KPI MP3 CD player I picked up for 7 bucks will it work?

[@simonwelch560]

I remember seeing those where they used a bunch of EEPROMs instead of a CD. Must have driven the shop staff insane hearing the same stuff for years :)

[@12voltvids]

It does. My son works in a store and they have the same music loop playing every day. 60 minutes and then repeat. Same songs, same order every day. Our music on hold at work is also very annoying. 4 songs in a loop over and over.

[@woodysgeekchannel2204]

Great video. Love watching your electronic finds

[@andynoon2584]

A very nice piece of equipment. I have a Denon DCD-700AE C D player which plays MP3 discs, it has a very good sound to it.

[@GoldSrc_]

The pick up looks like a Samsung one. Neat little unit.

[@michaelturner4457]

Apparently it came from Hong Kong, probably why the default video is PAL 50Hz. Video CD was quite popular in Asia, as is karaoke. There's many portable players that do pretty much the same thing as this one, but with built-in screens.

[@12voltvids]

Has no indication where it was made.

[@michaelturner4457]

I was going by what's on the screen 9:16 and the brand, KPI, "Kyber Port Int'l Ltd". Which is/was a Kowloon, HK company, plus the Chinese text as well.

[@mrfredchew]

Majority made across the border from HK, in Shenzen China. @@12voltvids

[@mrfredchew]

The Chinese characters mean "Digital/Cyber Port "@@michaelturner4457

[@12voltvids]

@@mrfredchew Regardless of where it was made it works great. For 7 bucks I am not complaining. A compilation CD with 100 to 150 tracks will play all day. Now to find a remote that will work features not on front panel like random playback.

[@stphinkle]

This player could have also been used in home environments. Back in the days of pirated file sharing (Napster, Scour, Limewire, Morpheus, Grokster, iMesh, Bearshare, et al), downloading MP3 files and ripping them from authentic CDs and burning them as data CDs for MP3 CD players was commonplace. Not as common today with all of the streaming services but it was common before the RIAA lawsuits against peer to peer music download services.

[@12voltvids]

Never have had any streaming services here myself. Do have a huge library of music. Russian web sites were good places to get stuff. Only a few left these days.

[@michaelturner4457]

Yeh Russian web sites like allofmp3.com I downloaded a ton of music from there back in the day.

[@12voltvids]

@@michaelturner4457 Mp3sparks still up and running. They accept bitcoin lol.

[@countzero1136]

These days people just download their music from KZbin instead :)

[@craigstaggs8597]

It's a karaoke VCD head unit and was sold under loads of brand names and was intended for use with a monitor to display lyrics… It was never intended to be a "shop" musak player at all .

[@12voltvids]

There were shop musak players very similar as u have seen many over the years.

[@alexispieltin9379]

Hello! Good pick! This machine also could have served for answering machine or phone service machine as standby music server, as it has a phone jack! The random and auto play are probably programmed via a service menu or via a IR remote... Seems to be build to last!

[@12voltvids]

That is actually a headphone jack, and it does cut off sound to the line out when you plug headphones in. It is a stereo jack.

[@glenngoodale1709]

Wonderful video, my friend. Thank you for sharing

[@paulb4uk]

Vcd were popular in China according to sepentza,s channel more than dvd and VHS.

[@michaelturner4457]

Yeh, VHS was relatively unknown in China, except maybe for some academic and commercial use. But DVD was, and still is very popular though. Blu-ray on the other hand, that's almost completely unknown in the PRC.

[@alexispieltin9379]

Oh, I've just found it's probably Korean, and something based Samsung or equivalent. The drive unit is no Phillips type, and it has a relatively big cell motor with less mechanical decoupling than Japanese type drives. You can also read Samsung on a IC when you apply grease on the inner portion of rail. The brand sounds also more Korean, with a K something (does it reads k.pop?), than Japanese counterparts (Japan Victor Company)!

[@theanimatronicscollectoran4193]

No, that thing is a Chinese brand.

[@abdelkaderelbachir9523]

this type of VCD player was very popular when I was a kid specifically in the early 2000's the majority did come with a built in audio amplifier and speakers and they also included a mixed video game CD and joysticks with it and even a microphone for karaoke lovers 'the one that my parents did own and I do remember very well was under the name of (super sunny) and of course it was a lot of copies under a lot of other brands but In the end all of them did Cam from China This video did bring back to me so much memories that I totally forgot thank you 😏😌

[@JacGoudsmit]

I wonder if that thing can play CD-BGM. Not that you would be able to find those because they were never for sale, only for rent. It was a format invented by Philips that used ADPCM compression to store 4 or 8 hours of mono music on a single CD (there was no MPEG yet). Philips made special players (Google for Philips BMS3000) for those discs, but you could also play them on CD-i players. In a previous life, I worked for a company in the Netherlands that made CD-i productions and also produced the BGM CD's that the Philips Background Music department (a competitor of Muzak circa 1995) would release every month. We would get 20 DAT tapes (two tapes for each CD-BGM) with mono music recorded on the left and right channel separately, and we used a PC with a special Sony ADPCM encoder/decoder card to record them to hard disk in real time. Then we used some self-written software to split the left channel from the right channel, detect silences for the timing information, and multiplex all the files together again. It took an entire day to do all this data juggling for a single CD.

[@teacfan1080]

Nice score! Can't find anything good at my local thrift shops, just tons of clothes and craft stuff. There are some electronics, but your typical stuff, nothing cool like this.

[@RandyDarkshade2]

It's possible that the microphone ports may have been used so store can make customer/staff announcements over the stores speaker system.

[@ryanpascual9598]

It is used for Karaoke functions.

[@RandyDarkshade2]

@@ryanpascual9598 In a suppermarket?

[@ryanpascual9598]

@@RandyDarkshade2 These things were for home use only, but, the people who own these things also owned karaoke VCDs.

[@jasejj]

These units were very common in the early 2000s, there were many different versions with a variety of functions, but they generally were the same few box designs with more boards added. I had one with a Nintendo NES clone that could play ROMs from CD, and a built in amplifier board. These usually had a Sony KSS213 clone CD loader, this one looks a bit different but I think the Samsung lasers were themselves Sony compatible weren't they?

[@mrfredchew]

When I was in HK in the early 2000, these units were selling like hotcakes in the electronics district of Sham Shui Po in Kowloon. VCDs were the fad and piracy of music and software was rampant.

[@ThriftyAV]

At 7:36, you speculate that it could be used for karaoke. With the video out, and mic inputs, I was wondering this too. Do you have any CD-G discs to test? CD-G discs often show up at thrift stores, too. My guess is that the phone jack is a headphone output, not input, although it's unusual for this to be on the back. Nice thrift find! #ThriftyAV

[@hareshpatel3411]

I replaced new optical pickup lence it's functioning properly but after 1 to 2 hours playing a cd it's misbehaving like hanging tracks, missing tracks, forward revese tracks. Why? I can't understand. Please guide me

[@TheThecyclist]

if a cd or dvd has scratches get a lip balm stick (your wife or daughter will most likely have one) rub the stick across the scratch and the wax in the lip balm fills in the scratch

[@AThreeDogNight]

Nice find for only 7 dollars, I am never that lucky to find something useful for just a little doe.

[@rawr51919]

Looks like the CD @ approx. 10:40 might need a resurfacing.

[@HDXFH]

Me thinks it may akso be used for KTV

[@zx8401ztv]

What an unusual unit, it seems to have many possibilitys, a bargain at 7 bucks :-D. There must be a way to make it default to ntsc, annoying to be stuck in pal :-( A pcb jumper or secret menu?

[@kyoudaiken]

There's actually not much difference between MPEG1 and 2 in the compression algorithm. Both are basically just like enhanced MJPEG. Actually you can loslessly convert a key frame (I-VOP) to a JPEG cause the encoding is the same. MPEG1 and 2 just add crude motion prediction and image prediction as well as bi-directional differential compression. Didn't take long until MPEG-4 ASP came out (known as DivX) which was way ahead of it's time, also in terms of decoding hardware and PC performance for realtime decoding.

[@vincem.exclusive9151]

The screen on that player seems it has yellow colored backlight. but it's not working

[@RoughJustice2k18]

Looks like you picked up a real bargain there. Nice one.

[@12voltvids]

Working great, have it running now listening to old mixed disks that were given to me years ago.

[@tyler2610]

Hi Dave, I have an unrelated question. I just bought a Sony DVD/VCR combo unit that I was told is unused and it appears to be so. I am having a small issue with it and wondered it you might have an idea what is wrong. When I fast forward or rewind, it will start out in the normal speed but doesn't ever go into fast rewind or full fast forward like it should after 15 seconds or so. It says on the box it has flash rewind so I think it should be a lot faster. It also slows way down both in fast forward or rewind when it gets about 20 mins or so from the end of the spool, normally my VCR usually will do that around 2-3 mins remaining. Do you think it may be the mode encoder switch? Everything else seems to work properly.

[@Aeduo]

Can it do a CD+G? Seems to still be an active format to this day. I saw some at Target just a few hours ago.

[@jovangrbic97]

You DO have a video CD, you showed us the Skydiving promo VCD with music and skydiving in one of the videos. Am I remembering wrong???

[@12voltvids]

No that is NOT a video CD, that is a CDVideo. Totally different format. VideoCD is digital video, CDVideo is analog video, and a laserdisk player plays it. A CDVideo is limited to 5 minutes. VodeoCD runs 74min and SVCd will do 40 minutes. I do have a Liteon Allwrite DVD recorder that will record VideoCD and Super VideoCD, so perhaps I will make one up. Of course I could do it on my computer as well. A future project.

[@jovangrbic97]

@@12voltvids Hahahah indeed, dumb naming conventions...

[@mikecoackley6852]

lol listening to royalty free music in your car... On purpose? you crack me up.

[@santi0797]

Hello!, do you have the name of the track played in 7:28?

[@12voltvids]

Star walk by the Musicbakery

[@RobertKohut]

Nice!

[@UnrealVideoDuke]

Karaoke would be CDG format... No VideoCD???

[@michaelturner4457]

Some of them can play CD+G karaoke CDs, in addition to VCD. Unless it states otherwise, only way to know is to try playing a CD+G disc in it.

[@stereomann83]

It looks nice what's the model #

[@12voltvids]

VCD-2000

[@fadhlematrook1248]

cool

[@عليعبدالله-ح2ي7ل]

You good man😙

[@theannoyedmrfloyd3998]

Find a CD+G disk!