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The LG GDI-700 CD-i player was a little bit faster compared to Philips CD-i...
At least, in theory. It is a nice experiment to test relative data between the GDI-700 CD-i player (or the DVC version) and a Philips CD-i player. The reason behind it is as following:"The GDI-700...
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Proof that the original Rise of the Robots CD-i version was actually using...
If you click on this image, you see that Rise of the Robots was announced in this catalogue as "DV Required" - You needed the Digital Video Cartridge to run this game. The extra memory was used for...
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French TF1 brought us 'Le Journal Interactif 1994 and 1995', but also...
Philips Media France and TF1 signed a deal to produce low-priced bundles exclusively for the French people. For Philips it was a great way to promote its Digital Video capabilities. After the 1994...
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What to think of this: Sonic Eraser was considered as online CD-i game
The World of CD-i found two sources that actually say that Sonic Eraser was planned for CD-i in Japan/Brazil for the ill-fated Meganet service. Meganet was an online service that Sega started in 1991...
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Animation Magic didn't stop CD-i development after Mutant Rampage
The last title that Animation Magic produced on CD-i was Mutant Rampage. That same team was also responsible for Link: Faces of Evil and Zelda: Wand of Gamelon. In 1994, after finishing Mutant...
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Lords of the Rising Sun shows Cinemaware's power on CD-i
Cinemaware was a famous Amiga producer and a core part of Cinemaware was taken over by Philips to form a development team with the name 'Point of View'. Simply called Philips POV. One of their first...
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French TF1 brought us 'Le Journal Interactif 1994 and 1995', but also 'Un...
While "TF1 Enterprises" was responsible for multimedia programs on CD-i, the sister company "TF1 Video" was also in co-operation with Philips Media France to produce Video-CD's for Philips. It was...
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Upcoming CD-i Emulator v0.53 beta 5 supports Digital Video and a lot more games
It's happening, CD-i Emulator 0.53 is in the works (again) and with the current beta 5 it looks like we can soon find out ourselves. V0.53 was published years back but due to issues it was not...
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Apple PowerCD was almost Apple's CD-i Player
In the early Ninetees several companies wanted to jump on the CD-i wagon: Sony, Sanyo, DVS, Grundig and Panasonic (Matsushita) all worked on CD-i hardware and except for Panasonic, all of these...
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Philips promoted CD-i in 1990 with a completely different (Matchline) CD-i...
A very interesting find came to my attention thanks to CD-i member Candela. In 1990, Philips promoted CD-i when it was not released yet, but with CD-i equipment that we have never seen before. A...
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Relive CD-i games like Lucky Luke with a youtube playthrough
Thanks to youtube we find more and more full walkthrough videos and review material of our beloved CD-i games. The beauty I find in this is the nostalgic factor: I am often not able to hook up my CD-i...
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The Philips CD-i Mini / Classic is not going to happen, but never say never...
In September 2018, Philips positively replied to a question about the possibility of a CD-i mini. These retro classic mini consoles are a major success. If Nintendo, Sega, SNK and now Sony can do it:...
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Create your own papercraft CD-i 910 model by Rocky Bergen (download inside)
Rocky Bergen creates high quality papercraft models of all kind of (retro) computer systems and recently even CD-i took his attention. He created a papercraft model of the CD-i 910, with attention to...
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Why MAME CD-i emulation still lacks Digital Video support after 10 years
MAME has a driver for the CD-i but support is incomplete, as it still doesn't emulate the Digital Video Cartridge (DVC) as of May 2019. That means games that require it like 7th Guest, Atlantis - The...
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PhilipsCDi.com will be rebooted soon after twelve years of silence
Great news from PhilipsCDi.com: The CD-i reference site that stirred the CD-i community more than twelve years back with the online catalogue of the dutch CD-i magazines and a complete reference...
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This is the oldest CD-i disc that we've seen and it was used to demo CD-i in...
The nice thing of demo cd's is that it is some sort of time-capsule. Philips sent out these demo discs in 1988 to developers to showcase the possibilities of CD-i. As it was 1988, CD-i was not yet...
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The 'Professional' line of Philips CD-i players is far more rare, but here...
Next to the consumer CD-i players made by Philips like the 210, 220 and the 450 model, Philips also released quite a few professional players. All of these were intended to the professional use of...
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Another mentioning of Discworld coming to CD-i in this USA catalogue
Another mentioning of Discworld CD-i, this time in an American catalogue. Printed as a "DV Required" title, Psygnosis was very confident that Discworld would make its way to CD-i. It's the biggest...
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Tetris on CD-i has an interesting influence on later Tetris versions
Tetris on CD-i has an interesting influence on later Tetris versions. Tetris CD-i is the ultimate Tetris experience. Spectacular video nature scenes and an original CD score by Jim Andron, complement...
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