Wurlitzer made a cassette jukebox. Seeburg's used video cassettes alongside the 45 singles on a few Stern era jukeboxes pre CD. The Seeburg SCD-1 is decent but no tank, problem is it uses a consumer grade Sony transport, many of them didn't last. AMI/Rowe, RockOla, and NSM used Philips CDM based mechanisms and CD-Pro mechanisms, those are the tanks. Those lasted far longer and had fewer service issues in jukebox service. The Waffle House jukeboxes are AMI-Rowe and used their regular 45 mechanism like the R-90 series and the Pioneer CD Changer (Another home unit which had no place in jukebox mechanisms and constant repair and durability issues). Open reel tape was not practical in jukeboxes as it cued slowly and was higher maintenance. Scopitones were high maintenance and broke down easily. And their film was on continuous loops. And not on open reels. And were pricey and unreliable. No jukebox used VCD or laserdiscs, another high cost nightmare most operators then could not afford. I do a little bit of jukebox repair and service, which is where my opinions come from. Film jukeboxes were a short lived fad, they were much more expensive, had constant breakdown issues, and were expensive for patrons to use as they cost more money to play, and film offerings were limited at best.
