Good luck, I tried this maybe a year ago. I did find a site with pretty much every music video from the 80's & 90's, but the quality was so crappy it wasn't worth it.

There is a program designed to pull audio or video from youtube clips and save it I am sure there is a similar program to take it all and download it. I will try to get you the name of the other program later today.

Check out videopimp.org if you have ever used IRC. If not there are several youtube video download programs out there.

I downloaded a bunch of 80's music videos using a downloader and Youtube for the source. I think it was 200 music videos and about 40Gigs burned to Blue Ray. There are a few well done 80's movie montages out there also.

The only drawback is finding stuff that is in decent resolution. Even so, it's entirely worth it. It gives people something to look/listen to while bs'ing, drinking, playing. I also dont have to play bartender and fiddle around with multiple DVD's of vids every hour. 200 music vids last quite a long time.

Thanks,
Mike
www.HabosArcade.com

You could also mix in old video game commercials and such. That would give it a lot more of a "real MTV" feel instead of just some music videos.

www.keepvid.com

Just paste a YouTube URL into it and snag the best resolution. Then dump them all to dvd, either as MP4's or make a movie with chapters so you can put it on constant play.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_3_10

Yeah, I have a couple sets of discs like these and they are great but not very long. I wanted to put in a mega mix of sorts...set it and forget it.

I too eventually want to do this (already started pulling down videos from youtube). There is software (digital jukeboxes) you can run that will manage it like a DJ, but most likely I'll just have a basic PC hooked up to an LCD, and just drag n drop a folder of videos into VLC player, and hit the random button. The only thing that would be nice about real software, I think you can program it so it plays so many of one folder in a row, then plays a video from another folder. That way you could have a more MTV feel by playing an occasional retro commercial in between videos.

The video sounds like a good idea-I just went to Best Buy and bought a basic Sony receiver for $150. Then hooked it up to my computer with headphone jack and then hooked up huge JBL speakers and Energy sub woofer. It shakes the entire house. I run Pandora-they have 80's station and classic rock station,etc. No video-but does stream various artist full-time.

Sorry to bring up an old thread, but does anyone have a recommendation for a digital jukebox program for the PC? Is there one out there that actually looks and acts like a jukebox on the screen?

This is the best. It what I use and it is great:

Virtual music Jukebox.

http://www.mameroom.com/vmj/

Thanks Iceman!

Do you know if it works on Windows 7?