For Information, contact Ken Cheney
CD-I means "Compact Disc Interactive". It is meant to provide a standard
platform for mass consumer interactive multimedia applications. So it is
more akin to CD-DA, in that it is a full specification for both the
data/code _and_ standalone playback hardware: a CD-I player has a CPU,
RAM, ROM, OS, and audio/video/(MPEG) decoders built into it. Portable
players add an LCD screen and speakers/phonejacks.
If you want information about Philips CD-I products, you can call these
numbers:
US: Consumer hotline: 800-845-7301
For nearest store: 800-223-7772
Developers hotline: 800-234-5484
UK: Philips CD-I hotline: 0800-885-885
"Discovering CD-I" is a book available for $45 from:
"Discovering CD-I"
Microware Systems Corporation
1900 NW 114th Street
Des Moines, IA 50325-7077
1-800-475-9000
There are three books by Philips IMS and published by Addison Wesley:
"Introducing CD-I" ISBN 0-201-62748-5
"The CD-I Production Handbook" ISBN 0-201-62750-7
"The CD-I Design Handbook" ISBN 0-201-62749-3
Lex van Sonderen periodically posts a CD-I FAQ to comp.multimedia. The
latest version of this FAQ is available by anonymous ftp from
ftp.cdrom.com: /cdrom/cdi.faq.
Elektroson provides software for producing CD-I titles.
North America: tel +1-215-660-9038, fax +1-215-667-9387
Europe: tel 31-40-515065, fax 31-40-514920, Elektro@sci.kun.nl
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