Philips to add CD-ROM versions of CD-i titles. (Philips Consumer Electronics Co. Interactive Media Systems Division; compact disk interactive)

Video Business, April, 1994 by Greenstein, Jane

Philips Media will issue at least 20 of its CD-i titles on CD-ROM by the end of the year and plans to eventually offer all of its CD-i titles on CD-ROM for both PC and Macintosh, according to Scott Marden, Philips Media president and CEO. In addition, sources say several new titles will be released simultaneously on CD-i and CD-ROM.

The first are expected to debut in the fall, with others to follow in the first quarter of 1995. This marks the first break in the company's commitment to its proprietary Compact Disc-interactive format, introduced in 1992. Philips executives says 300,000 CD-i machines had been sold worldwide by the end of '93, an unimpressive sales figure, according to analysts. That compares with 11.4 million CD-ROM drives sold...

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