June 2021 – The World of CD-i

Digital Video Cartridge bottle opener and key-chain

MrData, posted on the Original CD-i Discord Server this picture!
He worked with one of his friends to create this absolutely gorgeous bottle opener and key-chain.
This is the image of the Digital Video Cartridge (DVC) logo used by Philips on many of the CD-i titles who required a player equipped with a DVC module to be able to play Full Motion Video games/movies or titles that required it.

You want one? Sorry…
Only 2 of them have been made by his creator, and the lucky owners are MrData and me (Merci beaucoup Monsieur Data).

To reach this final result, the original DVC logo (provided by Jorne / Mrii6 from the same server) to be worked digitally to get a better quality. It has been completely vectorized using affinity designer software and the final result is just wonderful! MrData, you can congratulate your friend!

Professional designers will of course find some differences from the original one, but come on… who cares?
It is an amazing detailed quality picture, required for the final application. Using a lower quality one on a printable object will result in a even lower final result quality.

Future possible prints? Who knows… for now, as said before, only 2 have been made. His creator doesn’t seams to be interested in selling as he just made them for fun.
I am waiting to receive mine and will post it on the site (forum) as soon as I put my hands on!

Seventy7 and Preserve CD-i project

Seventy7 became in a few months (since September 2020) an “incontournable” name of the CD-i scene.
He is a preservationist, witch means he is searching to get the original discs, and with a process using a specific software and hardware, gets the original data from each titles like official realize date, version, ring codes and also an image (ISO or BIN/CUE files).
As the Philips CD-i wasn’t properly preserved, he decided jump into this quest and started this quest… yes… a quest!

We all know the difficulty to complete a collection for this system as it was used for so many professional purpose beside the usual simple consumer, not counting the huge regional variants.

Still, with the growing interactive community and interest into this infamous system, many unknown or very rare titles started appearing from nowhere. Thanks to many of those people Seventy7 is slowly reaching his goal with 960 titles dumped so far.
The most famous pair is without any questions Blazers and Seventy7. In fact, Blazers has a gift to find titles from places nobody would think it could be possible… and Seventy7 is a pure machine when the subject is dumping and scanning… I named this pair, the Dream Team, you will find there names on many titles credits.
But there is more, UnlockerPT, he is a monster, eating more than 60 titles in just one week-end! I can easily confirm that as he is my neighbor here in Portugal (Grande Maluco! És o Maior!).
Seventy7 named a few on his dedicated blog:

Thanks to Blazers, KailoKrya, Landcross, retaliator, r******d, UnlockerPT, omegalfa, Jackal, Maddog, Fireball, Wiggy, Billy and many others for all your hard work!

All the dumps are available at Redump.org but now, all the romset are available on archive.org, thanks to him!

It is now my turn, thank you them, yes, thank you Seventy7, thank you Blazers, thank you UnlockerPT, thank you KailoKrya, thank you retaliator, thank you r******d, thank you Jackal, thank you Maddog, thank you Fireball, Thank you Wiggy, thank you Billy, thank you all!
Keep up the good work!

Popular Retro with Philips CD-i Massive Special Feature – OUT NOW!

Months ago, I had to left the Console Purist Chronicles to embrace an irrefutable invitation from Darren Randle who runs Popular Retro magazine to cover the Philips CD-i section.
We are proud to present the first of this absolutely gorgeous magazine!
The Philips CD-i is featured with a massive 19 pages out of 56 and I do believe it will be a good read for people who knows and even for just curious people about the system.

This is a quarterly magazine, you can buy them one by one or get all of them (total of 4 every year).
Choose between the Digital Magazine or the Printed Magazine.

Congratulations to the team behind this magazine, without them, nothing would be done!

NOTE:
When I received the Editor’s Digital version, I noticed a few mistakes, probably from the Proofreader text formatting…
But at that time, 1000 copies had been already printed.
I am sure the people will find them.
In the next issue an errata will be added.

Check our forum, answer ur poll and tell us if you are thinking getting a copyof it!

New Addition – Hot and Cold

Hot and Cold “a collection of Belgian Jazz form the Igloo label”.
As the title explain, this is a Belgian CD-i title with jazz music.
This is also a CD-i Ready disc, which means, it will play on your CD-i player and on any Audio CD player as well.

10 songs are available:

1. Jacques Pelzer – “It’s easy to Remember”
2. Philip Catherine Trio – “Alone”
3. Nathalie Loriers Quartet – “Nat’s Blues”
4. Trio Bravo – “ADN”
5. Freddie Deronde “Feux Follets”
6. Loos-Ryerson-Houben – “Dramamine”
7. Paolo Radoni Trio – “My Little Angel”
8. Michel Herr Trio – “Intuition”
9. Serge Lazarevitch Quartet – “Mekong”
10. Pirly Zurstrassen Septet – “Ubutango”

Unreleased titles addition

We have added 9 unreleased CD-i titles to the database.
More are coming…

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