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Philips partnered with Bose to bring the best sound experience to CD-i, like...
This CD-i demo was part of the I Want One campagne by Philips in 1995: Philips partnered with Bose to present 'The Heart of CD-i Home Cinema', putting Dolby Surround and the Bose Home Cinema Sound...
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Philips excelled in the design of CD-i by offering various implementations of...
Philips excelled in the design of CD-i by offering various implementations of CD-i in other electronic equipment, like this stereo set or a television (21TCDi30). I think it's pretty unique to find a...
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This CD-i 472 player was rebranded by Videotronic and offered in a flight...
CD-i member Muh Mullet just found an interestingpiece of CD-i hardware:"This is a Philips CD-i 470 set, distributed by Videotronic Benelux as the CD-i 472,in its original flightcase, complete with...
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Another unknown CD-i player: This licensed LG CD-i player was released with...
Recently our community uncovered quite a lot unknown CD-i players. One of them is the Talilaser CD-i player, which was marketed in the Arabian Market. Now another CD-i player pops up that was released...
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Interactive Excellence commissioned four editions of 'Interactive Math' on...
The list of professional CD-i discs seems endless and recently a lot of unknown series pop up on the internet, not in the last place thanks to the efforts by CD-i member Dizzy Smith. This time he...
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This is what might have happened when you have a Sony IVO-10 portable CD-i...
A quick flashback: "Sony released in the USA in 1992 the Sony IVO-11, together with the IVO-10, two Intelligent Discmans that were in fact base-case CD-i players. It features the same CD-i logo that...
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We had two golf games on CD-i: Palm Springs Open by Fathom Pictures,...
Personally I am a big fan of golf and I'm very pleased with the golf games we have on CD-i. There are actually two and I would like to take a look at them. The first one is a launch game on CD-i: Palm...
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The GAMGATOR2000's adapter (9 pins) is an early Sega-2-CD-i adapter effort...
In 2002, CD-i member GAMGATOR2000 was very active in selling various CD-i stuff and many of us have bougth some final CD-i stock from him. In 2002, he offered his CD-i Gamepad Adapter. It is different...
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The CD-BGM discs were never actually meant to be played back on a CD-i...
In the mid 80s, Philips wanted to use the compact disc format for their popular background music business, which was until then based on professional long-running tape systems. The only problem they...
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Philips Media did not shy away from aggressive marketing in 1994 like Sega...
Mutant Rampage on CD-i was one of those titles that were exclusive on CD-i and were going to compete with famous gaming series, in this example specifically with Double Dragon and fighting games like...
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It would have been nice to use the Creature Shock CD-i engine for CD-i Alien...
Another Argonaut game on CD-i release lists, was Alien Odyssey. Do you know if this game ever was in development? We asked our contact who worked at Argonaut at the time: ”It would have been nice to...
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1997 was the final year for Creative Media and its inhouse publishing team...
In 1993, two technical engineering students, Peter De Jong and Maurice Sibrandi, started an internship at dutch developing studio DIMA to create games on CD-i. They wanted to explore what was possible...
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The Spanish version of Earth Command was called 'Comando Tierra' and adds to...
Because that was actually a rare thing to do. Philips often translated CD-i games in localized languages, but not often was the title's name also translated. A clear example is the French version of...
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Early European CD-i releases followed the USA catalogue number '69x' system,...
When Philips launched CD-i in USA, all titles started with 69x as a catalogue number. In 1992, when CD-i was released in Europe, the first batch of titles were carrying the same catalogue numbers....
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With the i2M PCI CD-i card, you could play CD-i including Digital Video on...
Thanks to the Computer History Museum and some recent discussions in our community, the i2m PC-CD-i cards were mentioned again. One of our goals is to test these boards and do some experiments with...
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Another CD-i original will appear on Steam: Pixel Games UK will re-publish...
The third CD-i games that will be re-released via Steam thanks to Pixel Games UK is 'International Tennis Open', originally released in 1992 by Philips Media on CD-i. The game was originally developed...
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Which Philips buildings were originally being occupied with Philips CD-i or...
We're interested to learn what we remember of what buildings were occupied by Philips in relation to their media activities. Philips used to be a very large company and the Philips CD-i headquarters...
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Paul Clarke about his work at Philips Research, where he wrote RAM Raid and...
"I worked in the Home Interactive Systems group at Philips Research Redhill for 7 years. The first 4 was on CD-i. To break me in as a grad I wrote a GUI for CD-i devs to archive stuff (essentially a...
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CD-i was ready to be demonstrated in 1989, the full specification (Green...
The disc prototype of the first CD-i player ever by Philips/Kyocera was tested in 'Radio Bulletin' in 1989, this prototype you can also see in our CD-i exhibition currently in the HomeComputerMuseum -...
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After dusting off and repairing this Quizard Arcade CD-i unit, it looks again...
CD-i member Philippe Priolet shared with us his repairing and dusting work that he did on his Quizard Arcade CD-i unit. He owns this classic Quizard arcade machine, which is actually based on CD-i...
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