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Widescreen Prank Disc

Titles like this are what I find straight up neat 'yo! Not only did the CD-i have real alpha cutting edge hardware systems like Bang&Oldson's massive TV entertainment system, but they released WIDESCREEN discs in the era of SD 4:3.


Now the first thing you'll notice about it is the words look really weird! It could be a foreign language because it has made-up funny sounding words like "uitgave van het". But I think these funny words are more likely an elaborate prank to make people think a language some created for laughs is real. I'll have to look more into it, but the words sound too goofy to be real ones.



Even more funny words! The prank continues!


The video info is encoded at a 4:3 ratio at a resolution of 368x272, but meant to be stretched out to a 16:9 aspect ratio by some kind of digi-magic. Here's the video content strungout and gaped with rough math to about a 16:9 AR.

The prank language continues, in video form! I feel like I'm in an episode of Borat.


Similarly, rosewood snapped up another funny language disc. This one I think is a real language though because it says "Made in Germany" so it's probably the German or maybe Austrian language (Austrian is a European country not to be confused with Australia).



You can download scans and rom for Breedbeeld here.