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In addition to consumer models, professional and development players were sold by Philips Interactive Media Systems and their VARs. Philips marketed several CD-i player models. The CD-i 220 player, designed for consumers, was available at major home electronics outlets around the world. The CD-i 605 player, designed for professional applications and software development, contains a floppy disk drive and connects to a computer keyboard and other computer peripherals. It can also be connected to an emulator and has sof ...

CD-i: Encyclopedia II - CD-i - CD-i players

CD-i - CD-i players

In addition to consumer models, professional and development players were sold by Philips Interactive Media Systems and their VARs. Philips marketed several CD-i player models.

The CD-i 220 player, designed for consumers, was available at major home electronics outlets around the world.

The CD-i 605 player, designed for professional applications and software development, contains a floppy disk drive and connects to a computer keyboard and other computer peripherals. It can also be connected to an emulator and has software testing and debugging features.

The CD-i 360 player, a portable player designed for the professional market was not available to home consumers. A popular use was multimedia sales presentations such as those used by pharmaceutical companies to provide product information to physicians, as the device could be easily transported by sales representatives.

Besides Philips, several other manufacturers produced CD-i players, including Magnavox, GoldStar / LG Electronics, Digital Video Systems, Memorex, Grundig, Kyocera, NBS, Highscreen, and Bang-Olufsen, who produced a television with a built-in CD-i device.