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Are you talking about unofficial uploads - where someone thinks fiddling about with the colour, contrast and sharpness a bit means it's "remastered"? I don't tend to see those either on video channels or official YouTube channels.
It's often a bad SD upload from 2008 or something, when it wouldn't be hard at all to track down a better one - sometimes a better one is already on YouTube but they've just downloaded the one that comes up first because it has the most views!
A lot of copies of music videos were potato quality long before YouTube came along. It also didn't really help that somebody decided to do half-baked "remasters" of a lot of the videotape videos on YouTube, ultimately replacing a crap copy with a copy that's generally even crappier than the one it replaced, though these do tend to be better than a lot that end up on music channels.
I would just argue with this sort of thing (and a lot of things generally I find) either do it properly or don't do it at all. The Wham Last Christmas remaster proved it can be, although of course making the decision at the time to record it on film ultimately paid dividends years down the line, but of course it was cheaper and quicker to record on video and not every band/song/video down the year is worthy of recording their music video on film at the time, never mind having it remastered 40 years later. I sometimes wonder whether Queen ultimately regretted doing Bohemian Rhapsody on tape, though of course they generated all the effects for it on the fly at the time (effectively generate your own feedback, which you can't do on film) and it had to be done relatively quickly to get it on TOTP. It could have looked so good on film and in proper 4K? Well we'll never know now so...
I would just argue with this sort of thing (and a lot of things generally I find) either do it properly or don't do it at all. The Wham Last Christmas remaster proved it can be, although of course making the decision at the time to record it on film ultimately paid dividends years down the line, but of course it was cheaper and quicker to record on video and not every band/song/video down the year is worthy of recording their music video on film at the time, never mind having it remastered 40 years later. I sometimes wonder whether Queen ultimately regretted doing Bohemian Rhapsody on tape, though of course they generated all the effects for it on the fly at the time (effectively generate your own feedback, which you can't do on film) and it had to be done relatively quickly to get it on TOTP. It could have looked so good on film and in proper 4K? Well we'll never know now so...
Are you talking about unofficial uploads - where someone thinks fiddling about with the colour, contrast and sharpness a bit means it's "remastered"? I don't tend to see those either on video channels or official YouTube channels.
It's often a bad SD upload from 2008 or something, when it wouldn't be hard at all to track down a better one - sometimes a better one is already on YouTube but they've just downloaded the one that comes up first because it has the most views!
