I'm happy to finally see a good and objective review of the CDi. That didn't just talk about Hotel Mario and the Zelda games.

@LDTV22OfficialChannel

7 ай бұрын

Agreed

Very interesting show !!! Thanks for continuing to inform us !

My husband still has a working CD-i, with several games and the games controller; occasionally we still have a play on it. Some great games that were visually groundbreaking when it came out.

@danyoutube7491

Жыл бұрын

I can see why the presentation and visual quality would have wowed people at the time, it was comparable to the sort of things being tried out in the arcades or on TV shows.

@lasskinn474

Жыл бұрын

the early cdi titles are pretty dire graphically. the later titles could have been novel if they had been launch titles. by 1993 pc had better graphics - sometimes for the same titles, and had fmv too.

In Germany, the CDI was the standard in driving schools for a long time to present the teaching material. I still remember how my driving instructor always scanned different barcodes from a folder to display the next exercise. Somehow it has never been mentioned in a review about the device that the device was also used for such purposes. btw. Nice Video

@danyoutube7491

Жыл бұрын

That's interesting, it sounds like a similar technology/idea to one covered some time ago on this channel. These systems which were seen as nothing more than home appliances often turned out to have these niche uses which I only discover decades later.

Totally missed this and the channel as a whole for all this time, which a sub will hopefully remedy for future content! Really nice to see such an honest and open look at the system. It does hold some entertainment, some of which holds up to this day, and did some interesting things for its time. Putting it up against game consoles does set some expectations the platform just cannot handle. On the other hand, it's one of the few retro systems with a light gun that works fine on modern TV's (basically a Wii-mote on a wire). It has some fun content in its library and it's great to see people giving it a fair shake. Thank you for sharing your experiences, I'll be very interested to learn about other tech from you guys I'm less familiar with!

You can also play CD+Graphics, that is how I discovered CD-i!

Hello there 😺! This channel is definitely retrospectively so awesome, you deserve a retrospective channel subscriber from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮. I still play the original hardwares of the Commodore 64 (tapes / disks) and Amiga 500 (disks) 😺👍. Also, i admit, that i love drawing the furry fan arts 🖋️🖊️✏️🖍️ of the old Commodore 64, Amiga and Atari games 😺👍. Thank you 😸😺👍.

I used to have the CD-i 450 with an MPEG module. Unfortunately, the systen didn't really find its niche: HiFi systems (remember those?) were the better media systems, consoles were the better game systems, and computers were the better, well, computers. I remember playing "Chaos Control", a great looking rail shooter that featured heavily in the CD-i TV ads at the time.

:) I have the complete CDi-220 Mpeg Cart, Roller Ball, Light Gun, Joypads all the software library Recapped and belt replaced NTSC Boxed (Dealer unit) Timekeeper battery replaced

Philips were a bit unlucky, they were trying to make a product that would serve the 'home entertainment, multimedia' market that was widely expected to be a big thing in the 1990s but which never actually materialised. Commodore made the same mistake with the CDTV. The CDi was a bit higher in technical capability (though without, as far as I'm aware, hardware suited to more typical video games of the era) and the software was of a higher standard too.

More CD-i please!

Brilliant video 🇬🇧❤️🇬🇧

The CoCo actually used a Motorola 6809E processor, not the 68000. The Macintosh, Amiga, and Atari ST used the Motorola 68000. Nice look at the CDi though!

@joelavcoco

Жыл бұрын

Yes. There is an interesting Color Computer connection though. The CoCo could run Microware's OS-9 operating system as a preemptive multitasking alternative to (Disk)(Extended)Color BASIC. Microware later ported OS-9 to the 68000 series processors. Not only did the CD-i feature a 68000 compatible processor, but the CD-RTOS operating system it ran was actually a customized version of Microware's OS-9/68K. OS-9/68K is largely compatible with 6809 OS-9 on the level of C and Pascal source code, and programs written in Microware's structured i-code BASIC. Moreover, when the CoCo 3 was discontinued by Tandy in the early '90s, various players in the CoCo 3rd party marketplace designed computers intended to be in one way or another candidates for the CoCo 4 that Tandy never made. Several different computers were designed to run OS-9/68K as hopeful successors to the CoCo 3 for hardcore OS-9 users. And 2 of them, from different vendors, used a CPU and graphics chip set that had been designed by Signetics (a subsidiary of Philips) specifically for use in the CD-i. I'm not sure about all models, but many of them did not use the Motorola 68000, but rather a code-compatible CPU called the Signetics 68070. Despite the nomenclature, it was not an improvement over the 68060, but rather a 68000-compatible processor with some DMA, a UART, and some crude memory management support built in. This, along with the Signetics 66470 VSC (Video / System Controller) were designed for use in CD-i systems. These chips also formed the basis of both the IMS/Blackhawk MM/1 (Multi-Media 1) and the Frank Hogg Labs TC-70 Tomcat -- two contenders for the CoCo 4 title. CD-i systems using the 66470 had two of them ganged together in order to get 16-bit video. However, the TC-70 and the MM/1 only used 1 of the 66470 chips, which limited them to 256 colors. The TC-70 had a fixed palette of 256 colors, while the MM/1 used a Brooktree video DAC with a 24-bit palette from which to select 256 on-screen colors. Later chip designs integrated the functions of 2 of the VSC chips for cost-reduced consumer models of the CD-i. I believe it is possible to get an OS-9 command shell on a CD-i player. It probably requires a shell module and system commands written to a CD-i disc (but don't quote me on that) and a serial terminal hooked up to one of the controller ports.

i agree with you arron... not that bad!

for finland it wasn't a problem that people didn't know of the system as you could see it around 94 or so on tv basically every weekend on a 'dial in to play' kind of a tv show(and at the same time there was practically nothing on tv on the other 2 channels). problem for it, for the system, was that it was 1994 and it didn't wow people who were into that kind of stuff at all, so then you knew the system, knew all the hottest things for it, but it just made you know you didn't want it rather than it being a mystery, once you've seen the same section of a prerendered fmv shooter 10 times the explosions plastered on top of the video start to look kinda really bad and it's really driven home that it is indeed just a prerendered video. you could see them in photoshops as trial units too, in effort to sell them as photo viewers and the photoshop converting your film rolls to the cd's, an use for which it was obscenely expensive for. like many flopped platforms plucked out of time it seems more decent than it was in the time. if you didn't have money falling out of your pockets to just have a device for the telly as an extra device it made very little sense to buy one and a library of titles for it compared to getting a pc. if it had been available and marketed in 1990 then maybe, but by the time of 1993 if you had seen rebel assault on pc then burn cycle starts looking not that appetizing even if you didn't mind the games being fmw

Thanks for sharing. Is that an LCD though? It looks more like a VFD (vacuum fluorescent display).

@vintagegeek

Жыл бұрын

Actually I think you’re correct…I misspoke on that one. Thanks for watching and good catch!

Does the CDi output in 480i? It looks interlaced in some of the footage

I love your videos, except: the background music. :(