Talk:Pioneer LaserActive

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If nobody has any objections, I intend to expand this article as much as possible. I'd appreciate any help/comments from experienced users, as I have never done this before. orporg

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[edit] Format Nomaclature

I sincerely hope that we can expand a bit on this article, especially when it comes to explaining the different formats the LaserActive used. We have terms like "MEGA-LD", "LD-ROM", LD-ROM2" all over the place with no explaination as to how they distinguish themselves. I hope that a more knowledgeable person will edit or that we can come to an agreement as to what they are.--Kevin586 18:13, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Love Hotel Systems?

I was recently on an import gaming shop that had LaserActive games listed under the section "Love Hotel Systems" (all other sections were console names...). Does anyone here know what this is about?

"Love Hotels" are rent-by-the-hour hotels in Japan and some other Asian countries. Check out the Wikipedia entry on Love Hotel. In that entry is says that the rooms may contain Karaoke machines. LaserActive systems (with the K1 pack) function as Karaoke machines capable of playing LaserKaraoke disks. I think that's why you might have seen LaserActive under the "Love Hotel Systems" header.
Cyberroach 04/01/2008 @ 23:12 PDT —Preceding comment was added at 06:13, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Competitors

The reason I had the longer title is that you can't just say "Competitors" alone. These were competitors in a very specific market segment. If you we want to leave this shortened, then there needs to be an added qualifier as a sub-subheading for CD-i & 3DO. BcRIPster 18:10, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

The reason I removed the stuff is that it is assumed by that point that they are direct competitors in the same market segment. The market segment, meanwhile, should be articulated higher up in the article. SchuminWeb (Talk) 21:43, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Fair enough, but that request could generate a whole article in and of itself that covers different market segments, how they are defined, and how Pioneer as well as other companies were competing with each other, and why they were doing it. I'm not sure if that much information at that high of a level is appropriate within the scope of this products description. I'll have to see how to approach this. BcRIPster 21:58, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Ok, I honestly think the best approach is this for now until a full blown explaination of the market segment can be added either here or as a stand alone page (which is really what it should be), unless one already exists. If we can find another page (or create one) to expand the subject, the we could revise this block on all of the platform pages that reference it. These company's all had lots of other competitors beyond these in lots of other markets and just leaving it simply "competitors" over simplifies what's being said and may be confusing, or compel people to expand the list to include every VHS manufacturer that ever existed. BcRIPster 07:46, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

The LaserActive was competitive in the High End A/V market as well as the top end of the Consumer A/V market (which included VCRs), and with the gaming additions crossed it over into competiiton with video game consoles so you can't just call these three systems competitors. The High End A/V market was the only place their there competition intersected. I'll go ahead and break it up and add a second market to help.BcRIPster (talk) 23:36, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question about rv of revised title list

This edit was reverted as "rv uncited". What was the expectation of a citation here. That's the list of published games and their product IDs. Would it help ever every one of them was set to point to the LDDB? Would that be enough of a citation? What's the deal? If you didn't like the guys external link you could have simply removed that.BcRIPster (talk) 23:51, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect question

Does not the redirect (even in the absence of an article related to it) from LaserActive to Pioneer LaserActive cause issue with the existence of the LaserActive video distributor? For the moment I believe it probably best to disambiguate the original link until someone gets around to covering the distributor; one of the larger Chinese film distribution companies. Lostinlodos (talk) 14:12, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Specifications

One of the big things missing from this page is any sort of specifications. Size, weight, power requirement, input/outputs, and media playback compatability. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.2.101.108 (talk) 10:36, 18 March 2008 (UTC)