SEED Television

From Sega Retro

To do

  • Template:ReleasesSEED. As much as I could thrown myself at this, I'm honestly not confident enough now. And putting the SG-1000 release template there doesn't feel quite right. It wasn't ONLY an SG-1000 system, it also played MSX games in addition to being able to be utilized for non-gaming purposes, so it doesn't quite qualify as a clone system or something. And I'd use the LaserActive one but that's another special case because that introduced a new format with specific software written for it, and wouldn't apply either. I'll get to this eventually but there it is.
  • Sizing: 26" is the main unit, 25" was the American unit, and 21[FS] was a 21" TV that did... something. Find what FS means in this context.
  • Packs? CompoPacks? Pioneer calls them CompoPacks, but the word Pack is written right on the unit itself. I wonder what the box said?
  • Upload the advertising images from that archived imgur link, and find more.
  • History section needs actual history.
  • Background section needs creation, something about Japan being rich in the 80s and having a lot of money to throw around, and big tech companies asking consumers to invest in these expensive "possible futures" of home video.
  • Per Pioneer, features component display.

CartridgeCulture (talk) 21:42, 5 September 2021 (EDT)

How to format acronyms?

  • "SEED" is an acronym for "system expandable" or "SEED" is an acronym for "SystEm ExpanDable"?
  • The latter looks wonky but I've seen people format acronyms that way. And while I do feel that somehow highlighting the letters which create that acronym is beneficial, writing that seems really weird to me. But I'd love someone else to weigh in with their thoughts. CartridgeCulture (talk) 23:33, 5 September 2021 (EDT)

I think

It might be easier not to have dedicated pages for the televisions.

Once upon a time it was the "Pioneer System Component TV 'SEED'" (パイオニア システム コンポーネント テレビ 「シード」) and everything prefixed with an "SD" was part of the same range. There were three televisions in 1983; the SD-21, SD-25 and SD-26... and later some revisions, and US versions (that weren't being branded as SEED).

At some point Pioneer dropped the "components" idea and introduced new "SEED"-branded models. The latest SEED-branded TV I've seen is from 1991, but they were still using the SD prefix as late as 1999, mainly for projection TVs(?). It would be wrong to call it a SEED TV because there were many SEED TVs - it's more like "Component TV aka Expandable TV" (or "component display")... but that's more a name for the concept than the products themselves and aasefhsjadkgfhndav

It might be simpler, since the SD-G5 is the bit in scope, to just note the televisions it was compatible with in that page. Unless it gets out of hand. Dunno. -Black Squirrel (talk) 06:37, 6 September 2021 (EDT)

After writing the article, I was kind of thinking the same thing. I've gone back and forth on it for a while, and my reasoning for keeping it was that the SD-G5 requires the SEED TV to run Sega games, and it cant be played by itself: Sega games are run on the SEED TV through the SD-G5, and that priority is part of the reasoning behind creating the article. And without it, we'd have what is essentially a Sega peripheral without its system.
Also, to a certain extent Sega must have been involved in the platform's creation, at least in an advisory role for their specific pack. It's fairly analogous to the LaserActive in that regard. But I can also totally understand wanting to just incorporate all this information into the SD-G5 article. Still, my gut tells me this makes sense being a separate article for a number of reasons. Regardless, thanks for the extra info and proper JP name :) CartridgeCulture (talk) 07:46, 6 September 2021 (EDT)