures remain.
Price memory for negotiation
Knowing that a CBHD-9100 launched near ¥2,580 with fifteen discs, reviewed at ¥2,999, imported near $300, and later sold near ¥1,599 helps collectors judge modern asks. Discs that were ¥55 in 2009 and ¥28 online by 2010 should not be priced like rare Blu-ray steelbooks without provenance. Conversely, complete boxed players with manuals and unopened sampler discs are scarcer than bare decks and justify premiums-especially THBD-1008 units tied to the only documented overseas retail push.
Disambiguation remains critical: confirm model numbers CBHD-9100, CBHD-3800, HD-2100, HD-3700U, THBD-1008 or THBD-1038; look for the blue CBHD logo; ask for photos of disc bundles and 说明书. LDDb trading threads and HD DVD preservation groups occasionally move hardware when public marketplaces look empty. Photograph pickup labels on any working unit before buying “compatible” donors for repair.
Search-term hygiene: English “CBHD” collides with unrelated acronyms on Worthpoint; pair it with Shinco or TCL model numbers. Japanese queries such as 中国版HD DVD find articles more often than auctions. Traditional Chinese 中國藍光 helps on Ruten and Hong Kong boards even though historical imports were sparse. Always exclude generic “Shinco DVD” hits that lack CBHD badging.
Collector route reminder: Chinese second-hand apps first, then broader Asian auctions, then eBay/import sellers, then specialist forums. Expect long dry spells. When a unit appears, verify power-on, disc load, HDMI output and whether bundled discs are present-players without discs still play USB files on the 9100/3700U but lose catalogue value. For repair-only purchases, budget that pickup and firmware may not transfer from Toshiba donors without FSM-capable channel hardware.
Discogs currently lists China Record Corporation label pages without CBHD release entries-useful for publisher context, useless as a stockist. AliExpress and Amazon returned nothing in the passes. Naver, Coupang, Shopee SG/MY and Lazada were named in the brief but not searched in depth; they remain secondary checks after Xianyu and Kongfz. Grey-market auction appearances during 2009-2010 prove overseas trickle existed; they do not guarantee modern eBay depth. Patience and Chinese-language queries outperform English-only shopping.
What “nothing found” actually means
Across eBay regions the pass found ordinary Shinco DVD-860 and DVD-1000 class players, not CBHD machines-useful negative evidence that Western marketplaces currently mislabel or simply lack the format. Worthpoint’s unrelated CBHD acronym hits warn against keyword-only alerts. Japanese hard-off and Mercari emptiness matches the format’s China-primary distribution. Hong Kong Carousell emptiness matches ChatGPT pass 1’s “very limited imports” note. The positive lead list is short on purpose: Xianyu, Kongfz, LDDb trading threads, and occasional preservation-group offers. Set alerts, check weekly, and treat dry months as normal rather than proof the last player was destroyed.
When a listing appears, ask for power-on video, close-ups of the model badge, HDMI output to a TV, and photos of any bundled discs and printed manuals. For THBD-1008 specifically, ask whether the UK GBAX accessory set (PSU, AV cable, HDMI cable, fourteen movies) is complete. Incomplete bundles still matter; document missing discs so catalogue workers know which titles remain orphaned.
Historical online shops Joyo-Amazon and Dangdang matter less as buy buttons and more as Wayback category captures that still list title names, prices and cover art for catalogue building. Taobao sold discs under five dollars during the format era; modern Taobao searches must be manual inside the app. Keep a running shortlist of rejected false positives-generic Shinco DVD decks-so future searchers do not re-check the same eBay item numbers.
Save search alert screenshots so later researchers know which queries were already exhausted.
Further reading on historic video formats
If you want to learn more about historic video formats, get The History of Physical Video Formats from the Frontier by Stephen Driver on Amazon: