Classic ad by Philips to promote Photo CD, including a specific Photo CD player and a retro Nineties living room/office to show how you could use this. It was an innovative way to see your photos on the big television screen next to the analogue prints.
Photo CD is an image format that never was very popular, despite being relatively cheap and offering great results. I know Photo CD mainly because it is a playable format on my CD-i player, but ofcourse it was a much broader format for Kodak, and CD-i was just one system it oculd be played on. The discs were compatible with Windows and Mac as well, and the encoding made the discs proprietary in format for Kodak. You can criticize Kodak for this, but thanks to this road Kodak maintained control over the format; it prevented Photo CD from being hijacked and corrupted by other firms. From the start to the end Photo CD was meant to archive your images/photos on CD in different resolutions, and it was accessible from loads of applications. CD-i was just one application!
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