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Originally Posted by hannahsauce
I have a really silly question.... everyone keeps talking about importing video... what exactly are you guys talking about? Is there Karaoke with video with it?? If so, how do I get some of that??
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VCD (Video CD). Karaoke tracks with a video behind it - usually a cheesy video whose plot may or may not have anything to do with the song premis. Just like the old laser karaoke disk except it's on a standard cdrom that your computer can read. They are far more popular in Asia and Europe than here in the US.
The best ones in my opinion is the Original Footage brand that uses live footage and music videos from the 60's and 70's performing the songs with the karaoke in nearly perfect sync to the artist performing it. They only made about a dozen disks with about 12 songs each.
United Artist Video is another good brand, they put out about 30 disks. Most everything else is hit or miss in my opinion. They are usually multiplexed so you can turn the vocals on or off.
Acekaraoke sells them as well as a number of others.
You can get them on DVD too but those require special ripping software and some work to get them to your hardrive. VCD are as easy as open the disk and drag and drop.
VCD's will also play in many karaoke players (JVC, RSQ) as well as many DVD players.
Sam