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The 'BO console' was a prototype unit that was used to develop the internal...
This BO Console prototype was used to develop the internal video chip in the CD-i, which makes this prototype very historically relevant to learn mre about the history of CD-i at Philips. It recently...
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The CD-i player that Philips never made but only advertised with in 1989
In the early days of CD-i Philips advertised the format as 'The CD-i Experience'. Philips promoted the upcoming CD-i player with several folders. Like you see here, they advertised CD-i with a CD-i...
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Jack Sprite vs 'The Crimson Ghost'> a 2002 aftermarket release of an...
Old CD-i member RW Bivins was close to our Black Moon Project members, with nice credits of both Black Moon as well as ICDIA (under the wings of Jorg Kennis) inside the boxart of the Oldergames CD-i...
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The creator of Owlboy is also a CD-i fan and he shared some amazing art of...
Simon Stafsnes Andersen is the creator of Owlboy and on his Instagram he shares some neat art of his creations. Next to that he is also a CD-i fan and a couple of his art pieces are actually about CD-i...
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Tatjana Simic was one of Philips' biggest selling point when pushing CD-i...
Nice memories by Renate van Stigt on Twitter. Renate was working as a franchise owner of a Videoland store/branch (a video rental chain in The Netherlands). In The Netherlands, Videoland was a place...
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CD-i member Bonk shows us a 'restart module' specifically for use with his...
CD-i players were often used in professional places like retail stores and public spaces. Sometimes these CD-i players serve as an information kiosk, but in retail they were also used as a follow up...
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A new unknown CD-i player: This AEI / Prodisc branded CD-i 220 model...
CD-i member Geoff Lucas shared with us an unknown CD-i player which is a licensed 220 model, branded by AEI and Prodisc. It looks like this type of player was specifically aimed to serve as a CD-BGM...
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It looks like we found a new type of CD-i Player: The AEI Music Prodisc DS...
Yesterday we showed you the AEI CD-i 220 player, a licensed Philips CD-i 220 model branded Prodisc and AEI. AEI was a company active in background music, and it used CD-i as a base for its CD-BGM...
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Rare CD-i Chronicles #54 - Matchline Demo '96 (Philips Sound & Vision, Marcom...
This Matchline Demo '96 shows specific 16:9 content of various scenes of nature and other (colourful) examples of showcasing the widescreen format, from dolphins to balloons and from Crystal Clear...
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The oldest reference to CD-i goes back to January 1986, nearly six years...
The Philips CD-i system launched on the market in 1991. 5 years earlier, in 1986, CD-i was first mentioned and announced by Philips. At least, that is what different sources claim. The oldest true...
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Towards the most complete Philips CD-i software catalogue + serial numbers,...
At Interactive Dreams we try to have complete lists of all the CD-i titles that were available. A couple of these master lists are available here. CD-i member Blazers commented before on it: It is...
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Philips Research tried to build a networked 3D car chasing game for CD-i,...
The Research department of Philips was responsible for creating a couple of the best CD-i games, including conversions of Lemmings, Striker Pro, Pac-Panic as well as their own first person shooter...
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As of today, you can download the service manual of the CD-i FW380i Hifi/CD-i...
CD-i member cdifan recently added more technical documents to the ICDIA archive. A couple of interesting additions include the service manual of the FW380i (the Philips Hifi set that has integrated...
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Also the Philips BMS3000 CD-i BGM player was based on CD-i technology: it was...
Our article about the AEI BGM CD-i player resulted in nice memories from CD-i members, including CD-i member Andy AVAV Systems who showed us again the Philips BMS3000 CD-i BGM player, based on CD-i...
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A detailed look at the connection possibilities of the CD-i 605T player (a...
The Philips CD-i 605 playeD-i players that has authoring capabilities; it was used to develop CD-i software on thanks to the various connections and capabiltiies of this player. The 605T (T of 'CD...
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Another fan drawing of Morshu the Shopkeeper from Link: Faces of Evil, drawn...
The shopkeeper from Link: Faces of Evil might be a CD-i exclusive CD-i character, he is probably one of the most popular characters too. No other Zelda CD-i character had been the subject of fan-art...
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Proof of concept video of playing with two players simultaneously via the...
CD-i member Jeffrey Janssen shared here a video of his proof-of-concept of two player CD-i gaming using his USB2CD-i adapter. In this video he can control both players with a USB (SNES-style)...
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Many countries had exclusive interactive versions of local popular TV shows,...
One of the great things of our CD-i Community is that we get to know a lot more CD-i releases than those which were available in our country during the heydays of CD-i. Who never remarked that CD-i...
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The Tecno Plus TP521 Joystick had a 3-speed setting, it was not pressure...
When I was younger I was always thrilled to play our PC games with a true joystick; especially shooters were very suitable to play with this. Otherwise we had the keyboard to navigate through games,...
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Rare CD-i Chronicles #56 - Interactive Video Charts -Nov 94/2 (Media Art,...
Another digital video promotion disc by Media Art, this Interactive Video Charts was the second disc in this series, offering music videos on CD-i. It is actually a Video CD, but it uses the CD-i...
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