Today CD+G is the standard dominating the Karaoke market, but has failed to succeed in any other applications. To explain this, when CD+G was introduced, some record labels put out audio CD's accompanied by graphics (such as Fleetwood Mac's album Behind the mask), but the majority of CD+G discs coming out were and still are Karaoke discs.
SOME DVD players (but you won't necessarely recognize that capability at one glance)
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The Philips / Magnavox CD-i (built in 1992)Īll 3DO machines (built around 1994-1995)Ī stereo system, a portable player (the XP-80G) and a boom box, all by AIWA In fact, many players were and still are built. Though the resolution of a CD+G image is only 288 x 192 in 16 colors out of 4096 (somewhat comparable to the late 80's home computers), it takes the disc about 10 seconds to completely build up such an image on screen.Ĭontrary to the writeup above, Sega was NOT the only company building players for this format. The subchannel's data rate is quite limited, so you can't do smooth animations on CD+G's. There's still only one session on the disc, which basically contains the graphics interleaved with the audio, but normal audio players won't take notice of the graphics. The CD+G standard works by putting the extra graphics data onto a subchannel area (namely the subchannels R-W) of the audio disc, so that no extra space is wasted.
However, if played in a special player with a video output, they also give graphics data which can be fed into a TV or video screen. Those CD's, when played in a normal player, will unveil their audio information, as do all normal CD's. CD + Graphics is a format used for making special CD's.
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