It's US$275... but shipping will be insane!

Each container can hold up to 50 discs.








Julien

I’d love to have that but it’s probably $2000 by freight.

And right now these are only good if you plan to do broadcast of your LDs.

Not broadcast, a three floor karaoke bar.

Sorry didn't read the Karaoke part, thought it was just the racks.

I truly can't believe these haven't been tossed years ago.

And how many of the songs on these are in Japanese?

Well your average Tokyo DAM laser karaoke joint in 2001 running LDs had 3 or 4 phone books of songs in Japanese and usually one of English songs. Karaoke World in Sydney had a similar setup the first time I went to karaoke, this woulda been 1998

There were some karaoke setups I saw in people's homes in Cabramatta Sydney that were incredible circa mid '90s..people with personal collections of hundreds of Vietnamese language discs..

Where is this? I thought it was cool getting a couple of those storage cubes filled with LDs. This is really awesome.

They aren’t storage cubes, they’re quick change cassettes, like a 6CD one for a car changer only massive. There’s a machine that gets them out and plays them for you at the karaoke bar...in my head...Tokyo 1995...but serious, yeah, a robot on a track gets them for you, like a jukebox. It’s a modular system, I’m not sure what the largest library you can use at once is.

Oh, I always thought they were done like this to save time from getting them out of the sleeves etc.
The yellow had some type of code and you would just get that signal or paper with code whatever and pull the tray and grab the disc.

Never saw any LD players that did the 6 holder like that.

There’s another thread somewhere here where there are pics of the machine set up.

Ok, some nut made a video about it.



It appears to be a different system so it seems I was mistaken. There could another thing like this though.

UPDATE: this video shows two other machines. Pioneer sure loved building stuff!

Yeah I know these are different. They look like towers.

Duh, now I remember, thanks for the videos.

I still can't believe these have been sitting in high dollar real estate Japan for this many years without being tossed.

Kinda makes me wonder what happened to all that hardware in the long run, like the cable TV systems.

How funny. I saw those two Pioneer LC-V300 players at RePC in Tukwila (Seattle, WA) a couple years back. At that time they wanted $500 each. That was a no for me! They were moving shop around the time he uploaded that video and they had all A/V stuff half price. I was wondering where they went. Haha. Every time I went into RePC I would stand there trying to justify the purchase.

I find it interesting what companies will still want for items they would otherwise just be dumping. Maybe they get a tax write-off if they throw stuff out but how do you still claim insanely high value on things 20+ years old. I bring all this up because in addition to your story here when I bought my last PVM the guy (owner of a video editing company) had a bunch of interesting stuff but only the PVMs were possible to move at his prices. The other stuff is just so niche. I asked him to contact me before dumping it if he was willing to slash the prices and of course nothing came of it. I hope it didn't get thrown out.

Just stupid people.
My friend had an old computer that he only had pieces left of from his banking days, he said it originally cost 60G and he wanted me to try and sell it for him
and he wanted 30G

I guess its the I have it you don't deal.

In Western accounting practice the value of something like that would have already been written off over a few years with deductions. Not sure how it works in Japan.

The sale price at the end would just be a bonus and in relation to the karaoke racks the sale price is just a token amount to ensure someone pays for it's transport out of their storage.

Who knows, maybe there's a nostalgist in Japan who wants to set up a '80s/'90s style karaoke bar in their own home, or as a business.

There's a 'mini' LaserKaraoke system being sold in the UK at the moment - a little Pioneer LaserKaraoke cabinet, one of these storage "cubes", an LD-V200 and matching amp, speakers, Pioneer CRT TV and (slightly incongruously) a CLD-1450.


https://www.gumtree.com/p/karaoke-equipment/vintage-collectable-professional-pioneer-laserdisc-karaoke-system/1361833847 (not my advert, the price seems rather 'optimistic' too)...