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You're right that the highest standard is probably 8K, and I'd like to add at this point that 8K is probably about as high as 16mm will go. You can scan it at whatever resolution you like, but once you go past 8K, you're not really gaining any more useful picture information, and even going beyond ...

Threw...them...out??? Good Lord. That actually makes my stomach hurt. Why wouldn't they preserve them? Unfortunately at the time DB/Z/GT was airing on TV Toei had no intention of releasing the DB/Z/GT series on home video and felt they didn't need to preserve the original audio masters (and yet the...

Lookerman wrote:Was Q-Tec responsible for the redraws in Kai 1.0? I always thought that was probably Toei's Filipino studio's handiwork.

It was, all Q-Tec handled was the transfer, noise reduction, color correction, and film cleanup, the redrawn scenes were handled by Toei Animation's Filipino branch TAP.

Except I used my brief responses to your points as a jumping off point to make a larger point, with one big part of that being that neither of your points actually matter because of the larger point I was making. So how about, rather than debating the fine points of which parts of my post were dire...

I think that Funimation won't touch the other Dragon Boxes because even their biggest, most popular money-maker apparently didn't do well enough in sales to warrant more of them. "Sigh" I've said it before and I'll say it again we don't know how the Z DBOX's sold when they were released a...

The problem with that plot point is that it requires them ending the franchise's new material so the chances of it happening now are very slim to none. Not necessarily, Toryama could still make stories for what happens inbetween and it would work (Super's doing this for Z so the idea isn't entirely...

All 519 chapters could easily fit into 160 episodes. It took more than that for Z alone so there's no way they could do that and the original's 194 chapters as well. It only took more episodes because the manga was still in publication and Toei needed to fill up parts in-between in order to keep th...

For me a good dub is the following: 1 Scripting as faithful and accurate to the original as possible while still sounding and flowing naturally for the target dubbing language, and if something doesn't work culturally (like a certain joke or pun) I'm fine with taking liberties to make it more relata...

The only release of the DB/Z movies in Japan has been Dragon Box The Movies , and the later singles disc re-releases of those same versions, and they were all cropped to widescreen. Not true, The DB movies were released on VHS in Japan (I actually own a Japanese VHS copy of DB Movie 1) and the DBZ ...

I also wonder how they're going to get around the Satan crew being dead. If I remember correctly, those guys are in a lot of scenes where Mr.Satan is. Even if just in the background. Knowing Kaiser he's probably going to either have someone air brush the Satan crew out of the scenes where they'd ap...

You're forgetting how little Toei seem to care about the technical aspects of releases. If that's the case why don't they want R1 DVD releases of their shows to be R2 compatible as well? Funi have been releasing Blu-Rays of Z since 2011, and Toei has never tried to stop them. That's because FUNi ha...

There's nothing marketable about the Harmony Gold Dub. It was an utter flop (the reasons why don't really matter), only a select corner of fandom even know what it is. I disagree, the Harmony Gold dub would be somewhat marketable because of the fact most people don't know that it exists (that and i...

So... any news on the HG taped supposedly sent to FUNimation? To the best of my knowledge right now no-one knows where it currently is (Derek said that the tape might have been sent back to Toei and if that's the case more likely than not it was destroyed, on the other hand he also said it might ha...

That's what they had, and the TV networks especially wouldn't know the difference, so of course they aired it. It has little to do with the intended ratio. Except you're forgetting the fact that TV's at the time were all 4:3 so Toei would at the very least want to animate everything in 4:3 (which t...

I doubt the wish would've worked. Why not? Probably because Super Shenlong probably doesn't have enough power to grant that kind of a wish, don't forget the Omni-King is considered the most powerful creature in the DB universe (heck even Beerus trembles at the mere sight of him and he's a God of De...

The intended aspect ratio on the movies is actually not 4:3 but 1.85 widescreen. Episode of Bardock and History of Trunks were shown in theaters? I thought they were just TV specials, where the proper aspect ratio would be 4:3, since they would've been viewed on a television, rather than a cinema s...

There was a whole fiasco with Funi selling some DBZ-Boxes for "market" (scalped) prices at a convention a year or two ago, so I don't have high hopes for a re-release. Really? That really stinks if it is true. It's true: http://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=32056 And th...

They probably have it where the HD version uses the level set footage while the SD version uses the widescreen version (and what probably happened was you bought the SD version instead of the HD version which is why it looks like OB footage), that's how the PS3 PSN does it so I'd check on that and ...

Hmm when I try to play the Season 1 episodes, they look like Orange Brick footage. They probably have it where the HD version uses the level set footage while the SD version uses the widescreen version (and what probably happened was you bought the SD version instead of the HD version which is why ...

While the director in question is certainly entitled to their own opinion, I vehemently disagree with what he says on the basis that if the series was indeed "supposed to look like that to begin with" then it would have been that way from the start, but as we all know it wasn't, the series...