The sync license

In reading through some of the active threads, I saw that Toqer brought up the cost of the sync license which is a huge cost of the manus.

When I was doing karaoke, I played to a bunch of drunks and I was one of them (ah, the good old days) and no one really cared about the sound but the timing of the graphics was critical even though they had no chance of keeping up. Apparently, my sort of show is not the norm and most of you have some fairly sober people who come regularly to sing much and drink little (yeeege!)

But, as these folks are in fact more or less sober and are there to perform songs which they more or less know, is it necessary to have syncornized graphics for them. Wouldn't simple lyrics that didn't change color in time to the mucic do as well? No sync....no sync lincense. Would your customers balk at just seeing the words? When it changed from laser disk to CDG did anyone really miss the little movie in the background?

I think some would and others wouldnt. Just as some are fine with Sweet Georgia Brown or Music Maestro and others insist on SC.

The coloring of the lyrics is not the same as the movie background.

The coloring is "in synch" with the tempo of the mfrs. music track- hence the "sync" license. Since all manufacturers do not have the same tempo, the synch is required to cue the singer.

Example: Take SuperCore's "Suspicious Minds", probably the best studio version out there- better even than SC. Now take Music Maestro's Aloha Concert live version, which is MUCH faster. Even sober, without the synched coloring, you will get lost between the two versions...

yes sir I agree Joe