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AjayLikesGaming wrote:This just makes me upset. Don't support shitty products 'just because'. You won't get the releases you want if you do that. You tell FUNi it's acceptable, they'll keep on believing it.
Not doing it just because. I'm interested in these a bit now, I'd watch it in english as it still feels weird to hear the Japanese on any bluray (werid I know lol). I'll probably get bored of them and sell em off later anyway Plus if I can get a good deal used for em then FUNi wont see a penny lol. I do hope we get another level set type thingy down the road tho
Baggie_Saiyan wrote:
This will probably make you more upset mate but have you had a look at Amazon.com's best selling anime list? These sets are constantly within the top 10, I expected them to drop in sales by now but nope.
Oh, I know. It's a totally fruitless effort. It's a cheap, easy way to own the series and it looks better than the orange bricks. I was more just commenting on those buying in on a whim or whatever you want to call it.
Baggie_Saiyan wrote:
This will probably make you more upset mate but have you had a look at Amazon.com's best selling anime list? These sets are constantly within the top 10, I expected them to drop in sales by now but nope.
Oh, I know. It's a totally fruitless effort. It's a cheap, easy way to own the series and it looks better than the orange bricks. I was more just commenting on those buying in on a whim or whatever you want to call it.
We'll I wont be buying them anytime soon cause amazon seems to have a low stock...and Best buy only has 1 copy of the last 2 sets left
I've been thinking about getting the Trunks and Bardock double feature on BD. Can anyone confirm or deny whether or not that 2-disc set is truly better than the original DVD version? Is it just as good as the new DBZ season sets in terms of picture quality?
Ultimate_DB_Fan wrote:I've been thinking about getting the Trunks and Bardock double feature on BD. Can anyone confirm or deny whether or not that 2-disc set is truly better than the original DVD version? Is it just as good as the new DBZ season sets in terms of picture quality?
The Blu-Rays are a substantial upgrade in terms of the Audio regardless of the Picture quality. It's worth it just for that.
Ultimate_DB_Fan wrote:I've been thinking about getting the Trunks and Bardock double feature on BD. Can anyone confirm or deny whether or not that 2-disc set is truly better than the original DVD version? Is it just as good as the new DBZ season sets in terms of picture quality?
The Blu-Rays are a substantial upgrade in terms of the Audio regardless of the Picture quality. It's worth it just for that.
Ultimate_DB_Fan wrote:I've been thinking about getting the Trunks and Bardock double feature on BD. Can anyone confirm or deny whether or not that 2-disc set is truly better than the original DVD version? Is it just as good as the new DBZ season sets in terms of picture quality?
The Blu-Rays are a substantial upgrade in terms of the Audio regardless of the Picture quality. It's worth it just for that.
Thanks!
He is wrong the blu-rays have 20% of the picture cropped out! Significant amount of the special is missing.
Btown Saiyan wrote:Caved and bought season's 8 & 9 this morning on amazon. Really been wanting to watch the Majin/Buu saga's lately. Good job amazon, you got me.
noooo you should of bought it from funimation! They have a sale for 18.99 each blu ray season set. I saw amazon raised the price for 9 back to 44 bucks!
Saiyan_nation_ wrote:They have a sale for 18.99 each blu ray season set.
Honestly, $18 is about as much as these sets are worth in my opinion. $50 MSRP on a set of episodes featuring a "meh, let's just get it done" remastering process is asking too much. At least we get some decent-sounding Japanese audio from the new BRs.
Nothing matters (in a cosmic sense.) Have a good time.
Btown Saiyan wrote:Caved and bought season's 8 & 9 this morning on amazon. Really been wanting to watch the Majin/Buu saga's lately. Good job amazon, you got me.
noooo you should of bought it from funimation! They have a sale for 18.99 each blu ray season set. I saw amazon raised the price for 9 back to 44 bucks!
You do realize that he bought those Blu Rays 3 months ago. It wasn't recently
These Blu Ray Sets would be a lot more worth it if it went under the $200 range and I am really surprised the Blu Rays have been staying around the same price for so long on most major stores excluding Funimation.
Just waiting for the right time to get them, bet I have to wait a year and by that time Final Chapters will release...
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Ultimate_DB_Fan wrote:I've been thinking about getting the Trunks and Bardock double feature on BD. Can anyone confirm or deny whether or not that 2-disc set is truly better than the original DVD version? Is it just as good as the new DBZ season sets in terms of picture quality?
The Blu-Rays are a substantial upgrade in terms of the Audio regardless of the Picture quality. It's worth it just for that.
Thanks!
He is wrong the blu-rays have 20% of the picture cropped out! Significant amount of the special is missing.
Saiyan_nation_ wrote:noooo you should of bought it from funimation! They have a sale for 18.99 each blu ray season set. I saw amazon raised the price for 9 back to 44 bucks!
You do realize that he bought those Blu Rays 3 months ago. It wasn't recently
These Blu Ray Sets would be a lot more worth it if it went under the $200 range and I am really surprised the Blu Rays have been staying around the same price for so long on most major stores excluding Funimation.
Just waiting for the right time to get them, bet I have to wait a year and by that time Final Chapters will release...
Lmao no didn't realize it actually. Well people now ya know, bought the last two seasons from funi to complete my blu ray set hell of a deal.
Lance Heiskell wrote:Majority of surveys voted 4:3. Then it was ignored internally. Past sales of 16:9 sold better than 4:3.
"Kenshi is sitting down right now drawing his mutated spaghetti monsters thinking he's the shit..."--Neptune Kai "90% of you here don't even know what you're talking about (there are a few that do). But the things you say about these releases are nonsense and just plain dumb. Like you Metalwario64"--final_flash
Lance Heiskell wrote:Majority of surveys voted 4:3. Then it was ignored internally. Past sales of 16:9 sold better than 4:3.
Astonishing. I honestly don't think the AR would have mattered at all, it's all about the price I think these would have sold just aswell in 4x3. I also read somewhere that 16x9 is easier to do than 4x3 since they have to encode the black bars manually or something like that if that is true then I guess that might another reason they went with 16x9.
Lance Heiskell wrote:Majority of surveys voted 4:3. Then it was ignored internally. Past sales of 16:9 sold better than 4:3.
Wow. Now I'm glad I didn't purchase any of these past Season One.
Sorry, guys. I love FUNimation, but I won't support another BR of original DBZ TV unless it's 4:3. (Kai and the new movies are of course, the exception; not being the original TV series.)
Nothing matters (in a cosmic sense.) Have a good time.
Lance Heiskell wrote:Majority of surveys voted 4:3. Then it was ignored internally. Past sales of 16:9 sold better than 4:3.
Are you kidding me!?
FUNimation, I've always supported you and the franchise, but there is no way I can support bollocks like this. This is Executive Meddling at its worst.
Spoiler:
Akira Toriyama wrote:My policy is to try and forget things once they’re over. Since if I don’t discard the old and focus on what’s new, I’ll overload my brain capacity. I still haven’t lived down going, “Who the heck is Tao Pai-pai?” that one time I was talking with Ei’ichiro Oda-kun. But the fact that there are still people reading the series after all this time… All I can say is; “thank you.” Really, that’s all.
Akira Toriyama wrote:Drawing Dragon Ball again reminded me of two things--how much I love it, and how much I never want to do it again.
Kunzait_83 wrote:And if you're upset because all this new material completely invalidates the tabletop RPG rulebook-sized statistical system and flowchart for the characters' "canonical Power Levels" that you'd been working on painstakingly for the last bunch of years now... well I don't think there's a kind, non-blunt way of saying this, but that's 100% entirely your own misguided fault for buying so deeply into all this nonsensical garbage in the first place. And that you also have IMMENSELY skewed and comically backwards priorities in what you think is most important and needed to make a good Dragon Ball story.
Zephyr wrote:Goodness, they wrote idiotic drivel in a children's cartoon meant to advertise toys!? Again!? For the ninetieth episode in a row!? Somebody stop the presses! We have to voice our concern over these Super important issues!
Kamiccolo9 wrote:Fair enough, I concede. Sean Schemmel probably has some kind of hidden talent. Maybe he is an expert at Minesweeper. You're right; calling him "talentless" wasn't fair.
Michsi wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.
Lance Heiskell wrote:Majority of surveys voted 4:3. Then it was ignored internally. Past sales of 16:9 sold better than 4:3.
Wow so it turns out funimation did not listen to the fans. They just cared about the sales and how much money they were making off the orange bricks and used that as a factor to crop BDs into 16:9. I voted for 4:3 on that survey but I don't mind the cropping they did on the BDs.
He was FUNimation's marketing director from 2002-2011 according to ANN.
"Kenshi is sitting down right now drawing his mutated spaghetti monsters thinking he's the shit..."--Neptune Kai "90% of you here don't even know what you're talking about (there are a few that do). But the things you say about these releases are nonsense and just plain dumb. Like you Metalwario64"--final_flash
Plus if I can get a good deal used for em then FUNi wont see a penny lol. I do hope we get another level set type thingy down the road tho
