The Digital Antiquarian wrote an extensive history of the Philips CD-i https://www.filfre.net/2016/09/a-slow-motion-revolution/ https://www.filfre.net/2016/09/a

The Digital Antiquarian wrote an extensive history of the Philips CD-i https://www.filfre.net/2016/09/a-slow-motion-revolution/ https://www.filfre.net/2016/09/a-slow-motion-revolution/ In a nutshell: Philips developed CD-i, but then DVI was invented which solved the problem of decompressing . Philips' attempts to catch up with DVI then caused CD-i to be delayed time and again. So by the early nineties there was still no practical way to take advantage of the massive storage space offered by compact disks, so Microsoft stepped in and led the effort to standardize CD-ROM and the CD-i was left behind as an odd "what could've been". I can't say I have much sympathy for Philips after reading about the Baer patent in another article on that blog https://www.filfre.net/2017/01/a-time-of-endings-part-3-mediagenic-or-the-patent-from-hell/ https://www.filfre.net/2017/01/a-time-of-endings-part-3-medi... . Philips behaved in a way that might be considered patent trolling today because they had a patent on basically "any videogame console" that they used against all the other players, despite not really competing in that market themselves.