An interactive karaoke system includes a microphone developing an audio input
from at least one karaoke performer; a camera producing a series of video frames
including the at least one karaoke performer; and a karaoke processor system including
a video environment and a related audio environment for the karaoke performer.
The karaoke processor system is coupled to the camera to create extracted images
of the at least one karaoke performer from the series of video frames and to composite
the extracted images with a background derived from the video environment. The
video environment is affected by at least one of a position and a movement of the
at least one karaoke performer. A karaoke network includes a local area network,
a local karaoke server coupled to the local area network and storing local karaoke
content; and a number of karaoke systems coupled to the local area network, each
of which can request karaoke content from the local karaoke server.