Diamonds won't do much if you're only holding them in polycarbonate. The things you use diamond to cut, would go through polycarbonate like a smoothie.
Просто страшно за будущее поколение. Одна пошлятина, одни маты, никакого образования у людей нет. Вы просто убиваете такими ужасными фотографиями и комментариями. Пожалуйста, удалите группу или я пишу в милицию.
Another reason that they stopped making the smaller CDs was that a lot of CD players (including ones in the iMac and laptop computers) started using slot loading for the CDs and these usually wouldn't take the small CDs. I have a limited edition small square CD (Doctor Who - Variations on a Theme). That would look cool spinning around in that player.
+Movie Games well, my samsung does. Its storage has no statable size capacity. When I paste too many songs into it, they get overwritten and chopped off.
Came back to this just now (12/2022). Looked it up on ebay and working versions are now over $1k and broken ones over $300. I have no doubt this is all a result of this video.
Wow, a quick search turned up a working one for almost a thousand dollars and many listings for replacement gears and cogs. Also a couple of listings for branded cases costing around $140.00. Even a handmade control unit.
my brother got one of these and he sharpened the edge of a throwaway cd to see it of it can cut through skin and got 12 stitches. best christmas ever he said
When I was a kid in the 90's, i imagined a discman that had an exposed disc spinning, maybe I saw a picture of it but I've always remembered that detail.
I have an old trick that might help with the "sensitivity to bumps" problem. When you turn it off and store it, place it face down. I used to repair CD players and noticed the flexible white carriage that held the lens would sometimes start to sag under the effect of gravity. Storing it upside down when not in use would sometimes use gravity to pull the carriage back and relieve some of the sagging. The sagging would cause the focusing coils to work harder.
I have an interview CD and the disc has been cut in the shape of the artists HEAD. I'm pretty sure with this discman and that disc you could actually KILL A MAN.
The thing you have is called a shape-CD. Here is a picture of a german 90s shape-CD in the shape of a mother****ing circular sawblade. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/7/7e/S%C3%A4gezahn-CD.jpg
This man coulda picked any genre of music.. any artist... any era... and he picks the chronic.. lmao I'm subscribing just cause of that!! Keep up the good work man!!!
@@virtualtools_3021 I used to have a 72 speed cd drive, the noise it made at full pelt was terrifying. It died when a label got detached from a cd and the cd shattered inside the drive wrecking the lens. No shrapnel got out though, so theres that.....
This is a great torture device. Not actually cutting someone with the disc edge, but playing that exact CD and flicking it repeatedly. Nobody can resist this torture.
They were SO CLOSE to a great idea with this thing. If only memory buffers for skip protection could've been put into them, this might have worked out as a fun purchase to have as a conversation piece.
No gira tan fuerte incluso con tu dedo podrías detener un CD seguramente cuando roce tu piel se detiene tenía un sistema que detectaba cuerpos y se detenia
On the inability to change the position of the centre spindle on the Sony turntable- you can't do that without changing the tracking geometry and affecting replay quality. It would also cause uneven wear on the stylus and the discs. The centre spindle always has to be on the arc drawn by the stylus as it moves across the record.
Wait, it skips? *Damn it!* So you're telling me I *can't* listen to my beats while chopping people up with a spinning disc? ... I made the comment before getting to the 6:58 mark and OwO.
To me, this just looks like a great way to scratch or snap your CDs. I guess it could’ve been kinda stylish as a home CD player if you couldn’t afford a full-blown stereo...
The puppets were the best part. They should be featured in all your videos! Side Thought: This video is from 2015!?! Why does it seem like it's only been popping up in people's recommendations in the past few weeks? Wth UA-cam?!
It looks cool, but half the benefit of portable cd players like that was walking around with it in your hand, or in your pocket, so couldn't really do that with this design.
This is what I love about old tech. The creative ways they found to solve problems. Instead of stopping at the idea of a device the size of a CD, they went further and made it smaller for small CD's. but instead of stopping there thought "what if we make it compatible to normals CD's" and found THIS solution. Its fucking genius. Generally, with almost all old tech, I love finding out the creative ways of making things work, by simply thinking outside a box no one knew existed.
As is often the case with things Japanese that don't make a lot of sense to other markets, 8cm CD singles were really popular there, so it wouldn't have been unusual for a contemporary Japanese person to have a large library of them and who would enjoy the tiny D-88 for playing their collection. On a related note, I have an odd JVC portable CD player (full size though) that has "OPEN TOP PLAY" emblazoned on the top cover and indeed you can run the unit with the top open. Not sure why you'd want to, and for some reason it stops playback if the lid is opened or closed during play so you'd need to position the cover before initiating playback, but it was still a unique machine.
The mini-CD was invented by Sony as their new short-play music sub-format. They held 4 tracks. The D-88 was thus intended as the device to play them on. I bought several as they were cool; I was just getting into things Japanese and you could get imports in their original packing from Virgin and HMV. Some which I still have balanced the size of the CD with a plastic pack that you snapped off. Worth noting that at the time Sony was desperate for titles for all their new formats which is why they bought Columbia Pictures.
@@slavwillisalmera9692 I'm sure someone with enough willpower could possibly circuit bend the motor on it or something. But you've got a valid point. I guess I'd have to slice whatever I wanted to slice within the 3-6 seconds it takes for it to attempt to read the disc.
Even if it did continue spinning, a saw blade is many times heavier than a CD and it wouldn't spin as fast, or at all. Just sand the CD to a knife edge with small grit sandpaper while it's playing...
I remember these (never owned one though). They had lots of issues, simply due to the fact that dust, sand, dog/cat hair, ... being pulled into the device when playing. It looked cool, but that was about it. Great informative video as always. Love the little "note" at the end. LOL Cheers!
I really can’t figure out what Sony was trying to accomplish with this lol. Can’t use it as a portable device due to not fitting a CD and skipping if you breath on it. Was it supposed to be a desktop device to plug into an old radio that lacked a CD player?
MP3 files and 8cm Mini CDs existed simultaneously with portable CD players. Too bad no one made a small pocket CD player designed solely for Mini CDs (which hold up to 180MB or about 3 hours of MP3s at 128kbps). How well would that have sold in the days when MP3 players were still ludicrously expensive and had low storage capacity?
That would have been brilliant. I had an MP3 CD player, and would burn hundreds of songs on a cd, but I didn't enjoy the experience navigating so many tracks. A mini cd player with one or two albums burned to it would have been perfect, and it would have fit in your pocket. But by then, MP3 players were coming out left and right, so they never had a chance to catch on. I used mine as a stopgap, as it was $20 on clearance.
@@bluedistortions The solution to navigating files is entire albums in one file. I have songs separate for listening on a computer, but hour long files for players. Since I know all of a group's albums, I usually title them by artist and year, easy to navigate.
@@guessundheit6494 well.. first off, this is a problem for me from 20 years ago. Second, no way I would put an entire album in one file. I hated listening to an album with all the tracks in order, it was like torture to my brain. I loved shuffle.
i remember reading a spy novel as a kid where someone had "a sony discman" and a "diamond tipped CD" which could be used as a saw so i can only presume they meant something like this
"World's Most Advanced Pizza Cutter"
@Dandyboi but wait there's more you can get 2 advance pizza cutters if you call now just pay extra shipping and handling
And plays music!
😂😂😂😂😂😂
ElectricKoatHanger lol
People cutter if you attach razor blades
You could use that thing as an angle grinder ! Do they do diamond tipped CDs ?
lol
Diamonds won't do much if you're only holding them in polycarbonate. The things you use diamond to cut, would go through polycarbonate like a smoothie.
“480 revolutions per minute”
France: finally! A worthy opponent
Bro they'd surrender after the first revolution
@@gcnelite5983 *during
* wurzee
Everybody gangsta till you sharpen the disc
Ninja stars, now 100% more actual-star-shaped
I really hope they also made a sawblade accessory for it to turn it into a saw
😆😂😂😂😂😂😂
Cut some teeth into a CD and there you go
If I were to publish an album I would give it a sawblade edge just for this very reason.
Просто страшно за будущее поколение. Одна пошлятина, одни маты, никакого образования у людей нет. Вы просто убиваете такими ужасными фотографиями и комментариями. Пожалуйста, удалите группу или я пишу в милицию.
Donky kong country soundtrack or whatever the dk soundtrack was that was DK's headshape.
I saw this footage used on a Japanese TV Show and they credited you. It was The Ninchido Show on Asahi TV.
that ending was marvelous
Alternatively, you can put a gamecube disc in and wonder why you tried
🤣🤣
I just realized this was uploaded in 2015, the comments are 1 day old.
Sort by top comments not new, for some reason it's by newest on this video
That’s the power of suggestion..... in this case UA-cam suggested videos
I miss the time when tech companies were more experimental
How could you miss something that never left? I think companies experiment with things a lot. They just aren't "quirky" as they used to be.
@@davidcazares7441 Because now limits are understood better
Yes me too
I miss beige pc's.
@@InservioLetum try making one your own then
Plot twist: They miscalculated the dimensions and just went with it
*how to use your cd player as an angle grinder*
😂
@@FeuerfesteUnterhose sorry if i dont scroll through the comments taking notes on what to put as a comment
me: Dad, i want an electric saw
my Dad: we have an electric saw in house
the saw:
Another reason that they stopped making the smaller CDs was that a lot of CD players (including ones in the iMac and laptop computers) started using slot loading for the CDs and these usually wouldn't take the small CDs.
I have a limited edition small square CD (Doctor Who - Variations on a Theme). That would look cool spinning around in that player.
imagine doing this with last gen 48x speed CD-ROM drives where the discs spin up to 15,000 rpm .... it'd double as table saw
Or those 56x Max drives from the 90s that could shatter discs
@@KanawhaCountyWX i think 72x was the fastest they made
@@joshuacooks the 72x drives spun slower, yet used a beam splitting method to read 7 tracks concurrently.
@@KanawhaCountyWX Encountered those "self destroying discs" quite a few times, it was funny as hell - the first time. ;-)
I want to take my High-Vision Laserdisc movies with me.
The fact that this company refurbishes these old batteries and updates them is just super awesome.
Does Sony have a MP3 player that has half of the MP3 hanging out?
I suppose any device that streams media counts, how many hard drives and discs would it take to replace a Netflix/iPlayer and iTunes/Rdio account?
yes its called the mp1.5
+Movie Games well, my samsung does. Its storage has no statable size capacity. When I paste too many songs into it, they get overwritten and chopped off.
lol
+freeNode5 you have been ripped off with your phone or your sd card
Came back to this just now (12/2022). Looked it up on ebay and working versions are now over $1k and broken ones over $300. I have no doubt this is all a result of this video.
Now change out the motor for a 54x CDR drive and see how fast this thing turns into a weapon.
I love how the jack is placed dangerously underneath a spinning disc.
Wow, a quick search turned up a working one for almost a thousand dollars and many listings for replacement gears and cogs. Also a couple of listings for branded cases costing around $140.00.
Even a handmade control unit.
You totally could use that discman as a portable weapon.
In case of Zombie Apocalypse
yeah as a circular saw.
you could also use a sharp pencil. Much more practical.
my brother got one of these and he sharpened the edge of a throwaway cd to see it of it can cut through skin and got 12 stitches.
best christmas ever he said
tf haha
Haha, nice.
That happend
Bahahahahahahahaaaaa excellent weapon
When I was a kid in the 90's, i imagined a discman that had an exposed disc spinning, maybe I saw a picture of it but I've always remembered that detail.
Once you start listening to music cds on a discmen there's no going back Can't stand My phone for music awful.
I have an old trick that might help with the "sensitivity to bumps" problem. When you turn it off and store it, place it face down. I used to repair CD players and noticed the flexible white carriage that held the lens would sometimes start to sag under the effect of gravity. Storing it upside down when not in use would sometimes use gravity to pull the carriage back and relieve some of the sagging. The sagging would cause the focusing coils to work harder.
Thanks for the tip I'm going to try that on my portable CD player
dat ending.
(7:39)
BRAVO!
I don't get it. What are you talking about?
+inYourFace just watch the whole video hahaha dont press it away before you watched it all
It's getting to be like a Marvel movie here - got to watch the end credit scenes ;)
+Andrew Mackoul I would've stopped watching because I thought the video was over!! THANK YOU for the comment!
+jugglerjim01 Even with me enjoying the main subject of the video, the very best bit was at the end! :')
I have an interview CD and the disc has been cut in the shape of the artists HEAD. I'm pretty sure with this discman and that disc you could actually KILL A MAN.
The thing you have is called a shape-CD.
Here is a picture of a german 90s shape-CD in the shape of a mother****ing circular sawblade.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/7/7e/S%C3%A4gezahn-CD.jpg
+a I have one in the shape of an F1 car.
@@user-pc5sc7zi9j Combine that with the D-88, and you have a portable weapon.
Surprisingly dope choice of CDs.
Not sure why YT suddenly recommended a 4 year old video to everyone but it earned you at least one sub
I have 12 YEAR old videos show in my recommended.
This man coulda picked any genre of music.. any artist... any era... and he picks the chronic.. lmao I'm subscribing just cause of that!! Keep up the good work man!!!
And some Sugar Hill Gang
3:15 Congratulations, now you've tranformed your Discman into a Bosch angle grinder
This has to be the most unsafe design for playing CDs
I have a small upright player from the Science Museum which plays partially exposed CDs
no, that would be 56x cd-rom drives. They can make cds spin so fast they detonate and send sharapnel flying at over 162 miles per hour
@@virtualtools_3021 I used to have a 72 speed cd drive, the noise it made at full pelt was terrifying. It died when a label got detached from a cd and the cd shattered inside the drive wrecking the lens. No shrapnel got out though, so theres that.....
why the hell is the comment section on this video defaulting to newest first
As a UA-camr you can set the default option
Panik?
@@couldntmixapotnoodle nope
This is a great torture device.
Not actually cutting someone with the disc edge, but playing that exact CD and flicking it repeatedly. Nobody can resist this torture.
haha
Put a gamecube game in it
I just noticed, the Single CDs are the same size as a Gamecube disc.
They were SO CLOSE to a great idea with this thing. If only memory buffers for skip protection could've been put into them, this might have worked out as a fun purchase to have as a conversation piece.
everybody gangsta till the CD player turned into pizza cutter
I like this just because of how easy it would be to make this into the best murder weapon ever...
?
He's talking about putting a blade the size of a CD in there, smart one.
Except for the fact that barely touching the disk (blade) would slow it tremendously!
Sharpen the edges of the CD and you've got a nice weapon
No gira tan fuerte incluso con tu dedo podrías detener un CD seguramente cuando roce tu piel se detiene tenía un sistema que detectaba cuerpos y se detenia
@@fabriciofranco16 ok boomer
Sometimes I forget this gentle Englishman really loves gangsta' rap...
On the inability to change the position of the centre spindle on the Sony turntable- you can't do that without changing the tracking geometry and affecting replay quality. It would also cause uneven wear on the stylus and the discs. The centre spindle always has to be on the arc drawn by the stylus as it moves across the record.
i liked the mental breakdown at the end
The puppet outro is my favourite part, and I like these videos quite a lot
"That repeat-button no one ever uses"
Do you even remember Outcast releasing "Hey Ya" Techmoan?
Wait, it skips? *Damn it!*
So you're telling me I *can't* listen to my beats while chopping people up with a spinning disc?
...
I made the comment before getting to the 6:58 mark and OwO.
And?
3:04 The way you held that disc triggered me.
Sharpen the edge of the CD!
I absolutely love your collection of old school hip hop cds
To me, this just looks like a great way to scratch or snap your CDs. I guess it could’ve been kinda stylish as a home CD player if you couldn’t afford a full-blown stereo...
The puppets were the best part. They should be featured in all your videos!
Side Thought: This video is from 2015!?! Why does it seem like it's only been popping up in people's recommendations in the past few weeks? Wth UA-cam?!
It looks cool, but half the benefit of portable cd players like that was walking around with it in your hand, or in your pocket, so couldn't really do that with this design.
I saw this video in 2017, and now youtube is recommending it to me again saying I didnt watch it!
Im not complaining tho
I like your taste in music, mate.
It comes with an included rotary saw to cut a hole in your pocket for it to fit
The engineering of this machine is amazing.
And the crazy thing is if you buy a PC DVD drive today the tray will still have a lowered circular part of the tray for a 3" CD.
video: 2015
comments: 29 mins ago
That's because the comments are sorted by newest. If you change to most popular you'll find older comments
@@GreenZapperZ just saying
i could use this to cut pizza
The compact Sony angle grinder.
This is exactly why i am subscribed to this channel! I love these videos about old "hifi" stuff! :)
I can just see tech moan rolling around England blasting Dr Dre and D12 lol
God I'd love to see that.
Budget chain saw
This is what I love about old tech. The creative ways they found to solve problems. Instead of stopping at the idea of a device the size of a CD, they went further and made it smaller for small CD's. but instead of stopping there thought "what if we make it compatible to normals CD's" and found THIS solution. Its fucking genius. Generally, with almost all old tech, I love finding out the creative ways of making things work, by simply thinking outside a box no one knew existed.
0:31 This hurts...
Attach 2 discmen to your shoes and play a album
You made roller skates
Sliding the battery pack on reminds me of the joycons and the switch
wait. no. this can’t be. was Nintendo Gamecube games meant to have 1 LEVEL each disc? oh no no no....
What’s wrong with that?
Never expected this kind of music from him
This Discman was the coolest Weapon on the schoolyard
3:37 where else would they put the headphone jack than closest to the exposed cd that is spinning at 500 rpm
As is often the case with things Japanese that don't make a lot of sense to other markets, 8cm CD singles were really popular there, so it wouldn't have been unusual for a contemporary Japanese person to have a large library of them and who would enjoy the tiny D-88 for playing their collection.
On a related note, I have an odd JVC portable CD player (full size though) that has "OPEN TOP PLAY" emblazoned on the top cover and indeed you can run the unit with the top open. Not sure why you'd want to, and for some reason it stops playback if the lid is opened or closed during play so you'd need to position the cover before initiating playback, but it was still a unique machine.
now make a laserdisc with that design
Then slice some ham
The mini-CD was invented by Sony as their new short-play music sub-format. They held 4 tracks. The D-88 was thus intended as the device to play them on. I bought several as they were cool; I was just getting into things Japanese and you could get imports in their original packing from Virgin and HMV. Some which I still have balanced the size of the CD with a plastic pack that you snapped off. Worth noting that at the time Sony was desperate for titles for all their new formats which is why they bought Columbia Pictures.
I finally saw it are you happy now UA-cam?!
No
Same
Your ending was just
i'm speechless.
I remember when it came out .. everyone at school called it “the saw man”
it's looks like a portable chainsaw
I wonder if you could put a circular saw blade on one of these?
I'd say you could but It likely couldn't spin for long when the device tried to read it
you should try it and let everyone know how it went
@@slavwillisalmera9692 I'm sure someone with enough willpower could possibly circuit bend the motor on it or something. But you've got a valid point. I guess I'd have to slice whatever I wanted to slice within the 3-6 seconds it takes for it to attempt to read the disc.
@@l0rd0ct0d0rk thanks . Be fun to try though all the same 👍
Even if it did continue spinning, a saw blade is many times heavier than a CD and it wouldn't spin as fast, or at all.
Just sand the CD to a knife edge with small grit sandpaper while it's playing...
I love the puppet sketch at the end. So true to life!
So...gamecube games could fit in it?
This video is 5 years old but the comments are from few days ago
Oh. Hi mark
@@EmirFaruk Who is mark
The D-88: Functions as both a CD player and a small circular saw!
Imagine trying to get this through airport security nowadays...
That be a fun conversation starter though people will be pretty curious for sure
I remember these (never owned one though). They had lots of issues, simply due to the fact that dust, sand, dog/cat hair, ... being pulled into the device when playing. It looked cool, but that was about it.
Great informative video as always. Love the little "note" at the end. LOL
Cheers!
The bonus material at the end was fabulous. LOL
Is it weird to get this 4 yr old vid recommendation when bored out of your mind at home
The real flaw of the exposed disc is it means you need to carry a case for your CD you cant just throw the cd player in your jacket and go
The cd can also get scratched so that’s not good
big respect for playing 2001 🔥
Wow everyone's passing thru some weird times,comenting on this 2015 video on january 21st 2020 at 4:23 am, you are not alone my friends
2020
Hahaha right
I really can’t figure out what Sony was trying to accomplish with this lol. Can’t use it as a portable device due to not fitting a CD and skipping if you breath on it. Was it supposed to be a desktop device to plug into an old radio that lacked a CD player?
It's silly idea. I wonder how many times a cd was damaged/broken while listening to it...
can't help but notice your classic hiphop CD collection there.. nice assortment! Great music.
You could use this cd player as a weapon.
Put the money in the bag
Use it as a saw and cut paper
@@uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh0 yeah, true.
When your discman can play GameCube games.
Gamecube is still the best console .
@@jakehildebrand1824 oh yeah 100%
Agree, it offers great games like melee, Mario sunshine and Animal Crossing
@@wesleyesq7306 don't forget the prime trilogy. (The majority of it anyways)
its not just a discman, its also a self defense weapon
Firewolf Yes
Firewolf Like a saw blade cutter.
MP3 files and 8cm Mini CDs existed simultaneously with portable CD players. Too bad no one made a small pocket CD player designed solely for Mini CDs (which hold up to 180MB or about 3 hours of MP3s at 128kbps). How well would that have sold in the days when MP3 players were still ludicrously expensive and had low storage capacity?
That would have been brilliant. I had an MP3 CD player, and would burn hundreds of songs on a cd, but I didn't enjoy the experience navigating so many tracks.
A mini cd player with one or two albums burned to it would have been perfect, and it would have fit in your pocket.
But by then, MP3 players were coming out left and right, so they never had a chance to catch on. I used mine as a stopgap, as it was $20 on clearance.
@@bluedistortions The solution to navigating files is entire albums in one file. I have songs separate for listening on a computer, but hour long files for players. Since I know all of a group's albums, I usually title them by artist and year, easy to navigate.
@@guessundheit6494 well.. first off, this is a problem for me from 20 years ago.
Second, no way I would put an entire album in one file. I hated listening to an album with all the tracks in order, it was like torture to my brain. I loved shuffle.
i remember reading a spy novel as a kid where someone had "a sony discman" and a "diamond tipped CD" which could be used as a saw so i can only presume they meant something like this
supercrapnstuff11 - Was that one of those Alex Rider ones by Anthony Horowitz? I seem to remember something similar.
I wonder how the hell I ended up watching this video
you clicked on it
Finally I can listen to my favourite tunes and cut things in the same product
So a portable player which cant be used on the go. What a brilliant idea.