How is CD-i related to other TV-based interactive systems?
In the early nineties, several other TV-based interactive playback devices using a CD as their main storage device existed. They were sold by different companies trying to pick a share of the market. Some of them were clearly based on all CD-i marketing techniques, others choose a slightly different approach. The most important of them were: • 3DO. Game/children’s device designed by The 3DO Company, and build under license by Panasonic and Goldstar. • CDTV. Commodore Dynamic Total Vision. An interactive videoplayer based on Commodore’s Amiga technology. The player was build by Matsushita and sold by Commodore and included a caddy-loading CD drive. A later version was called CD32, which had slightly improved hardware. • VIS. Video Information System. Sold by Tandy, based on a PC-architecture (80286) using a Microsoft operating system. None of these formats were interchangable. 3DO played Photo-CDs, 3DO and CDTV/CD32 played CD+Graphics and 3DO and CD32 could be expanded with a Video-CD a
