Volvo CD-i Catalogue
>> Monday, November 23, 2009
All over the internet you'll find stories where CD-i is titled as the least succesful console, mainly because in the eyes of consumers the amount and quality of games was too low. From a different perspective, the professional market is where CD-i eventually peaked. Especially as tools for education (elementary school, driving license tests, School 2000). In other businesses, you'll find a lot of brands that used CD-i to promote there products in kiosks like we saw with K'Nex a few weeks back. Normally, collectors aren't able to get a lot of these because these discs were only used for promotion. Moreover, they are not published by the same company like Philips media handled most CD-i games. But once in a while a rare title like this pops up on ebay. Like today, with the Volvo CD-i disc. I was aware that Peugeot did a CD-i program at that time but I've never seen it from Volvo too. "Rare Volvo cars Philips CD-I disc. From the ill-fated Philips video disc format... there can't have been many car manufacturers to have done marketing on this format so this is a rare bit of Volvo and Philips history! From memory (not being able to actually view the disc) I'd say 1992/93 which dates it to K reg and the introduction of the 850."
For the coming week, you can find it here.
3 reacties:
hello i bought this off ebay sometime back ,it came with a book that explained the volvo range and to quote from it it said, there has never been a time to purchase a volvo 850. from the 16th of september 1996 and so on this says that the disk was published sometime in 1996 and not 1992/93
on the disk there is digital video of the cars seperated by menus listing features such as safety, features and so on. hope this helps.
Nice, Thanks for the info!
I was a car salesman in the late 90's. I had a interactive cd-I kiosk across from my desk that showcased Kia's.
I also sold Chrysler products and they had a interactive training plan and corporate messages that they would disseminate via the cd-I. It would go over dial-up or satellite and record that you took the lesson plans or watched the training videos.
Before that it was powered by a touch screen a 286 and laserdisc player.
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