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{{System | {{System | ||
|name=Philips CD-i | |name=Philips CD-i | ||
|image=PhilipsCD-i_photo.jpg | |image=PhilipsCD-i_photo.jpg | ||
|manufacturer=[[Philips Interactive Media]] | |manufacturer=[[Philips Interactive Media|Philips Consumer Electronics]] | ||
| | |released=1991 | ||
|discontinued=1996 | |||
}} | }} | ||
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[[Category:Philips Interactive Media]] | [[Category:Philips Interactive Media]] | ||
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 used by the CD-i console, also known as Green Book, which was developed by Philips and Sony (not to be confused with MMCD, the pre-DVD format also co-developed by Philips and Sony). Work on the CD-i began in 1984 and it was first publicly announced in 1986.[2] The first Philips CD-i player, released in 1991 and initially priced around USD $700,[3] is capable of playing interactive CD-i discs, Audio CDs, CD+G (CD+Graphics), Karaoke CDs, and Video CDs (VCDs), though the last requires an optional "Digital Video Card" to provide MPEG-1 decoding. | |||
The CD-i proved to be a commercial failure in that market segment and some of its games have been known to be among the least well received ever made.[1] Philips ceased publishing video games for the platform in 1998. |