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| Manufacturer | Royal Philips Electronics N.V. Nintendo |
| Type | Video game console Media player |
| Generation | Fourth generation era |
| First available | 1991[1] |
| CPU | Philips 68070 |
| Media | CD-i, Audio CD, CD+G, Karaoke CD, VCD |
| Units sold | 570,000[1] |
CD-i or Compact Disc Interactive is the name of an interactive multimedia CD player developed and marketed by Royal Philips Electronics N.V. CD-i also refers to the multimedia Compact Disc standard utilized by the CD-i console, also known as Green Book, which was co-developed by Philips and Sony in 1986 (not to be confused with MMCD, the pre-DVD format also co-developed by Philips and Sony). A console manufacturer is a company that manufactures and distributes Video game consoles It is also known as a first-party Video game publisher. Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV ( Royal Philips Electronics Inc. is a Multinational corporation headquartered in Kyoto Japan founded on A data storage device is a device for recording (storing information (data Video games were introduced as a commercial entertainment medium in 1971, becoming the basis for an important entertainment industry in the late 1970s/early 1980s in the United In the History of computer and video games, the fourth generation (more commonly referred to as the 16 bit era) began on October 30, 1987 Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. The 68070 was a Philips -branded 68000 -based Microcontroller with built in DMA controller minimal MMU, I²C bus controller and other The Philips "Green Book" specifies the standard for interactive multimedia Compact discs designed for CD-i players A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an Optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio A CD+G (also known as CD+Graphics) is a special audio Compact disc that contains Graphics Data in addition to the audio data This is a list of Video game consoles and Handheld game consoles that have sold or shipped at least one million units Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV ( Royal Philips Electronics Inc. A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an Optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio The Philips "Green Book" specifies the standard for interactive multimedia Compact discs designed for CD-i players Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV ( Royal Philips Electronics Inc. is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest Media conglomerates with DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is The first Philips CD-i player, released in 1991 and initially priced around USD $700, was capable of playing interactive CD-i discs, Audio CDs, CD+G (CD+Graphics), Karaoke CDs, and Video CDs (VCDs), though the latter required an optional "Digital Video Card" to provide MPEG-1 decoding. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an Optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio A CD+G (also known as CD+Graphics) is a special audio Compact disc that contains Graphics Data in addition to the audio data MPEG-1 was an early Standard for Lossy compression of Video and audio.
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Applications
Early software releases in the CD-i format focused heavily on educational, music, and self-improvement titles, with only a handful of video games, many of them adaptations of board games such as "Connect Four". This is a list of games for the Philips CD-i video game system, organised alphabetically by name A video game is a Game that involves interaction with a User interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. Later attempts to develop a foothold in the games market were rendered irrelevant by the arrival of cheaper and more powerful consoles, such as the Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation. The, often abbreviated as N64, is Nintendo 's third home Video game console for the international market The PlayStation (abbreviated PS, PSone, PS1, or informally as PSX) is a 32-bit fifth generation Video game console CD-i is noted for the release of several spinoffs of popular Nintendo video games featuring characters typically seen only on Nintendo consoles, although those games were not developed by Nintendo. is a Multinational corporation headquartered in Kyoto Japan founded on Hotel Mario was a puzzle game that featured Super Mario Bros. characters. Hotel Mario is a Puzzle game developed by Fantasy Factory and published by Philips Interactive Media for the CD-i in 1994 is a Platform game developed by Nintendo in late 1985 and published for the Nintendo Entertainment System, a sequel to the 1983 game Mario Mario Takes America/Mario's Wacky Worlds was an unfinished game which involved Mario, Luigi and Yoshi touring the United States. Some prototype versions of the game have made it into the market. In addition, three Legend of Zelda games were released: Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon and Zelda's Adventure. is a High fantasy action-adventure Video game series created by Game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and developed and published Link The Faces of Evil, Zelda The Wand of Gamelon, and Zelda’s Adventure are three Action-adventure games produced by Link The Faces of Evil, Zelda The Wand of Gamelon, and Zelda’s Adventure are three Action-adventure games produced by Link The Faces of Evil, Zelda The Wand of Gamelon, and Zelda’s Adventure are three Action-adventure games produced by Nintendo and Philips had established an agreement to co-develop a CD-ROM enhancement for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (after Nintendo and Sony scrapped a previous deal on an earlier add-on for the SNES, which would eventually result in the creation of the PlayStation), and Philips was contractually allowed to continue using Nintendo characters after the deal fell through. The Super Nintendo Entertainment System or Super NES (also called SNES and Super Nintendo) is a 16-bit Video game console that was is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest Media conglomerates with The PlayStation (abbreviated PS, PSone, PS1, or informally as PSX) is a 32-bit fifth generation Video game console
CD-i also released several CD-i versions of popular TV game shows, including versions of Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, Name That Tune, and two versions of The Joker's Wild (One for adults hosted by Wink Martindale and one for kids hosted by Marc Summers. Name That Tune was a television Game show that put two contestants against each other to test their knowledge of Songs. The Joker's Wild was an American television Game show that aired at different times during the 1970s through the 1990s It billed itself as the game Winston Conrad "Wink" Martindale (born December 4, 1934, Jackson, Tennessee) is a Disc jockey and Television Marc Summers (born Marc Berkowitz November 11, 1951 in Indianapolis Indiana) is an American Television personality )
CD-i had a series of learning games ('edutainment') targeted at children from infancy to adolescence. Those intended for a younger audience included Busy Town, The Berenstain Bears, and various others which usually had vivid cartoon-like settings accompanied by music and logic puzzles. Busytown is a Fictional town inhabited by an assortment of Anthropomorphic Animals as depicted in various The Berenstain Bears are a Fictional family of Anthropomorphic Bears created by Stan and Jan Berenstain in a series of very popular Children's One of the most remarkable games released on this platform was a game combining Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865 is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known under the Pseudonym Lewis Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There ( 1871) is a work of Children's literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Todd Rundgren (under the pseudonym TR-i) released an interactive music CD in 1993 entitled No World Order, that utilized the CD-I format. This article is about a Todd Rundgren album For the Gamma Ray album see No World Order No World Order is an Album by The user could tailor various qualities such as mood, tempo and composition on the endless CD track.
Although extensively marketed by Philips, notably via infomercial, consumer interest in CD-i titles remained low. By 1994, sales of CD-i systems had begun to slow, and in 1998 the product line was dropped. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) With the home market exhausted, Philips tried with some success to position the technology as a solution for kiosk applications and industrial multimedia. The console still maintains a cult following on the Internet.
Philips
In addition to consumer models, professional and development players were sold by Philips Interactive Media Systems and their VARs. A value-added reseller (VAR is a company that adds some feature(s to an existing product(s then resells it (usually to end-users as an integrated product or complete " Philips marketed several CD-i player models.
- The CD-i player 200 series, which included the 205, 210, and 220 models. Models in the 200 series were designed for general consumption, and were available at major home electronics outlets around the world. The Philips CD-i 910 was the American version of the CD-i 205, the most basic model in the series.
- The CD-i player 300 series, which included the 310, 350, 360, and 370 models. The 300 series consisted of portable players designed for the professional market and not available to home consumers. A popular use was multimedia sales presentations such as those used by pharmaceutical companies to provide product information to physicians, as the devices could be easily transported by sales representatives.
- The CD-i player 400 series, which included the 450, 470, 490 models. The 400 models were slimmed-down units aimed at console and educational markets. The CD-i 450 player, for instance, was a budget model designed to compete with game consoles. In this version an infrared remote controller was not standard but optional.
- The CD-i player 600 series, which included the 601, 602, 604, 605, 615, 660, and 670 models. The 600 series was designed for professional applications and software development. Units in this line generally included support for floppy disk drives and connected to keyboards and other computer peripherals. A floppy disk is an increasingly Obsolete data storage medium that is composed of a disk of thin flexible ("floppy" Magnetic storage medium encased In Computing, a keyboard is an Input device partially modelled after the typewriter keyboard which uses an arrangement of buttons or keys Some models could also be connected to an emulator and had software testing and debugging features.
There also exist a number of hard-to-categorize models, such as the FW380i, an integrated mini-stereo and CD-i player; the 21TCDi30, a television with a built-in CD-i device; and the CD-i 180/181/182 modular system, the first CD-i system produced.
Other manufacturers
Besides Philips, several other manufacturers produced CD-i players, including Magnavox, GoldStar / LG Electronics, Digital Video Systems, Memorex, Grundig, Sony, Kyocera, NBS, Highscreen, and Bang & Olufsen, who produced a television with a built-in CD-i device. Magnavox ( Latin for "great voice" is an American Electronics company founded by Edwin Pridham and Peter L GoldStar was an electronics company established in 1958. The corporate name was changed to LG Electronics and LG Cable in 1995. LG Electronics () is a South Korean Multinational corporation. Established in 1961 in Silicon Valley, Memorex is today a Consumer electronics brand of Imation specializing in disk Recordable media (CD & DVD Grundig AG is a German manufacturer of Consumer electronics for home entertainment is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest Media conglomerates with is a Japanese company based in Kyoto, Japan. The company was founded as in 1959 by Kazuo Inamori. Bang & Olufsen ( B&O,) is a Danish company that designs and manufactures high end Audio products Television sets and Telephones
TeleCD-i and CD-MATICS
Recognizing the growing need among marketers for networked multimedia, Philips partnered in 1992 with Amsterdam based CDMATICS to develop TeleCD-i (also TeleCD). In this concept the CD-i player is connected to a network (PSTN, Internet or other) enabling data-communication and rich media presentation. The public switched telephone network ( PSTN) is the network of the world's public circuit-switched Telephone networks in much the same way that the Dutch grocery chain Albert Heijn and mail-order giant Neckermann Shopping were early adopters and introduced award-winning TeleCD-i applications for their home-shopping and home-delivery services. CDMATICS also developed the special Philips TeleCD-i Assistant and a set of software tools helping the worldwide multimedia industry to develop and implement TeleCD-i. TeleCD-i was the world's first networked multimedia application at the time of its introduction. In 1996, Philips acquired source code rights from CDMATICS.
Technical specifications
CPU
- 16-bit 68070 CISC Chip (68000 core)
- Clock Speed of 15. The 68070 was a Philips -branded 68000 -based Microcontroller with built in DMA controller minimal MMU, I²C bus controller and other A complex instruction set computer ( CISC, pronounced like " sisk " is a Microprocessor Instruction set architecture (ISA in which The Motorola 68000 is a 16/32-bit CISC Microprocessor core designed and marketed by Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola Semiconductor 5 MHz
Display
- Resolution: 384×280 to 768×560
- Colors: 16. 7 million w/ 32,768 on screen
- MPEG 1 Cartridge Plug-In for VideoCD and Digital Video
Operating System
Other
- 1. Microware is a US corporation that produced the OS-9 real-time Operating system. OS-9 is a family of real-time, process-based, multitasking, Multi-user, Unix-like Operating systems developed in the 1980s 5 MB of Main RAM
- Single Speed CD-ROM Drive
- Weight With DV Cart 1. 460 kg, Without DV 1. 210 kg
- ADPCM Eight Channel Sound
- 16-bit stereo sound
CD-i accessories
- CD-i Mouse
- Roller Controller
- CD-i Trackball
- I/O Port Splitter
- Touchpad Controller
- Gamepad Controller (see Gravis PC GamePad)
- IR Wireless Controller
- S-Video Cable
Market Competition
Interactive Kiosk (primary market)
High-end A/V (secondary market)
(multi-purpose audio/video systems)
Videogame (secondary market)
- Sega Genesis with Sega Genesis CD CD-ROM expansion
- The 3DO Company's 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
References
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External links
- CD-i at the Open Directory Project
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