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 Post subject: LaserMidi?
PostPosted: 10 Mar 2020, 18:09 
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I've never seen this logo before from Pioneer: LaserMidi for a Karaoke system.

Ever heard of a Z-AV50 or Z-AV90 with an integrated LD player?

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 Post subject: Re: LaserMidi?
PostPosted: 10 Mar 2020, 23:26 
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Oh I think I can kind of guess what that is already. I've seen pictures of these weird bookshelf stereo units (which I think are sometimes called midi hi-fi, hence the name?) with LD players built in and this looks like of them.

I'm spotting the LaserKaraoke logo too.
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 Post subject: Re: LaserMidi?
PostPosted: 11 Mar 2020, 01:05 
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Do they mean the systems are “midi” as in mid size, as in not a mini skirt but a midi skirt, or do they mean MIDI as in Music Instrument Digital Interface? I’m thinking the former probably. Nothing about that gear screams music production to me.
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 Post subject: Re: LaserMidi?
PostPosted: 29 Mar 2020, 09:44 
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Just found one for sale here on "Leboncoin".
This one is called a V75 "Dolby" and it's retail cost was the equivalent of around 2 000 today's €.

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There even is a scan of an article on it from "Les années Laser".
With what I read from the article, it sounds like the "midi" name is used more like it rather just means "HiFi" than anything else really.

Still a pretty unique thing in the LD world for sure.
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 Post subject: Re: LaserMidi?
PostPosted: 29 Mar 2020, 17:02 
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That seems about right. I always just assumed "midi" in this context was some kind of a weird abbreviation of "medium size", to indicate that that's essentially a bookshelf and/or all-in-one unit.
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 Post subject: Re: LaserMidi?
PostPosted: 29 Mar 2020, 19:09 
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I prefer mini instead of midi. The Japanese can be funny with English.
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 Post subject: Re: LaserMidi?
PostPosted: 29 Mar 2020, 22:07 
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xtempo wrote:
I prefer mini instead of midi. The Japanese can be funny with English.


https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/midiskirt
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 Post subject: Re: LaserMidi?
PostPosted: 30 Mar 2020, 10:41 
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signofzeta wrote:
xtempo wrote:
I prefer mini instead of midi. The Japanese can be funny with English.


https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/midiskirt

So there isn't a miniskirt or is that seperate?
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 Post subject: Re: LaserMidi?
PostPosted: 30 Mar 2020, 18:21 
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Mini is smaller than Midi.

You can’t make a mini system based on an LD player because LDs are too big but you could make something mid-way. Smaller than the full sized 18” equipment standard but bigger than a mini system.

Mini systems (two cassettes wide, basically, CD based, no turntable) were just getting to be a thing at the time so this would have made sense to people.

There are a lot of “cute” marketing terms for stereo systems in Japan. Much of it is forgotten the next year or so.
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PostPosted: 29 May 2020, 17:55 
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Is this about such devices?
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