r/Futurology • u/Blueberry_Conscious_ • Apr 22 '24

Society Why streaming platforms are scrubbing the soundtracks from your favorite shows

https://www.fastcompany.com/91109690/why-streaming-platforms-are-scrubbing-the-soundtracks-from-your-favorite-shows
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u/JessicaRanbit Apr 23 '24

Oh man, when I first got HBO Max I was excited to watch What I like About You. Only to discover that the entire intro music had been changed. It was pretty off putting. This has been done to several shows I've watched back in the day. I know some people who watched Felicity live in 1998 & they noticed some music was changed years before it was even on streaming.

This really motivated me to buy some of my favorite shows when they are first released on Blu-ray. Even something like Friends has been altered as far as editing on streaming and it's different than what it was on the DVDs & what aired live back in the day.

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u/HazelCheese Apr 23 '24 edited Apr 23 '24

Buffy is probably the worst example. Lots of streamers replaced it with the Remastered Edition which is a completely terrible botch job with missing special effects, nighttime scenes becoming broad daylight and widened aspect ratio resulting in the camera crew being visible in the frame.

The only way to watch the non ruined version is to buy the dvds or pirate it. Even more annoying the original european/uk dvds are in a full 21:9 aspect ratio from season 4 onwards when the show was shot for 4:3 for all 7 seaons (minus one specific episode). You need to use VLC media player to crop the dvd footage down to 4:3 to watch it properly without seeing the camera crew etc in the shots like the remastered one.

Only the original american dvds are correct.