Do any other manufacturer's discs you have get damaged inserting and withdrawing from the sloft sleeves like Sound Choice discs?
Microstudio - We have added direct disc to disc copy, but... we are not using the RAWDAO method that Clone uses. That is an entirely different method that would cost us a LOT to code and debug. Plus, a CDR drive that can work with RAWDAO for duplicating MAY NOT allow copying individual songs to make a custom assembly (or rebuild a damaged disc), or play the songs on your computer. There are always tradeoffs in technology, and this is one of them.
Hoster and MediaCloq - We are concerned about this. We will start negotiating shortly with the major manufacturers to allow MTU to market their songs already compressed as MTU KMA files. We should be able to get around 200 songs per CDROM. Any manufacturer who refuses to work with MTU will suffer. We expect Hoster to be running a large number of Karaoke shows very soon. Thus, we will create a new market for songs to run on Hoster. If a manufactuer refuses to license us and provide a non-mediacloq protected disc, their songs will not be played... and they will lose income.
There are more and more ways appearing worldwide to obtain the music without vocals, and our KHPro software is being massively upgraded as I type to make it even easier and faster to add the lyrics in perfect sync. Also, we have been working on a Vogone upgrade that we feel might be patentable. If we can produce a production version of what we demoed in our engineering lab, we can change the face of Karaoke.
The results our Hoster users are reporting are exactly what we spend 4 years designing it to do.... albeit still incredible to hear! One report from England stated using Hoster takes one-tenth the time to manage the show versus using CDs. Another reported that his wife now wants to run the equipment while he is working the audience and the singers. Before, she was afraid to make a mistake with the equipment, but now she wants to do it!
