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Now we can look inside the customized metal CD-i casing of this Healthcare...
Earlier this month we shared a story about the Healthcare Advisor: A customized build of the CD-i 450 with a durable metal casing and advertising on it, so it could withstand the public in dentistry...
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A secret CD-i package full of unknown CD-i merchandising - and the history...
There is a lot more CD-i merchandising than we knew of until this package popped up. This is a collection of rare CD-i merchandising material like pens, clips, pins, watches and even stamps to collect....
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"Wanna play with the Big Boys"? - Philips pushed CD-i once more towards a...
Perhaps the most interesting fact on this poster is the release schedule on the bottom right part and the specific detail that The Lost Ride is mentioned in it with an expected released dat of November...
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Original drawings by Greg Holt, who was an artist/colorist at Philips...
The typical animation style that we find often in titles created by Philips Sidewalk Studio were made inhouse. We met Greg Holt, who was a Clean-up Artist, Colorist (backgrounds and characters) at the...
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Dark Castle on CD-i is often marked 'impossible to play', so only a very few...
Dark Castle was a 1992 CD-i platformer originally developed by Silicon Beach Software for Amiga and Apple consoles. The CD-i port was done by Philips Interactive Media of America internally. We can say...
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One of the first CD-i releases by CapDisc was the USA exclusive "The ACT...
Another rare CD-i to find, this is one of the most rare longbox CD-i releases that we have ever seen. "The ACT College Search 92" was produced by CapDisc in conjunction with American College Testing...
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With an Arduino USB shield it could be possible to make a USB to CD-i adapter...
Another interesting prospect for CD-i: It could be very well possible to create a general USB2CDi (USB to CD-i) adapter, next to the existing efforts of the SNES2CDi (Nintendo SNES to CD-i) and...
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A prominent modder will soon be releasing an solid RGB circuit (mod) for CD-i...
CD-i member 'Mobius Strip Technologies' is working on a new RGB mod for the Philips CD-i, focused on the video output of the CD-i 450 and 550 series. "Here's something you don't see everyday though....
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Bang&Olufsen released the BeoCenter AV5 with and without CD-i player, but...
If you've bought a Bang&Olufsen BeoVision / BeoCenter AV5 system, you were probably looking for the built in CD-i system. It appears that B&O released a version of the AV5 including CD-i and a...
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In a 1986 MSX Magazine there is an article that mentions a connection between...
In a classic issue of MSX Magazine, a news post about the 'CD-i for MSX' gives us another proof that there were plans to connect CD-i to MSX and extend MSX with the possibilities of the interactive CD....
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Most portable CD-i players have a seperate and replaceable battery holder on...
All CD-i players have a Timekeeper battery chip inside. It is one of the 'design-flaws' as how we see it today, as these batteries eventually will die and the chip is soldered on the PCB, so it is not...
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During the CD-i's "I Want One" campaign Philips announced this POS CD-i...
More interesting details in this pricelist that was offered to professional/retail environments: Philips offered this POS display as well as a pricelist for CD-i hardware. One remarkable detail is the...
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One popular and rare CD-i merchandising item is the CD-i Train: Now we have...
In 1994 Philips created a wooden train, personalized for certain employees and selected customers. It holds a locomotive with CD-i 450 on it, a first wagon with 'Digital Video', a second wagon with...
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The 'CD-i Experience' episode 5 is now here, featuring 'Mad Dog McCree' and...
Over several years, CD-i members Daniel Hyatt and Adam Shockz together made a unique video series about CD-i games together. The series is called "The CD-i Experience" and you can now watch the third...
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The CD-i 470 and 490 have a mainboard that have already the space for the RGB...
There's some increasing interest in adding RGB support to CD-i players, to boost the video output quality. Special interest goes to the CD-i 470 and 490 players, as these normally only have RCA...
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Labyrinth of Crete on CD-i was finished in 1995, but the CD-i version was...
CD-i website The World of CD-i recently added a review of the CD-i game 'Labyrinth of Crete' to their database. This was the swansong of creator Cliff Johnson full of creative puzzles in the same...
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One of the Manna Space professional CD-i's popped up in detail - How valuable...
Japanese CD-i discs are very rare to get hold of, but somehow these Manna Space CD-i discs showed up several times last year. This disc, B to D Business Part 1, was in a bundle as we've seen with the...
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An overview of all types of CD-i demonstration / preproduction discs (Created...
We've met some great guys behind the Redump.org CD-i preservation team and saw some new attention to it thanks to CD-i member Dizzzy, who does a great job contributing to cataloguing and building a...
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Rare CD-i Records #22: La Famille Papyrus (1994, Hachette Multimedia)
A rare view on 'La Famille Papyrus', published by Hachette Multimedia in France, who mainly released this series on CD-ROM. La Famille Papyrus was another children series popular in France (perhaps in...
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Some differences between the Philips CD-i 470, the CD-i 490 and the slot of...
Philips released a compact CD-i 470 and CD-i 490 model, along with other 'compact' and more budget-focused models of CD-i players including the CD-i 450 toploader. The 470 and 490 are front-loaders....
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