No one has to watch them on Youtube if they don't want to. You make it sound as though that's the only option.
Michael Jackson's Vision is a deluxe DVD box set by American recording artist Michael Jackson. It was released on November 22, 2010 by Epic Records, Legacy Recordings, and Jackson's own label, MJJ Productions. It includes three DVDs, featuring 4.5 hours of content of 42 music videos with newly restored color and remastered audio. Jackson referred to each of these productions as a "short film" and not a music video. This is the first time that all of Jackson's videos have been released on DVD.
I'm not sure the average person cares that much about HD. There's been high quality audio formats that have never caught on with most music consumers like quadrophonic, DAT, SACD, metal cassettes, DVD audio, Blu Ray audio, half-speed master, Mobile Fidelity, etc. It's like more people bought VHS than videodiscs & laserdiscs, but one of the reasons is probably that you could record on tapes and could not with the discs. HD probably doesn't make that big of a difference if a person is watching Youtube on a phone or something else small.
But Prince's videos have been uploaded within the past year and are not HD and there's lots of older music videos uploaded by the labels or artists that are 480. New music videos may be shot as HD, but records labels are not likely going to spend money restoring old videos or converting them to HD. In the 1980s, most videos were shot or edited on videotape. Not much can be done with that. There's many videos not uploaded to Youtube at all or they're uploaded by people who taped them off of TV. Some of them crop the picture or stretch it out to fit the widescreen, which I don't understand. :rofl:
