Kanzenshuu

And the superior audio of the five WGPR episodes is now available to all on the Internet Archive. Thanks to Ashura of this very forum for working with Ryan Gavigan to properly transfer and preserve this rare audio. We were unable to get the video portion, so we instead used the video from KBABZ's fa...

It's been some time. Happy 2022. We've managed to get the first-gen recording! The audio (save for some dropouts during the first 5 minutes of the 2 hour recording) is superior (and stereo!) to all previously-available WGBS 57 recordings of movies 1+3, titled "Dragon Ball". It will be shar...

Sorry to make this thread a zombie again, but I have yet another update. A source of mine in the Philadelphia area has informed me he has located a first-generation VHS recording of the WGBS telecast of the movies that his father had made back in late-89. We've agreed to get it a proper transfer thr...

Thanks for all your questions, everyone! Wendee Lee has gotten them and sent them over to Dave Mallow. She specifically asked me to say that she appreciates everyones patience and to not track her down to harass her about it. I'll make an update post when I hear back from her!

Hello all, I have had the chance to get in contact with Wendee Lee, who voiced Bulma in the 1990 Harmony Gold dub of Dragon Ball. She also happens to be good friends with Dave Mallow, who voiced Pilaf and directed the five episodes dubbed by Intersound Inc (the ADR studio Harmony Gold worked with). ...

Hopefully a final update.

Ryan’s HG tape has been retransferred and sent to me by the current owner. Audio quality is much less garbled, and higher frequencies are much more prevalent, requiring far less audio restoration. An upcoming release will utilize this new audio. Look forward to the future.

Got the discs today! Two noticeable things I found interesting upon first glance: Episode 3: The infamous "belly button" edit. Watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeVgOUzL95o Episode 10: Funimation actually screwed up on this one. The original Japanese title card is left in instead...

Damned wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2020 11:05 pm Speaking of Ryan, did you ever get a chance to do another transfer of his tape Tom?

His tape is currently in the hands of a Discotek producer for a more professional transfer. Only issue is he’s had no time to do the transfer. As soon as I get more info, I’ll let y’all know.

Update: Source mailed six DVDs containing the recordings from his local post office to my address today. United States Postal Service tracking estimates they’ll be in my hands Tuesday. Upon receipt of the discs, I will write and publish a report documenting all the changes made by Funimation in the ...

Hello all! I have located VHS recordings of the first 28 edited Dragon Ball episodes from Toonami broadcasts circa August 2001. My source is working on putting these recordings on DVDs and sending them to my address. I will be working on a detailed edit log for the Pilaf saga similar to the one my b...

It is, but there’s nothing wrong with competition, right? You’re free to use our materials for your restoration, too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9l_rF_isLE

We have produced a preview of our upcoming HD restoration of the Harmony Gold episodes.

prays to DMCA gods it doesn’t get immediately blocked

Video will be removed after the final release.

I've considered that option too, KBABZ. In the meantime, I was able to get a friend of mine who happened to be local to re-transfer my tape at 192 kHz/16 bit PCM as well as with a decent Samsung DVR as a TBC. He tells me the transfer is a bit less muffled and the color signal is far more stable on h...

Alright, after careful consideration and attempts at restoration, I’ve come to the conclusion my tape sucks and is not ideal for preservation no matter how much restoration is done. That being said, we are down now to two paths. 1. Try to make sure the current owner of Ryan’s tape transfers it and s...

The video, whilst VERY shaky and glitchy, has better colours, and is sharper too! Would it be possible to get a screengrab or a clip of one of the eyecatches? Would be helpful for my video restoration using the Dragon Box! All five episodes from this tape are now on the Internet Archive. Can't give...

Alright, the tape has been delivered to my door and digitized. My opinion is that my tape has quite noticeably lower fidelity and much more noise than Ryan's tape, but doesn't share the aforementioned tape's gain problems. For a restored version, I plan to combine the clipless middle to lower freque...

Tape has shipped. USPS says it’ll be at my house Monday. Darn fast delivery time for the USPS, considering it’s going from Minnesota to my Massachusetts home, and especially considering the current events. Rip should be done by Monday evening, and uploaded no later than Tuesday afternoon.

Just got an update from my source. She did find “the Zero tape” in her possession, and sent me this picture. She says she will be shipping it to my address today. I will rip it as soon as I get it! This looks to be an entirely different source tape than the one Ryan had. Hoping it has better quality...

Jeez louise, these updates never end. I just got an offer from a voice actress/anime fan who got her Harmony Gold tape at an anime con between 1997 and 2004, and offered to sent it to me for $10 since she doesn't have a VCR. I took her up and she's in the process of shipping the tape to my address. ...

I'd just like to make one final update to this thread before calling it over for myself. As promised a month ago, I have uploaded Kei17's VOB of episode 1 taken from takarajima's tape to the Internet Archive. It can be found under the same library as my original upload of episode 1. I have also trie...