CD-i Movies Digital Video on CD-i or Video CD: Green vs White book

[sharp]

I just got into CD-i and I noticed that in the US movie seems to have been sold all sold as CD-i Movies. Though there are two different standards, there are discs which are according to the Green Book standard (Digital Video on CD-i) and those on the White Book which are Video CD and compatible with dvd-players or 3DO/CD32/Saturn with MPEG-module or a PlayStation 1 SCPH-5903.
 
Can we consider alle Video CD's as part of Cdi or should just be the discs according to the Green Book be in database.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Books

[bickman2k]

My personal opinion on this would be that if this was opened to having these available for the CD-i only with the Green Book movies, that would be all I would like to allow since Green Book specifies CD-i only. Otherwise, we will quickly open the huge can of worms that would allow all CDs, VCDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays, and LaserDiscs in the DB as well just because they are capable of being played on a console. I'll happily defer to some of the DB guys for input also, but at a certain point, this could start to change the DB from a video game only one to a general purpose media one.

[MetalFRO]

My personal opinion on this would be that if this was opened to having these available for the CD-i only with the Green Book movies, that would be all I would like to allow since Green Book specifies CD-i only. Otherwise, we will quickly open the huge can of worms that would allow all CDs, VCDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays, and LaserDiscs in the DB as well just because they are capable of being played on a console. I'll happily defer to some of the DB guys for input also, but at a certain point, this could start to change the DB from a video game only one to a general purpose media one.

I would tend to agree with this. I know there are a handful of UMD video discs in the database and realistically, unless they include game play, they probably shouldn't be listed.

[bickman2k]

I get why they are though. They cannot be played by anything but the PSP. Same kind of thing as the GBA video to a certain extent.