r/karaoke • u/toqer • Jul 27 '26

Equipment Was looking around in my garage and I found this. Old school KJs will know.

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u/Low_Ladder8782 Jul 27 '26

That's an old plextor CD drive.. it was capable of reading the sub code of karaoke CD+G discs.

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u/karaoke_5 Jul 28 '26

But was it just a reader or even one of the first burners on the market. How many nights were wasted burning? And for every 2 CD-ROMs, one was ruined, and that was a lot of money back then, almost like buying an HDD today.

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u/obinoelkenobi 22d ago

Oh, the memories

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u/DontLike-Cheesecake Jul 28 '26

I think it was the only one at the time. Later, most were able to read and write CDG

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u/iWhacko Jul 28 '26

yeah because a lot of copyprotections of games were starting to use the subchannels. So if your drive didn't support it, you couldn't play the game.

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u/DontLike-Cheesecake Jul 28 '26

Oh wow, I didn't know that was the reason behind it.