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edwin240170
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Post subject: LaserJuke 8inch - Pioneer & Diamond Time discs Posted: 25 Oct 2011, 11:59 |
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Around 1994 I was in a bar where I first saw the Pioneer LaserJuke with its 10 slot 8" double sided LD player (NTSC with only analogue sound) JukeBox. It was very nice to see this approach, I never saw it again untill a couple of years ago.
By then I was able to aquire a batch of these discs and meanwhile I have made a database with references and details of more than 250 of these discs. Nice thing to know is the timespan of more than 10 years! The first discs date back to 1990 and the most recent discs are from the middle of the year 2002 (yes indeed, with artists like Pink!, Shakira, Enrique Iglesias, Aaliya and many more). The majority consists out of montly release of the most actual video clips, but there are also discs with more "older" numbers, also there are discs specifically for the italian, spanish or french market.
I expect there should have been more than 500 different discs, taken into account each month a few discs were released, with each 10 clips (5 on each side) with each a very limited quantity being pressed (mostely Pioneer US, but the 2001 and 2002 discs are made by Pioneer Japan).
I got the info these discs could be rented but had to be returned to Pioneer (and were distroyed) or could be bought at around 150 pound each.
Are there more people who know more of these discs or have a big database? (in the LDDB there is only a small number of these 8" discs listed)
Has someone cracked the code of these discs? (reference number of each disc is XX.XX.XX) (I know the first digits is the slot of player, and the last digits is the month of release, I assume the middle 2 digits are a sequence number for the slot position). Eg 13.51.06 is a Diamond Time disc released in June 2002, to be put in position 3 and 12.75.05 is a Diamond Time disc released in May 2002 to be put in position 2 (Discs have references from 10.XX.XX => slot position 0 to 19.XX.XX => slot position 9, see an example in picture below)
You can find these discs with some EBAY vendors, but are still going at high prices
Attached some pictures
Kind regards, Edwin
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elahrairrah
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Post subject: Re: LaserJuke 8inch - Pioneer & Diamond Time discs Posted: 06 Feb 2012, 17:10 |
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So I won a few auctions on Ebay from a German seller for some of thse 8" video LDs with some tracks I didn't think I'd be able to get on LD . . . ROBBIE WILLIAMS - MILLENIUM T SPOON - SEX ON THE BEACH AEROSMITH - I DONT WAT TO MISS A THING THE CORRS - WHAT CAN I DO SIMPLY RED - THE AIR THAT I BREATH MADONNA - DROWNED WORLD ALISHA´S ATTIC - THE INCIDENTALS ALL SAINTS - BOOTIE CALL FIVE - EVRYBODY GET UP MANIC STREET PREACHERS - IF YOU TOLERATE THIS.... SPICE GIRLS - WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE BEE GEES - ALONE LISA STANSFIELD - THE REAL THING MARK MORRISON - MOAN & GROAN SEAL - FLY LIKE AN EAGLE KULA SHAKER - HUSH ETERNAL - DONT YOU LOVE ME PETER ANDRE - NATURAL INXS - ELEGANTLY WASTED PET SHOP BOYS - A RED LETTER DAY SIMPLY RED - SAY YOU LOVE ME WYCLEF JEAN - GONE TIL´NOVEMBER K CI & JOJO - ALL MY LIFE MADONNA - RAY OF LIGHT LUTRICIA MCNEAL - STRANDED MOUSSE T - HORNY 98 THE TAMPERER FEAT. MAYA - FEEL IT TORI AMOS - SPARK THE CORRS - DREAMS ALL SAINTS - LADY MARMELADE I haven't gotten the discs yet, so I ask, is the quality of these videos any good? I'm imagining the sound is good having intended to be played through a jukebox. Also, found this video on Youtube featuring a Laserdisc Jukebox . . . Pioneer Laserdisc Jukebox. . . the internals look similar to the image in Edwin's first post here. Though the way the clamper slaps down on the disc kinda scares me! Do those Jukes only play 8" LDs or can they play CDs as well? I was at a Waffle House over the weekend and they had a similar looking machine (even said "Laser Juke" on it), but looks like it had CD covers in the display case (and no monitor for video.) Might have it been converted over to play CDs?
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elahrairrah
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Post subject: Re: LaserJuke 8inch - Pioneer & Diamond Time discs Posted: 06 Feb 2012, 18:58 |
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Yeah, I started looking up more of the LaserJuke machines and verily some are CD only. Though here's another video of a guy with one setup in his bedroom . . . Laserjuke Test. . . I now want to get one of these, but I can't imagine they're cheap or easy to fix these days!
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elahrairrah
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Post subject: Re: LaserJuke 8inch - Pioneer & Diamond Time discs Posted: 07 Feb 2012, 16:32 |
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edwin240170 wrote: I prefer to play the discs on my regular player, rather that such a bulky player in my livingroom, these are for sure my favorite series of music discs.
Could have bought such a changer once, not so easy to come by and sometimes they go for big money.
Let's Juke... LaserJuke! Well, I'm thinking "Man Cave" for the Laser Juke, not living room!
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laserdisc_fan
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Post subject: Re: LaserJuke 8inch - Pioneer & Diamond Time discs Posted: 10 Feb 2012, 08:07 |
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edwin240170 wrote: Nowhere found any alternative fitting sleeve so far for 8inch discs. Me neither which is why I am going to attempt to make my own (both inner and outer card sleeves) as I have lots of these discs.
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elahrairrah
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Post subject: Re: LaserJuke 8inch - Pioneer & Diamond Time discs Posted: 10 Feb 2012, 12:58 |
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Well, this is what I was thinking of . . . 10" 78RPM cardboard jackets. . . one of those don't have the hole for the label, so I would just get them and cut them down to 8 inches. Maybe leave a little bit on one side of one of the edges so it can be folded over and glued down.
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lons_vex
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Post subject: Re: LaserJuke 8inch - Pioneer & Diamond Time discs Posted: 27 Feb 2012, 09:48 |
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I have approx 100+ 8" protective sleeves left. Located in germany, if anyone is interested send me a pm.
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Post subject: Re: LaserJuke 8inch - Pioneer & Diamond Time discs Posted: 30 Mar 2012, 09:13 |
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I just recieved 40 of these. i was thinking they must pretty rare. all have at least 1 australian song. so i was thinking they must be australian releases. i was guessing there would be no more than 100 of each released for australia. probabley even less than 50. video jukeboxes were rare in aussie pubs. and the ones we did have were branded night life and ran vcd's. i have about 150 of these i copied from a friends collection.have you been able to find anymore details about these disc. do you know how many were produced.
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elviscaprice
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Post subject: Re: LaserJuke 8inch - Pioneer & Diamond Time discs Posted: 15 Apr 2013, 00:12 |
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I've seen this discs over time come up for sale on Ebay. Never bought any for the material is often mainstream pop or at least not of my taste. Didn't know they we're analog only, another negative. 90's material was in that transitional period from VHS to DVD in about 97. A lot of promo vids never got a decent digital transfer, especially the underground or wave materials. Unfortunately these LD's don't have much of those materials from what I've seen and the ones they do have are found in acceptable or better digital format. Elvis
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