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Does anyone know where to buy good quality music videos from the 1980s? Currently some are available on YouTube, some on iTunes, some nowhere. Quality is very

Does anyone know where to buy good quality music videos from the 1980s? Currently some are available on YouTube, some on iTunes, some nowhere. Quality is very hit-and-miss. Why doesn't Apple have all of these for sale? Is it an issue of rights? Do they think there wouldn't be enough demand? Is there is a lot already available in torrents and that would compete with iTunes?

unixhero 6y ago
Why do you want to purchase a music video??? Do you run a TV station and will re-broadcast it, or some other broadcasting strategy?
- DyslexicAtheist 6y ago
  why would it be for rebroadcast purposes? not OP but I want to have such things streamed to my TV in my own home.
  - unixhero 6y ago
    Because music videos are free.
    - DyslexicAtheist 6y ago
      I would pay money for original media because the data will likely be in it's "best" original encoding, metadata etc. And nobody other than the studio has meddled with it. You don't get that using youtube-dl or torrenting formats other people provide. edit: Music production evolves over time and digital content distribution is very different in the mixing business. Older formats are not built with streaming in mind and so you lose a lot of quality during upload to streaming services: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHxMsawJsTc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHxMsawJsTc
      - PhantomGremlin 6y ago
        Thank you for explaining. Many videos on YouTube are low quality. Also, if I buy it I expect that some decent percentage of my purchase price makes it back to the original artist. (I know, very naïve of me). If I get it off youtube then the artist might get just a fraction of a cent in the best case.
- rchaud 6y ago
  Why not? In college (mid-2000s), I downloaded hundreds of music videos from the '80s and '90s on Limewire. This was before they were posted online on Youtube, many of which are clearly TV rips, as they feature the TV channel's logo in the corner. These make up an important part of music history. Youtube will not be around forever, and many of these videos will one day disappear, just like many websites of yore have.

unixhero 6y ago

Why do you want to purchase a music video??? Do you run a TV station and will re-broadcast it, or some other broadcasting strategy?

DyslexicAtheist 6y ago
why would it be for rebroadcast purposes? not OP but I want to have such things streamed to my TV in my own home.
- unixhero 6y ago
  Because music videos are free.
  - DyslexicAtheist 6y ago
    I would pay money for original media because the data will likely be in it's "best" original encoding, metadata etc. And nobody other than the studio has meddled with it. You don't get that using youtube-dl or torrenting formats other people provide. edit: Music production evolves over time and digital content distribution is very different in the mixing business. Older formats are not built with streaming in mind and so you lose a lot of quality during upload to streaming services: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHxMsawJsTc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHxMsawJsTc
    - PhantomGremlin 6y ago
      Thank you for explaining. Many videos on YouTube are low quality. Also, if I buy it I expect that some decent percentage of my purchase price makes it back to the original artist. (I know, very naïve of me). If I get it off youtube then the artist might get just a fraction of a cent in the best case.
rchaud 6y ago
Why not? In college (mid-2000s), I downloaded hundreds of music videos from the '80s and '90s on Limewire. This was before they were posted online on Youtube, many of which are clearly TV rips, as they feature the TV channel's logo in the corner. These make up an important part of music history. Youtube will not be around forever, and many of these videos will one day disappear, just like many websites of yore have.