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Philips used a CD-i to promote their air purifiers in dutch V&D warehouses...
Philips was a rare company that besides a computer company also produced lots of other electronics including domestic appliances and even air purifiers. The dutch Pentapark developed a CD-i program...
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The Video-CD library was not complete, but Philips did a pretty good job in...
While Philips did not contract all movie companies to have a complete movie library on CD-i, with New Line Cinema and Paramount they did a pretty good job on what was available on the video-cd format!...
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Early CD-i movies were published as "Digital Video on CD-i" and would only...
When Philips was developing the Digital Video standard they already had plans to publish movies on CD-i: The multi-format design of CD-i was developed to be more than just a games machine or in fact a...
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CD-i offered exclusive video sequences in popular CD-i games like Micro...
While CD-i was not designed to offer the same gaming experiences like rival Sega and Nintendo consoles did, Philips did a good job in trying to get popular game franchises to CD-i anyway. CD-i...
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The model numbers and differences of the CD-i 22ER9055 IR Thumbstick Commanders
Last week we looked into the differences of the CD-i 22ER9055 IR Thumbstick Commander and CD-i member Steep Haywire popped up with an interesting picture of his collection, showing pretty much all the...
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More scans about CD-i as published in dutch game magazine "Power Unlimited"...
Back in July we posted some scans (thanks to Patrick Selten) about CD-i articles published in the dutch game magazine "Power Unlimited". In 1993 dutch game magazine 'Power Unlimited' launched in The...
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The mysterious red CD-i briefcase
This was a red plastic briefcase that held a CDI 450 and a track ball controller, along with the power cord that had a euro plug and some interactive game. The case was not amateur work, this was...
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Radarsoft was a Dutch video game developer: They started in 1984 with 3D Tic...
Some CD-i titles have a very long history, like with Zenith on CD-i. Philips has been in the computer business for a long time. They have developed Personal Computers since the early eighties with the...
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Sex symbol Tatjana Simic has starred in so many CD-i titles: How could you...
There is no other woman who has starred in so many CD-i titles as Tatjana Simic. Tatjana is a dutch actress/model/singer who was (is) very popular, not in the last place because of her beautiful body....
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Professional CD-i players have an extra TOOLS menu to allocate an additional...
Very nice read by Retrostuff.org about his first efforts in OS-9 on the CD-i 605T, read it here.Retrostuff: "The Philips CDI605T is the last professional CD-i player with authoring / development...
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Why do some professional CD-i players have a floppy drive?
Some professional CD-i players offer a floppy drive so you can use a 3,5" disc to transfer data or to update drivers. These professional players were mainly used for either business purposes or in...
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Laser Lords CD-i is replete with sexual innuendo, drug addiction and gambling...
Defunct Games about Laser Lords: "Either the package designers hadn't played the game or they have a very liberal attitude about what is acceptable for a twelve-year old. Its contents take an...
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Tecno Plus released official CD-i peripherals but also licensed the same...
Technoplus a peripheral supplier for pc parts, released a few sets with a controller we all know so good. I know the other cd-i controller was released as a pc gamepad by Gravis, but i didn’t know this...
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From the archive: cdifan talks about the tech specs of CD-i: Memory, speed,...
The original CD-i system (the so-called "base case") has 1 MB of RAM, split in two planes of 512 KB each. Each plane feeds one "layer" of the video decoder in addition to serving as general purpose...
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Get everything you want in Atlantis: The Last Resort (CD-i, 1997, Philips...
Atlantis was the codename and eventually commercial title for this very unique CD-i game first announced by the President of Philips Media Games, Dave McElhatten in Issue 16 of the UK based CDi...
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How is CD-i authoring generally done & what tools are available to create...
Welcome to the original CD-i FAQ 2020 Edition, originally written by Jorg Kennis in early 2000 and updated in 2019 by Sebastiaan Batenburg, together with Jorg Kennis. Proudly presented by Interactive...
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It feels legit to think that the USA specific CD-i internet package including...
... or was it? The Web-I disc is one of the CD-i mysteries! There is nothing to see on the internet about it, for a stranger it feels legit to think this disc never existed! As PIMA stopped their...
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Philips CD-Online - The Service Time Forgot (guest article by RetroDetect...
Today we have a guest article by CD-i member RetroDetect who wrote some interesting details about CD-Online, the service that provided internet access to your CD-i player between 1996-1998. The...
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The launch of the new Philipscdi.com is getting closer
Do you remember when we shared the news with you that we are working on a new Philipscdi.com? Here's a small update that we are still working on that and it is looking to be a nice modern CD-i...
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Let's play 'Secret Mission' on CD-i: A forgotten classic point & click...
It’s the 1950’s. The place is the Indo-Chinese country of Opalia. Opolia has become the target of the USSR and the United States and it’s geographic position has made it a real hot spot in the cold war...
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