CD-i infomercial (full) 

This is one infomercial I didn't mind watching up at 4 am nothing else on. Nostalgic memories... The best times. Simple times.

Im gonna watch 4 weddings and a funeral on my cdi while I cut my hair with my flowbee.

Kid: Dad is this hell? Phil: No Phil Jr. it's Zelda on CDi all though I can't imagine hell being much worse

I remember watching this as a kid late at night. It really stuck with me!

So I bit the bullet and bought into the hype and paid about $900 for my model 910 in 1991…. Had tons of fun with it….still works but had to perform the timekeeper battery hack….and replace drawer belt….oh and spent the $249 for the FMV cartridge. Then at one point spend $100 of the Comptons Encyclopedia thinking my daughter would get tons of use out of that….hahah…silly me. Still have all that software and tons more I bought off of eBay through the years.Took me forever to Find the Discover Fishing cdi thinking it was a fishing game when it wasn’t a game at all….more like a fishing video magazine.

This infomercial used to play after the SatAM lineup (Sonic, Mr Bumpy, Reboot... all those glorious cartoons). The tennis game intrigued me, so did Faces of Evil.. it was just fun to watch this back then. It was an attempt to turn the PC into a console. There was nothing really wrong with the CDi format. The hardware was the problem. Needlessly expensive (I'm almost convinced they got the short end of the deal or got ripped off by hardware vendors like the CPU supplier) and they didn't care at all for the low quality product that was the result... and they wanted to make as much money back as possible. Developers knew the hardware wasn't there, so not very many went on board.

I've thought about this machine over the years but couldn't remember the name. I'm glad someone found this infomercial

I remember not being able to sleep one night and watching this informercial. I was so glad that I didn’t have one.

Absolute gold. Amazing upload man!

And phil was never seen again,his wife became a widow with her kids.

Phil: help help me i'm being held against my will

This informercial sold me in wanting a CD-I as a kid. I got it and then I was like this is garbage.

I sure wish this actually was in the hands of common consumers

They certainly made video calling seem so common place at the time , I was in the 4th grade , and still remember all phone calls in the 80s being much more visual than they are now , even if the graphic format was in adjectives that had to be manually downloaded from a paper dictionary. That particular time slot was filled the following day with L Ron Hubard dianetic book series , and then Muzzy after that , a predecessor to Rosetta Stone , I remember thinking back on all that early morning programming right before the World Trade Center demolition , when the only thing tolerable to have on the screen while people were waking up to go to work was “girls gone wild” and blue pill advertisements , and how that generation was going to be more of a hinderance than the previous. It was about 10 years since this CDI thing, before I was able to use any of that software , by dialing in the 800 number for AOL and waiting for it to start bingscreeching then clicking the program to dial whatever 20cent a minute long distance number was allowed , after it was already connecting to the free one, prodigy and Netscape navigator were better tho , I eventually called up for the AOL for dos diskette and only used there services to download whatever people left on there , it’s all the interactivity I can do without , I have an oculus quest 2 now , and can’t understand why people think more about multiplayer and communicating over design study and exploration . I bought stamps a few days ago and had to learn to draw a long time ago out of necessity , but if I ever got my hands on a printer that didn’t end up getting stomped to pieces after a few months of trying to get it to work , I’d rather interact that way

The disclaimer at the beginning is hilarious Haha even the network knew it sucked

Help was awesome! She didn't really help, but probably led to Alexa..

I think the intention was cool. "Multimedia" was indeed pretty exciting. the CD-i, sadly, wasn't the best system to introduce it. PCs were still the best way to get people's attention, but they were prohibitively expensive at the time

I had to adjust the tracking on my RU-vid for the first bit.

begged mom and dad for a cd i for christmas i got it just wanting to see what got me to that point

Ah the days before Playstation and N64. We thought this was hi tech back then 😂

I remember watching this and I wanted one but never got one

They did the same kind of video for Atari Jaguar ! But the girl was for another kind of mens.

Thanks for the upload

so for the Philips CD-i commercial "Phil" is the main character? I feel manipulated...

10:44 someone know who they are? That little piece of clip is making me crazy! I thought they were Wilson Phillips but no

20:50

Looks like someone actually posted the original: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bkrOTLmwA5A.html