YouTube have announced that they’ll be upgrading a large number of old music videos to support high definition.
On Wednesday (June 19), the streaming giant and Universal Music Group announced that they would be upgrading more than 1,000 popular music videos to high definition, releasing them through to 2020. The first 100 to be upgraded will include videos by Lady Gaga, Tom Petty, Boyz II Men, The Killers, Lionel Richie, Kiss, George Strait, and the Spice Girls.
With six of his own videos featured in the first wave of upgrades, Billy Idol said of the digital enhancements: “Once that dirty colouring is removed, it’s a lot more vital somehow…It gives these videos a chance against the modern high-quality definition. And I’m forever that age in these videos – it’s kind of fantastic.”
