The website of Bart Dekker mentions a nice Video CD specific player by Philips, the Philips AZ6880. It is a portable Video CD player, at least in the Asian market. Bart: "The AZ6880 is a VIDEO CD player from Philips. In addition to audio it also plays VCD discs. The player doesn’t have a screen, besides a small lcd-screen to display the number of (audio/video) tracks. So the only way to play VIDEO CD’s is to connect the device via a video cable to a TV." (Corrected as this device is limited to VCD only (White book standard).
It was released around the same time as Philips made CD-i players. Just like specific Video CD players, Philips also made Photo CD players, like this high end CDF-100 player.
[Thanks, Bart Dekker]