Edited sentence: Basically the prototype for what would soon be more popular formats.CD-I technology could be licensed to companies who could make their own.Despite the CD-I not being the one and all multimedia success Philips envisioned, the format was the starting point to modern media and entertainment devices.Including video players.It is also important to note that the Playstation may not have existed without Philips.It was at the time before CD-Roms advanced the only reliable media for text data, external coding, images, video, audio, music and interactivity at the same time at a constant quality.Sony got it's interest in gaming/multimedia hardware through being the first third-party to creade a CD-I system.The CD-I was the first step toward modern DVD technology and the invention of Video CD's before it.not only did Sony make a CD-I device, but the first portable, in fact, it was a hybird called the Intelligent Discman