CD-i member Alan Brown pointed us on a small CD-i trivia fact that slipped our mind for a long time: Apparently in the UK the CD-Online package was not supplied with the Philips modem as we had in The Netherlands and the one that even used for the Web-i service in USA! In UK, the US Robotics Sportster was delievered together with the Internet package that CD-Online offered. In the UK this package was released earlier compared to other parts in Europe, so maybe they made the choice to switch to a Philips internal modem later on. It may be that CD-i Internet packages released any later were in fact supplied with the Philips modem, but we haven't found any confirmation of one of our members!
Was this the only modem releaseed in UK specifically for CD-i? It seems like we have three versions that are known to us:
- The UK version (more info here)
- The Netherlands version (more info here)
- The USA version (more info here)
[Credits & Source: CD-i member Alan Brown]