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Joe and Lon, You fellas are right! When I purchased mine in 1991, I decided I was gonna buy the whole library. At the time, that consisted of 01-33, 201-218. The list price was $150.00 per disc, the discounted price was $120.00 per disc. My sales guy let me have the whole library for $115.00 per disc.

I hate pioneer. I think the audio stinks everything sounds like fake drums and guitar.

They were cool when that was all that was available.

You own the lasers, its a pain in the butt to rip them. I suggest just finding a torrent for the disc you own and downloading them. It will save you a ton of work.

Or just find someone else that has ripped the same lasers and get a copy off of them.

Also think about what program you are going to use. I use Karma for karaoke and it only plays certain video files. I use my entire video collection as vob files so when I want to play music videos inbetween singers I have to open up virtual dj.

I would rather rip them myself so that I know they are done right. Plus, I kinda doubt that the Pioneer video karaoke files would be available. Ya never know tho...

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In 91, the only discs out were 1-31 & 201-202 & 301-306.
I don't think the 200 series went any higher than 211.

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I think you're right about that, Lon. The 200 series didn't reach 211 until '92 or '93. 218 was a miss-type I think I had 301-305. For some reason I never did buy 306. Perhaps I switched over to CD+G's buy the time 306 came out.

well the way i understand it is...

1-57 mixed
201-211 country
301-310 uk
251 xmas / children
501-505 spanish

that covers the wkl/pkl series for me

unfortunetly pioneer kept just redoing what they started on laser even when they went to cdg n dvd

still prefer the lasers have 10 sets

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I love my Pioneers, the LDs are still part of my show. My singers like them for many songs: some for the music, some for the cheesy videos.
I have 5 cases of LDs stacked on a roll-cart, they are very heavy. The cases are much harder to find than the LDs.
I've got the 1-57 set, the 200s and 300s and Christmas sets, and a few dozen of the duplicated 10-song LDs.
At home, I've got dozens and dozens of the duplicated 4-song mini-LDs.
I also have a number of the Pioneer CDGs, blue (rock/pop) and orange (country).
Why so many, with so many duplicates? Got them on Ebay for cheap, cheap, cheap.

Put them on computer.

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ya i have about 400 laserdiscs all diff brands that im putting slowly on puter have the pioneer 84 lasers done so far

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i loved the pioneer laser discs and I had the opportunity to buy a set at a very reasonable price, but I just couldn't justify the cost of having them shipped *it was more than he wanted for the discs*

I loved some of the really cheesy videos. In fact, i forget which disc its on at the moment, but there is a video with roy orbison's 'blue bayou"

At the very end of the video, there is a couple walking down a dock, hand in hand. If you have the disc, look very closely at the guy, there is something that the producer's obviously missed and forgot to edit *lol*


My KJ friend from Vancouver who owned the discs I sang from always used to say "This video is dedicated to all the ladies and closet perverts out there"


-James

That would be 7-B-01. This has been talked about since 89. Still fun to point it out to newbies.

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Ha ha I'm gonna get it out tomorrow and see what the fuss is!

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I'm not a cheerleader, but I paid for my pom poms with my own money!

Just started the big project. Bought a second Dazzle to keep the project moving. Might even buy a 3rd. Its a little less than an hour per side, but I have two machines working, so its going twice as fast.

I'm converting at a high quality rate which means I am going to need a bigger hard drive!

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Mine were ripped pretty high as well. A 3 min song took about 100mb. I have approx 100 laserdiscs and filled 250gb by themselves.

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I purchased a capture card and after wedding season is over I am going to begin converting mine.

I had two full sets of Pioneer at one time but sold one set to "Doc" (from the old Jolt forum many years ago.

A full set of Pioneer 28 song laser disc would have been 57 of the regular releases 1 - 57, 1 Childerns disc (251), the Country 201 - 211, the Standards 301-308, and the Spanish 501 - 507 for a total of 86 28 song disc I also have 4 of the Playboy disc (really nothing but Nutech) but you can't use them in public "drinking" venues (in my state) as well as about 50 "other brands"

(numbers corrected I actually had to go look it has been so long since I have even seen them)

Troy what format are you going to convert yours to?

I'm formatting mine as .avi files. I really think I am almost overdoing it as far as quality because you can only get so much quality from composite cables. I'm sure I could drop it down and it wouldn't really lose any quality. I just don't want to take the chance.

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I'm not a cheerleader, but I paid for my pom poms with my own money!

And, I now have a better idea of what I have. Volumes 1-34 plus Country Special volumes 1-7 - with some duplicates. I also have somewhere around 200 of the 4 songs disks. Most of them are 50's, 60's, & 70's Hits.

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I own all the Pioneer Lasers and i love them had a friend convert them for me but he has moved away i have a lot of the tiptop and nutech laserdiscs does anyone have these on video file?


Big Mike

I believe Karma will also play the AVI files as well.

While not many you will find that there are several songs that are not done by any other manufacturer and a couple that were only done correctly on the Pioneer Lasers (they even screwed the same songs up when they put them on CDG)

The Videos are a lot of fun though and the patrons "used to love to watch them.

I just think that given a choice between just words and the LD videos, the videos are a better choice.

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