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The Hotel Mario (CD-i) remastered soundtrack is now available in Wave & FLAC...
CD-i member Naean Howlett-Foster now also made WAV and MP3 versions of his remastered versions of the Hotel Mario soundtrack (with the same sound enhancements). Hotel Mario is a popular CD-i original...
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The CD-i unit inside the Bang & Olufsen TV/CD-i set is much more integrated...
There are a few efforts in which CD-i was integrated in a TV. Bang & Olufsen made the first attempt together with Philips support and Philips components inside, the BeoVision AV5 remains one the...
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Find here the pin layout of the CD-i splitter - You can create your own CD-i...
CD-i member Muh Mullet shared the pinout the CD-i splitter, so you can more easily create your own one. Muh Mullet: "I used a multimeter on one of my splitter cables and made an I/O splitter cable for...
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November 1995: CD-i member Densy found some classic newspaper articles that...
Browsing through the old internet archives always show something interesting, even CD-i related if you are looking closely. Philips advertized in local newspapers to bring CD-i under the attention. In...
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CD-i member Lee Storey shared a nice Digital Video advertisement about...
CD-i member Lee Storey shared a nice Digital Video advertisement about upcoming (first generation) DV titles on CD-i. This advertisent was used as an insert together with the booklet of these Video...
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'A Hi-End Presentation Dummy' design for Philips Consumer Electronics; the...
This interesting product design was made by the Belgian studio 'Petrus Productdesign' for Philips Consumer Electronics in the Nineties. CD-i member Patrick Selten found it in their portfolio. The...
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In the 90s version of the 'Wild Arctic' attraction in SeaWorld (Orlando, USA)...
We like to discover CD-i is still available in 2021 in some lost and unnoticed places, leaving some history where CD-i was used in the past. Like in SeaWorld, in Orlando (USA). While not active in...
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Rare CD-i Records #94 - The Philips Partner Programme - Paris, June 24th 1992...
For us this is a special day and this is an exclusive CD-i disc that matches this day > It marks the introduction program of the CD-i launch in Europe, which exactly happened 29 years ago. That's...
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You can download virtually every CD-i title thanks to the 'Redump.org Philips...
It has never been easier to download a specific CD-i title if you want to test it: CD-i Emulator never worked better and many titles are easy to play. Moreover, the team behind Redump/Preservation...
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TV1/Ketnet was planning an exploring CD-i release about children series "Tom...
There are very few unreleased CD-i projects that have shown footage on an official demo disc and were never covered in the CD-i community. In 1996, the dutch CD-i Magazine was bundled with a "CD-i...
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This classic advertisement by UK CD-i/Video CD publisher 'CD Vision'...
CD-i member Jongg-eater found this interesting CD-i advertizement about some upcoming Manga Video CD's by CD Vision. We also see Akira in here, while this was also published by Polygram on Video CD....
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Early CD-i movies in USA were also pressed as 'Digital Video on CD-i' instead...
Early movies on CD-i were not pressed as Video CD (White Book standard) but in fact as CD-i (Green Book standard) - Simply because the White Book standard was not ready yet. About ten early movies...
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This blog takes a look at the beautiful CD-i article of Omegalfa in 'Popular...
When going through the CD-i article of this month' Popular Retro magazine, it really surprised me how beautiful it is and how it gives a positive introduction to CD-i to anyone who is not familiar...
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Philips blames Japan about the fact that CD-i does not meet its sales target...
When you read news articles from 1992 about Philips and the CD-i, it is already noticeable the press is not without hesitation about its success. And while 1992 was only the beginning of CD-i, Philips...
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Several CD-i BIOS ROMS as well as the DVC ROM (to emulate the Digital Video...
When later this year the new version of CD-i Emulator (possibly, hopefully) will be released, it will not come with the required BIOS files. So it is not a ready to play (download-and-play) program....
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The 'CD-i - Digital Video Cartridge Required' sticker beautifully recreated...
After requesting to scan the Digital Video Cartridge sticker logo, CD-i member Jorne came to help and scanned it. Of course it was also scanned 1,5 year back, as it was the base of some articles here...
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Japanese CD-i releases were often almost the same as European/USA versions,...
Thanks to CD-i members Seventy7 and Blazers, more Japanese CD-i covers are presented here. Most of the early PIMA CD-i releases that were translated into Japanese, often use the same boxart including...
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Reader Question: "Who owns the rights of specific CD-i games and characters,...
The Zelda CD-i Community often wanders about who owns the rights of the Nintendo licensed CD-i titles like Hotel Mario, Link: Faces of Evil and Zelda: Wand of Gamelon. While these titles are officially...
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Rare CD-i Records #95 - Philips CD-i Collection (local Italian 1992 CD-i...
In Italy, Philips Media released a couple of collection boxes that included a flavour of CD-i titles. Next to the Sports collection, CD-i member Ralph shared this general box with us, which is the...
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Here are the 2 different models of CD-i FMV cartridges : The 'standard' one...
CD-i member Barbarian_bros:"Here are the 2 different models of CD-i FMV cartridges : The 'standard' one for desktop/hifi CD-i models, and the 'MINI-cardtrigde' for 'slim' CD-i players (450, 550) and...
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