Disc Mfg And Series - Rate Them!

[SteveWalker]

I spend about 3 years around 1992 commuting to Ft. Lauderdale as I worked an engineering job during the day and at night I spend time singing in the local clubs and got to know the local karaoke scene. In those days laser disc was still the predominant format and Pioneer and DK was at the forefront and DK was used more in Ft. Lauderdale than anywhere else I'd been.

I believe as I still do that Pioneer was the best format in the beginning but they fisseled out and Sound Choice took their place. However, DK laser discs were sometimes very good because DK used good studio musicians and had good sounding music. The problem was that many of their arrangements were hit and miss (if not weird) and the key was often way different from the original. As a result I have very few DK CDG's.

At least DK provided good quality music instead of the crap I hear on most of the CDG's nowadays which resort to cheap MIDI tracks and poor musicians to cut costs. It should be no surprise that quality CDG's costs us more because it costs them more to make! I suggest that we support these good manufacturers to ensure they can keep on providing us a quality product. The difference in the price per song doesn't justify purchasing and supporting the low quality media.
Steve Walker