A Canadian is Actually Right About Something

Shut the fuck up, Frog. :lol:


Hey, look at the Sony one! Bottom right!

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Originally Posted by internet

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

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

Shut the fuck up, Frog. :lol:


Hey, look at the Sony one! Bottom right!

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I'm not stupid, Yeller. You're actually wrong and don't understand the difference between a third party and first party that licenses clones.

Hitachi made Saturn variants, JVC made Genesis/Sega CDs, as did Majesco, Samsung, and Pioneer. It doesn't mean Sega wasn't a first party.

I suspect you are a bit blind, at any rate.

You think this wunderconsole standard isn't going to breed Loads of Shit somehow? Explain.

The CD-i played Batman from a CD in 1991.

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Originally Posted by kedawa

The CD-i played Batman from a CD in 1991.

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I yield. :lol:

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

I suspect you are a bit blind, at any rate.

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I see well enough to spot a bunch of CD-is (God, that looks shitty plural) and a fucking LaserActive (Genesis clone), and I'm smart enough to know Phillips and Sega both made hardware. Point to me.

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You think this wunderconsole standard isn't going to breed Loads of Shit somehow? Explain.

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I expect consoles to run the gamut from shitty and unreliable to extremely high quality, but unlike the 360 where I HAVE to buy the shitty one that I know is going to RROD in a year, with a third party console I have a choice.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

I see well enough to spot a bunch of CD-is (God, that looks shitty plural) and a fucking LaserActive (Genesis clone), and I'm smart enough to know Phillips and Sega both made hardware. Point to me.

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Not really, no. Hey, congrats though on the vision! I was wrong, you can see colors and shapes.

Tell me which of those image's contents got any kind of market foothold? I mean, besides Hulk Hogan kicking Tower 2. Or was there perhaps oversatuation of crappy products in a field that was already well served by "non-standard" console makers?

As for build, I don't know why you think just because Phillips wanted to make a system that looked like a VCR that all hardware vendors would. Historically it hasn't proven very successful, so I kind of doubt it would be the case. CD-i was a failed attempt to make a family multimedia device that wouldn't be seen as a game console.

3DO looked fine. Especially the FZ-1. Nothing weird about it. Looked like a game machine, worked fine, etc.

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Originally Posted by Chux

Who the fuck cares, if I really want a movie that bad I'll buysteal it in mkv/264 format and throw it on my wdtv it on whatever format I have. If I want to just watch it I'll hit a button and watch it.

In 1080p, as soon as I hit the button.

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http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...t/pirate-9.jpg

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

Tell me which of those image's contents got any kind of market foothold? I mean, besides Hulk Hogan kicking Tower 2.

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If you can tell me what they have to do with anything, maybe this will get more interesting. The 3DO is the only one that's relevant at all, and that was 15 years ago and had a lot of other factors going against it that don't apply now.

Shooting it down might be a brilliant point if I was a drooling retard yelling "Third party consoles have been successful for decades!" but that's really not what anyone is saying. No one's even saying it could happen right now. We're just saying that we're headed in that direction.