Editing CD-i (section)

==CD-Online==
[[File:EmailCDOnline.jpg|thumb|E-mail screen of CD-Online UK]]
Internet services on the CD-i devices were facilitated by the use of an additional hardware modem and "CD-Online" disc (renamed Web-i in the US<ref>https://adage.com/print/78169 {{dead link|date=August 2019}}</ref>), which Philips initially released in Britain in 1995 for $150 US.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1295&dat=19960215&id=4YpOAAAAIBAJ&pg=5675,2427974 | title=Philips puts Internet on TV sets | work=[[New Straits Times]] | date=1996-02-15 | access-date=12 August 2019 | location=[[Malaysia]] | pages=43 | archive-date=March 11, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210311033416/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1295&dat=19960215&id=4YpOAAAAIBAJ&pg=5675,2427974 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="ParkerStarrett1996">{{cite book|last1=Parker|first1=Dana|last2=Starrett|first2=Bob|title=CD-ROM Professional's CD-recordable Handbook: The Complete Guide to Practical Desktop CD|url=https://archive.org/details/cdromprofessiona00park|url-access=registration|year=1996|publisher=Pemberton Press|isbn=978-0-910965-18-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/cdromprofessiona00park/page/202 202]}}</ref> This service provided the CD-i with full internet access (with a 14.4k [[modem]]<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://www.cdinteractive.co.uk/download/mags/0304%2004-1996.pdf|title=Cd-i Magazine|date=August 1996|website=cDinteractive.co.uk|access-date=12 August 2019|archive-date=September 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930182856/http://www.cdinteractive.co.uk/download/mags/0304%2004-1996.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>), including online shopping, email, and support for networked multiplayer gaming on select CD-i games.<ref>{{cite news |last=Cardilini |first=Les |title=CDI, a low-tech Net option? |date=26 October 1995 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16909256/cdi_a_lowtech_net_option_by_les/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211031/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16909256/cdi_a_lowtech_net_option_by_les/| archive-date=2021-10-31 |work=[[The Age]] |location=[[Melbourne]], Australia |volume=142 |issue=43808  |url-status=live |at=Green Guide, p.16}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The service required a CD-i player with DV cartridge, and an "Internet Starter Kit" which initially retailed for £99.99.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24002397/cdonline_ad_by_philips/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211031/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24002397/cdonline_ad_by_philips/|  url-status=live | archive-date=2021-10-31 |date=December 2, 1995 |title=Let's Make Things Better |author=Philips |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London, UK |page=6 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref> It was advertised as bringing "full Internet access to the living room on TV screens".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cd-online.co.uk/wider.html |title=Archived copy |website=www.cd-online.co.uk |access-date=11 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961031125504/http://www.cd-online.co.uk/wider.html |archive-date=31 October 1996 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Andy Stout, a writer for the official CD-i magazine, explained CD-Online: {{blockquote|It is very much Internet-lite. The main advantages are that it's cheap - probably working out at a third of the cost of a PC or Mac solution - and incredibly user-friendly. The downside though is using a browser that doesn't support [[Netscape (web browser)|Netscape]], and coping with all the drawbacks of the machine's minuscule memory - you can only ever access 10 articles on [[Usenet]] at a time, it'll only support 80 [[Bookmark (World Wide Web)|bookmarks]] maximum and for all that trouble all your saved games, preferences, and high scores will have been written over in RAM. ... It's got the full access right now but with only about 40% of the functionality, which will probably be fine for people who don't know what they're missing. But the [[virtual keyboard]] is a complete nightmare to use ...<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Ramshaw |first=Mark James |date=January 1996 |title=Generator |url=https://archive.org/stream/nextgen-issue-013/Next_Generation_Issue_013_January_1996#page/n31 |magazine=[[Next Generation (magazine)|Next Generation]] |publisher=[[Imagine Media]] |issue=13 |page=31 |issn=1078-9693}}</ref>}} The CD-Online service went live in the UK on October 25, 1995<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cd-online.co.uk/net1.html |year=1996 |title=The Net on Your Set |author=Staff writer |website=CD-Online |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961031125603/http://www.cd-online.co.uk/net1.html |archive-date=October 31, 1996 |access-date=September 4, 2018 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> and in March 1996 in the Netherlands (for 399 [[guilders]]),<ref name="auto"/> and also released in Belgium.<ref name="icdia.co.uk"/> The system was reportedly scheduled to launch in the US as "Web-i" in August 1996.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://adage.com/article/news/interactive-bulletin-board-o-m-cuts-staff-interactive-unit-yahoo-visa-team-mega-online-mall-philips-plots-entry-web-tv-market-bigbook-takes-virtual-tour-san-francisco-patent-office-offers-online-trademark-search-news/78169/| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111207065055/http://adage.com/article/news/interactive-bulletin-board-o-m-cuts-staff-interactive-unit-yahoo-visa-team-mega-online-mall-philips-plots-entry-web-tv-market-bigbook-takes-virtual-tour-san-francisco-patent-office-offers-online-trademark-search-news/78169/|  url-status=live | archive-date=2011-12-07 |date=August 5, 1996 |title=Philips Plots Entry to WebTV Market |website=[[Ad Age]] |publisher=Crain Communications}}</ref> The domain cd-online.co.uk, which was used for the British CD-Online service, went offline in 2000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cdinteractive.co.uk/ |title=Home |website=cdinteractive.co.uk |access-date=September 26, 2018 |archive-date=September 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180904071703/http://www.cdinteractive.co.uk/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The Dutch domain cd-online.nl stopped updating too but remained online until 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERNETTEN OP JE TV |url=http://www.cd-online.nl/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961031122224/http://www.cd-online.nl/ |archive-date=31 October 1996 |access-date=8 August 2022 |website=cd-online.nl |language=Dutch}}</ref>

Only one game was released that supported CD-Online, the first-person shooter game ''RAM Raid''. Players from any country in the world could compete against each other as long as they had a copy of the game.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theworldofcdi.com/cd-i_encyclopedia/ram-raid/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211031/https://www.theworldofcdi.com/cd-i_encyclopedia/ram-raid/| url-status=live  | archive-date=2021-10-31|title=RAM Raid – the World of CD-i}}{{cbignore}}</ref>