Edited sentence: 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.It is also important to note that the Playstation may not have existed without Philips.Philips then went on to evolve this technology.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, all worked on by Phillips and are very similar to the CD-I format.not only did Sony make a CD-I device, but the first portable, in fact, it was a hybird called the Intelligent Discman