In-home use of enemas for constipation and alternative health purposes is somewhat harder to measure.

In-home photographic slides and slide projectors have largely been replaced by low cost paper prints, digital cameras, DVD media, video display monitors, and video projectors.

In-home tutoring is a form of tutoring that occurs in the home.

In-home care typically is provided by nannies, au-pairs, or friends and family.

This effect is ubiquitous in karaoke machines and is often used to assist pop singers who sing out of tune.

Instead of giving his karaoke machines away, Inoue leased them out so that stores did not have to buy new songs on their own.

Karaoke machines were initially placed in restaurants and hotel rooms ; soon, new businesses called karaoke boxes, with compartmented rooms, became popular.

When creators became aware of this problem, karaoke machines were no longer being sold strictly for the purpose of karaoke but as home theater systems to enhance television watching to " movie theater like quality ".

As more music became available for karaoke machines, more people within the industry saw karaoke as a profitable form of lounge and nightclub entertainment.

Most karaoke machines have technology that electronically changes the pitch of the music so that amateur singers can choose a key that is appropriate for their vocal range, while maintaining the original tempo of the song.

Early karaoke machines used cassette tapes, but technological advances replaced this with CDs, VCDs, laserdiscs and, currently, DVDs.

South Korea in the 1990s had taxis with karaoke machines, or " caroke.

Commercial players have come down in price, though, and some unexpected devices ( including the Sega Saturn video game console and XBMC Media Center on the Xbox 1 ) can decode the graphics ; in fact, karaoke machines, including video and sometimes recording capability, are often popular electronics items for sale in toy stores and electronics stores.

In the Philippines, karaoke machines are available for rent for use in occasions such as parties.

Many Filipino restaurants and bars local and abroad have karaoke machines which allow customers to sing.

Lyrics may be included as metadata, and can be displayed by karaoke machines.

This effect is ubiquitous in karaoke machines and is often used to assist pop singers who sing out of tune.

Although cheaper hotels are often quite utilitarian, higher-end hotels may feature fanciful rooms decorated with anime characters, equipped with rotating beds, ceiling mirrors, karaoke machines, or strange lighting, or may be styled similarly to dungeons, sometimes including S & M gear.

CD + G discs are often used for karaoke machines, which utilize this functionality to present on-screen lyrics for the song contained on the disc.

To Hearts music was so popular it was added to karaoke machines throughout Japan — a first for eroge.

Hirasawa let the song be used on karaoke machines around Japan, putting Stealthman as the artist of the song.

To Hearts music was so popular it was added to karaoke machines throughout Japan — a first for eroge.

Two of most well-known are " Train-Train " and " Linda Linda ", which can be found on many karaoke machines.

They were eventually acquired by Namco ( who then made the arcade version in 1999 ) to create karaoke machines.

In this game, the host might ask 3 out of 4 questions correctly before the contestant picks the boxes from 1 to 10 and activating box 13 within the 10 boxes like cinema tickets, baby food, cowboy hats or pork pies which relates to a prize, but also with larger prizes containg such as television sets, video players, cash, karaoke machines, double beds, music vouchers & sofas and booby prizes containing nose hair trimmers, last night's cold food, a box of chocolates, breakfast cereals, rotten tomatoes, cat food and dog food and the star prizes containing kitchen appliances, cars, motorbikes, jet skis, hotels, computers and holidays.

These tapes were soon replaced by CD + Gs, but a plug-n-play karaoke microphone that housed a factory built-in songchip loaded with hundreds of karaoke songs quickly became a favourite.

The duo followed this up with Now & Then, an album released only through mp3. com that included four new songs ( none based on video games but one based on Pogs ), plus a new recording of " E. T., I Love You "; karaoke versions of both it and " Pac-Man Fever "; and an acoustic recording of the latter.

Those songs were often followed by an " Edge Karaoke " slot, in which The Edge would sing The Monkees ' " Daydream Believer " or a similar song against a cheap karaoke CD, complete with lyrics shown on the giant screen.

Prior to mainstream success, Karen, an out lesbian, was well known on the Scottish gay scene, including regularly hosting karaoke nights in both Glasgow and in Edinburgh.

* In 2009, the song " The Look of Love " was performed by the cast in a song and dance number on the US CW TV serial drama series Valentine, as part of the plot in which the goddess Aphrodite makes a love match at a karaoke bar.

The transfers were small, equivalent to about 12, 000 to 24, 000 Philippine pesos ( 500 to 1, 000 US $), and would be handed over each night at a Wendy's or a karaoke bar.

So in the markets and fairgrounds the itinerant actors created a new theatrical form by holding up cue-cards ( like sub-titles or karaoke ) containing the words of the plays or songs, which the audience then acted or sang for them.

It includes Japanese-oriented markets and restaurants, several plant nurseries, karaoke bars and shops.

Biafra dismissed the new group as " the world's greediest karaoke band.

In karaoke it is extremely common for furigana to be placed on the song lyrics.

The song has become something of an anthem of female emancipation, and is still a staple of office parties and karaoke nights.

In some countries, a karaoke box is called a KTV.

A karaoke bar in Wuhan, People's Republic of China.

Many artists, amateur and professional, perform in situations where a full band / orchestra is either logistically or financially impractical, so they use a " karaoke " recording ; they are, however, the original artists.

There are various disputes about who first invented the name karaoke.

One claim is that the karaoke styled machine was invented by Japanese musician Daisuke Inoue in Kobe, Japan, in 1971.

After becoming popular in Japan, karaoke spread to East and Southeast Asia during the 1980s and subsequently to other parts of the world.

In 2004, Daisuke Inoue was awarded the tongue-in-cheek Ig Nobel Peace Prize for inventing karaoke, " thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other.

Home theater systems took off, and karaoke went from being the main purpose of the stereo system to a side feature.

It is not uncommon for some bars to have karaoke performances seven nights a week, commonly with high-end sound equipment superior to the small, stand-alone consumer versions.

Dance floors and lighting effects are also becoming common sights in karaoke bars.

A basic karaoke machine consists of a music player, microphone inputs, a means of altering the pitch of the played music, and an audio output.

A popular game using karaoke is to type in a random number and call up a song, which participants attempt to sing.

Many low-end entertainment systems have a karaoke mode that attempts to remove the vocal track from regular audio CDs, using an Out Of Phase Stereo ( OOPS ) technique.

A row of 3 karaoke booths at a shopping center in Angeles City, Philippines.