So I'm watching NOVA on PBS...

[katznhund]

And they're using music from Mass Effect, ME2 specifically. Just little clips but it's kind of weird and random.

This should be the link to watch it online: NOVA Doomsday Volcanoes. I noticed them in just the first 10 minutes or so

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[kyuusei]

Aw man, the video isn't available. :( But that might be because I'm in Canada...

Eh, not Mass Effect music in particular, but I do remember one Verizon commercial that used music really similar to the galaxy map theme and it weirded me out. I've also heard Two Steps from Hell music in other places. I know those songs don't *belong* to Mass Effect, but I tend to associate stuff like Heart of Courage and Protectors of the Earth with the ME trailers they're in. :)

[knight_ander]

How far into the show? I'm watching it now and there is some stuff at the four minute mark that would work well in Mass Effect, but isn't.

EDIT: 7:25 mark has the character creator screen music. "Horizon" at the 10:25 mark.

[katznhund]

I'm not crazy! DH though I was nuts saying it was ME music. He got bored and turned it off after 30 minutes so I don't know if there is more.

I was watching something else the other day where I could have sworn I heard some ME music but I don't remember what it was. Definitely didn't expect to hear it on PBS though.

[natsukaze]

My DH is interested in the video (his degree was in geology), but he'd be useless in identifying any ME music. Even when I had him listen to it at 7:25 and 10:25 and called out what the music was, he just stared at me blankly :\

[katznhund]

My DH thought it was too fluffy. He wanted more hard science. It just wasn't a topic I was overly interested in. We have different tastes in NOVA episodes sometimes.

[raptorix]

Now the question is: Did NOVA buy the rights to use this music? (IDK how music licenses are handled these days...)

Because it makes me remember how a soundtrack I distinctly remember from an old PS1-era Spyro game would be used in occasional low-budget documentaries on History channel years later...

[sinvraal]

I wonder if game music rights are actually a bit cheaper to buy? Especially a really old one. It's like how certain movies always seem to turn up on TV- they're probably cheaper to get rights for.

[morganskye]

There might be an educational exemption too. I hear a lot of anime/game music on public radio.

[katznhund]

I swear for a while it seemed like the Pirates of the Caribbean theme was everywhere.