2020 report on music video from 1980 - part 2 of 2

[zubieta]

you see? its been already 30 years and the industry is still alive. they are trying to use everything as an excuse for the lack of good content. They said radio was gonna kill the industry, cassette was going to kill it, cd was going to kill it, dvr recorders were going to kill it, and yet its still alive...

[Ocker3]

highly insightful comment by the reporter at the end "The future of the music industry, is Music." In other words, Content is king. If there's no good content, people won't keep buying.

[RetroVGamer]

The buggles video becomes a significant moment in the history of pop culture.

[willrobm]

the wheel... not the wheel... yes... the wheel... we're saved... the wheel yaaayaaaayaaayaayayayay

[michaelheiland123654]

Does anybody have 20/20 intron? With Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters? in the 80"s

[Dannycsgarage]

this is so funny.

[edcrawf]

Funny on the video discs. Right idea but wrong time and lesser technology. Thank God we have better quality technology now. Gotta love those DVD's. :-)

[Captmiloman]

We'll be watching holographic images.

[cmart1982]

this is great, this is why youtube is so kew

[bikiniatoll]

Very insightful: shows just where their head was at. Surprising differences but also similarities to opinions now.

[artemisecstasy]

The "group" Meatloaf? Really?!

Also, my father bought a laserdisc (which were the same size as the "videodiscs" in this segment) player back in the early 90s. He still has an entire shelf of them in the den, and the dvd player he has now can also play laserdiscs, though I doubt anyone has played one of them in years. We replaced most of the laserdiscs with DVDs years ago. I wonder if I could convince him to let me auction them off to a collector or something.

[jmarchand]

Amazing! I'm investing in RCA right away!

[CassetteMaster]

WOW!

[vasarian1]

I worked for a Video/DVD distributor. They had a closest in the back of the warehouse; it had over 500 diffent video discs in it. The owner used to work for Sam Goody!

[eyeh8cbs]

Wow- are they still there? I have every consumer CED videodisc title ever put out (just missing 'Story of O' which was withdrawn before it went on the market, and a few dealer-only discs) There's a few other nuts out there who collect these, check out cedmagic dotcom

[edcrawf]

Amazing. The precursor to DVD. Funny how VHS caught on first to be replaced by DVD, as far as physical formats. Then the internet and downloads, along with sites like this one.

[DevSodDribble]

Oh my god the Selectavision-one of the biggest flops in history. The 'industry' had no clue then and they don't now.

[xeokym]

OMG imagine that...instructional videos on a DISK! =O

I bet when they made this report, they never would've imagined it'd be watched on the internet 26 years later.

I love how they say the disks are good "for life." There's nothing from back then I'd have wanted to watch over and over and over all this time to begin with.

[ProductionX]

I have a few "DiscoVision" discs in my collection (still playable to thsi day). Perhaps I'll throw some clips up of ones of Abba tunes!

[inwoodliver]

if everyone had the talent of early sinatra it would not matter what media/medium

[ProductionX]

I'm only surprised they glossed over the "Soundies" of the 40's, oh well!

[pvx]

I noticed that too, no mention of what could be officially considered the first music videos...

[inwoodliver]

thanks for posting! MTV killed videos for me lol!

[eyeh8cbs]

You can see the laser rot on that Elton John disc- I don't think a single copy of that went out that wasn't defective in some way.

[CaptainWrong]

LOL. Yeah, hardly an impressive demo when you can clearly see the rot even on a compressed streaming dub of a 26 year old video recording.

[pvx]

Yes, the majority those first DiscoVision pressings (the Elton John disc included) were quite horrendous, as well as the quality control being hit or miss (some discs perfect, others shoddy). I guess DiscoVision hadn't prefected the pressing process then yet...

[postingoldtapes]

LaserDisc or CED? I have a LD and a pretty good collection of discs. I have one CED disc that my wife accidentally purchased on E-Bay that I've never been able to play.

[Freedive100]

Wonder what the medium will be 20 years from now.

I had a video disc player.

[Bradwick1]

the entire history of music and video on a pinky ring. PinkyPod.