The primary difference between Karaoke and sing-along songs is the absence of the lead vocalist.

Karaoke direct is an Internet division established in 1997 been serving the public online since 1998.

Karaoke Revolution, created for the PlayStation 2 by Harmonix and released by Konami in North America in 2003, is a console game in which a single player sings along with on-screen guidance and receives a score based on pitch, timing, and rhythm.

Karaoke is now available for the iPhone and other playback devices at many internet storefronts.

Granada TV also featured the cab, which is now in its 4th vehicle and operates in Bolton, Greater Manchester as Clint's Karaoke Cab.

Karaoke is currently available in London, England in the ' Kabeoke ' fleet of private hire vehicles.

KTV ( Karaoke TV ) on the other hand, is called Videoke by Filipinos.

Karaoke is most popular during after-work as well evening celebrations, and neighbors often have to suffer loud, terrible singing into the wee hours of the morning which sometimes cause neighborly altercations.

Karaoke is very popular in Asia, and many artists distribute a karaoke track at the same time the song is released.

The world's largest creator of Karaoke tracks, Blank Productions USA, ( since 1986 ), produces between 40 and 60 titles per month, adding to their 25, 000 title library, which is licensed to manufacturers and content providers.

Karaoke World Championship is one of the most popular karaoke contests and has been around since 2003.

The first Philips CD-i player, released in 1991 and initially priced around USD $ 700, is capable of playing interactive CD-i discs, Audio CDs, CD + G ( CD + Graphics ), Karaoke CDs, and Video CDs ( VCDs ), though the last requires an optional " Digital Video Card " to provide MPEG-1 decoding.

The song " Close My Eyes Forever " is featured on the video game Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore.

The 60-second commercial shows a sad Robert Mugabe dining alone at Christmas in a large mansion while he reminisces about " happier times " with former dictators, such as playing water tag with Muammar Gaddafi, making snow angels in the sand with Saddam Hussein, singing Karaoke with Mao Zedong, pushing P. W. Botha on a swing set, and riding a tank with Idi Amin in a similar fashion to Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet embracing each other from the movie Titanic while the music from " Those Were the Days " is being played.

Modern music is usually presented in Cambodian Karaoke VCDs, usually of an actor, actress or both making the actions, usually by mimicking the lyrics to the background song by moving their mouth as if they were actually singing the song.

Karaoke is a British television drama written by Dennis Potter with the knowledge that he was dying from cancer of the pancreas.

The principal character of ' Karaoke ' is Daniel Feeld ( played by Albert Finney ), an English playwright in late middle-age who is working on the television production of his latest play, itself entitled ' Karaoke '.

Nick has been conducting an affair with Linda Langer ( Keeley Hawes ), the actress who plays Sandra in the film version of ' Karaoke ', but is also the intended victim of a blackmail plot hatched by Linda and Mailion.

Karaoke is popular, and gay magazines are often available.

Parts of Karaoke and Cold Lazarus were filmed in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, which is where Dennis Potter was born and raised, and children from local schools including St. Briavels Parochial Primary School starred in the film as extras in flashbacks.

Karaoke venues of this type are often dedicated businesses, some with multiple floors and a variety of amenities including food service, but hotels and business facilities sometimes provide karaoke boxes as well.

Karaoke contests, sumo matches, and other forms of entertainment are often organized in conjunction with matsuri.

Karaoke box establishments often sell refreshments.

Tony Karaoke is a segment that features the show's DJ, Tony, singing often wrong-but-hilarious lyrics to popular songs.

The performance is often incorrectly labeled as " Karaoke for the Deaf ".

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.

While the original Karaoke Revolution was also eventually released for the Microsoft Xbox console in late 2004, the new online-enabled version included the ability to download additional song packs through the console's exclusive Xbox Live service.

KTV bars are also popular where friends and officemates rent and sing Karaoke inside multiple soundproof rooms to allow individual groups to sing undisturbed.

It contains interviews with many famous Elvis impersonators, and also gives you five free Sunfly Karaoke backing tracks, allowing you to download your favorite Elvis tracks to perform to.

My Dad Says, where Shatner has a lead role, his character Ed Goodson makes a Karaoke performance of Right Said Fred's " I'm Too Sexy ", also in spoken-word.

It was also featured on 2001 Music is Live-George Lam & Eason Chan Karaoke

* An updated microphone model was included with future Karaoke Revolution games, and is also used for Karaoke Stage, the European edition, and is compatible with the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360.

He also took part in Challenge TV's first original production, Karaoke Challenge.

The Jingmei area also includes many stores, upscale restaurants, movie theaters, and Karaoke establishments, making it a popular destination for nights and weekends for the local population.

Here you can also do Language Karaoke, where you are taught to say phrases in a new language: Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, or Cockney.

He was a founding member of Black President and also plays guitar in another supergroup, Punk Rock Karaoke and the hard core punk band G. F. P

It also appears in the video game Karaoke Revolution Party and in Nintendo's Wii Music, a 2008 music video game for the Wii.

Tunebot also serves as the back-end for a game called Karaoke Callout, in which players ' performances are compared by the engine with songs in the database.

" Ford also went on to guest-host MTV's TRL and Say What Karaoke, which led to a hosting contract with Viacom.

She has released two albums on the Karaoke Kalk label: Kids with Sticks in 2001 and the collaboration Kuchen Meets Mapstation in 2003 with Stefan Schneider of To Rococo Rot ( who also records as Mapstation ).

TiMidity ++ can read a number of file types and devices, primarily the ordinary. mid files, but also. kar ( MIDI with Karaoke lyrics ), Recomposer files, and module files.

Among TV appearances, Brown appeared in Dennis Potter's Karaoke in 1995, he also played Prince John in the BBC's adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe in 1997 and did a memorable turn as shaven-headed gang-boss " Miami Vice " in the 2000 series Lock, Stock ... The Series.

The song appears on the karaoke games Lips ( as downloadable content ) and in Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol, and is also a playable song on Band Hero.

NWC is intended for the creation of sheet music, but it can also import and export MIDI and Karaoke files and can export graphical WMFs.