Portable karaoke microphone device and karaoke apparatus

A karaoke apparatus characterized in that said karaoke apparatus comprises:

• a portable karaoke microphone device, said portable karaoke microphone device comprises:
• a nonvolatile first memory which stores accompanying melody data, a nonvolatile second memory which stores image data,
• a first memory connector to which said first memory is detachably and replaceably connected,
• a microphone element which converts a voice signal into an electrical signal,
• a processing means which creates an acoustic signal by synthesizing said accompanying melody data from said fist memory and said voice signal from said microphone element, and which creates a composite video signal using image data from said second memory,
• a transmission means which transmits a carrier wave that has a television broadcast channel frequency modulated by the acoustic signal and composite video signal from the processing means, and
• a housing in which at least said second memory, a connector for connecting said microphone to external devices via a cable, said processing means, and said transmission means are provided, and said microphone element being installed in one end of said housing with respect to a direction of length of said housing,
• a server which transmits accompanying melody data and character data corresponding to accompanying melody data via a public telephone line, and
• a downloader which writes said accompanying melody data and character data transmitted by said server via said public telephone line into a first memory;
• and wherein said first memory detachably provided in said microphone device is detached and mounted back during downloading.