Voyager Company

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The Voyager Company was a pioneer in CD-ROM production in the 1980s and early 1990s, and published The Criterion Collection, a pioneering home video collection of classic and important contemporary films on Laserdisc. It was founded in 1985 by four partners, Jon Turell, Bill Becker, Aleen Stein and Robert Stein. In 1994 the partnership was diluted by selling 20% of it to the von Holzbrinck Group, a German holding company. In 1997 the von Holzbrinck Group withdrew with its 20%, the name of "Voyager" and half the CD-ROM rights. Robert Stein took half the other CD-ROM rights, and the Toolkit rights. This left the Criterion Collection and three of the original partners: Aleen Stein (1/3), the Becker family (1/3), and the Turell family (1/3). See The Criterion Collection for further information.

Titles included:

• Interactive Laserdiscs
  • The National Gallery of Art
  • The Voyager Videostack
  • Louvre
  • De Italia
  • Dvorak
  • To New Horizons: Ephemeral Films 1931-1945
  • You Can't Get There From Here: Ephemeral Films 1945-1960
  • The Great Quake of '89 (in partnership with ABC News Interactive)
  • The Vancouver Disc
  • Vienna
• CD-ROMS
  • Invisible Universe, starring Dr. Fiorella Terenzi
  • The Society of Mind, starring Dr. Marvin Minsky
  • Xplora1: Inside the Secret World of Peter Gabriel
  • Beethoven's Ninth Symphony CD-ROM
  • Dazzleoids
  • Rodney's Wonder Window
  • Last Chance to See
  • This Is Spinal Tap
  • Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring"
  • The Voyager Audiostack
  • Baseball's Greatest Hits
  • Poetry in Motion
  • Ephemeral Films 1931-1960 (incorporating two previously-released titles, To New Horizons and You Can't Get There From Here)
  • Our Secret Century: The Darker Side of the American Dream (12 discs, 2 unreleased, of films and collateral material from Prelinger Archives
  • Amanda Stories
  • Silly Noisy House
• Expanded Books Series
  • Jurassic Park
  • The Complete Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Adams, Douglas (EB2)
  • The Complete Annotated Alice in Wonderland - Carroll, Lewis, Intro & notes by Gardner, Martin (EB1)
  • Virtual Light - Gibson, William (EB52)
  • Neuromancer/Count Zero/Mona Lisa Overdrive - Gibson, William (EB15)
  • Who Built America
  • The Criterion Collection