I mean if Philips released the next big digital system, the CDi, why release it without digital cartridge in the first place? Shouldn't it been built in straight from the beginning?
This doesn't make sense....
So what was the point of CDi players with no Digital Cart?
Isn't hindsight a wonderful thing!
I don't think the standard for VCD was set yet thus the delay in our beloved Digital Video Cartridge upgrade. Now why didn't they make a Gamers upgrade that could slot into the expansion port, that would be cool.
I don't think the standard for VCD was set yet thus the delay in our beloved Digital Video Cartridge upgrade. Now why didn't they make a Gamers upgrade that could slot into the expansion port, that would be cool.
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totally, the Digital Video standard just wasn't ready at the time they released the CD-i. And as the cd-i system already was relatively old (considering the average lifetime of such a standard in these days) an early release as possible was the best way to take. Ofcourse now you look at it thinking what the cd-i was without the cartridge, but when it was released it had quite some innovative touch around it. Additionally, it wasn't announced at a games machine. And all you people only see it as a games machine.
Oh, another obscure machine and a game to go along with it! The developers behind this game did the SpecialFX on the original Star Trek Motion Picture so just need to check the facts are straight. Totally non CD-i related mind you, although i'm using my CD-i to view the VCD for "Research"!Bas wrote:what's up with that?
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