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CD-i was positioned next to CD Audio and CD-ROM so it appeared on the lens...
CD-i member Robin Kivits found an original Philips CD cleaning kit (SBC3510) for use with the CD Family products. The special thing about this is the inclusion of the CD-i logo: CD-i was positioned...
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The 'I want One' campaign resulted in packed CD-i boxes with several extras...
The 'I Want One' campaign by Philips was the last effort to put CD-i on the map in 1995. It resulted in a wide variety of merchandising, title samplers, promotional material and ways to sell CD-i with...
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These box protectors can protect your CD-i longbox releases from USA...
Philips CD-i longbox releases in the USA are particularly vulnerable as they originally carry a cardboard slipcase which can easily damage over the years if you don't treat them gently. For several...
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Rare Video CD Records #12 - Gordon in Concert (NOB Interactive, CNR...
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[Philips Media Buildings] The Philips CD-i test centre in Hasselt (Belgium)...
Philips was active in Hasselt (Belgium) until 2004, before it was sold, transformed and renovated to what is now called the 'Corda Campus'. Quite some buildings were taken down and new modern buildings...
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EA set up an entire division for CD-i development. They shut it down in 1989...
CD-i member Josh Martin shared some insight about the relation between Electronic Arta and Philips CD-i: "Trip Hawkins was convinced very early on that CD was the future and EA set up an entire...
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Rare CD-i Records #102 - Demo Disk / Spring Releases '97 / Not for Resale /...
Recently our member Steep Haywire shared more of his CD-i collection with Seventy7 to preserve more of his unique content. Preview pictures were posted on his Preserve CD-i blog, including this unique...
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Philips and MicroTouch Systems jointly developed a controller to make this...
CD-i member Patrick Selten found this article in Infoworld magazine dated August 8, 1994, which you can find here. It shows a CRT Touch Screen by MicroTouch Systems and ELO Touch Systems, compatible...
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An official Tetris CD-i soundtrack might nog happen soon, so Irikachana...
While an official soundtrack of the Tetris CD-i game will not happen soon, there are more members who do their best to recreate the Tetris CD-i audio tracks as accurate as possible. Until today, nobody...
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These promotional photos show a classic Photo CD setup and a...
Classic ad by Philips to promote Photo CD, including a specific Photo CD player and a retro Nineties living room/office to show how you could use this. It was an innovative way to see your photos on...
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Reader Question: "Were CD-i games like 'Voyeur 2' and 'Jack Sprite vs The...
CD-i member Stephen Trigg asks us: "Did Crimson Ghost ever get a official release? I saw a high seas version on some dodgy site a few years back with Voyeur 2 and Christmas Crisis to download. The...
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CD-i member The MogMiner shares some technical background on *why* various...
The Philips CD-i was technically limited and is known for a specific kind of animation that is used in a lot of CD-i titles (mainly games and kids titles): flat-shaded cartoon-like scenes mainly used...
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A look inside the German version of the Case Logic CD-i demo disc holder;...
When you search for Case Logic on Interactive Dreams you will notice a couple of times in the past we posted some versions of the CD case holder that ad originally 8 CD-i demo discs inside. It was a...
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Many millions of Dutch and German people have unwittingly used CD-i during...
In Germany we still see often these kind of CD-i players for sale that include a scanner. It is a Denso BCS5040 barcode scanner for Philips CD-i driving school applications. In Germany, publisher Vogel...
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CD-i Fanart Collection #20 - While the art style of the CD-i Zelda games are...
While the art style of the CD-i Zelda games are often point of discussion, it has also created a very special fan-art style by the community. Several artists who are fan of the genre have specifically...
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"I'm amazed at how well you can clean up Brain Dead 13 footage from the...
CD-i member SilentWulf showed some examples of the possibility to clean up and upgrade the graphics of a game like Brain Dead 13 on Philips CD-i by means of software tricks, that he did himself: "I'm...
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Tecno Plus created the one and only CD-i joystick, a typical Nineties...
CD-i member Glen Parsons had this CD-i joystick for sale a while back. It is pretty rare these days, but a true beauty on CD-i. Manufacturer Tecno Plus made these joystick for various formats, but this...
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Autosport Magazine (UK) presented a free CD-i give-away: Grand Prix Special...
"XDRA first came into being in 1994 when Philips, the International Dutch Electronics Group, set up a company to look after the interests of customers that wished to use 'consumer' products for...
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[Philips Media Buildings] - 188 Tottenham Court Road, London was the home of...
Philips Interactive Media Europe was based in this building in London, UK. Nowadays, the building is not rented by Philips anymore, obviously. It looks like an expensive location, unfortunately we...
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CD-i games in a Video CD jewelcase; Philips did it to emphasize it was a new...
With The 7th Guest on CD-i, Philips released a major software update in 1995. Of course it was not possible in 1995 to update CD-i via internet like we do in 2021. To release a software update (to take...
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