Which physical media players can you still buy new?
CD players, boomboxes and CD-cassette combination decks are still manufactured and sold new: 185 listings from 22 US advertisers appear in a single affiliate feed pull made on 1 September 2026. VCRs are not. Funai of Japan, the last manufacturer of VHS equipment in the world, stopped in July 2016, and nothing in this pull is a new VCR.
That split is the whole story of physical media hardware in 2026. Disc and tape audio survived because the mechanisms are cheap to make and the format never fully died in cars, classrooms and churches. Video tape did not.
Still made, and what it costs
| Player type | Listings in this pull | Median ask | Typical entry price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pocket CD players | roughly half of 185 | $69.99 family median | under $10 at the bottom |
| CD boomboxes with radio | the other half | $60 to $70 band | $22.65 in stock |
| CD and cassette combination decks | 24 | $96.75 | $23.60 in stock |
| VCRs, new | 0 | - | not sold new anywhere in this pull |
Twelve in-stock players, cheapest first
| Listing | Seller | Price 1 Sep |
|---|---|---|
| Deluxe Products Portable CD Player Blue | Woot! | $9.99 |
| Disney Princess Music Player Storybook With Cd Player | Poshmark | $18 |
| Md6924 Portable Top Loading Cd Boombox With Am/fm Stereo Radio | Temu | $22.65 |
| Desktop Cd Player With Dual Hifi Speaker | Home Use, Portable | Temu | $23.60 |
| Memorex Portable CD Player With LCD Display | MX-DM80 | P.C. R | P.C. Richard & Son | $24.99 |
| " Abstract Boombox " | Wayfair North America | $24.99 |
| Home Dvd Cd Player Compact Dvd Player, Contains Remote Control | Temu | $25.49 |
| Wireless CD Player | MRO Supreme | $25.51 |
| Abstract Boombox | Wayfair North America | $25.99 |
| Gpx Gpxpc332B Gpx Personal Cd Player | UnbeatableSale.com | $26.83 |
| " Boombox I " | Wayfair North America | $26.99 |
| Vintage Discman Sony Electronics Camera 90s Navy Snapback Hat | Poshmark | $27 |
Prices are asks published on 1 September 2026. We give the price and its date and never a percentage off, because five advertisers in this pull mark down their entire catalogue permanently.
What is genuinely gone
- New VCRs. Production of all VHS equipment ended in 2016; every player you can buy is second-hand and unserviced.
- New LaserDisc players. Pioneer, the last manufacturer, left the market in July 2009.
- New pre-recorded VHS tapes at scale. There is a niche revival - This Is How The World Ends became the first straight-to-VHS release in twenty years in 2026 - but no US advertiser in this pull sells a new pre-recorded tape.
The practical consequence, and it is the reason this list is worth having: if you are buying into a format in 2026, the audio formats come with a warranty and the video formats do not. A $23 CD-cassette deck is new stock. A VCR at any price is a thirty-year-old machine with rubber belts in it.
Last verified 1 September 2026, computed from 185 CD player and boombox listings across 22 US advertisers, and from 311 VHS-matching rows in the same pull. Price figures are computed from a CJ Affiliate product-feed pull of US advertisers made on 1 September 2026. Peer-to-peer marketplace asks of $500 or more are excluded as seller placeholders, as are repdigit asks such as $999 and $9,999 wherever they appear; retailer prices are used as published. Counts are deduplicated row counts, never a feed totalCount.
Sources
- Wikipedia, VHS — Funai's end of VHS equipment production in July 2016 and the 2026 straight-to-VHS release of This Is How The World Ends
- Wikipedia, LaserDisc — Pioneer's exit from LaserDisc player manufacture in July 2009
- Wikipedia, CD player — the portable CD player category and anti-skip buffering
- CJ Affiliate product feeds, US advertisers, queried 1 September 2026 — every count and price on this page is a deduplicated row count from that pull, dated to it
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