[QuadList] those archives contain recordings of virtually allof MTV's de...

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"One would hope that there's higher quality then VHS, and if it is VHS it's at SP speed."

And the audio? Mono VHS, 100-8khz @ 35db S/N. Sign me up for a copy! I doubt they were VHS HiFi.

You can find many classic 80s music videos on You Tube and similar sites, but these too are mostly VHS grabs off bad CATV systems.

What you really want are the 1 inch C masters. Remember that MTV air playback was from ACR25's with split track stereo - not exactly HiFi either. But those masters are probably all in the vaults of the record companies and hopelessly tied up in royalty issues.

Question for Bill Carpenter or other Ampex expert,

Why didn't they (Andy Setos) go with an FM audio system on the ACR25 versus the split track? That would have been higher quality and as for the edit issues with FM audio, this was air playback only. And I think you could even squeeze in 14bit digital audio in the lower RF spectrum below 3mhz but perhaps not in 1979.

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