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Re:MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline by teddyh on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @06:33AM (#40786717)
The laserdisc version is significantly higher quality than VHS, but it could be hard to find. Not to mention a laserdisc player.

Of course, this exists: <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harmy%27s_Despeci...>

Re:MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline by ghaff on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @08:33AM (#40787768)
Probably a copy out in my garage someplace. No idea of the version though.

But, to another point, copyright is a convenient bogeyman in these discussions--and it plays a role. But someone would also need to pay for archiving all this material and indexing it in a manner that would actually be useful.

Re:MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline by einsteinx2 on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @08:41AM (#40787861)
Also Project 4K77 is doing amazing work.