Talk:LaserActive

message: 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)
thread_title:  Love Hotel Systems? 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: 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)

text: 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)
thread_title:  Competitors 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Question about rv of revised title list 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Redirect question 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Specifications 

message: I don't think this is going to be citeable unless we can find someone who has done an exhaustive evaluation of all Sega Genesis systems and their derivatives. Which would be a pointless exercise because the Genesis hardware only output analog stereo. In fact Q-Sound was Sega entry to expanding stereo sound performance to provide a faux surround.
The only reason why Digital Optical is even in play here is because the A-100 had an internal Anaglog->Digital converter for audio output (isn't this standard for LaserDisc players with optical outs?) and both the PCE and Genesis modules run through that hardware to get their sound output, therefore they get that feature as a benefit by default.
Again, I don't think this could ever be citeable at this point, so either remove the citation request or reword the feature to reflect the implementation... which I might take a stab at if I can find some spare time here.BcRIPster (talk) 20:21, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Digital optical citation regarding Sega module 

message: I added MYST to the list of LaserActive software as well as a reference link about the MYST prototype. Please note that according to Brian Rice (president of Brian Rice Inc. (1981 - 1995) who oversaw the conversion of MYST in 1995) MYST was never released due to a hardware bug in the LaserActive system.
If people think this will help I will be happy to upload a photo of the MYST prototype.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cyberroach (talk • contribs) 07:09, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  MYST 

message: So, in Nov., right after Thanksgiving 2009, my unit died after almost daily movie use since 1994. (Yeah, it also my Genesis and Sega CD as well for many years. Then I bought a 32X and discovered it needs a regular Genesis/Sega CD set, costing me more money.) I'm curious, but based on, let's say, four days a week on average, with 2 hours a day for movies, since mid-1994, should calculate the hours of life operation at 6000 or so? I don't know. Also, I think Pioneer will still service the unit since I registered it with them. Nothing much to add to the article, though. Coffee5binky (talk) 17:49, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Life of Console 

message: All research I have done on forums indicates that while Sega Genesis/Mega Drive games are region free, both Sega CD and Laser disc games remain region locked. For example: https://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?112877-Will-Laseractive-play-japanese-LD-roms-and-Laserdiscs 歳 (talk) 17:55, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm baffled because I just read through the thread you link and the posts clearly say the complete opposite of what you're saying: Sega Genesis/Mega Drive games are region locked, and Laser disc games are region free. Post #4 is particularly straightforward: "My Laseractive was region free....it would play anything."--Martin IIIa (talk) 22:06, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

text: Nearly two weeks now with no response, so I'm going to go ahead and remove the "dubious" tag 歳 placed. If anyone has objections, go ahead and post them here.--Martin IIIa (talk) 16:25, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Region free statement