Bardo117 wrote:qjz123 wrote:Bardo117 wrote:I'm sure this is just the Level sets with more episodes included, no way they're releasing anything worth buying before Toei.
What do you mean? What's wrong with the Level sets. They're the best DBZ has ever looked Imo.
Anything worth looking at always comes from Toei first, then we have to hope and pray Funi releases it stateside... And yeah the Blu-Rays looks great, it was just a stupid idea to have 14+ sets, rather than having 7-9 Volumes
...So FUNi never does anything worth buying that hasn't already been released by Toei... and yet you admit that the BluRays, which are a product Toei has yet to provide and that FUNi put together themselves, are great if overpriced? Sorry if I sound rude, but what you're saying here doesn't quite add up...
Oh, and FUNi does sometimes do releases that are far superior to Toei's own. Case in point: One Piece. Not only did they release the eighth movie on BluRay way before Toei bothered putting out the movies in HD themselves, but they also got the proper widescreen-masters for episodes 207+ whereas Toei to this date has only ever released episodes 207 to... 229, I think? in cropped 4:3. Oh and starting with episode 206 FUNi's DVDs are also encoded in progressive scan, (Toei's are still interlaced), so they also have a sharper image than the Japanese releases do.
As for this release... Unless they can somehow get the broadcast-audio
and actually bother to provide the Japanese title-cards for episodes (I'm kind of nitpicky and having the dub title-cards showing up when watching the show in Japanese might just drive me marginally insane) I'm most likely not gonna buy it, as I'm quite content with my Dragon Boxes. That said, please FUNi,
don't just slap the season-set remasters on to a BluRay-disc and call it a day. From what I could see you were on to a good thing with that last BluRay-release of the show, and even if the process wasn't cost-effective enough to warrant doing the entire series that way, could you at least try to continue the series with a
similar manner of remastering? Or heck, I'm pretty sure even just taking those film-prints you were working off of for the level-sets and scanning them at 1080p without doing any cleanups on them whatsoever would
still look one hell of a lot better than putting the dreaded season-set masters on BluRay.