Photo CD is part of the multimedia long-arm supported by Philips CD-i players, and as such an avalanche of the discs crossed through my path as part of the silk road that starts form my contacts in Europe and ends at Blazers.
Behold! A handful of the new Photo CD added to Preserve CD-i!'s archive.org page.
The uploads include everything from travel collections in far off lands (for me anyway) of Bali, Thailand, and Iceland (aka 'Island') - to XXX-rated naughty housewives. A few historical collections too leave me wondering if better quality versions of some of these important photos exist - anywhere - since Photo CDs have the ability to store high resolution scans (unfortunately for the museum collections however, they're pretty low resolution).
A unique cataloging system emerges.
One very interesting pattern I noticed among the Photo CDs (from Philips to the third party ones) is the disc volume labels included a pattern "PCD" followed by four numbers #### - example: "PCD0394" for Europa. This seems to hint at a serial number issuing coming from Philips. The system seems to break down for some of the "Sexy Bytes" titles in which PCD0895 gets reused over and over, but this could be a hint that they just didn't request serial numbers to be issued for all their titles as perhaps it seemed unnecessary to them.
View the recent uploads on Preserve CD-i!'s archive page here (NSFW titles included)
Thanks retaliator for the scans & dumps sent from Germany! Thanks daddy Blazers for the bankroll!
