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Unfortunately, there's more than one format used for Karaoke. I got into this with an Acer burner I bought that was advertised to support Karaoke. After over a month of "try this", "try that" from their support team I talked to their engineer who told me Acer supported VCD Karaoke format and never would support CDG. I asked if their advertising wasn't a bit misleading since most consumers thought in terms of CDG when talking Karaoke,and he said they were "Technically Correct" and had no liability.
You used the terms KARAOKE and CDG in one sentence to mean the same thing, as most of us do, but it's not quite that simple anymore.
I don't know how TDK is advertising, but your friend best make certain when they say their burner will do Karaoke, that they mean CDG, and not VCD or DVD.
MTU certifies their burners to work in the CDG mode, and it would seem logical, with their own software. I'd think that since they experience one out of every so many that fail with CDG they'd be hard pressed to certify any burner that they have not tested to perform, and with their own software. That's only reasonable, wouldn't you agree? When they list a "supported" burner I'd suppose that's based on Manufacturer's info, and if it fails to perform that's the luck of the draw, and the manufacturer's responsibility.
If I've taken an overly simplistic view of this I'm sure Admin will jump in and correct me.
Hope this helps.
George
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