Photo CD discs are a special type of CD-ROM/XA bridge discs that allow you to put 35 mm photographic images on disc for play back on a dedicated Photo CD player or on a CD-i player. Photo CD allows you to display your personal photographs on your television set. The Photo CD disc contains a special CD-i application program that allows your pictures to be played back on a CD-i player. Photo CD discs can be multi-session discs. This means that after you have had pictures from your first roll of film burned into the disc, you can have the photo processor add pictures in additional disc burning sessions until the disc is full.

Photo CD has also added an interesting source of high quality photographic images for developers of CD-i. It is possible to read images from a Photo CD disc via a CD-ROM XA drive and, using Photo CD access software and image conversion utilities, to use the images as source assets for a CD-i disc.