Most of the Atari Jaguar CD hardware is based on the Philips CDM 12.1 mechanism, also built by Philips. The CDM mechanism is also in CD-i players. Philips employee Herman Budde started a project to build a JagCDiTV but hold on, it has actually nothing to do with CD-i hardware. Herman Budde: "I worked for Philips since 1998, they bought Magnavox, made the JagCD and basically owned the CRT business with Sony until South Korea came along with their affordable LCDs. To honour this I took the best SD PAL/NTSC tube I could find and removed the plastic casing since it has no shielding function whatsoever.
Together with a friend who's my goto guru on the analog part we're going to spend a few days in my "laborotory" tweaking the amplifier, beam-control and timing to support the two jag colour modes (CRY16 and 24b Truecolor). Then I'm going to bypass all cables and connectors and solder the DAC output of the Jag straight to the PCB of the CRT. I'm
not actually adding any CD-i hardware. I use the term to make a
reference to the Philips experience I'm using to build this. I did
actually look into it, but the Jag is so much more powerful for gaming.
The CD-i was never really intended for that, it literally is just an
interactive CD player. Intended for things like encyclopedia and
interactive movies with multiple storylines."
For sound I've now added: - Philips AH 306 A+B+MFB amplifier - Aristona MFB 6544 active speaker. This is a rebadged Philips 22rh544 hifi sound project speaker. - Kenwood passive speaker (Both the amplifier and passive speaker are purely for testing and calibrating, since the Aristona speakers are active they can be hooked up straight to the Jaguar audio outputs.)
For us this is an inspiring project, would something like this also be possible with true Philips CD-i hardware?We're keeping an eye on this project