CD Video (also known as CDV , CD-V , or CD+V ) was a format of optical media disc that was introduced in 1987 that combines the technologies of standard compact disc and LaserDisc . CD-V discs are the same size as a standard 12 cm (4.7 in) audio CD, and contain up to 20 minutes' worth of CD audio that can be played on any audio CD player . It also contains up to 5 minutes of LaserDisc video information with digital CD-quality sound, which can be played back on a newer LaserDisc player capable of playing CD-V discs or CD-V-only players.
18-468: The "CD Video" brand was also used to market some 20 cm (7.9 in) and 30 cm (12 in) LaserDiscs which included a digital soundtrack but no CD-compatible content. One of the first LaserDisc players that can play CD-V discs is the Pioneer CLD-1010 from 1987. Though it is a CD-based format, CD Video was never given a rainbow book designation; the idea of encoding analogue video , which
36-669: A 3% ownership stake in Pioneer through a joint venture company called Here B.V. Most of Pioneer's shares are held by Mitsubishi . In March 2010, Pioneer stopped producing televisions as announced on 12 February 2009. On June 25, 2009, Sharp Corporation agreed to form a joint venture on their optical business to be called Pioneer Digital Design and Manufacturing Corporation. In September 2014, Pioneer agreed to sell Pioneer Home Electronics (Home A/V) to Onkyo , and in March 2015, Pioneer sold its DJ equipment business division to KKR , which resulted in
54-399: A digital (rather than analog) soundtrack and the same gold colouring. Unlike the newly-launched 12 cm (4.7 in) discs, these were little more than a rebrand of existing LaserDisc formats. (Both disc sizes, along with support for digital soundtracks, had been in use for several years before CD Video launched.) In addition, despite the name, they did not feature CD-compatible content as
72-528: A few years in the marketplace and was already being referred to as a "failed" format by mid-1990. A similar format called Video Single Disc (VSD) was later announced for the Japanese market in 1990. While this used the same CD-sized 12 cm format as CD Video, it contained only an analog video track and no CD-compatible audio making it, in effect, a small LaserDisc. The price of VSDs was intended to be around half that of CD Video discs. When CD Video failed to become
90-550: Is a Japanese multinational corporation based in Tokyo , that specializes in digital entertainment products. The company was founded by Nozomu Matsumoto on January 1, 1938 in Tokyo as a radio and speaker repair shop. Its current president is Shiro Yahara. Pioneer played a role in the development of interactive cable TV , the LaserDisc player, the first automotive Compact Disc player,
108-457: Is incompatible between different regions, was poorly received by CD stakeholders other than Philips, who had not consulted them prior to demonstrating the format to the music industry. CD Video discs have a distinctive gold color, to differentiate them from regular silver-colored audio CDs. This is a characteristic that would later be replicated in HVD , a more advanced disc format. The physical size of
126-526: The XEL-1 OLED display which has even better contrast than the Kuro including darker blacks; however at that stage OLED technology was still plagued by reliability and lifespan issues. Despite being critically acclaimed, the Kuro was commercially unsuccessful. Plasma TVs had peaked in popularity from 2004 to 2006 and had been steadily losing ground to LCD TVs ever since. Pioneer was particularly hurt by this shift as
144-437: The 12 cm (4.7 in) discs limited the amount of LaserDisc content to around six minutes, which meant they were primarily suited to pop music videos . However, both players and discs were too expensive for the youth market likely to be most interested in such content. The "CD Video" name and logo were also used to market some full-size 30 cm (12 in) and EP-sized 20 cm (7.9 in) LaserDiscs that featured
162-586: The Kuro was positioned as a premium HDTV, being generally more expensive than the mass market Panasonic Viera plasma, while other plasma display manufacturers like Samsung and LG had demoted their plasmas to the low end. There were no Kuros to compete at the mainstream or low-end segments, which were dominated by LCDs. Pioneer announced in February 2009 that they would exit the TV business by March 2010 to concentrate on car and audio/visual systems. Pioneer has since sold many of
180-559: The Kuro's patents to Panasonic , the only other significant television manufacturer that concentrated on plasmas, and many of the latest Panasonic Viera plasma panels utilize the Kuro's technologies. In October 2013, Panasonic announced that it would stop producing plasma display TVs, closing the plasma panel production factory in December 2013 and ending sales in March 2014. Plasma displays have been losing market share every year to LCDs, and Panasonic has been posting losses and cutting jobs in
198-463: The establishment of Pioneer DJ as a separate entity, independent of Pioneer. In June 2021, Voxx International announced that it had finalized a licensing agreement with the Pioneer and Pioneer Elite brands "for all markets, except China" as part of their acquisition of Onkyo. Pioneer also supplies genuine audio equipments and head units installed for Daihatsu automobiles marketed in Indonesia since
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#1732891504702216-470: The first detachable face car stereo, Supertuner technology, DVD and DVD recording , the first AV receiver with Dolby Digital , plasma display (with the last 2 years of plasma models being branded as Kuro , lauded for their outstanding black levels) and Organic LED display (OLED). The company works with optical disc and display technology and software products and is also a manufacturer. BMW , Volkswagen Group and Daimler AG of Germany jointly acquired
234-454: The launch of Daihatsu Xenia in 2004. Pioneer Karaoke Channel ( Chinese : 先鋒卡拉OK頻道 ; pinyin : Xiān Fēng Kǎ Lā OK Pín Dào ) is a satellite television channel that features Asian music videos and karaoke 24 hours a day. Pioneer and Malaysian satellite broadcaster Astro officially launched on 1 June 1996. The Art of Entertainment Pioneer is one of the major vendors of optical drives . More recent optical drives allow
252-515: The relaunched "CD Video"-branded LaserDiscs rendered them incompatible with older analog-only "LaserVision" players made for the European PAL television standard. (PAL LaserDiscs can only support analog or uncompressed digital soundtracks, but not both.) However, at that point, Philips estimated there to have been just 12,000 to 15,000 analog-only Laservision players sold in Europe. CD Video lasted only
270-443: The screen to such a degree that at its maximum brightness, the contrast ratio was considered “almost infinite”. Hard-core home theater enthusiasts and home cinema aficionados stated that the Kuro was the only HDTV to achieve the "true black". Reviewers said that the Kuro represented the best-in-class technology, as its images were the most vibrant and colorful of any HDTV at the time, whether LCD, LED-LCD, or plasma. Sony had unveiled
288-525: The smaller discs did. Philips' launch of the CD Video format (and the rebranding of existing LaserDisc formats under the name) also served as the basis of a relaunch for LaserDisc as a whole in Europe where sales under the original "LaserVision" name had been extremely poor, and Philips attempted to leverage the name recognition of the newly-successful audio CD format. Despite this, the rebranded format remained unsuccessful in Europe. The use of digital audio on
306-416: The success Philips was hoping for, they turned their attention to the more promising MPEG-1 -based digital video compression which ultimately formed the basis of Video CD - a similarly-named, but incompatible and fundamentally different (and all-digital) format launched in 1993. Pioneer CLD-1010 Pioneer Corporation ( パイオニア株式会社 , Paionia Kabushiki-gaisha ) , commonly referred to as Pioneer ,
324-399: The user to specify different operation modes using bundled software: Pioneer Kuro Kuro was the brand name that Pioneer Corporation used for its line of high-definition plasma televisions . "Kuro" means black in Japanese. At the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show , Pioneer unveiled its "Ultimate Black" Kuro. The Kuro's plasma technology reduces light emissions from black areas of
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