Add key control, multiplexing, vocal reduction, vocal scoring, programing, dual microphone inputs, digital AC3 and Dolby Digital outputs for incredible sound quality, S-Video output for the clearest pictures, direct track access buttons on the unit and a full-featured remote control.....and you've got the most incredible, techonologically advanced, feature-crammed karaoke player ever produced on the face of this planet (I'm still checking with my buds on the other planets). 

 To maximize the quality of this great new unit, Pioneer has already produced a variety of hot new DVD karaoke discs AND at prices comparable with CD+G discs..we've got 'em and they're ready to ship! 

 There is a price for this package, of course, and it ain't cheap!  But for the discriminating customer who wants the absolute finest, there really is NO OTHER CHOICE!. 

 In short, you can sell the high-end customer this unit, or you can let your competition do it for you.  Because of the limited availablity of this unit through Pioneer New Media (not Pioneer Electronics), you will NOT see this unit in the local Circut City or Best Buy electronics.  You will be able to NAME YOUR PRICE ... and... get it! 

 So you see..., this baby is packed with the latest GEE-WHIZ technology and delivers the finest performance available at ANY price and has very limited distribution.   Like I said earlier, the best reason to sell the DVLV888 is to make money....perhaps a LOT of it! 

2.  VocoPro CDGX3 special: $XXX. (reg.$XXX) includes 9 FREE Music Maestro discs! 

3.  Audio 2000 Professional die-cast microphone with detachable cable...reg. $XXX SPECIAL: $XXX 

4.FREE Pioneer VHS karaoke tape (country or rock) with all orders over $50. 

5. FREE Trax Database of 40,000+ karaoke tracks with all orders over $100. 

6. FREE 6-Disc / 12-song each, CD+G pak with all orders over $200. 

7. FREE SHIPPING on software orders over $300. * 
Specials run from March 4-31 1998 
 *Not available for SOUND CHOICE products at their request.  
Special prices to dealers only.  Please call if you're one of 'em. 

      The key word of this brave new world is convergence.   Multiple kinds of technology and products and coming together to create the tools, toys  and appliances of the 21st century.  Everything in the near future will be "smart" (except perhaps the users), such as smart credit cards, door locks, automobiles, ceiling fans, remote controls, lighting, stoves and toilets.  Everything you touch will have it own preprogrammed, fuzzy-logic, self-serving agenda. All of this convergence leading to greater freedom from the drudgery of labor and manual control. You don't turn a door knob, you activate it.   You don't program Windows, you USE it.  Presumably all this write-once, read many, integration and interactivity will create ever more FREE time for us to focus on the individual pursuits we must follow toward and enriched and ever more-rewarding quality of life.  

    Where does karaoke fit into this fuzzy future?  Well, according to many of the top manufacturers represented at the 1998 C.E.S. in Vegas, it will fit very nicely in your computer, internet TV, DVD player, or set-top internet box.  It will come to you through many channels like discs and midi chips, CD ROM's and DVD ROM's, Satellite and  cable broadcasts, not to mention the Internet, ATM networks & Video phones.  You'll see the lyrics on your flat computer monitor or your 4" deep, hang-on-the-wall 52" plasma high definition digital TV from Pioneer.  When you sing, the tiny wireless microphone will actually be in your EAR where it will hear your voice as it is transmitted through the bones in you head.  Maybe you'll just enjoy karaoke in the rear seat of your Microsoft-Clarion controlled S.U.V., pumped through and displayed by Panasonic's remarkable hand-held DVD player with a fold-up wide-screen active matrix display.  

     Meanwhile back in the REAL world, CD+Graphics, America's adopted orphan CD format, continues to grow in consumer acceptance, popularity, sales, and predominance as the preferred media for American karaoke.  Never before has there been such an explosion of software available to the singer.  Just take a look at our "New in January 1998" software listing page (please be patient, large files take time to load over the internet).  CD+Graphic discs dominate the new releases, while audio cassettes continue to keep a steady pace. By the time you read this, Trax will have posted our first listing of American DVD karaoke titles from Pioneer.