> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41rivol-cxQ > > Maybe I'm becoming an old fogey, but I remember a day when we called those things > "videos", and things written in text "articles". > > Also, his gripe with the "Philips CD-i console" is wildly inaccurate. CD-i was a > minimum hardware specification, it was not a specific console itself, much the same > as the 3DO was later: numerous hardware vendors could license the specification and > make compatible players for that spec. As a result, while I'm sure a CD-i player or > two suffers from this issue, it's patently false to say that this is something that > affects the CD-i platform as a whole. > > Furthermore, "the timekeeper chip is just a simple watch battery that needs > replacing"? The hell? I mean I know that Larry has never really concerned himself > much with accuracy, but damn.
AFAIK most of the problems of the CD-i came from software.
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