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MTV Launches Music Video Site
An anonymous reader writes "MTV Music has just launched a website where they offer over 16,000 music videos — like YouTube, but with fewer notices and DMCA takedowns. They've also set up development tools for third parties to incorporate the content into their own creations. Users creating accounts at the site face other challenges, however, such as the six separate agreements and privacy statements that must be accepted via a single checkbox. Thankfully, at the time of writing the MTV Music website was making this process easier on its Firefox 3 visitors by automatically checking the accept box whenever any agreement is viewed."
I wonder how long until they subvert the channel to only broadcast crappy reality shows.
"You have liberated me from thought."
Great, now mtv has another way to brainwash kids into thinking this emo crap is music. I also hate how some of my favorite bands are pigeonholed as a certain type of music because if they ever have a hit song it has to be just the right amount of pop. I miss the box music network. They seemed to have a great rotation and mix of music, at least in my area.
"I don't have to think. I only have to do it. The results are always perfect, but that's old news." - Meat Puppets
...not the eyes.
Yes, by all means show me a concert of some proper musicians playing live to an audience, or show me some historic footage of a band in a documentary.
But please don't show me pretty "mini-movies" that do nothing more than try to distract me from realising how crap the underlying music actually is.
MTV have done for music what pork fat has done for cardiac health.
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
It's still some corporation that thinks they know what it is I want to see.. right off the bat I tried...
1. XTC
2. Wall of Voodoo
3. Human League
Granted these are niche bands...nothing on any of these.
When MTV gets around to allowing users to upload videos and then replacing them with their own pristine copies, I'll be impressed. Maybe they should have tried THAT model.
>Urgh, im in the UK, and I tried the top 4 most viewed, and all were not available outside the U.S.
probably a blessing - be happy about it.
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
I take it Real World / Road Rules are like big brother over here. "big brother season 3065 now with even more fucked up people!"
But unfortunatly this site isn't available to people in europe and I can't be assed going through a proxy.
Fucking regional distribution. I'll stick with piracy since at least the pirate sites treat me the same whether I'm a fucking red blooded american or not.
Ever hear of S-Video out on your graphics card? Many computers have them these days.
As for the quality, yeah, it's probably about on par with Youtube, though some are better, since they're converted from the original recording and not some fan's degraded VHS tape from the 1980s. Searching for a song on MTV's site is still a lot better than Youtube, though, since you generally get the song without having to sift through all the other crap on Youtube,...
As an exercise, I've just gone back and tried about twenty or thirty major MTV-friendly videos from major MTV-type artists and current chart singles (US and UK), and I haven't gotten a single one to play.
Zero success rate. They all have the "US-only" copyright notice.
This is bad. It has National Security implications. How are we supposed to convince the Aggrieved Iranian Youth to drop hardcore Islamic values and embrace the West, if we don't let them see the purty videos with wimmin-in-bikinis jumping up and down? They're just going to be even more aggrieved, and the people who win are going to be the repressive local governments who wanted to block all this material anyway.
MTV is supposed to be the international shopfront for The American Dream. It's sometimes partly credited for the destruction fo the Berlin Wall (glum East-Berliners had illegal MTV cable wired under the Wall, and thought the West was all conspicuous consumption and pink cadillacs).
How're you gonna export US aspirational fantasies to other cultures if you set up an info-wall that stops outsiders from being able to see in?
"Hearts and Minds", people! Ya can't corrupt the youth of North Korea and Afghanistan with Decadent Western Values if you don't show them the goodies! Leave a vacuum, and, gawd, they're just gonna develop their own cultural material.
The US has lost so much influence around the world in the last eight years in so many areas, popular entertainment is perhaps is last major niche where it can claim world dominance. Of those, TV and movies and music are the three "broadcastables". Pull the plug on world access to MTV, and you're losing a major component of the infowars where the US has technical superiority -- music tends to be cheap to produce, music videos tend to be expensive.
Eric Baird
There. that's the problem.
Get back to us after your testicles drop.
Ya, tell that to the BBC. Jackasses, the lot of em'.