What EXACTLY are PVs???

It's just the Japanese expression for "music video". They say "puromoshon bideo" ("promotion[al] video"), and sometimes abbreviate it as "PV". I guess people just correspond the music videos of one country with the word that country uses.

[Dustie]

Originally Posted by evolusean

It's just the Japanese expression for "music video". They say "puromoshon bideo" ("promotion[al] video"), and sometimes abbreviate it as "PV". I guess people just correspond the music videos of one country with the word that country uses.

i think they're just calling it they way it should be called -- after all, a "music video" is nothing else than an advertisement/commercial of an artist (and MTV is a channel that broadcasts commercials almost 24/7) used for nothing else than promotion... that's all it is. that's why it's promotion video. a video to promote.

[Sweer]

Originally Posted by Dustie

i think they're just calling it they way it should be called -- after all, a "music video" is nothing else than an advertisement/commercial of an artist (and MTV is a channel that broadcasts commercials almost 24/7) used for nothing else than promotion... that's all it is. that's why it's promotion video. a video to promote.

I dont know what MTV is like in the USA or erlsewhere, but I havent watched MTV in germany for like half a year now, cause all they show are annoying mobile phone ringtone/wallpaper/game/etc. commercials and maybe 6 hours of music a day. And that just aint my idea of a music station.

Anyways: PV = MV