What good alternatives are there for CD-i in the consumer area?
Well, if you want to play video games, you need a game console. If you want to watch movies, you need to buy a VCR or DVD-player. If you want interactive reference titles, you’ll probably need a PC. If you want to view your family pictures on a large screen in the living room, you might just need to turn to that goold old slide projector. And if you want to play music, use your CD-player. As you can see, no real alternative combining all of the features of CD-i has been introduced to date, and certainly not in a standardized manner as with CD-i. The CD-i concept was rather unique and far ahead of its time. Today, most linear video watching (and in the very near future even recording) is vastly moving towards DVD-Video, which provides great image and audio quality (notably surpassing that of CD-i and Video-CD). For video games, there are a few big players, of which Sony with the PlayStation is one of the most important ones. A lot of edutainment and reference titles, as well as very goo
