Karaoke machines which are connected via fiber-optic links enabling them to provide instant high-quality music and video are becoming increasingly popular.

There are many sites that offer Karaoke online, such as iSing, Red Karaoke and StarMaker for the iPhone and iPad, SingSnap on the web and Java based app Karaokini.

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

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

Karaoke is popular, and gay magazines are often available.

Karaoke Revolution and its many sequels are video games for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Nintendo GameCube, Wii, Xbox, and Xbox 360, developed by Harmonix Music Systems and Blitz Games and published by Konami in its Bemani line of music games.

The Xbox version was released in November, 2004 featuring four more songs that were present in Karaoke Revolution Volume 2 and 10 exclusive Motown songs which are the original non-cover versions.

The SingStar microphones are not compatible with Karaoke Revolution ; however, unofficially, the SingStar microphones do work on the PS3 version of the game.

Examples include Karaoke Revolution, released by Konami, which measures a player's pitch and gives a score based on the player's ability to maintain the proper pitch and duration for each note while singing along with a song whose lyrics are displayed on the screen.

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

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.

There are exceptions ( e. g., Morris dancing and similar ) and refinements ( e. g., Karaoke is considered to be music ).

There are shops, discothèques, Karaoke bars, strolling musicians wearing traditional Sicilian costumes, live bands, theatrical productions, and impromptu dancing on the beaches at night.

Barbecue stands and Karaoke stalls are located at the back of Molave Gymnasium.

Among the exhibits of the Sea Center are a Tide Pool with waves rushing into it every 60 seconds, the Wet Deck featuring direct access to the water below, the Channel Theater, the Workshop, the Whale Karaoke station, and the plastinated dolphin.

Karaoke bars for sailors are not hard to find.

Four bonus tracks from other films are included, and the lyrics of all 10 tracks can be viewed on-screen while the music is playing, enabling Karaoke sing-along.

Karaoke is often also found as a feature in aftermarket in-car DVD players.

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 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.

Along with dedicated Karaoke machines, other consumer devices that play CD + G format CDs include the NEC TurboGrafx-CD ( a CD-ROM peripheral for the PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 ) and Turbo Duo, the Philips CD-i, the Sega Saturn, Mega-CD, the JVC X ' Eye, the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, the Amiga CD32 and Commodore CDTV, and the Atari Jaguar CD ( which was an attachment for the Atari Jaguar ).

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

This game has come to be called " Kamikaze Karaoke " or " Karaoke Roulette " in some parts of the United States and Canada.

McLaren had a 2005 exhibition of some autobiographical work at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie ( Center for Arts and Media Karlsruhe ) in Karlsruhe, Germany called Casino of Authenticity and Karaoke.

Additionally, some of the cast of Karaoke appear in Feeld's flashbacks.

* MTNL IPTV available in some of the main cities in India such as Mumbai which has about 200 Television Channels on offer with Time Shift TV in a number of Basic and Premium Packages including Movies On Demand offered at various Basic, Premium and Pay Per View Rates and other services such as an Interactive Karaoke channel, The IPTV Operator uses the UTStarcom RollingStream IPTV Solution as its end-to-end Delivery Platform.

* BSNL IPTV available in some of the main cities in India such as Hyderabad which has about 150 Television Channels on offer with Time Shift TV in a number of Basic and Premium Packages including Movies On Demand offered at various Basic, Premium and Pay Per View Rates and other services such as an Interactive Karaoke channel, The IPTV Operator uses the UTStarcom RollingStream IPTV Solution as its end-to-end Delivery Platform.

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 companies like Stingray Digital, Chartbuster and Easy Karaoke select popular songs and release soundalike tracks with lyrics synchronized, most commonly in CD + G format.

Hungary holds the record for the longest Karaoke marathon with multiple participants for an event organised at the Honey Grill Restaurant.

Finney made several television productions for the BBC in the 1990s, including The Green Man ( 1990 ), based on a story by Kingsley Amis, the acclaimed drama A Rather English Marriage ( 1998 ) ( with Tom Courtenay ), and the lead role in Dennis Potter's final two plays, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus in 1996 and 1997.

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.

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.

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

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.

It forms the second half of a pair with the television serial Karaoke.

Other Harmonix titles with a contribution from this band include Frequency < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s sequels Amplitude, Karaoke Revolution, Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II, and Rock Band.

The North American version of Karaoke Revolution was released in November, 2003 on PlayStation 2 version in a bundle with the Logitech headset attachment.

Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore was released in the North America on PlayStation 2, Wii, and Xbox 360 on February 5, 2008, and was released to Canadian retailers on February 17, 2008, with the PlayStation 3 version released in North American on March 4, 2008.

New downloadable songs will continue with the sequel, Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore 2.

* The original microphone included with the first Karaoke Revolution game is a headset model, and is compatible with the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360.

* 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.