#Is CD-I a dying format?
22-Oct-92 11:06:21
Sb: #29140-#Is CD-I a dying format?
Fm: Rich Bowers/OPA 71700,3404
To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
Kevin:
Our views of the "nature" of CD-I will probably remain apart. I can
appreciate that Philips wants to create the impression that CD-I is
aompletely original implementation of basic CD technology.
However, in fact, first there was CD-audio. It was extended (by virtue of
adding additional error correction etc) into a computer-readable data
implementation called CDROM. CDROM has further been extended (or further
refined, or further specified) in a number of other implementations which
require specific data layouts on the disc. Some of these are CD-I, CDTV
and CD-XA. CD-XA remains a higher-level compatibility factor because it's
style is used by CD-I, CDTV, Photo-CD and some stand-alone applications.
In my view, claiming that CD-I is an indepenedent 3rd format is not unlike
a few years ago when Philips tried to re-position videodisc as
"large-format CDROM" and CD-I as "small-format CDROM."
Rich