Company | Philips |
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Type | Video games |
CPU | 68070 (Philips made, based on 68000 core) |
Speed | 15.5 MHz |
RAM | 1.5 MB |
Media | cd-rom |
Graphic modes | 384×280 to 768×560 |
Colors | 16.7 million with 32768 on screen |
Sound | PCM and ADPCM decoding capabilities (+MPEG-1 layer I and II with optional Digital Video Cartridge) |
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). 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.