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Local Encyclopedias on CD-i: This is the French exclusive 'Dictionnaire...
We think in France we find the most deluxe packagings of various CD-i titles. This one is no different: The french exclusive Hachette encyclopedia was released in a CD-ROM style box, holding a large...
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Sony supplied an official carrying case with the Sony IVO-V10 CD-i player,...
Sony supplied an official carrying case with the Sony LCH-V10 CD-i player. The box holds the official Japanese CD-i logo as was also used on software products by Japan Interactive Media and other...
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Philips Research made a demo of Wolfenstein 3D on CD-i and showed it to ID...
It looks like a possibility that CD-i got its own port of Wolfenstein 3D, as a demo was actually made by Paul Clarke, who also developed the CD-i first person shooters RAM Raid and Atlantis: The Last...
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Join our Facebook Group, a spiritual successor to both "Alan's CD-i Zone" and...
We have a great community group over at Facebook where we intend to connect all CD-i collectors, homebrew and ex-developers, with over 300 people it is shaping up to be a great interactive place,...
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One of the biggest mail-order companies in France produced the fashion...
This is a catalog by French mail-order company "La Redoute". Also works on a PC/Mac. The CD-i displays a catalog about the fashion brand 'Somewhere' with pics, and there's some content that needs a DV...
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Increase your technical knowledge of the CD-i 910 with these articles from...
A three magazine article about the workings of the CD-i 910 from Electronic servicing & technology from 1992. In this magazine you can find technical guides how to service a CD-i 910, which can be...
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Germany had its own CD-i demo discs introducing the new items of the coming...
Germany had its own CD-i demo discs introducing the new items of the coming future: These CD-i discs were released in 1995 and called "Titel Neuheiten 1995", one about January 1995 and a next one of...
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Yashica marketed the 'Handy CD-i Player' Pro 100S, manufactured by Kyocera...
Manufactured in Japan during May 1994 from what the bottom of the system says. Built like a rock from what I can tell, and it uses 1/8" jacks for it's audio and video-out. It also has an I/O port, plus...
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You can download a lot of CD-i games in the new Archive.org CD-i revival dump
I always wonder how the copyrights of CD-i games are actually a thing these days, but the fact is we see more dumps of CD-i games popping up on places. CD-i member Atrac17 has shared a new list on...
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This is how the Bang & Olufsen CD-i player mainboard looks like
Here you see the CD-i player that was integrated in the Bang & Olufsen AV5 television. We've never seen the CD-i board like this before. If you've bought a Bang&Olufsen BeoVision / BeoCenter...
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We've seen the different methods of replacing a timekeeper chip... What do we...
That depends on the player and if you want to re-use (i.e. hack) the old chip. As a rule of thumb: Always fit a socket, that makes future replacements easier.Basically there are two options: Replacing...
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With CD-i you can experience Opera Imaginaire in full motion video and stereo...
CD-i was a multimedia machine, Philips even called it The Imagination Machine in its early years. It had a focus on education and professional areas, but it also offered games and videos. Among these...
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Philips Media distributed the Sega Mega Drive and Nintendo Game Boy version...
This poster above was published in a French gaming magazine, posted in 2019 by IEUFunjeuvideo and spotted by CD-i member Omegalfa in 2020. It is a combined promotion of the Sega Mega Drive version,...
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Philips was planning USA versions of Grolier Encyclopedia and another...
Every USA CD-i release originally was supplied with a small catalogue inlay. This mainly was inserted in the original grey box packaging (used in 1991-1992). You can browse through this inlay catalogue...
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Philips Media presented: The Ultimate Graphics / CD-i and CD-ROM / 'Live'...
'Retrogcads' shared this on Tumblr, another advertising that was printed in the UK by Philips Media. It is again a combined advertisement of CD-i and CD-ROM, published by Infogrames France in 1991....
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Creating Zelda CD-i backgrounds with a Bob Ross tutorial, the...
We enjoy all the efforts of fanart in which CD-i has a role and it is always more than we thought before. In our timeline the efforts of Jimmy D show a recreation of the art-style of the Zelda CD-i...
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There exists a CD-i demo called "Welcome To Electronic Arts", from around 1988
"There exists a CD-i demo called "Welcome To Electronic Arts", from around 1988. You have to rescue the CD-i team from being turned into female androids. Anyone have it? EA founder Trip Hawkins and the...
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The skateboarder from the unreleased Viridis CD-i title 'Skate Dude' was...
Here's a subject on something that will interest only a select few people - the mystery of the Zelda's Adventure skateboarder. This unusual sprite was discovered by Shikotei in June while he was...
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Leaking capacitors is a well known issue with faulty CD-i players - In this...
CD-i member 'Deev Eedeez' has a broken DVC cartridge (a 22ER9141/20): There's no audio when playing VideoCD’s on his CD-i players using that DVC. The problem moves with the DVC when exchanged into...
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A rare scan of the Italian 'Enciclopedia Elettronica Multimediale...
This is a rare scan of the 1994 edition of the Italian 'Enciclopedia Elettronica Multimediale Grolier' on CD-i. Thanks to CD-i member Marco Parisio Java we can have a close look at this rare exclusive...
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