Exactly 25 years ago, Philips officially signed the deal to discontinue CD-i, selling the business to various companies including Infogrames

On July 5th, 1996 (exactly 25 years ago today) - Philips officially signed the deal to stop with CD-i, selling the business to various companies including Infogrames. Philips mainly was about to stop any content related business. In 1986 Philips Media began its life as American Interactive Media (a combination of the formerly known Delaware and Polymedia). In 1992 the name was changed to Philips Interactive Media Corporation (PIMC), in 1995 it was changed to Philips Media. Every title being produced after may 1995, was showing the new introduction movie of Philips Media (the zooming blue philips logo), replacing the old one (the philips logo changing into a silver disc). In November 1998, the whole Philips Media business was handed over to Infogrames (known nowadays as Atari). Philips owned about 40% of it in 1995. The process of closing down Philips Media took more than a year. It would take another two years before CD-i vanished out of the stores and interest by the remaining CD-i enthusiasts. In the professional field CD-i was active until at least 2009 as we've seen in professional title development, but that was of course on a very small scale!