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Does anybody remember seeing or playing bitd a video jukebox? The only one I ever saw was while stationed in (then) W. Germany. I believed it utilized the early video cd singles that we're out for a short time in the turning of the 80's to the 90's. I thought it was pretty awesome to drop a quarter and see the latest video while overseas where there was no MTV (when they still played music.)
I still recall seeing Poison, GnR, Pink Floyd and Tom Petty on it. Never saw one again after coming back stateside in late 1990.
Anybody ever seen one? Anyone HAVE one? Here is a pic I found on the web at a Geman page.

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Yep, but it didn't look like that. When I was in the AF, we had one in one of the diners on base, and used to watch Genesis' Land of Confusion video all the time.

I also remember a few Godfather's Pizza's in Omaha had some.

This wasn't it, but sorta...

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There was one at a local arcade, it sort of looked like the first one posted but it was black. I remember it had a couple of Judas Priest videos in it. I also remember that it wasn't well marked which songs had videos and which ones didn't. You would drop your fifty cents in and hear the song but not get a video to go with it. A rip off in an era when jukes were set to two songs for a quarter.
 
I remember seeing one, but don't recall where it was. It had a motley crue video in it I watched a couple of times.
 
I've seen two back in the early 90s. One was the PIONEER Laserdisc Jukebox. It utilized a projection system but may have had a limited release and very limited supply of discs. I've also seen and used a VHS/tape based system at an Aladdin's Castle. Unsure of manufacturer. It would play a random 45RPM song while the tape was cued to the selected video's starting point. Both systems charged a premium for videos over the larger audio-only selections. Everyone was too busy playing the arcade games to watch the screen anyway.



Oh and +1 on the Scopitone reference, Mod.
 
TJ takes 2 100 laserdisc changers to cax for his video wall. I think they were part of a laserdisc juke box. I think it was somthing like this..

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A few years ago there were a couple of LD video player systems (that sound a lot like the ones used for the video wall) on the Austin CL. They included a couple of boxes of LD's as well. I almost picked them up but decided they took up too much space and the way they were described sounded like they had a hard life. Still a cool old technology.
 
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