[Jeffhs]

I just watched most of Chad's Youtube video featuring his AMI (Automatic Musical Instruments, I'd guess) jukebox, and realized that I was mistaken as to the model name. This box is AMI's "Continental 2 StereoRound" 45 RPM jukebox from 1962; unless AMI came out with a box later in the '60s or early '70s it dubbed the "Stereo-Parti", I definitely was in error.

I looked up "AMI jukebox" on Google a few minutes ago and found out that the company was founded in 1935; they were making jukeboxes until at least 1978-79. I saw no references, however, to Internet-connected or mp3 AMI boxes, so perhaps the company left the business long before this type of jukebox started replacing the old mechanical ones.

Speaking of Internet-connected/enabled mp3 jukeboxes, how much smaller are they than the earlier mechanical ones? I would think any 21st-century mp3 jukebox would be much smaller than its predecessors, since the new ones do not have turntables, tone arms, 45 rpm records, or record selection mechanisms. I'm sure these new boxes take a lot less electricity to run than the old AMIs, Seeburgs, et al. as well, since they have solid-state amplifiers and no turntable motors.