Philips CD-i, The multimedia future that never was.

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[RubenvanKuik]

The irony of watching this on a Philips 31.5" 4K monitor.

[someoneontheinternet]

I remember when I got my Sega CD I went around to all of the music stores and asked for CD+G albums and no one had any idea what I was talking about

[JoSephGD]

"Nice of the 8-Bit Guy to make a video about the CDi, eh Luigi?"
"I hope he includes us in the video!"

[jputtrexx]

I remember they had a tent set up for the CDi at the second Wooodstock, I still have the badge they gave out.

[RestlessYankee]

CD+G was much more common for karaoke, and is still used for that to this day.

[coskuarsiray]

yours is one of the best channels on youtube. thanks for the effort spent here.

[Andersljungberg]

I remember that they showed video on one of these in a store and and I was very impressed with the pure colors in the picture. much cleaner colors than on VHS and even live analogue TV. in Europe, Philips used scart RGB. thus a cable connection that separated red green and blue. And of course the TV would have a black screen and the screen would be flat

[yalsonnoorcahayapratama]

2:56 James Rolfe also complaining about these port location.

[Punkfan]

Had my CDi from 2004 - last year. Back then, I thought it was a fantastic machine, playing all my imported pirated movies, and all my photo-CDs. Played thru "7th Guest" and a lot of Tetris. But when the Playstation came along, it was no more gaming on the CDi. But I still watched movies on the system until about 2002, since copying a CD Video was easy and somewhat affordable. (I´m a bit ashamed copying bootlegged material now, but that was then...). I sold my system to a collector, and he freaked out finding 3 controllers, tracing ball, IR remote and a light-gun (for Mad Dog McCree), plus about 80 movies and music videos. I´m glad my investment came to use for a passionate collector. Love your vids!

[aydenmarietta]

“Sears which doesn’t sell any electronics anymore, but that’s a topic for another episode.”
Little did I know that it would be an actual episode about America’s electronics stores.

[henryatkinson]

Last time I was this early the airport still was an integral part of your network...

[nosir]

This was a really solid video and I appreciate getting a view of this little bit of computing/entertainment history that doesn't walk in treating it like a punchline. Honestly so used to seeing it covered as a videogame console I didn't know it could do half of these things, in a lot of ways it's kind of ahead of its time and a forerunner to the "entertainment center" idea that we started to see manifest in the PS3/Xbox 360 era.

[HeadsetGuy]

The CD-i standard was defined in the Green Book of 1986; the so-called "CD-i Bridge" standard, as well as the VCD standard, were defined in the White Book of 1993.

[jeremiahsherman]

the AVGN episode was focused on the Bad .. Well that's his thing, that's the show . I always knew there was some Playable games On the CDi. its not as bad as it seems. but Never for 700$ that's why almost no one had one at home

[Rob...]

boy this bring back memories, glad i found this channel!

[f.k.b.]

CD plus Graphics was something I remember most about my SEGA CD! It came with a demo of CD+G including the Information Society song you played. My favorite part was Spock saying "pure energy". (Well at least I think it was Spock)
Ahhh them some good times.

[DanielLopez-upos]

When i was younger most of my movies were on CD heavily compressed but still a larger and easier collection than a VHS.

[Choralone]

I had a Turbo Duo that also played CD+G discs. I had that Information Society CD and one by The Talking Heads that had graphics on it. On the InSoc CD the song Running has some color strobing "animation" during it. I think CD+G never caught on because most of the discs that feature it were released in the late 80's or very early 90's before hardly anyone owned anything that could display them! I'm sure very few labels wanted to pay extra to put something on discs that hardly anyone could view at the time. However in the 90s, CD+G was used for quite a few karaoke specific CDs.

[whattheheck]

*I HOPE SHE MADE LOTS OF SPAGHETTI!*


Comment posted March 23, 2020 11:45 am (in case someone is reading this years from now, 5 minutes after this video went up)

[MisterLiker]

"The Philips CD-i"

My head: _"What were they thinking!?"_