LG was, next to Philips, the company that was most active in the world of CD-i. There are different types of LG CD-i players, and even the portable Philips CD-i 370 player was a licensed LG model. This GDI-700m CD-i model is a loved one in the CD-i Community because of its design and looks. It features a headphone jack on the front and play buttons to use a Audio CD without turning on the TV. All the GDI-700m models have a printer and modem port on the back, which indicates these models were primarily used in professional areas. I don't recall these models being sold to consumers.
But the GDI-700m was actually released in two versions: The LG GDI-700m and the Goldstar GDI-700m. This Goldstar version is actually still missing in the ICDIA table! Goldstar is of course a LG brand which they used somewhere halfway the Nineties, so there are Goldstar CD-i players like the GDI-1000 (also known as the GDI-700) and the GPI-1200 (The GPI-1200 is actually the model which the CD-i 370 was based on). Under the LG brand they released the GDI-S710 (which is exactly the same model as the DVS CD-i player and the Knowlogy CD-i player. But this GDI-700m was released somewhere between the transition between Goldstar and LG, as we've seen both a Goldstar version and a LG version. The Goldstar version, however, is far more rare, and we have not seen it often before.
For comparison: The LG version is pictures below:
[Thanks, zellerm1234]
