What LD players have CD+G capability

[ubsman]

I used to think all karaoke LD players also had CD+G capability, but I'm not so sure now. Anyone have a list of which machines do CD+G ? Jimi Hendrix Smash Hits, for example, is a CD+G disk (the old original release).

[Alan T]

But the graphics on the Hendrix disc are really lame. You can find karaoke DVD players that will display these graphics. Both of my Pioneer laserdiscs players don't play back the graphics on these discs.

[ubsman]

That was just an example. Information Society is quite a bit better. I need a machine that plays those 5" CD VIDEO discs also, which are in laserdisc format.

[czeskleba]

So, is there any software that allows you to access or view CD+G stuff on a PC? I've got the Gram Parsons CD and Lou Reed's New York and I've wondered for years what's on there.

[StyxCollector]

That was just an example. Information Society is quite a bit better. I need a machine that plays those 5" CD VIDEO discs also, which are in laserdisc format.

Any "newer" LD player should play the CD Video discs (not to be confused with VCDs). The Rush "Big Money" and Donald Fagen "New Frontier" play just fine in my Sony LD player.

[tomhayes]

I suggets getting a DVD Karaoke player. I have a $60 dollar Lasonic unit we use for Karakoke that will play Cd+G and CDVs.

[ubsman]

I suggets getting a DVD Karaoke player. I have a $60 dollar Lasonic unit we use for Karakoke that will play Cd+G and CDVs.
Have you actually tried a CD VIDEO disk on it, and if so, which one?

[Alan T]

A CDV is very different from a Video CD -

CDV is based on the analogue Laserdisc picture standard and is playable only on CD compatible laserdisc players: the discs that WEA and PolyGram and other labels released in the early 1990's. Unless someone has access to some very special custom hardware and software, these discs are only playable on a CD compatible laserdisc player.

A video CD is based on digital MPEG standards and many DVD players will play these discs, as usually noted on the unit or instruction manual.

Then there is the separate issue of displaying JVC CD+G graphics that are usually only found on Karaoke discs and machines. JVC and other makers made very few non-Karaoke machines that read CD+G graphics. These CD+G graphics are very rudimentary and usually contain nothing less than very low-resolution graphics and song lyrics.

[Mister Kite]

These CD+G graphics are very rudimentary and usually contain nothing less than very low-resolution graphics and song lyrics.
IIRC WEA dabbled with these for a brief period of time. At least one Talking Heads album (Little Creatures? Naked? - I forget which one) originally had CD+G graphics. PolyGram also got into the act. I have a copy of Eat or Be Eaten by Firesign Theatre from 1985 with CD+G graphics.

Gary