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In article <20040512163309.10762.00001108@mb-m01.aol.com>,
kamcgann@aol.com (KAMCGANN) writes:
>>I happen to have a taste for early 1980's music videos, and there are SOME
> available on DVD, but not enough. >
>
> Me too, John. I have a lot of music videos on LD. Some of my faves
> are the Taylor Dayne and Belinda Carlisle video collections. If you haven't
> noticed, there have been quite a few DVD video collections popping up recently,
> some for the first time on any format, i.e., No Doubt, Sheryl Crow, and Olivia
> Newton John. I am hoping for a definitive DVD collection of KISS videos.
>
My favorite for early 1980's videos were the 'Cars.' Their stuff was
avant-garde, yet not totally without taste. There was some real creativity
going on in some of the early 1980's in general. Even some of the
later 1980's Paula Abdul stuff was pretty good (as videos, not necessarily
music, per se.) Geesh even some of the (dare I say) Michael Jackson
stuff was good (video wise), and Madonna was pretty good in her own way.
Perhaps it would be cool to have a full collection of Wierd Al on DVD --
just for the fun of it...
I have successfully 'restored' some of the Cars stuff from LD to make
it look pretty close to a slightly fuzzier than optimum DVD (but fairly
clean, noise wise.) The noise reduction technologies are PRETTY
GOOD (not perfect) nowadays. Too bad (for example) I don't have a
good (or any copy) of Cars, Tonight She Comes (???) I suspect that
trolling MTV2 or somesuch for a few years might be successful, but
the quality of over compressed MPEG2 or OTA NTSC isn't something that
is worthwhile to me.
John