The early CD-i demo discs that promote the CD-i system against other standards like CD-ROM are always a great time capsule. This 1991 CD-i demo (Why CD-i, you can download it here) even shows CD Video as a standard to complement the possibilities of other formats, which is unique, of course in a time that CD-i digital video was far from ready yet.
CD-i member Drastic Actions: "Watching this 1991 CD-i Pitch disk is wild. It's a half-hour long and they say so much without saying really anything at all. It
hammers on about CD-i being a "world standard" (which it was, under the
Green Book).
Funny enough, the very first disc in this clip is "CD Video," which was a
hybrid CD / LaserDisc that Philips made that wasn't standardized at
all. I love these kinds of samples or pitch discs because IMO you can see how Philips was changing the pitch over the years. Like the 1993 Full Motion Video update disk in the TOSEC, where they say the people actually buying the systems were primarily upper middle class men."
I like the scenes they are displaying CD-i in, which captures the time around the Eighties and early Nineties.
And below you see the original CD-i prototype returns in this video. We showed you this before as a unique CD-i player that in fact does not exist.
[Thanks, Drastic Measures]