The CD-i (short for Compact Disc Interactive), which 1991 was published, was a Multimedia system, which was developed primarily by Philips, partly in addition, by Sony. Selling became the system in the long run from Philips alone. Its price during market publication amounted to approximately 400 US Dollar. The equipment could play so-called interactive Compact Discs, in addition audio CDs, CD+G (CD+Graphics), Karaoke CDs and video CDs (VCDs), whereby the latter purchase of a Card "“to the MPEG-1-Decodierung presupposed optional "„digitally video.

History

1994 left the sales noticeably, until 1998 production was completely stopped. Philips had never created it to convince the public of the abilities of the CD-i.

Not least due to the bad quality of the NINT DO titles, which had with the originals a little in common, also this offer could not to be increased the popularity of the CD-i as hoped for.

Technology

Since Philips controls and on the assignment of the CD-Logos decides the international CD standards as a developer of the Compact Disc, CD-i was raised into the rank of an official CD standard (the Green in such a way specified Book). Besides also the White Book over video CDs prescribes for standard video CD one on each playing software for CD-i-Player, which can be stored.

Software

First published mainly learning software title and only one handful of genuine video games, under it board play conversions like four win to a large extent!. Later attempts to open the play market proved than useless, when cheaper and more efficient Sony PlayStation were announced.

It is marked that Philips could develop some plays with actually NINT-DO-exclusive characters for the CD-i owing to a license agreement with Nintendo. In hotel Mario arose to super of Mario characters, and three The putting OF of Zelda plays were published: Left: The Faces OF Evil, Zelda: The wall OF Gamelon and Zelda' s Adventure.

Applications

In driving schools CD-i is used also today still gladly for theory instruction. By means of a bar code reader, which is connected with the CD-i-Player (for example CD-i 210), can be headed for pictures, animated illustrations, audio and film sequences on the CDs.

Competition products

Into the same market segment the competitor Commodore tried to advance in and the 90's 80's with its Amiga-based products CDTV and/or CD32 - however with just as little success. The same fate overtook the product 3DO of the company of the same name.

Related links

• Philipscdi.com (English)
• New international CD-i Association (English)
• Philips CD-i index (English)

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