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...controller that never got released. Before the PlayStation, Sony and Nintendo teamed up to create a CD-ROM add-on to compete with Sega, who was experimenting with their own (destined for failure) add-on. This would have been the controller...

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...Sega CD, Nintendo terminated the contract and went with Philips. Nintendo announced their alliance with Philips at the same conference that Sony announced their CD-ROM drive. Nothing happened about the add-on drive in regard to the SNES, but...

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...game cartridges, but was never released to the general public. In 1994, Sony released the PSX, which could only play CD-ROM based games, and the PlayStation was born. Nintendo resisted the release of a CD-ROM based video game console,...

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...as a maverick is well-earned. After Nintendo snubbed Sony while they were working on a CD-ROM add-on for the Super Famicom, the betrayal caused Sony to launch their own system: the PlayStation. The disc-based system took off and...

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...books that contain the technical specifications for all CD and CD-ROM format s. The first edition of the Red Book was released in 1980 by Philips and Sony; it was adopted by the Digital Audio Disc Committee and ratified as IEC 60908. The...

In this article: Philips, Cd-rom, Trademark, DVD, and Compact Disc

...had an external CD-ROM Drive. There were Companies who could match Sony in any one category, ie Mitsubishi in TVs, JVC in VCRs, AIWA in Walkmans but Sony were strong in every CE category apart from Mobile Phones. And of course the Playstation...

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...to develop a protocol called the Super Disc. The two companies were working together to develop a CD-ROM based system, but Sony retained the rights to much of the hardware inherent in the system. Nintendo felt that Sony was getting too much...

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...and computer data, allowing all to be accessed simultaneously. It was intended as a bridge between CD-ROM and CD-i (Green Book ), and was developed by Sony and Philips. "XA" stands for "eXtended Architecture". Mode 2:2336-byte disk...

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...were held by Philips and which by Sony. Philips had developed the bulk of the disc and laser technology, while Sony contributed the digital encoding that allowed for smooth, error-free playback. Philips still licenses out the Red Book and...

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