Karaoke...

Hey heard the not so recent advancement of starhub cable TV?

Well if you haven't seen the ads on your tv box or something then its time for you to realise that STARHUB now offers KARAOKE!!!!


I mean really check it out! Haha old news to most people

YEAH! Now time for every husband out there to get back starhub cable vision so that the ladies can have a ladies night and sing all night long, while the men can watch footy in the living room :/


Ladies Night with Starhub


then when singtel gets the epl privileges its footy with singtel :/

doesn’t mean the men can’t sing right?




Anyway ever wondered where karaoke originated from? Well well take a small guess ;)

JAPAN! KARAOKE!

KARA meaning empty (no not you kara :X)

OKE being the short form of okesutora (ie. orchestra)

We all don’t need any explanation on how or what is karaoke but hmm doesn’t hurt to compare a few :D

Lets start with two of the most popular by far…


KBox

and

you name it…


Party World of course.

So what do we need to look at? Membership benefits? Prices? Song Choices?

Lets start with their price list first

For KBox they charge per head per session. So lets us have a troop of 4.

They would pay… $18++ on a regular day per pax or $25++ for Friday and Saturday

This is for 7pm till closing.

and this does not include service charge, GST or the compulsory copyright charge, $2++ per person
also the $7++ per one or two people which is the compulsory tidbits charge.

so if we sum it all up its about $24++ per pax on a regular day and $34++ for Friday and Saturday.

Did i mention each person gets two complimentary drinks?

hmmm…

What about Party World?

For the same troop of 4…

They would have to pay $50++ in total for a 4 hour session on a regular day or $78++ in total on Friday or Saturday.

this is from 8pm till closing hour… but the session is limited to 4 hours.

and this does not include service charge, GST or the compulsory copyright charge or the tidbits charge and stuff like that. Prices can’t be found on their website… so I assume that it is the same price as KBox for calculations sake :D

so if we calculate per pax then for Party World it’s $18++ on a regular day and $25++ on a Friday or Saturday.

Lastly did I mention that each person is entitled one complimentary drink?

So on price listing… Party world saves us 6-9 dollars.

Moving on…

I don’t want to talk about their membership stuff mainly because… there isn’t many uses and that this post is getting to darn long.

So if we look at song choice which neither of them have anything on their website…

through my own personal experience and some snooping around i can conclude that Party World is slightly back dated by about a month whereas KBox is quite up to date… ON CHINESE SONGS.

If we look at the other languages… (mainly English) I say they don’t have many of the songs and more over… most oldies or slightly not so new anymore kind of songs have ultra disgusting videos… such as this one right here.

I don’t mean to say the videos are of animals and stuff… but…. Well… you go try and see for yourself. Besides… why don’t they redo their english song database. I mean, isn’t there some kind of demand?

I know I want something better that monkey’s attacking deer’s :/

Okay okay I am english Biased. :D (smiling at it too)

So… Party World or KBox? Give me a little hands up on
who you’re voting for.

And on a side note. What about all those rock band and guitar hero (band hero) sing a long games, I am sure you’ve played them.

So another vote, Karaoke or New Age Video Games?

and what is your take on the Starhub Channel 888 the Karaoke one? From what I’ve heard, they have horrid song choice. Okay maybe not horrid but… They don’t have a good one. *shrugs*

Till my next insanely long post :D

Howls from a howling wolf!

Please Tag I appreciate it :D

One Last note... I removed those... argh videos already sorry for all the trouble.