The music video quality from the iTunes Music Store is extremely poor. I hadn't bothered to buy one before, but I wanted the new Jay Z song and it was only available as a music video. The video quality is bearable, though far below DVD, or even other videos I've downloaded from other sources.

The sound, however, was okay on my iMac's internal speakers, but on headphones.. totally atrocious. It's worse than the AAC 128kbps used by iTMS music tracks, which makes no sense. I can live with 128kbps AAC, but when I came to buy the album on iTMS, "Show Me What You Got" is only supplied as a video. Therefore, the highlight of the album sounds like total shit, whereas the rest sounds okay (though still nowhere near CD quality). Since I already bought the album legitimately, I'm within my rights to go and download a high quality pirated CD rip, right?

It's crazy that we have to choose between convenience and quality on something so easily digitized. I'm not buying a custom-built car on 5 minutes' notice. All I want is a decent bit rate, well encoded, song or video, whatever that costs.