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Re: Dragon Ball Z "Seasons" Coming To Blu-ray (Updated 12/20

Post by Hellspawn28 » Sat Dec 28, 2013 4:12 pm

As for the Blu-Ray seasons, they still look like shit. Since Funi is running out of ideas for home video releases then I bet we will see Blu-Ray 3D season sets in the five or six years.
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Re: Dragon Ball Z "Seasons" Coming To Blu-ray (Updated 12/20

Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Sat Dec 28, 2013 4:18 pm

Man, am I glad that this set is being released as opposed the terrible level sets and dragon boxes and even the Orange Bricks (although later season's aren't that bad).

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Re: Dragon Ball Z "Seasons" Coming To Blu-ray (Updated 12/20

Post by SupremeSSJ » Sat Dec 28, 2013 4:20 pm

I'm pretty sure FUNi will probably treat the hardcore fans to another Dragon Box release or bring a special over.

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Re: Dragon Ball Z "Seasons" Coming To Blu-ray (Updated 12/20

Post by SupremeSSJ » Sat Dec 28, 2013 4:21 pm

Baggie_Saiyan wrote:Man, am I glad that this set is being released as opposed the terrible level sets and dragon boxes and even the Orange Bricks (although later season's aren't that bad).
What are you talking about?

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Re: Dragon Ball Z "Seasons" Coming To Blu-ray (Updated 12/20

Post by kei17 » Sat Dec 28, 2013 4:27 pm

So, is the last shot of the opening animation really the only instance of the selective cropping they say? Well, I'm not surprised because if you selectively crop 4:3 footage, you'll have to upscale it like Toei did to Kai. You have to scan only the center in 1080p or the entire image in higher resolution in order to produce a cropped version without upscale. Of corse, the former is a much cheaper way.
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Baggie_Saiyan wrote:Man, am I glad that this set is being released as opposed the terrible level sets and dragon boxes and even the Orange Bricks (although later season's aren't that bad).
What are you talking about?
His signature explains everything, I guess.
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Re: Dragon Ball Z "Seasons" Coming To Blu-ray (Updated 12/20

Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Sat Dec 28, 2013 4:30 pm

kei17 wrote:
SupremeSSJ wrote:
Baggie_Saiyan wrote:Man, am I glad that this set is being released as opposed the terrible level sets and dragon boxes and even the Orange Bricks (although later season's aren't that bad).
What are you talking about?
His signature explains everything I guess.
What do you mean by that, exactly?

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Re: Dragon Ball Z "Seasons" Coming To Blu-ray (Updated 12/20

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kei17 wrote:
SupremeSSJ wrote:
Baggie_Saiyan wrote:Man, am I glad that this set is being released as opposed the terrible level sets and dragon boxes and even the Orange Bricks (although later season's aren't that bad).
What are you talking about?
His signature explains everything I guess.
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Re: Dragon Ball Z "Seasons" Coming To Blu-ray (Updated 12/20

Post by AgitoZ » Sat Dec 28, 2013 4:53 pm

Baggie_Saiyan wrote:What do you mean by that, exactly?
You're signature includes a dub only line which gives the implications that you are a fan of FUNi's English dub. He's likely playing off the stereotype that dub only fans like FUNi's old dub due to ignorance. This would explain why you would have a signature of a line that completely screws up Goku's character and like an inferior release of DBZ.
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Re: Dragon Ball Z "Seasons" Coming To Blu-ray (Updated 12/20

Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Sat Dec 28, 2013 5:01 pm

AgitoZ wrote:
Baggie_Saiyan wrote:What do you mean by that, exactly?
You're signature includes a dub only line which gives the implications that you are a fan of FUNi's English dub. He's likely playing off the stereotype that dub only fans like FUNi's old dub due to ignorance. This would explain why you would have a signature of a line that completely screws up Goku's character and like an inferior release of DBZ.
Ignorance of what exactly?
And this release is far from inferior.

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Post by Gyt Kaliba » Sat Dec 28, 2013 5:12 pm

Yeah, can we not take potshots at people just because they happen to like a dub line? It is still possible to like certain lines out of context, even if they are inaccurate, which for all you know is the case here...
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Re: Dragon Ball Z "Seasons" Coming To Blu-ray (Updated 12/20

Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Sat Dec 28, 2013 5:17 pm

Yes, I'm completely aware how horrendous Funi's Z dub is (script wise) but that doesn't mean I can't like certain lines from it.

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Post by Kaboom » Sat Dec 28, 2013 5:19 pm

Gyt Kaliba wrote:Yeah, can we not take potshots at people just because they happen to like a dub line?
Agreed. Not really necessary. Nothing wrong with liking the line itself.

Thinking these BD sets are superior to the Levels or Dragon Boxes, on the other hand... *scratches head*
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Post by DBZGTKOSDH » Sat Dec 28, 2013 5:35 pm

Kaboom wrote:Thinking these BD sets are superior to the Levels or Dragon Boxes, on the other hand... *scratches head*
I disagree that they are superior, but I can see people liking these. Not everyone cares about the cropping, and there are people that prefer 16:9 because it fills the whole screen. There are also people who like brightness there, and also like the clean picture that has no grain. So, the series does look like it's more modern in a way. It's in 16:9, it has bright colors, and it doesn't have any grain on it.

But I (and most people here) don't want to lose so much picture, and don't want so bright colors, and don't mind the grain. We want to have as much picture as possible, the colors as close to the original as possible, and the grain because we don't care if the show looks old. Am I wrong?
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Re: Dragon Ball Z "Seasons" Coming To Blu-ray (Updated 12/20

Post by Dalesy » Sat Dec 28, 2013 5:36 pm

Baggie_Saiyan wrote:
AgitoZ wrote:
Baggie_Saiyan wrote:What do you mean by that, exactly?
You're signature includes a dub only line which gives the implications that you are a fan of FUNi's English dub. He's likely playing off the stereotype that dub only fans like FUNi's old dub due to ignorance. This would explain why you would have a signature of a line that completely screws up Goku's character and like an inferior release of DBZ.
Ignorance of what exactly?
And this release is far from inferior.
This release is far inferior to the Level Sets. So far, the only release that it seems to trump is the Orange Bricks. The video quality is piss poor, and the cropping is just a ridiculous idea.
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Re: Dragon Ball Z "Seasons" Coming To Blu-ray (Updated 12/20

Post by Gyt Kaliba » Sat Dec 28, 2013 5:42 pm

You guys really do need to keep in mind that just because you find it (IE the cropping) ridiculous, doesn't mean others do. I'm against it for the most part myself, but if that's what someone wants, it doesn't automatically make them an imbecile and deserving of all your hate. At least not in my opinion.

And while I do agree that the Level Sets looked better, there's one advantage that these sets have over those that can't be denied - the episode count. A lot of people (myself included on many things) like to get the most for our money, and going from sets that had a lot of episodes per set for a certain price (Season Sets and Dragon Boxes) to a release that has a lot fewer (Level Sets) was never going to be a winning proposition for a lot of people, no matter how good they look. These however are going to be a lot of episodes for a pretty good price, so that's going to entice people a little more.

Course there's also the fact that now it's been a good amount longer since the last release of DBZ than there was between the Season Sets, Dragon Boxes, and Level Sets, but that one is all on FUNi's head.
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Post by PhoenixEX » Sat Dec 28, 2013 6:22 pm

I'm almost certain that kei17 was originally referring to the second quote of his signature...
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Re: Dragon Ball Z "Seasons" Coming To Blu-ray (Updated 12/20

Post by Fizzer » Sat Dec 28, 2013 6:30 pm

People on this website need to realise that what looks, sounds or is "better" is entirely subjective in most cases, and stop making such a big deal out of it when someone voices an alternative opinion; it makes people feel uncomfortable. Artistic integrity is another issue, and I would, like most of you, prefer the Levels sets, but it's really not good when I see someone say they wouldn't and I KNOW someone is going to put them down, subtly or otherwise.

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Re: Dragon Ball Z "Seasons" Coming To Blu-ray (Updated 12/20

Post by Puto » Sat Dec 28, 2013 6:42 pm

Kaboom wrote:
Gyt Kaliba wrote:Yeah, can we not take potshots at people just because they happen to like a dub line?
Agreed. Not really necessary. Nothing wrong with liking the line itself.
For what it's worth, it's not a bad line, it's just completely OOC for *Gokū* of all people to be saying it.

I want to hear that line coming out of the Great Saiyaman's mouth. Now THAT would be cool.
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Post by KingofWisdom » Sat Dec 28, 2013 6:46 pm

Here's hoping this release makes enough money for FUNimation to rerelease the Dragon Box Z sets upscaled on Blu-ray (apologies to the people who pick this up without knowing any better). The first Blu-ray season is #28 on Amazon's best seller list for anime Blu-rays. I knew the loud minority would have no effect on the sales. The same exact thing happened with the Orange Bricks. I know it's not exactly topping the charts, but that's more than likely because people are satisfied with previous releases. On the other hand, for a series that's been milked as much as DBZ, these are selling quite good.
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Post by supersaiyan3 » Sat Dec 28, 2013 7:14 pm

Daimo-Rukiri wrote:
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Roland_ELoG wrote:The two potential bright spots are the possibility of better widescreen framing, and the possibility the grain removal won't annihilate facial detail.

But they're just potential bright spots, since the trailer didn't showcase any of that stuff.
Who knows, maybe the film itself this time is actually cleaner and more free of tape splicing, marks, and all of the other damages seen in the DVD season sets. That was my biggest problem with the Orange Bricks, it not only had completely center cropped footage, DVNR, bad and oversaturated colors, blinding brights, and badly mixed Japanese music with the English dialogue, but they didn't clean or restore the film before changing it. It still had dirt, hairs, scratches, everything. I'm not defending this new release or anything, but if I have anything good thing to say about this release, it's that it won't be quite as bad as the Orange Brick release, and that as the releases go by they'll get better overtime (OB Seasons 6-9 didn't look as bad as OB Seasons 1-5 did), you get more footage than the OBs (although it's still cropped), AND you won't get shit like this:
Now that people have the set, will anyone post the above nappa shot?
Sure. But does anybody happen to know what episode the Nappa shot is from? It's hard to tell from the context so it'd take me forever to find it

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