Neil Altnew

So Pioneer says, you know what, maybe not so much for movies, but karaoke, yeah.

Because nobody else is doing it.

So we're all alone.

So we'll take 1% of the market all alone.

Pioneers said, you know what, for a karaoke application, this is perfect.

I think that the original concept of using those videos in Japan was to basically sell Laserdiscs.

They had a lot of success in Japan with it that way.

And they wanted to replicate their success in the United States.

And they felt that this is the way we did it in Japan.

We got to do it in the United States the same way.

You know, you couldn't have a song like...

You know, I shot the sheriff with a Japanese video on it.

It didn't work.

You had to have a production company go out there and shoot the videos.

Let me tell you, when I started back in 1988, we had zero volume coming in.

Two years later, we were in the millions.

They just couldn't wait for that next LaserDisc to come in.

They didn't care what was on it.

They just needed to have the next one.

So I would get 5,000 discs.