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The Memorex CD-i Player was a OEM version of the 910, but clearly stated it had "Philips CD-i Technology" on board

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Let's have a close look at the Memorex CD-i player: an OEM version of the CD-i 910 by Philips but with a slightly different cover design. The Memorex CD-i player was sold by Tandy in the UK. Tandy was also available in Australia, which would be interesting as I've never seen before any CD-i activity in Australia.  


Established in 1961 in Silicon Valley, Memorex started by selling computer tapes, during the 1970s and into the early 1980s Memorex was worldwide one of the largest independent suppliers of disk drives and communications controllers to users of IBM-compatible mainframes. Memorex entered the consumer media business in 1971.  In 1988 Memorex International acquired the Telex Corporation becoming Memorex Telex NV, a corporation based in the Netherlands, which survived as an entity until the middle 1990s. When CD-i and CD-ROM were both upcoming on the market, Memorex licensed the 910 model by Philips to explore the possibilities how it would in their business. The market went to CD-ROM so the CD-i model by Memorex was the only effort they did in CD-i. The company evolved into a provider of information technology solutions including the distribution and integration of data network and storage products and the provision of related services in 18 countries worldwide.


This Memorex CD-i player is owned by Ekim Skirdneh: Big thanks to him for sharing the pictures; in all these years we've never been able to have a close look at the Memorex CD-i player!








[Thanks, Ekim Skirdneh]

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