From going to Karaoke too often lately (well for me at least), I’ve been thinking about how to setup my own Karaoke system. After some research, it doesn’t seem to be that difficult to do. I would need a videocard with dual outputs, one to a monitor and the second being a TV-out. The mic can connect to the sound card, which then can be output to the home theatre system (or connected directly to that), and finally there is software available which provides the song playing functionality, although the menu system could use a iTunes-like revamp.
The problematic part I think, is getting the songs themselves. Even if I only attempt to get the top 100 songs of every year, that’s at least 1000 songs; and the selection would still be shit.