News – 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!

Discord CD-i Server

Who never heard of Discord? It is commonly used in the gaming communities, and now, the CD-i also have a dedicated place on it.
Randam Hajile created the server and Dopply made the rest of the job.

We have been invited directly by Dopply to join it.
As all other CD-i sites are represented there, we found normal to also be there to give a 24/7 support for all our already members and other people (CD-i lovers or not).

Join the Discord CD-i room right now!

Back in 2005, on Le Monde du CD-i, we already had a live 24/7 chat based on mIRC embed on the site and we meet a lot of people. Some of them are now on this new Discord server. At that time some people used to say it was a nonsense place… but it seams we was a little bit ahead… or others was a little bit against…

This Discord server is an independent place, not related to any other websites.

Discworld on CD-i fully playable

This information comes directly from our Facebook Group member Roberth Rivero who posts this news about a YouTuber called Manmonkee. Manmonkee talks about Discworld game, under various formats, including CD-i:

A YouTuber called Manmonkee dropped a bomb of a comment a month ago revealing something truly unexpected…It seems that Atari approached Perfect 10 Productions/Teeny Weeny Games (where Manmonkee worked) in order to port Discworld to the Jaguar CD, which never moved foward beyond the discussional phase via phone. Damn, we lost a good one…But you may be wondering what does this has to do with the CD-i? Well here’s the real kicker: Manmonkee confirmed to me that the CD-i version of Discworld was not only finished but fully playable as well. So there you have it CD-i fans, you lost a good title as well 🙁

I am glad to see that our return has shaken the community!

Here is Manmonkee’s YouTube video:

Dodge training title for employees

This double disc professional title poped-up on ebay this week for the insane price of 10,000$. Yes, it is true, no extra zeros on it…

This is one of the reasons, some unknown titles will never be tested or preserved. This is pure speculation get the bigger profit as possible.

You will tell me, everyone can sell to the price he wants, he owns the title, he decide what to do. Look at me for example… I want to go to Japan with my family for 50€ each… one thing is what I want, and one thing is what is real.

If having a complete CD-i collection is already difficult due to the incredibly large variety of titles, with prices like this, or even with prices around the 500$ and 1000$, maybe it isn’t bad idea to just look at the pictures on the internet…

Sorry about that, it is just me talking to myself…

Let’s go back to the business, 1997 Dodge Product Preview. We are talking about double CD used by Dodge for the sellers training, just many other companies did on CD-i.

Videos was shown and the employees had to answer questions.

After completing it, each employee get points. Those points was stored under their profiles stored in the CD-i player memory, this way, he could try to get a better scoring.

Dodge employees learn more about the 1997 Dodge cars, caravans and engineering features on disc 1, and about trucks on disc 2.

It is about the 1997 Dodge world, but it has been made in 1996 by Chrysler Interactive Training.

Finally, thank you Sixtersfan105 for letting us know about it on ebay, and thank you to all preservationists that, I hope will never let us down, even with prices like this one…