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UNIFY PROFESSIONAL KARAOKE SYSTEM

INTRODUCTION

Your All-in-one Karaoke Solution

Karaoke & Video on Demand Server

Revision 8.04 2003-04-24

For more info, visit us at: www.AceKaraoke.com Toll Free: 888-784-3384,

International: +1 626-618-8811 Fax: +1 626-279-2868

E-Mail: [email protected]


Information in this document is accurate up to the time of publication, but does not necessarily reflect the enhancements made to Unify Software Group’s products, which are released without notice. Companies, names, and data used in examples herein are fictitious unless otherwise noted. The software described in this document is furnished under a license agreement. It is against the law to copy the software on any medium except as specifically allowed in the license or nondisclosure agreement. No part of this guide may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or information recording and retrieval systems, for any purpose other than the licensed operator’s personal use, without the express written permission of Unify Software Group or Ace Karaoke Corp.

Unify Karaoke System Introduction

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Table of Content 1 WHAT'S IT? .............................................................................................................................. 2

2 ADVANTAGE?.......................................................................................................................... 3

3 FUNCTION SPECIFICATIONS ............................................................................................. 5 3.1 PROVIDE SONGS IN DVD/VCD QUALITY ............................................................................... 5 3.2 ORDER SONGS ........................................................................................................................ 6 3.3 ORDER FOOD AND DRINKS...................................................................................................... 7 3.4 SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS .................................................................................. 7 3.5 WORKS WITH 2ND MONITOR................................................................................................... 9 3.6 PRINT SONGBOOK LIST FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS..................................................................... 10 3.7 SET UP POLICY TO CHARGE YOUR CUSTOMERS ..................................................................... 11 3.8 BROADCAST YOUR MESSAGE TO CUSTOMERS IN ROOMS....................................................... 12 3.9 CUSTOMER CAN CALL WAITER FOR ASSISTANCE .................................................................. 13 3.10 ADD NEW SONGS TO YOUR SERVER .................................................................................... 13 3.11 ORDER NEW KARAOKE LIBRARY FROM US.......................................................................... 13

4 AVAILABLE PRODUCTS LIST........................................................................................... 14

5 HOW TO BUILD A KARAOKE LOUNGE WITH UNIFY PRODUCTS?...................... 15 5.1 PREPARE ALL STUFF YOU MIGHT NEED ................................................................................. 15 5.2 LINK KARAOKE SERVER AND KARAOKE PLAYERS WITH NETWORK SWITCH AND CABLE ..... 16 5.3 LINK TV, SOUND SYSTEM, MICROPHONE TO KARAOKE PLAYER.......................................... 16 5.4 INSTALL AND CONFIG SOFTWARE ON THE KARAOKE SERVER AND KARAOKE PLAYERS....... 16


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1 What's It? Unify Professional Karaoke System is computer based system. It consists of one karaoke server and numbers of karaoke players. All songs are stored in the Karaoke Server and can be ordered by Karaoke Players at anytime. With huge store space, the Karaoke Server can keep more than 50,000 songs. Whenever any songs are requested, the song's details will be sent out from the server into the karaoke room and immediately converted into a normal AV signal to TV and sound system.

Further more, your customers can order services such as drinks and food with their remote controller. You can broadcast your new services to the customers via the system. This will help waiters to server customers more efficiently.

Unify Professional Karaoke System can work for individual entertainment, family party, school, enterprise, community, karaoke lounge and Night Club. There are several kinds of systems for different users.

Unify Professional Karaoke System is very easy to install. Buy a server and numbers of players. Then link them with simple network device (hub or switch). It will work! You can add extra players when your business is improved.

Video on Demand Capability: Now you can serve all of your VCD or DVD movies from the central server. With the Unify Karaoke System, you can also store thousands of full-length VCD (mpeg1), DVD (mpeg2), AVI (mpeg4) or WMV (Windows Media Video) movies or video clips on the server. With a touch of button, all video clips can be playback on demand, at anytime. This is a perfect solution for school, government, hotel, or business. You can pre-program for unlimited numbers of video clip or movies.

Application:

• Karaoke Lounge: music video on demand

• Club/Restaurant: music on demand

• School: Education video, pre-recorded lectures on demand

• Hotel: Visitor Information and movies on demand

• Business: Product demonstration video on demand

• Government: Information center video on demand


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2 Advantage? Unify Professional Karaoke System have 2 advantages ahead of other traditional karaoke systems

(1) Unify Professional Karaoke System can attract more customers for you and help you exceed other competitors.

(2) Unify Professional Karaoke System can cut down your cost.

Unify Professional Karaoke System can attract more customers for you because:

A. Unify Professional Karaoke System provides most songs to your customers. We have 40,000 songs and you can add more at anytime.

B. Unify Professional Karaoke System provides best video and audio to your customers. All of our songs have DVD quality (720x480 lines) or VCD quality for video and CD quality for audio. Since the video and audio signals are using pure digital format, they will not be weakened after the transfer and conversion.

C. Unify Professional Karaoke System provides your customers faster and various way to order a song. Customer can order songs from songbook. They also can order songs from TV screen or 2nd monitor. They can order songs by index, title, singer, singer type, language, style and so on… All customers can order a song at same time. There will be no mistake caused by DJ’s fault any more.

Unify Professional Karaoke System can cut down your cost because:

A. Saving your investment to set up a karaoke lounge. There is no need to buy hardware such as LD/DVD/VCD players and disc changers any more. With the development of computer technology, the widely adapted computer is no longer too expensive to afford. Nowadays, only with small amount of capital investment, we could own a high quality computer system to handle all annoying tasks.

B. Cut down your cost for discs. Since all songs are stored on server, you need buy no discs for players any more and there will no disc damage any more.

C. Saving manpower. Since all orders to select songs are going through the server, it does not need karaoke DJ to tender the system any more.

Please see comparison details below:

Item

Traditional system

Auto change system

Unify Karaoke System

Costing on hardware Fair Expensive Fair

Available format of music

LD/VCD LD LD/VCD/DVD

/MP3/AVI

Process of songs' add and delete

Fair Hard Easy


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Space for installation (sq. Metre)

Above 30 sq. M.

Above 60 sq. M.

1 sq. M.

Consumption of electricity

High Very high Little

Damage of disc Very high Normal No

Interchange timing Above 30 sec. Fast 1 sec.

Number of rooms can play one song at same time

1 room Depends All

Wiring for audio & video system

Must Must No need

Audio & video's quality Ok Ok Perfect

System's anti-interruption

Ok Ok Perfect

System's stability Good Ok Fair

Manpower 4 persons 1 person No

Unify Professional Karaoke System reduce your investment on karaoke business, cut down cost of expensive manpower, attract more customers for you. It will make your karaoke lounge more effective and competitive. If you are going to invest a karaoke lounge, Unify Professional Karaoke System is the best way to begin your business.


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3 Function Specifications

3.1 Provide songs in DVD/VCD quality DVD video vs. CD+G video

A typical DVD video (All songs in Unify Professional Karaoke System are stored in DVD/VCD format.)

A typical CD+G video (Most of traditional karaoke equipments play CD+G songs)


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You can see much different between DVD video and CD+G video.

3.2 Order songs

Customers can order songs by index, title, singer, singer type, language and style …

Order songs by singers


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3.3 Order food and drinks

3.4 Support international customers Your customers can order songs and food in their own language. English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese languages are supported currently. Other languages will be available soon.

Order songs for Simplified Chinese customers


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Order songs for Traditional Chinese customers

Order songs for Japanese customers


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3.5 Works with 2nd monitor

You customer can order songs or food while others are singing with one monitor (TV).

You can connect 2nd monitor to the player if you like. So the customer can order songs on 2nd monitor while others are singing on 1st monitor (TV).

Sing on 1st monitor (or TV)


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Order songs on 2nd monitor

3.6 Print songbook list for your customers If you want customers can select songs not only from monitor but also from a printed songbook list, you can print songbook list for them.

Songbook printing wizard can help you print any kind of songbook you want.


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3.7 Set up policy to charge your customers

You can set multiple policies to decide how to charge your customers according different time slot and different room

When the customers are going to leave, you can print receipt for them easily.


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3.8 Broadcast your message to customers in rooms

Input your message from server and select a room to broadcast.

The customer in that room will see your message within a few second without affecting singing.


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3.9 Customer can call waiter for assistance

You customer can call waiter for assistance with remote at any time.

3.10 Add new songs to your server

Add new songs to your server at any time you want. Insert your Video disc into CD-ROM and select a directory to start copy.

3.11 Order new karaoke library from us Currently we have over 40,000 songs in our Karaoke Library in various languages, which include English, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Pilipino … We will release new karaoke libraries from time to time. Our songs were stored in big hard disk, just plug it into your server, you can top up your existing songs easily.


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4 Available products List Unify Karaoke Server - Karaoke Server for enterprise, school, community, karaoke lounge, night club and so on …

Unify Karaoke Room Player - The player for karaoke playing, songs ordering, service ordering, link it to the Karaoke Server, television, microphone and sound system, it will work.

Unify Karaoke Library - Thousands of classical or latest karaoke songs in all kinds language to top up your karaoke server, you needn’t to purchase any discs any more.

Please call us at 888-784-3384 for prices and customization.


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5 How to build a karaoke lounge with unify products?

5.1 Prepare all stuff you might need You might need these items for every karaoke lounge

Item name Requirement Where to buy Computer for Karaoke Server

Please check from our website

Buy from us or

Software for Karaoke Server

Buy form us

MS windows 2000 server software

Buy from local market

Network switch Buy from us or Buy from local market

Monitor, keyboard, mouse for the server


Karaoke Library Buy from us or Build by yourself

Printer Any printer for songbook printing


You can only buy software from us, and build server by yourself. If you buy both software and server from us, we will install all software for you to save your much time and effort.

You might need these items for every karaoke room

Item name Requirement Where to buy Smart pc for Karaoke Room Player

Buy from us or

Karaoke Remote Controller and Receiver

Buy form us

Software for Karaoke Player

Buy form us

MS windows 2000 professional software


Monitor for songs’ and services’ selection


TV to display the video


Sound system and sound box


Microphone Buy from local market Songbook list Print with our software


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Network cable Buy from local market You can only buy software from us, and build player by yourself. If you buy both software and player from us, we will install all software for you to save your much time and effort.

5.2 Link Karaoke Server and Karaoke Players with network switch and cable

5.3 Link TV, Sound system, microphone to Karaoke Player

5.4 Install and config software on the Karaoke Server and Karaoke Players Please check out how to install and config software in user’s guide


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For more information, please contact us at 888-784-3384 or +1 626 618-8811 Or visit us at www.acekaraoke.com Revision 8 Update 2003-04-24

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