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New pictures contribution


Thank you Alan Brown for sending us the pictures of your Beta Testing and Demonstration titles!

Mother Goose – Hidden Pictures – Demonstration
Lucky Luke – Testing Beta
Head Crash – Testing FPD
Surf City – Testing Phase 1
Compton’s Interactive – Testing – Phase 1
Sandy’s Circus Adventures – Testing FPD

If you also have in your possession titles that aren’t in our database or we haven’t any pictures of them, please take some shoots or scans and send them to us! We will enjoy to add all of them on The World of CD-i and credit them to you!


Website Improvement


The Word of CD-i as been improved in the right side menu.
Now you can select titles using different filters as:
– By the number of players for Games, Kids and multimedia as Head-to-Head or Alternatively.
– If a Digital Video Cartridge (DVC) is needed or optional.
– By Music or Movies that are Video-CD or Digital Video on CD-i.
– By catalogue number from each country code.

Also, from now on, when you use the search toolbar, beside the result, you will also get the cover or picture of what you are looking for, to help you define quicker what you need.

More changes will com during the year, we hope you will enjoy this website improvement!


Chronicle #15 – CD-470/40 Timekeeper Substituition

The World of CD-i Chronicle #15

This CD-i 470/20 is from Thorsbabelis, a member of our website who asked me to repair his player.
Thank you for the trust you placed on me to touch, open and fix your beautiful player!

Beside the Timekeeper, the door was also making noise and didn’t close completely, needing the help of our hand to completely close it.

Let’s fix those issues!


Chronicle #14 – The CD-i used by institutions

Chronicle #14

The Compact Disc Interactive was more than a familiar multimedia player, it was also a professional teacher.
From the early days many enterprises adopted the CD-i for personnel training, products showcase, touchscreen information point, medical training and knowledge, driving school, and many many other.
Even after the official abandon of the CD-i from Philips back in 1997, a lot of companies continued to use and produce for this support.

Read more…


CD Graphics – A forgotten format


I am an Alphaville fan, this is known from everyone. As they do have a CD Graphics (CD+G) album called Alphaville – The Breathtaking Blue, this format is for me very precious for me.

There is another person with the same felling about the CD+G discs, I am talking about Orlando Arroyo, his name may not be familiar to you as it should be.
I meet Orlando back in 2004, when he was in search of all CD-G discs. This is when Le Monde du CD-i (now The World of CD-i) started to include all the collection in the data base.
Orlando Arroyo and his friend Steve Martin decided to create a website that include all CD+G discs ever created, the CD Graphics Museum, with videos (also available on there YouTube channel), screenshots and disc information.

You really should take a moment and visit this real museum dedicated to this forgotten CD format.

Orlando shared with us on our Facebook Support Group an historic picture from a magazine he can’t remember the name. You can see this picture at the top of this article.
This is a timeline that goes from 1877 until 1991, more than 100 years, and the Philips CD-i is the start that everyone is awaiting!

The CD-Graphics was a very expected format in the early 90’s, music album with pictures on screen that can play on any Audio-CD or CD+G player, with text appearing on screen to sing along. The Karaoke discs was about to born!
Philips couldn’t left this CD format out of the CD-i player and extend the wide list of compatibility that this interactive system offer.

Thank you Orlando! Thank you to preserve this format for future generations!