YouTube remasters videos by Lady Gaga, Nirvana, Beastie Boys, Janet Jackson...

YouTube Music and Universal Music Group have started a project of remastering a series of iconic music videos. The first group of videos to be remastered include works by Lady Gaga, Janet Jackson, Tom Petty, Nirvana ('Smells Like Teen Spirit' included), Beastie Boys (watch Sabotage' below), with new titles appearing each week, and over the next year they plan to upgrade nearly 1,000 music videos. Many of the classic videos were made for now-outmoded formats, resulting in poor video and audio quality on today’s high-definition screens. Remastering the videos meant recreating them using material from their original formats, as New York Times reports.