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Reader question: "Do all CD-i titles come with some form of printed...
All the CD-i jewelcase releases have an instruction booklet in some form. It depends on the title as some simple games don't require a heavy manual, but at least they all show how to use the buttons on...
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Rare Video CD Records #4: "Nichts ist Unmöglich... bei diesen Tieren!" (Atlas...
"Nichts ist Unmoglich" is a German exlcusive Video CD, translated from the original French version of 'La Vie privee des Animaux'. Originally on video tape (VHS), but this version was released in 1994....
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This is the 'Sony PRD-250 Multimedia Discman' from 1996, with promised CD-i...
Last year we showed you the PCMCIA CD-player by Panasonic. It remained unreleased but it promised CD-i and Video-CD support by using a CD-i hardware card. Jorg kennis made an important statement about...
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Rare Video CD Records #5: "Vee Jay Volume One" (Media Art, Prefix, 1995)
Another german exclusive Video CD, this one is a music video CD as we have seen more often in the series of ZYX, but this one is specifically released by Philips Media. On the disc, music videos are...
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The Memorex 2200 CD-i player is the only brand who tweaked the design of the...
Memorex was active on CD-i with one specific CD-i model: The CD-i 2200. It was a OEM model of the CD-i 205/910. This version was put on the market in USA. It was actually the only model which tweaked...
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VFX artist 'Hoolopee' recreated a wonderful 3D animated version of 'Morshu...
The cutscenes of Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, are widely recreated and used in Youtube videos. While there is a lot of criticism on these Philips CD-i games by various Link...
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The copyright and credits of CD-i material that you see here: Is it allowed...
It's no secret we received quite some requests of 'taking CD-i images down' because of claimed copyright, unfortunately just by one website, which we won't call by name. How is this arranged in the...
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Download the latest remastered versions 1.2 of Link: The Faces of Evil and...
The latest patched version 1.2 of the remastered versions of Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: Wand of Gamelon have been updated again, still holding the same version 1.2 but now include a new modern...
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CD-i member 'Jorne/MrMii6' explores the possibilities of his newly obtained...
CD-i member Jorne/MrMii6 explores the possibilities of his newly obtained CD-i 180/181/182 set. With the help of mainly cdifan and retrostuff, more and more details are covered and we summarize the...
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New CD-i Technical Documentation on ICDIA - including the installation and...
Lots of new technical documentations were added today on ICDIA (The International CD-i Association). cdifan, the webmaster of ICDIA, is busy with scanning a lot of the unique technical documentation...
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Rare Video CD Records #6: "ZYX Dance Hits" (ZYX Music, Circle Multimedia...
Specifically in 1996 another publisher from Germany released some exclusive CD-i and Video CD's. We always had our attention to the exclusive CD-i title Hieroglyph, Magic Eraser and BMP Puzzle, but ZYX...
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Reader Question: "How was it possible to develop DVC programs in 1993/1994?...
CD-i member cdifan shares some history about the times of DVC development in 1993, in times of the CD-i 180 authoring player. "... Developing for CD-i was very capital-intensive in those days (I'm...
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James Bond's 'Skyfall' has the honour of being the last official James Bond...
Thanks to the long lasting market of VCD in Asia and countries like Turkey, there are still CD-i compatible discs being made these years. However, the interest has declined since 2015 significantly....
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USB2CDi update v1.1: Promising prospect for the USB2CDi adapter: it might...
Developer TwBurn experiments with a new update on his USB2CDi protocol: "I started experimenting with implementing the communication to the CD-i using a timer (and writing bits to the serial port...
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Which Philips models (Videopac / Odyssey/ NMS MSX) were the spiritual...
The development of CD-i was one of the responsibilities of the department 'New Media Systems', which later transformed into 'Philips Interactive Media Systems' (1992). Before developing CD-i, New Media...
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CD-i member TwBurn describes how to build an USB to CD-i convertor using the...
TwBurn received the final parts and he just made the description how to create a USB2CDi adapter yourself: "Got the mini host shields today, soldered up pins and attached it to my prototype board and...
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After creating the remastered versions of Link: Faces of Evil and Zelda: Wand...
With the recent releases of the remastered versions of Link: Faces of Evil and Zelda: Wand of Gamelon, developer Dopply has shown he is more than capable of remastering these classic CD-i games into...
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This USA CD-i demo of Chaos Control has design similarities with the white...
From the same guy who feeds the CD-i Community with all kinds of rare CD-i discs (Seventy7, mostly coming from the huge CD-i collection of Blazers) - today he shares a demonstration disc of Chaos...
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Philips released an official Philips CD-i Karaoké Mixer Kit 22ER9060 -...
In the years CD-i was sold, Philips put significant energy into promoting karaoke. Mainly popular in Asia, with the launch of CD+Graphics it was possible to support audio with graphics to show the...
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Rare Photo CD Records #4 - Autosport Magazine presents Grand prix Special...
This disc was a free give away as well as a retail disc. The first disc was pressed with the CD-i logo on the top left, published by XDRA in 1992. The repress after this for retail was different, the...
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