So today I noticed that the 13 Dragon Ball Z movies were streaming in HD on Amazon.
"What's this? An all new remaster?" I pondered to myself. Well, let's just cut to the chase. It's the exact Dragon Box footage with some upscale and DNR.
Here are some comparison shots of the movie Dead Zone:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/124912
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/124913
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/124914
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/124917
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/124918
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/124919
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/124920
Leave your comments and opinions below. Am I right or full of it? Or both perhaps?
But either way, I posted this in the hopes that anyone considering buying or even renting the streams would reconsider after seeing this atrocity.
DO NOT buy the movies on Amazon Video (Japan)
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Was the hate for Kai largely unjustified?
Super Saiyan Prime wrote:It's an edited, cynically produced, cheap recut with a poorly utilized ancient score and awful scene recreations that later got traded in for a weird green tint.
The story of Kai's production is far more interesting than the actual product.
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Re: DO NOT buy the movies on Amazon Video (Japan)
Yikes, it looks like FUNimation's green brick footage.
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Definitely filtered in some way; look at those halos around the edges!
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sd upscale to fit hd (screenshot as i don't have the straight image) it's almost the same resolution as i surely crop 4 pixels
it's the same footage with just a simple upscaled to HD resolution , Toei just use DNR like they love doing on their HD (Saint seiya and co)
haloing was already on the sd footage if you carefully watch i think that the DNR make it more visible as the line aren't even sharpener than sd
it is worth talking about that cause it show 2 things
- Toei could use Funimation True HD transfer but choose to keep their use (upscaling with DNR) so they don't care about dragon ball quality
- If they truly planned to release the series here what you'll get as movies are cheapest to restore than 508 episodes if i correctly count them
it's the same footage with just a simple upscaled to HD resolution , Toei just use DNR like they love doing on their HD (Saint seiya and co)
haloing was already on the sd footage if you carefully watch i think that the DNR make it more visible as the line aren't even sharpener than sd
it is worth talking about that cause it show 2 things
- Toei could use Funimation True HD transfer but choose to keep their use (upscaling with DNR) so they don't care about dragon ball quality
- If they truly planned to release the series here what you'll get as movies are cheapest to restore than 508 episodes if i correctly count them
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Re: DO NOT buy the movies on Amazon Video (Japan)
Thanks for the warning, this probably explains why Movie 10 looked the way it did on Toei's 60th Anniversary YouTube channel:Arian wrote:So today I noticed that the 13 Dragon Ball Z movies were streaming in HD on Amazon.
"What's this? An all new remaster?" I pondered to myself. Well, let's just cut to the chase. It's the exact Dragon Box footage with some upscale and DNR.
Here are some comparison shots of the movie Dead Zone:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/124912
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/124913
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/124914
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/124917
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/124918
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/124919
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/124920
Leave your comments and opinions below. Am I right or full of it? Or both perhaps?
But either way, I posted this in the hopes that anyone considering buying or even renting the streams would reconsider after seeing this atrocity.
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Re: DO NOT buy the movies on Amazon Video (Japan)
Seems to be the same upscale that aired on Animax a few years ago, and that's been available on iTunes Japan for a while, too.Arian wrote:So today I noticed that the 13 Dragon Ball Z movies were streaming in HD on Amazon.
"What's this? An all new remaster?" I pondered to myself. Well, let's just cut to the chase. It's the exact Dragon Box footage with some upscale and DNR.
Here are some comparison shots of the movie Dead Zone:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/124912
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/124913
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/124914
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/124917
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/124918
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/124919
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/124920
Leave your comments and opinions below. Am I right or full of it? Or both perhaps?
But either way, I posted this in the hopes that anyone considering buying or even renting the streams would reconsider after seeing this atrocity.
Blue wrote:I love how Season 2 is so off color even the box managed to be so.