- they might be giants scanning their first music video (shot on film) at 4k resolution, and then not releasing it for some reason
- men at work music videos never being scanned at a higher quality than a somewhat crappy 2003 DVD release with bad telecine flicker and bitrate issues throughout (many were also shot on film)
- thousands, hundreds of thousands of videotapes from lots and lots of bands from the 70s and 80s being thrown away or left to rot. their official music videos, television performances, etc
- warner brothers only releasing the awesome 1981 concert film Urgh! A Music War on a made-to-order DVD-R and never on blu-ray or streaming or ANYTHING else
- poor quality upscales (many times using "AI") of 80s/90s music videos replacing youtube copies
is saying "we are destroying our history" too dramatic? idk. im mad.
edit: and don't get me started on born-digital youtube stuff disappearing, or videogames, or stuff being unilaterally replaced with worse versions and nobody caring to preserve the original
