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Post by SupremeSSJ » Sat Aug 11, 2018 1:27 pm

Can anyone tell me how to order off amazon, I can't understand anything :crazy:

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SupremeSSJ wrote:Can anyone tell me how to order off amazon, I can't understand anything :crazy:
Set the interface to english: https://www.amazon.co.jp/?language=en_US

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Post by jjgp1112 » Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:08 pm

Watching movie 7 and yeah...it was pushed wayyyyy too far towards yellow and blue, and it creates more problems in itself. Movies 1-3, 5, 8, and 12 got the best balance down, and there's a consistency between all of them too. I haven't checked Movies 10 and 11 because fuck those movies.
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Post by DHM211 » Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:35 pm

jjgp1112 wrote:Watching movie 7 and yeah...it was pushed wayyyyy too far towards yellow and blue, and it creates more problems in itself. Movies 1-3, 5, 8, and 12 got the best balance down, and there's a consistency between all of them too. I haven't checked Movies 10 and 11 because fuck those movies.
Honestly, Movie 5 is a little off balance as well. It's too Yellow(not to the extent of movies 7 & 9), and a little too dark.
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Post by MadSpecialist » Sun Aug 12, 2018 2:01 pm

What could these remasters mean for Dragon Box - The Movies?

Since they're evidently no longer the most superior transfers available in Japan, perhaps now they'll be given an international English-subtitled release? Especially if the lack of Japanese video angles in Funimation/Madman/MangaUK's last DVD releases of the movies were possibly due to reduce reverse importing?

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Post by Dragon Ball Ireland » Sun Aug 12, 2018 3:24 pm

I definitely think the ship has sailed on a western release of Dragon Box - The Movies. Sure they would be nice to display on a shelf beside the US Dragon Boxes, but its an SD remaster, if Funimation licences these masters for a new release (which is highly likely) there's no question it would be much better value for money than a new DVD set.
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Post by sangofe » Sun Aug 12, 2018 3:59 pm

MadSpecialist wrote:What could these remasters mean for Dragon Box - The Movies?

Since they're evidently no longer the most superior transfers available in Japan, perhaps now they'll be given an international English-subtitled release? Especially if the lack of Japanese video angles in Funimation/Madman/MangaUK's last DVD releases of the movies were possibly due to reduce reverse importing?
What's even the use of that anymore?

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Post by JohnnyCashKami » Sun Aug 12, 2018 7:07 pm

Quite the surprise TOEI subtlety got out, not even a trailer, celebration, anniversary or anything.. just straight to Amazon Prime Video / Netflix and later it'll be on Blu-ray. A bit of a shame, really. This is something that they could have gotten people really hyped about since these are way better than the garbage 'HD' movies FUNimation put on Blu-ray of Dragon Ball Z.

FUNimation never bothered to publish Dragon Ball movies 1-4 on Blu-ray themselves though at the very least, they gave the footage to a Mexican company whom have put it on retail. Never mind now either, if they release the DB movies 1-4 it'll be using TOEI's footage and some FUNimation "magic" like they did with Kai (talking about "improving" the picture quality than English title cards).
MadSpecialist wrote:What could these remasters mean for Dragon Box - The Movies?

Since they're evidently no longer the most superior transfers available in Japan, perhaps now they'll be given an international English-subtitled release? Especially if the lack of Japanese video angles in Funimation/Madman/MangaUK's last DVD releases of the movies were possibly due to reduce reverse importing?
No company really uses dual video angles anymore, these days, that's a thing of the past and it's kind of irrelevant to even bring up Manga UK. Manga UK simply takes what Madman has already authored the DVD and Blu-ray counterparts for PAL use (R2-R4/B). If it wasn't for the fact that Madman went through the trouble of making a Region B release of Dragon Ball Z: The Final Chapters then you think Manga UK would have bothered? Nope, they take what's done and use a slightly MangaUK-fied cover.

Manga UK is like the bottom of the barrel.

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Post by MadSpecialist » Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:35 am

Dragon Ball Ireland wrote:I definitely think the ship has sailed on a western release of Dragon Box - The Movies. Sure they would be nice to display on a shelf beside the US Dragon Boxes, but its an SD remaster, if Funimation licences these masters for a new release (which is highly likely) there's no question it would be much better value for money than a new DVD set.
That's valid and I suppose it's just wishful thinking on my part. You could even argue that these new remasters could end up like Dragon Box - The Movies and be exclusive to Japan. Funimation/Madman/Manga already have Blu-ray releases of the movies, but Japan hasn't up until now.

In the event that we do get new Blu-rays, if the original Japanese titles and credits aren't included, I wouldn't even consider picking them up.
sangofe wrote:What's even the use of that anymore?
Even a limited release would be appreciated at this point. Although we don't have to worry about anything going untranslated thanks to Kanzenshuu, it would (still) be momentous to have a chance at owning the teasers, trailers, digests, movies and books themselves translated. On the other hand, as it's been over 10 years since its release, anybody outside of Japan who really wanted them would've imported or pirated the box by now.
JohnnyCashKami wrote:No company really uses dual video angles anymore, these days, that's a thing of the past and it's kind of irrelevant to even bring up Manga UK. Manga UK simply takes what Madman has already authored the DVD and Blu-ray counterparts for PAL use (R2-R4/B). If it wasn't for the fact that Madman went through the trouble of making a Region B release of Dragon Ball Z: The Final Chapters then you think Manga UK would have bothered? Nope, they take what's done and use a slightly MangaUK-fied cover.

Manga UK is like the bottom of the barrel.
It's a shame video angles aren't really used anymore, it's what made those initial Funimation single releases of the series and movies accessible to fans of both the English and Japanese versions. Even if they're mostly just repackaging what's already out there, Manga are still worth mentioning as they're solely responsible for making Dragon Ball releases available in the UK.

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Post by GoldenThunder » Mon Aug 13, 2018 10:45 am

MadSpecialist wrote:it would (still) be momentous to have a chance at owning the teasers, trailers, digests, movies
I think the Blu-rays will have these. Better yet, they'll probably be in HD this time, since we've seen Toei have already done HD remasters of the original trailers.

I'm just kind of diappointed that these movies are coming out in pairs on a single disc. It means we won't be seeing both a 4:3 version and 16:9 version of each movie. But 17 discs for just the movies is too much of an ask, I guess.

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Post by HakkaiBills93 » Mon Aug 13, 2018 12:26 pm

GoldenThunder wrote:
MadSpecialist wrote:it would (still) be momentous to have a chance at owning the teasers, trailers, digests, movies
I think the Blu-rays will have these. Better yet, they'll probably be in HD this time, since we've seen Toei have already done HD remasters of the original trailers.

I'm just kind of diappointed that these movies are coming out in pairs on a single disc. It means we won't be seeing both a 4:3 version and 16:9 version of each movie. But 17 discs for just the movies is too much of an ask, I guess.
they are listed on amazon.co.jp
it said trailer, digest and creditless but for what i checked it's 100% the same extra as the dragon movie box, no more no less
i think that only some digest will be, some like those who looked like movies 9 13 10 11 won't be remastered like it wasn't in dragon movie box

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Post by GoldenThunder » Mon Aug 13, 2018 8:13 pm

DHM211 wrote:Image
(The greens are a little different but its pretty accurate).
Doesn't really look like you matched Kai. The Kai look is all about maximizing the dynamic range while mostly keeping it bright.

Here's my attempt to make it look like Kai:
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It's very hard to do what Q-Tec did with the film reels at hand. e.g. my lines end up getting kind of washed up because of the brightening but theirs doesn't.

And for that authentic Kai look, sum degrainin'
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I didn't try to match the actual Kai shot, though. For some reason on my monitor the skin looks a little too green, so I'm guessing for some my one's skin will look a little too red.

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Post by LordCrumb » Tue Aug 14, 2018 1:53 am

Nooooo!!! don't ever DNR a Dragon Ball image. It makes my head hurt! No one should ever encourage DNRing :wink:

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Post by GoldenThunder » Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:29 am

LordCrumb wrote:Nooooo!!! don't ever DNR a Dragon Ball image. It makes my head hurt! No one should ever encourage DNRing :wink:
Yep, no encouragement to DNR the movies. Just showing how, with this coloring, it could look like genuine Kai with that bit of degraining.

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Post by Robo4900 » Tue Aug 14, 2018 10:28 am

I don't see the appeal in making it look like Kai. For one, I don't think the colours were any better in Kai compared to this movie master, and for two, the DNR pretty much ruined all semblance of actual high-def detail in the picture, and was part of the effort in Kai to modernise it which often ended up trying to scrub away the texture of the cel drawings and the film, just to a lesser extent than Funi's attempts at this, so I'll be happy to put that behind us, and enjoy a Dragon Ball release with actually nice colours for once, and with proper respect paid to the original production of the show for the first time since the DBox movies back in 2006, and I really hope Toei extends this brilliance to the series soon.
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Post by JohnnyCashKami » Wed Aug 15, 2018 5:01 pm

Don't the TOEI HD DB-Z movies remastered look a bit too zoomed in for anyone else? At least they look gorgeous in high definition and the cropping's done right unlike Funimation's endless attempts.

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Post by DHM211 » Wed Aug 15, 2018 5:29 pm

JohnnyCashKami wrote:Don't the TOEI HD DB-Z movies remastered look a bit too zoomed in for anyone else? At least they look gorgeous in high definition and the cropping's done right unlike Funimation's endless attempts.
It’s not really that Toei zoomed in more, it’s that Funi zoomed out as much as they could.

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Post by nosferatu » Wed Aug 15, 2018 7:01 pm

hope they remaster db and z properly would pay anything.

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Post by JohnnyCashKami » Thu Aug 16, 2018 11:09 am

nosferatu wrote:hope they remaster db and z properly would pay anything.
Seems unlikely. One thing's to remaster 17 movies and another is to remaster 511 episodes (DB, DBZ, DBGT, + DBZ 2 TV-Specials & DBGT TV-Special) unless you then also throw in the Dragon Ball health and safety specials and all that. Even if they were just to remaster DB and DBZ, that'd still be 444 episodes, overall.

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Post by nosferatu » Thu Aug 16, 2018 11:11 am

JohnnyCashKami wrote:
nosferatu wrote:hope they remaster db and z properly would pay anything.
Seems unlikely. One thing's to remaster 17 movies and another is to remaster 511 episodes (DB, DBZ, DBGT, + DBZ 2 TV-Specials & DBGT TV-Special) unless you then also throw in the Dragon Ball health and safety specials and all that. Even if they were just to remaster DB and DBZ, that'd still be 444 episodes, overall.
then at least dragon box for db and movies and well reprint for z. since i cant buy in europe even offered 1300 euro nothing.

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