Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen and welcome to the presentation of the International CD-I Awards for 1997. This is the sixth consecutive year of the CD-I awards and this year for the first time, the awards ceremony is shared with our sister organization, the IDMA and two of the awards will actually be presented by the new association. For those who are new to these awards, The Rules are quite simple. The titles have to play on a CD-I, Video CD or DVD player. They are judged by juries, this year there were five different ones. Some of these juries, those that require expertise, such as training are made up of experts and some, such as the titles for sales and information Kiosks are judged by members of the General Public.

The Silver Award for Best New Interactive Game goes to "Tetsuo Gaiden"
which is also developed by Creative Action Holland.
So once again Herman Van Oldenmark Will collect the trophy.

The Gold Award for Best New Interactive Game, goes to a title that appeals to all ages,
"Labyrinth of Crete" Published and distributed by pmpro and Bookmark Direct.

It is worth remembering that there is still a relatively successful consumer side to CD-I and that it is being keep alive here in North America largely by the guys and galls at pmpro and in Europe by the efforts of Alan McNaught.

The Information Category always attracts a large and diverse entry. This year is no exception.

We start with the Bronze Award, Information, which goes to another Dutch company, Valkeiser,
for their excellent title, "In the Wake of Captain Cook."

The Silver Award, Information is for a magazine, a digital interactive magazine, published by a car company, a car company from Europe.
The Silver award goes to Automobiles Peugeot, for the ninth issue of "Magazine Interactif Peugeot".
To receive the award, from France comes Yann Goenvec

The winners of the Gold Award, Information were here last year to collect a Silver and they said then that they would be back this year for the Gold. It is a special pleasure for me to present the
Gold award for the Best Informative Title to the Sears Roebuck CD-I Team for "Circle of Beauty".
Now we have further proof that CD-I is a great platform for Sales Kiosks.

All three winners of the Best Point of Sale category are internationally famous companies.
You can't start with a better example than the winner of
the Bronze award, the "BMW Multi-Media Kiosk"
developed by Communications for BMW of North America

The Silver Award goes to a car company we know even better,
General Motors Corporation for the "Saturn Interactive Display", created by McGill Multimedia.

The Gold Award for Best Point of Sale Title has a particularly international flavor, reflecting the international standards of CD-I A Japanese motorcycle company using a Dutch Developer to make their Sales Kiosk for the Italian market.

The winner is "YAMAHA 98". developed for japanese motorcycle company Yamaha
by Herman Van Oldenmark of Creative Action Holland.

The other type of kiosk that draws a large entry is the 'Point of information Kiosk'.

Winner of the Bronze Award for Best Point of Information Title, and once again illustrating our success in the motor industry is
General Motors Corporation for their outstanding kiosk "GM on 5th Creation Station",
the fifth is Fifth Avenue, New York and the developer is McGill Multimedia.

One place you really need information is your hotel room in a strange city. No where more so than a city such as Chicago.
The Silver Award for Best Point of Information goes to "Infotravel, Chicago (Video Master)"
Made for Bell Atlantic by pmpro.

When the winners of the Gold award wanted to find a way to get the attention of Doctors they decided to use a Time machine. The time machine which could take a doctor on a journey through the life of a female from a young girl to an old lady. Discovering and diagnosing all the troubles along the way. This title contains a great diagnostic game for doctors and a huge amount of information.

The Gold award for Best Point of Information goes to "Dr. Foresight's Time Machine"
made for Pharmacia & Upjohn by Oberone Interactive.

Corporate Training is by far the most competitive category in the entire competition. Corporate Training is one of the success stories of CD-I and if you had been through each entry as I have and watched the juries trying to decide you would realize that these winners are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to CD-i's success in training.

The Bronze Award for the Best Corporate Training Title goes to
Chrysler Corporation for the "1998 Product Review."
Produced for Chrysler Corporation by Ross Roy U.S. and created for CD-i by McGill Multimedia.

As some of you know I am a train buff, so it was particularly exciting for me when a training program on changing out the traction motors on a great loco like the "General Electric AC 44" was entered. Now I am very happy to say it has won.
this year's Silver Award is "General Electric AC 44"
developed for CSX Transport by developers Gulliver Ritchie.

I am sure every one in this room watched the battles of Desert Storm with great excitement. Now some of the lessons learned during those battles are being incorporated into the military equipment for the future.

The US Army has chosen CD-I as the method for training on this new equipment and one example developed by pmpro for Prosoft is the winner of the Gold Award for corporate training,

The Gold Award for Corporate Training goes to "Bradley Fighting Vehicle Desert Storm Improvements."
developed by pmpro for Prosoft

Last year we had separate soft skills and generic training categories. Some people found this a little confusing so this year we have combined them into one, the Best Generic Training Title.

The winner of the Bronze Award decided to use CD-I to take a Candid Look at a very important problem, Sexual Harassment. The award goes to one of the world's largest Aircraft manufacturers for a title developed for them.
"A Candid Look at Sexual Harassment."
Developed for McDonnell Douglas by pmpro

Training to be an expert in Auto parts could be a soul destroying task. However, using lots of video, testing and excellent animations McGill Multimedia, made "Western Auto Parts America's, ASE Certification Study Guide" both a very interesting program and a worthy winner.. 

Silver Award for Best Generic Training. "Western Auto Parts America's, ASE Certification Study Guide"
Developed by McGill Multimedia for Western Auto Parts

Training physiotherapy patients in the best way to exercise is not easy. So the winners of the Gold Award took a CD-I player connected a light pen and set about creating a complete video library of physiotherapy exercises. Now connect the whole thing to a VCR and at the end of the training session the patient goes home with a personalized exercise program.. Created by RISE International for IACOM the Gold winning Generic Training Title is "Body Response"
As I say every year it seems that Developers of VideoCD & CD-I and now DVD titles all think they are budding Michele Anglo's The Best Art Direction Category is always one of the most heavily contested categories and this year was no exception. The winner of the Bronze Award proved that not only can they create very informative titles they can also create very beautiful ones. Pharmacia & Upjohn must be delighted that they chose Oberon Interactive to create "Dr. Foresight's Time Machine" because it has now also won the bronze award for Best Art Direction Obviously if you are going to call something the Creation Station and put it on fifth avenue you want it to be pretty creative and artistically exciting. Well McGill Multimedia have managed to achieve both of these things for their client General Motors with "GM on 5th The Creation Station" which wins the Silver Award. Like some of the others categories, choosing a winner in the art direction category can be very difficult. Well this year the choice was unanimous For both artistic beauty and technical excellence the Gold Award for Best Art Direction goes to PIMC & Moland Interactive Ltd. for the "Bang & Olufsen BeoCenter AV5"

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