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- Sat Dec 03, 2022 7:32 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: AB Video to release original Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
- Replies: 514
- Views: 74891
Re: AB Video to release OG Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
Is there a reason why AB didn't used the ProRes Dbox masters ? They couldn't get them in time - the Toei communication and approval process is exceptionally slow. Rather than use Selecta Vision's release, they decided it was better to use the materials they had and produce the best upscale they cou...
- Sat Dec 03, 2022 7:13 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: AB Video to release original Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
- Replies: 514
- Views: 74891
Re: AB Video to release OG Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
I do love the idea that this is somehow up for debate. It is an upscale. The very people involved in its production told me in detail how it was done. I've relayed that here. Even if I hadn't, it's so obviously an upscale that the debate is baffling in the first place. AI invents detail all the time...
- Sat Dec 03, 2022 5:03 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: AB Video to release original Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
- Replies: 514
- Views: 74891
Re: AB Video to release OG Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
eledoremassis02 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 4:57 pm
Do you know if it was from European DVDs or the Japanese DVDs . If the compression is as different as the JPvsFUNi dvds (for z) that could effect it quite a lot
The Japanese ones
- Sat Dec 03, 2022 4:38 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: AB Video to release original Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
- Replies: 514
- Views: 74891
Re: AB Video to release OG Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
It is an upscale from the DVD master, yeah. DBOX ~> DNR + MPEG2 artifact filtering ~> AI upscale ~> regrain Did SV made theirs from the same source? No, SV made theirs from the actual ProRes Dragon Box masters, while AB Groupe used the already encoded DBOX DVDs hence the issues with the dark detail...
- Sat Dec 03, 2022 10:45 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: AB Video to release original Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
- Replies: 514
- Views: 74891
Re: AB Video to release OG Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
It is an upscale from the DVD master, yeah.
DBOX ~> DNR + MPEG2 artifact filtering ~> AI upscale ~> regrain
DBOX ~> DNR + MPEG2 artifact filtering ~> AI upscale ~> regrain
- Thu Dec 01, 2022 11:42 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: AB Video to release original Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
- Replies: 514
- Views: 74891
Re: AB Video to release OG Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
Glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for the kind words. I'm hoping a lot of people will pick this up. I think regardless of whether you can play it or even understand it without subs, it's one of the products that's worth importing if you can thanks to its importance. Supporting AB Groupe's decision ...
- Thu Nov 24, 2022 4:12 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: AB Video to release original Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
- Replies: 514
- Views: 74891
- Thu Nov 24, 2022 1:23 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: AB Video to release original Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
- Replies: 514
- Views: 74891
Re: AB Video to release OG Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
Just for clarity, AstroRes is a company and not a program. They have their own proprietary method of tackling things. I also entirely disagree about that A-Ko upscale being better than DB's. It looks like a bigger upgrade at a glance as the source is worse, but the actual final results are far more ...
- Tue Nov 22, 2022 4:12 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: AB Video to release original Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
- Replies: 514
- Views: 74891
Re: AB Video to release OG Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
This release has made the DBOX completely irrelevant. Wow.
- Tue Nov 22, 2022 3:27 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: AB Video to release original Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
- Replies: 514
- Views: 74891
Re: AB Video to release OG Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
I did - https://twitter.com/AnimeAjay/status/15 ... 3300958208fabrebatalla18 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 3:22 pm Can someone compare it with the Spanish BD? I'm curious if they used the same upscale.
It's not the same. The Spanish one is awful.
- Tue Nov 22, 2022 3:03 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: AB Video to release original Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
- Replies: 514
- Views: 74891
Re: AB Video to release OG Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
Is it me, or is it slightly vertically stretched? Or is it correct and the JP DVD is horizontally stretched? The person who posted the DBOX shots there didn't capture them in their display aspect ratio, instead he used their storage resolution. They're the same when displayed correctly - https://im...
- Tue Nov 22, 2022 2:40 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: AB Video to release original Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
- Replies: 514
- Views: 74891
Re: AB Video to release OG Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
Can't believe France saved Dragon Ball.
- Mon Oct 24, 2022 5:38 am
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: "Dragon Ball Super" Series Official Announcement & Discussion Thread
- Replies: 76013
- Views: 8771751
Re: "Dragon Ball Super" Series Official Announcement & Discussion Thread
Two of those sources are historically correct (Ajay and Geekdom), so yeah, I'm pretty sure things did in fact just change. The opposite is true. The most major "leak" by Ajay and Geekdom is the reason we are so skeptical of this one. They double and triple downed that it was coming back a...
- Fri Sep 16, 2022 12:55 pm
- Forum: Fan-Created Works
- Topic: Dragon Ball Recut [COMPLETE], Dragon Ball Kai Recut [COMPLETE]
- Replies: 690
- Views: 441771
Re: Dragon Ball Recut [COMPLETE], Dragon Ball Kai Recut [WIP, Saiyan to Cell COMPLETE], Dragon Ball Z Recut [WIP]
Do we have any confirmation milkman is still working on this? Last post from him was over a year ago and it sounded like he was close to being done, and then nothing after that. He's waiting for SoM to finish their colour correction project before finishing Z and releasing the final version of DB R...
- Wed Sep 14, 2022 1:04 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Fan group scanning/remastering of multi-generational film prints previously owned by FUNimation
- Replies: 70
- Views: 8191
Re: Fan group scanning/remastering of multi-generational film prints previously owned by FUNimation
Shouldn't there be loads of very obvious tape marks on shot changes if no restoration was carried out? I know for the TV show, they would basically glue or tape each shot together after its film strip was developed, so you get huge marks at the top of the first frame and the bottom of the last fram...
- Mon Sep 12, 2022 5:35 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Fan group scanning/remastering of multi-generational film prints previously owned by FUNimation
- Replies: 70
- Views: 8191
Re: Fan group scanning/remastering of multi-generational film prints previously owned by FUNimation
That's only really half true. They're all storyboarded and animated using 4:3 layouts, but it was the later ones that started using 16:9 guides on top of the 4:3 frames to ensure it worked in both formats. Those don't exist on the early films, so they're 100% created for fullscreen and shouldn't be ...
- Mon Sep 12, 2022 3:57 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Fan group scanning/remastering of multi-generational film prints previously owned by FUNimation
- Replies: 70
- Views: 8191
Re: Fan group scanning/remastering of multi-generational film prints previously owned by FUNimation
It's worth nothing that Kineko didn't actually do any restoration yet, they just scanned and cropped it.
You can pull out that dark detail from their print just fine:
You can pull out that dark detail from their print just fine:
- Thu Aug 25, 2022 3:36 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Disposal of old FUNimation DBZ film reel
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1957
Re: so uhh Sony threw away funimations dragon ball film
This isn't anything to do with Sony or CrunchyRoll. These prints were discarded in 2008/2009, shortly after Funimation produced their remasters for the double feature Blu-rays. This particular reel came from Allied Vaughn who are company that provide reel scanning . It's likely Funimation used their...
- Fri Sep 03, 2021 9:49 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Did Dragon Ball inspire animators?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 714
Re: Did Dragon Ball inspire animators?
People like Chikashi Kubota and Yuya Takahashi grew up watching Dragon Ball and then went on to make major marks on the series with their contributions to modern content. Kubota realised he wanted to animate while watching Dragon Ball. He became friends with Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru later in a life, to ...
- Fri Jun 04, 2021 10:31 am
- Forum: Website & Community Discussion
- Topic: “I’m pretty cozy, here...”
- Replies: 62
- Views: 22165
Re: “I’m pretty cozy, here...”
I take it to mean that users who've had accounts long enough that are 1000+ posts are cozy being part of the forum and website as a whole. That's what it means, but the comma usage is unnecessary and incorrect. It's always bothered me but it's part of the forum history at this point and I don't wan...