The Smallest Portable CD Players Ever Made (That Nobody Bought) 

what do you mean bubble era? curious

@@coolelectronics1759 1986-1991 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_asset_price_bubble

You forget the price… high price. lol

Yes, but this particular one was a pretty stupid concept, you have to admit that.

"high quality and well built", 3 out of 3 aren't working. Sure.

I just watched that! Glad I scrolled down to avoid a redundant comment, I will find other ways to waste 1's and 0's on googles servers.

@@nigel-Rollercam-channel Oh man, I'm gonna start using that last sentence as an insult!

@@estebanvasquez2307 Oh, Please do, I rarely get quoted🧐

Dankpods: GIANT NUGGET

Diskmans? Discmen?

Nothing beats the coolness of physical media being played back through transparent windows (or just the opening itself). Before I replaced my PC case, I had cut a window into my optical drive to see it in action. Still have an optical drive on current case but I do miss that opening... May as well mod this case at some point

I recall one of "The Spin Doctors " albums' had a spiral type artwork on the CD. during the last couple of tracks it would look especially cool at lower RPM resulting in a "minimally hypotonic cd spiral-graph " to view... I also remember Pearl Jams' CD arrwork was unique too.

I used to keep the lid on my PS1 open and push the little thingy to keep the CD spinning.

apart from spiral cd art are there any cds that have pictures only visible when spinning ?

As with most things plastic, the quality suffers. I picked up an old Singer sewing machine from the early 50's in all metal. It works like new and its sturdy and strong and smooth to handle. I scored it for $40 including the sewing table that it comes in.

I can't look at old electronics without thinking, "the belts have perished" anymore

@@Arbiter099 haha

@@Arbiter099 Also "No I won't replace the caps even tho I know that could help before any of you type in the comments section"

I mean they were right there in the thumbnail though lol

why a dab of lighter fluid isn't that flammable?

so true!

Thank you! I’ve learned that while I find the historical/social context of retro tech to be interesting, some people just want to see the hardware. I’ve been trying to find the right balance between the two.

Sony still makes miniature electronics even if it does not look tiny. Their Ultra HD BlueRay players like Sony UBP-X700 (or UBP-X800), so on, have very compact PCBs with tiny components, so that contemporary computer PCBs may appear bulky aged findings of electronics archeologists.

I was hoping I wasn't the only one to notice that... and it's not the first time he's shown an Utada CD in his videos lol

I have it on my wireless headphones transmitter - good old analog infrared, use the headphone's circuit as a receiver for my better headphones to play games on headphones on the living room TV, let me tell ya that any rhythm game works flawlessly with those as they have downright zero delay from their analog nature (yeah, almost zero, of course they probably have theoretically some nanoseconds or what). The logo on the tall rounded 90's looking transmitter (which it in fact is, older than me may I add) really is a nice touch from the past, when Sony specially had the balls to try anything. And: ye they still worked flawlessly even if I got them 2nd hand... other than one old electrolytic cap. It's so much "built to last" that you can actually find a fully detailed service manual for it with all the circuit board traces laid down and the schematic, with full Bill of Materials. Then nowadays some manufacturers hide the service manuals as much as possible so you really can't repair it...

That's how you know It's a Sony

so cool! I am visually impaired I wonder if you can feel it? or was it printed on and kinda like what IBM does with there logo?

Never heard of double sided cds. I know double sided DVDs.

They did make MP3 compatible minidisks i used to use them all the time I still have my minidisk player with some minidisks

in 1:17 too