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Blog Buying & Sourcing CBHD Guides
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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

  1. 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.
  2. Expect nothing on eBay or in Japan for finished CBHD goods.
  3. Collector route order: Chinese second-hand market → Japanese/Asian auction market → eBay/import sellers → collector forums → other Chinese used-goods platforms.
  4. Check LDDb forum trading threads and HD DVD preservation communities.
  5. Before buying repair donors, photograph the pickup label of a known CBHD unit.
  6. 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:

Blog Buying & Sourcing CVD Guides
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Where to Buy CVD Players and Discs

Current market reality

China Video Disc (CVD) hardware and discs from the 1998 launch window are not a clean marketplace category today. Searches on eBay, Kongfz (孔夫子旧书网), JD, Suning and ZOL have not turned up a listing that specifically advertises a 1998 CVD player or a disc marked “CVD.” What exists instead is a surrounding ecosystem: multi-format DVD players that claim Super VCD support, second-hand VCD film stock that may hide period 超级VCD discs, modern Chinese DVD/EVD decks that still print 超级VCD on the feature list, and spare C-Cube decoder chips for repair. Buying for CVD research therefore means hunting adjacent stock and testing it-not ordering a labelled “CVD starter kit.”

What is actually for sale

Multi-format DVD players (Western second-hand)

Generic DVD players marketed as “DVD / Super VCD / VCD / CD” are the common Western find, especially JVC XV-N series units. Recent listing examples include an XV-N510B around US$7.56, an XV-N33 around €17.97, and an XV-N212 around £18.99. Prices in the US$8-25 band are typical for that class of deck. These machines play Philips SVCD; CVD support is not stated on the carton language and must be tested before anyone buys in quantity. Treat “Super VCD compatible” as a necessary filter, not as proof of China Video Disc playback. Community compatibility claims for CVD on Western DVD players disagree sharply elsewhere in this series; a cheap XV-N is a test mule, not a guarantee.

Hong Kong VCD/DVD stock on eBay

eBay still carries Hong Kong VCD and DVD stock associated with distributors such as Mei Ah and Universe Laser. That stock occasionally includes Super VCD titles. It remains a useful search channel for period Asian optical media, but Mei Ah or Universe branding alone does not confirm CVD encoding. Discs must be inspected for markings, measured for video width, and tested across players. Russil Wvong’s Video CD FAQ already treated Hong Kong distributors as the Western hobbyist’s VCD pipeline in the late 1990s; the same pipeline is where Super VCD titles are most likely to hide today.

Kongfz out-of-print VCD film shops

Kongfz second-hand shops with large “VCD 电影 绝版” (out-of-print VCD film) categories are currently the most promising Chinese-language place to look for period 超级VCD discs. One documented shop lists 908 VCD film items in that category. Sellers may not distinguish CVD from Super VCD in the title field; photographs of the disc face, tray card and any 版号 string matter more than the shop’s search keyword. Ask whether the disc was a player giveaway (随机赠送) from 1998-1999-contemporary press described free bundled titles as a CVD marketing tactic-and image immediately after purchase.

Current Chinese DVD/EVD players

JD and Suning still list DVD/EVD-class players from Jinzheng, SAST, Malata and Amoi in roughly the ¥89-200 range. Feature lists typically include 超级VCD playback. CVD support is again not stated. These decks are candidates for modern SVCD testing and for everyday playback of ripped or re-authored discs; they are not substitutes for documented 1998 CVD launch hardware without chip and mechanism verification. Brand continuity (Jinzheng, SAST, Malata, Amoi) is historically suggestive but not evidence that a 2020s chassis still uses C-Cube CVD-era silicon.

C-Cube repair parts

Decoder chips for repair remain available from Taiwanese and Hong Kong component sellers. Examples include CL480T around US$9 on eBay and CL680-T128 stocked under US$1 in quantity on datasheet.hk listings. Chip availability does not recreate a 1998 player, but it does keep dead boards potentially recoverable and gives collectors a concrete parts vocabulary (CL480, CL484, CL680 and related C-Cube markings) when asking sellers what sits under the heat sink. Note that the discrete C-Cube CVD / Chaoji decoder part numbers and datasheets themselves remain unlocated; CL480/CL680 are the VideoCD-era family names still circulating in surplus, not proven CVD SKUs.

Historical retail channels (1998 and after)

Understanding where CVD sold when it was new helps explain where survivors may still hide:

Channel Period Notes
Shanghai department stores Jun-Nov 1998 CVD launch market; venue of November 1998 compatibility contests
Wuhan Jul 1998 CVD “sold quickly” (Shenghuo Shibao)
Beijing (e.g. Blue Island Building 蓝岛大厦) 1998 Aido and SAST CVD on sale; Blue Island stocked 60+ VCD models from 20+ brands
VCDGallery.com early 2000s Sold “original SVCD movies” online (cited via VideoHelp)
Five Star Laser (San Gabriel, CA); Blue Laser (Connecticut) late 1990s Western importers of Hong Kong VCDs

Shanghai is the political and marketing centre of the CVD story: launch events and later compatibility contests both sat in department-store retail culture. Wuhan’s “sold quickly” note shows that CVD hardware moved outside Shanghai within weeks of publicity. Beijing’s Blue Island Building (蓝岛大厦) appears in February 1998 Guangming Daily coverage as a dense VCD retail node-60-plus models from 20-plus brands-before becoming a place where Aido and SAST CVD machines were observed on sale later that year. Western importers such as Five Star Laser and Blue Laser, and later online shops such as VCDGallery.com, matter for diaspora and hobbyist SVCD/VCD collecting, not as proven CVD specialist shops.

Search terms that actually help

Language / focus Terms
Chinese (players) CVD影碟机; CVD机; 超级VCD影碟机; 超级VCD机 1998; 金正 CVD; 爱多 CVD; 先科 CVD; 万利达 超级VCD; 厦新 CVD; 步步高 超级VCD
Chinese (discs) CVD碟片; CVD光盘; 超级VCD碟片; SVCD 正版; 超级VCD 绝版; 随机赠送 CVD
English China Video Disc; CVD player; Chaoji VCD; Super VCD player Aido / SAST / Malata; C-Cube CVD
Parts C-Cube CL680; CL484; C-Cube Chaoji VCD decoder

Brand-linked Chinese queries (金正 / Jinzheng, 爱多 / Aido, 先科 / SAST, 万利达 / Malata, 厦新 / Amoi, 步步高 / BBK) outperform the bare English acronym “CVD,” which collides with unrelated uses. Disc queries that include 随机赠送 CVD (random/giveaway CVD) target the player-bundle distribution mode documented in 1998 press. English “Chaoji VCD” and “C-Cube CVD” catch Western chip and format discussions that never used the full China Video Disc expansion.

Platforms not yet searched in this research set include Xianyu (闲鱼), Taobao second-hand, Douban collector groups, Baidu Tieba boards such as 影碟机吧 and VCD吧, and Bilibili teardown videos. Those remain high-priority next channels precisely because Kongfz/eBay/JD/Suning already returned no CVD-labelled hits.

Buying recommendations

  1. For playing hobbyist CVD-style discs: any DVD player that already plays SVCD from CD-R is a candidate. Test playback carefully before buying multiples; carton “Super VCD” text is not enough.
  2. For period hardware: look for Chinese 1998-1999 超级VCD players from the CVD launch brands, and ask sellers for the decoder chip marking (C-Cube versus Shinco/ESS) and for a photograph of the mechanism (Philips versus Sony). Those two hardware axes are the period distinctions contemporary Chinese reporting used between CVD-camp and SVCD-camp machines.
  3. For period discs: search Kongfz and Xianyu for discs marked “CVD” (not only 超级VCD) from mid-1998, then image them immediately-labels, matrix codes, 版号, and tray cards-before the seller’s photos disappear.

How to budget a first purchase without fooling yourself

A realistic first shopping list for CVD research is therefore not a branded 1998 Jinzheng carton at a collector premium, because those listings have not appeared in the searched markets. It is a cheap SVCD-capable DVD player in the US$8-25 class, a Kongfz trawl through 绝版 VCD film lots with seller photo requests, optional modern Jinzheng/SAST/Malata/Amoi decks in the ¥89-200 band for daily SVCD work, and awareness of CL480/CL680 parts pricing if a board is already on the bench. Historical geography-Shanghai department stores, Wuhan quick sales, Beijing Blue Island stock, Western Hong Kong VCD importers-explains why survivors may surface as undifferentiated “old Chinese VCD player” lots rather than as museum-labelled CVD artefacts.

Until a seller photographs a disc face that literally says CVD, or a chassis with a documented C-Cube Chaoji VCD decoder and period branding, every purchase remains a compatibility experiment. That is the honest market condition for China Video Disc in the mid-2020s: adjacent formats are plentiful; labelled CVD objects are not yet on the searchable shelf. Budget for imaging and testing time, not only for the invoice price of the player or disc.

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:

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Where to Buy EVD Players and Discs

Current market reality

No confirmed listing of a genuine Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD) player or a commercial EVD disc was found on JD, Suning, eBay, Kongfz or Chinese Wikipedia-linked shops in the research passes behind this series. Current searches for “EVD” on JD and Suning return DVD players, portable DVD players and Blu-ray players. That keyword collision is the central buying hazard: modern EVD retail language is not the same thing as a genuine 2004-2008 EVD deck with LSI Logic decode.

Ordinary DVD player beside a television, illustrating that EVD-labelled decks today are usually standard DVD hardware
EVD-labelled decks offered today are usually ordinary DVD players. Photo: Ma8thew, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA.

What current platforms actually show

Platform What to expect Source
JD (京东) “EVD” used as keyword on DVD/Blu-ray players; filter by brand and year JD
Suning (苏宁易购) Same pattern; e.g. Jinzheng portable “evd” DVD players at ¥369-519 Suning
Kongfz (孔夫子旧书网) Second-hand shops with large out-of-print disc categories; best chance for period EVD discs Kongfz VCD/disc category practice
Xianyu (闲鱼) Second-hand players and discs; not searched in this set –
Taobao second-hand Not searched –
eBay Chinese-region DVD players occasionally listed; no EVD found –

Kongfz remains the most promising Chinese-language place to look for period discs because its second-hand shops already organise large out-of-print film categories. Sellers may still misuse “EVD” as a vague high-definition adjective. Photographs of the disc face, EVD logo, publisher mark and 版号 matter more than the search keyword. Xianyu and Taobao second-hand were not searched here and remain high-priority next channels precisely because JD/Suning/eBay already returned no confirmed genuine objects.

Jinzheng portable players advertised with an “evd” keyword in the ¥369-519 Suning band are useful as negative examples. They show how the three letters still sell in Chinese retail search, and they show how far that marketing language has drifted from 2004-2008 living-room EVD with LSI Logic silicon and component HD outputs. Treat them as ordinary DVD/portable DVD hardware unless a seller can prove otherwise with model numbers from the period list below.

Historical retail channels (2004-2007)

Channel Role Source
Gome (国美) Launch channel; chair of 2006 alliance; 30 EVD stores planned pass 1; Baidu
Dazhong (大中电器) First EVD HD experience hall, June 2004 Baidu
Suning (苏宁) Listed by E-World as a retailer; later refused EVD as “fake HD” E-World FAQ; pass 1
Yongle (永乐) Listed by E-World E-World FAQ
Manufacturer counters Shinco, Amoi department-store counters E-World FAQ
搜E网 Planned online EVD store (2006) pass 1
800 disc outlets Planned (2006) pass 1

Historical geography explains where survivors may still hide. Gome was both a launch channel and, later, chair of the 2006 alliance that planned thirty EVD stores. Dazhong’s June 2004 HD experience hall is an early public demonstration node. E-World’s own FAQ listed Suning and Yongle among retailers even as other reporting notes Suning later refusing EVD as “fake HD.” That Suning contradiction is itself a buying lesson: a chain name that appears in vendor FAQ copy is not automatically a friendly modern stockist for genuine discs. Manufacturer counters for Shinco and Amoi matter because period hardware often moved through brand floors rather than through a single EVD specialist chain. Planned 2006 outlets (搜E网 online; eight hundred disc outlets) are capacity pledges, not proof that those nodes still hold stock today.

When a second-hand seller claims a machine “came from Gome” or “was from a department-store counter,” ask for carton photos, warranty cards and model stickers rather than accepting the story alone. Launch-channel provenance is historically plausible for Shinco and alliance-era decks; it is also easy to invent in a listing title. The same caution applies to discs said to be “Jindian Global from 今典” without a readable publisher mark in the photograph.

Search terms that actually help

Language / focus Terms
Chinese, players 新科 EVD-8700; 新科 EVD8830; 新科 EVD-327; 上广电 EVD388; EVD影碟机 2005; EVD高清碟机 老; 真高清 EVD 碟机; EVD 播放机 LSI
Chinese, discs EVD碟片; EVD光盘 正版; 今典环球 EVD; 中凯 EVD; 中影 EVD; EVD 高清影碟; HD-EVD 碟片
English Enhanced Versatile Disc; EVD player Shinco; EVD disc Jindian; HD-EVD

Model-linked Chinese queries outperform the bare acronym. Shinco EVD-8700, EVD8830 and EVD-327, and SVA (上广电) EVD388, are period SKUs named in E-World and reference material. Adding LSI to player searches targets the decode silicon story rather than keyword-stuffed portable DVD players. Disc queries that name Jindian Global, Zhongkai or China Film outperform generic “高清影碟” alone.

Filter out listings after 2009 and anything describing a “DVD播放机” with “EVD” merely appended. Ask sellers for a photo of the disc tray area showing an EVD logo and of the rear panel showing component HD outputs. Those two photographs separate living-room HD EVD hardware from ordinary DVD chassis that borrowed the three letters for search ranking.

Buying recommendations

  1. Buy genuine players only with the model number visible (EVD-8700, EVD8830, EVD-327, EVD388) and ideally with a commercial EVD disc included.
  2. Buy discs only with a visible Jindian Global, Zhongkai or other listed publisher mark and an EVD logo.
  3. Image discs immediately on receipt using the preservation workflow in this series.

A realistic first shopping list is therefore not a JD portable “evd” DVD player in the ¥369-519 band. Those machines document how the keyword is abused, not how 2004-2008 LSI Logic EVD worked. Budget instead for seller photo requests, Kongfz trawls through out-of-print disc lots, and immediate imaging time if a marked disc appears. Historical channels (Gome, Dazhong, Yongle, Shinco/Amoi counters) explain why survivors may surface as undifferentiated “old Chinese HD disc player” lots rather than as museum-labelled EVD artefacts.

If a candidate player arrives, verify the rear panel for component HD outputs, open or photograph the decode board for LSI Logic markings when safe, and test with an ordinary DVD first so you know the laser path works before you risk a scarce EVD title. If a candidate disc arrives, refuse to play it heavily before imaging: the preservation post’s ISO, hash, file-tree and dual-player test package is the purchase receipt that later research can reuse. Bundled player-plus-disc lots are especially valuable when both objects can be authenticated together, because period marketing often joined hardware sales to content supply.

Until a seller photographs a disc face with an EVD logo and publisher mark, or a chassis with a documented period model number and component HD outputs, every purchase remains an authenticity experiment. That is the honest market condition for EVD in the mid-2020s: the three-letter keyword is plentiful; confirmed 2004-2008 objects are not yet on the searchable shelf.

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: