I don't watch many movies, but I 100000000000% agree that this is happening on streaming music platforms. It's straight up impossible to get a non-remastered v

I don't watch many movies, but I 100000000000% agree that this is happening on streaming music platforms. It's straight up impossible to get a non-remastered version of many titles on any platform, and having albums that you stream but don't own yanked out from under you at any time is common. Triply so if you're into niche stuff. Shit, even the mono recording of Beach Boy's _Pet Sounds_ is the 2001 remastered one! This is problematic when producers or studios decide to conveniently remove or replace tracks in re-releases, though I fortunately haven't run into this too often. Those albums were made with the equipment that was available at the time. In most situations, listening to remasters of those is like watching old movies with motion interpolation (or whatever it's called) on. It's _technically_ the same movie (or album), but it's also not. Try watching Popeye or any classic animation movie on a modern TV with its default settings. It's unwatchable (at least for me). The other frustrating element about this is that TVs were not designed with backwards-compatibility in mind. While I get that there are differences between CRT and LCD technology, you shouldn't have to buy a ton of hardware to use S-Video or RCA inputs these days. It's understandable for this to get cut in a market where cost matters more than anything else, but it still sucks shit that I can't "just" buy an old VCR and plug it in. Fortunately, audio hasn't changed very much in the last 50 years and audio equipment _was_ designed with backwards compatibility in mind. I can plug in some old big box speakers from the 70s into my Sonos Amp because it takes copper input, for example. Because of this, it's easy to get a record/cassette/CD player and get vinyls/tapes/CDs of important albums. Regardless, it's a shame that streaming became what it is today (ultra convenient, but easy to manipulate and alter), and complaining about details like this feels like screaming into the void and it sucks. (Audio quality is at the bottom of the list of things that people listening to 10s samples on TikTok through their iPhone/Galaxy/Pixel front speaker give a shit about)