Enjoying karaoke (continued)

Enjoying karaoke

Scoring your karaoke performance

This function can score your karaoke performance by comparing your singing to the original vocals recorded on the playback source. The function also estimates the number of calories burned while singing.

NOTE

This function can be used when “DVD” or “USB” is selected as the source.

A karaoke disc is recommended for use with this function.

For a DVD AUDIO, DVD VR or JPEG file, even when this function is activated, it does not work.

Starting this function automatically activates the microphone.

3 Sing into the microphone.

After playback finishes, “COMPLETE”

appears and the ” and “SCORING” indi- cators stop flashing in the display window, and then your score appears on the TV screen.

Karaoke score (TV screen)

Your score

Comments

Ranking list

indicating the latest top three scores

kcal

When the “” indicator lights up in the dis- play window

1 Press [SCORING].

“SCOR ON” appears in the display window.

Display window

This indicator lights up when “SCOR ON” is selected.

Each time you press [SCORING], the dis- play toggles between “SCOR ON” and “SCOR OFF” in the display window.

To cancel the scoring function, press [SCORING] again to select “SCOR OFF” in the display window.

2 Start playback of the loaded disc or the connected USB device.

Refer to pages 20 and 21 for details on disc/ USB device playback.

The ” and “SCORING” indicators start flashing in the display window.

“SCORING” and then “START” appears in the display window.

Display window

Calories burned while singing

The karaoke score disappears from the TV screen when you press any button.

To start over again, or to start the scoring function, press 4. Playback and scoring restart.

Before playing back a VCD or SVCD, cancel the PBC function. (Refer to page 24.) Other- wise the scoring function does not work.

When you pause playback by pressing 8, the score for the singing until that moment is canceled. When you restart playback, the singing from that moment is graded.

When you stop playback by pressing 7, “CANCEL SCORING” appears on the TV screen and the singing until that moment is graded.

To cancel the scoring function during play- back, press [SCORING]. “CANCEL” appears in the display window and the func- tion is canceled.

The latest top three scores on the ranking list are cleared when the main unit is turned off.

NOTE

When the main unit does not detect a voice for approximately 2 minutes because you are not singing or your voice is too small, the scoring function may not work properly.

To obtain a correct scoring result, sing the song completely. If the singing time is less than 3 min- utes, the scoring result may be “0” or incorrect.

Activating this function cancels repeat playback.

This function does not work during program playback and random playback.

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