i'm kind of obsessed with this again – the idea of seeing things that you previously saw in lower quality, that can now be seen in higher quality... something very trippy about it
like nobody's been talking about this?? have you ever watched Natalie Imbruglia's Torn in HD?? I now feel compelled to look up all these videos. I can see her lip gloss! I was 7 years old when this video came out! 
this is fantastic
broad strokes seem to be – if a music video was shot on film, rather than magnetic tape (which was most of them, since it was for TV), there's opportunity to create truly higher quality video. these vids of The Who look like they were filmed yesterday
I'm annoyed at how difficult it is for me to search "high quality video of music/bands shot on film" on youtube. can't figure out what to search for. I just wanna see more of this
there was so little video content for streaming in 2005 that we all watched this for the full 5 minutes and enjoyed it
^ this is surely also why old novels are so long &tedious. it only seems tedious now because there's so much else to read. but at the time when you were stuck alone at home in a long winter with only 2 books, reading about every detail of paris's sewers would've been riveting
OMG this is what I'm looking for!! WTF
radiohead has been uploading stuff from their archives – album-quality audio, remarkably good video quality from 1994. this seems better than the 2007 glastonbury set I used to watch as a teenager
oh nice!! thanks!
this seems somewhat higher quality than I ever remember seeing it – and on rewatch it's kind of cute and cool how there's this sort of meta-commentary about the media with all the many screens and channels
but tbh how do I really tell / know for sure? perception is a hell of a drug. one thing I do know is that old video games always look worse than they did when I first played them, and I think that's because my standards & expectations keep getting higher every year
