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This is sort of like asking what's better: France or Paris? Kai was made from the film masters of Z....so they have same animation, besides the redraws. If you meant to ask which has the better picture quality, then it's not really a matter of Z vs. Kai, but rather a question of "Which Z remast...

Azelf89 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 06, 2021 10:46 pm Mind posting some examples?

Unless I'm misremembering, the Goku nightmare scene in YTV uses the music on the CD, just like the Orange Bricks and Season Blu-rays, rather than the editor-modified version that ended up on the US airing & singles.

I see posts like this, and I'm like..am I missing something? The blu-ray sets? Absolutely agree. I own the Buu saga sets cause they were on sell and ooh boy I can tell what hot garbage they are even with my virgin eyes. But the steel books? They get the job done. And for a majority of "fans,&q...

I have a question, shouldn't the raw footage be a RAW file? not a JPG because I think you can remove noise better in RAW files https://www.dxo.com/dxo-photolab/deepprime/ and is better for dark or very bright details Yeah but who is using jpegs? The images on their blog (which aren't even jpegs) ar...

Wow. Ok, your explanation sounds very reasonable. However, if this is accurate, then FUNimation was deceptive in their description. I was able to get back into the blog post. My phone was trying to open it through the app so I had to bypass that. So here’s what they say about the video presentation...

To be fair, if they considered that darker corner in the bottom right to be damage and they wanted to keep the focus of the scene where it was traditionally and in a 4:3 ratio then you get the tight crop the 30th has for that scene, but the other scenes from the blog show images with pretty tight c...

I am aware of the step by step process, and I understand what you are saying here. Did you see the FUNimation blog post last year regarding the 30th? They showed their 16mm film scans for episode 1, and specifically damage in the lower right hand corner. It actually showed them cropping it tighter ...

I just want to make sure I am reading this correctly. You are saying that the Level Set restoration was completely done and is saved on FUNi’s hard drive? And so your theory is that FUNi took the Level Set files and ran them through the DVNR, sharpening, etc. to change the “look.” Because they thou...

I find it so funny that they somehow correlated the aspect ratio to sales. Never minding that the orange bricks were cheaper, packed more episodes per release, were the only complete release, and were the only alternative to the original singles that were incomplete and fit four episodes per disc m...

Despite how they try to talk up the Season Sets in their video, FUNi knows the Level Sets are the superior restoration. DNR is a cheap and easy way to do the lion’s share of cleanup. No, you are wrong about this. DNR means "digital noise reduction". It reduces noise, not tape marks/scratc...

The entire series was color corrected by Steve Franko, which was the basis for the Level Sets, the Season Sets, and the 30th. The restoration for the Level Sets is considerably more work, which is why they were so much more expensive. They were $25 for about 15 episodes? Something like that. I reme...

This is the kind of thing I’m talking about. This screen grab is a peculiar example out of the entire 9 seasons of where the picture is unusually less focused. It is probably not due to the DNR that is used throughout, but who knows. Here are shots without any focus issues: https://www.funimation.c...

The lines looked smeared even without zooming in: https://animeblurayuk.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/dragon_ball_z_30th_season4_screenshot1.jpg The smeary lines coupled with the unnaturally sharp edges everywhere just makes for an unpleasant look. Whether or not it looks like the original broadcast i...

Yeah, the gatekeeping (in the most general sense and not accusing anyone here) is getting super old and I'm just done waiting for other people to be happy before I buy something that's just for my private viewing in my own home. I think a lot of us are just tired of waiting for permission from othe...

Yeah and I just want to clarify that I'm not criticizing individuals for purchasing this set, I'm just criticizing the product itself. No one should feel the need to justify their purchases. If you think it's good enough, then that's that. Everyone has a different barometer on how they feel about th...

What I find odd is this sudden talk of "gatekeeping" and "elitism". What exactly prompted these comments anyway? Again, the discussion is about these steelbooks/30A release. And over the last page or so, I think I'm the only one who has been criticizing these sets. I didn't criti...

The problem with all that is, it's not really noticeable if you're watching the show at all. Actually, it is noticeable. As I said, I notice this stuff immediately and it completely takes me out of the experience when there's the distracting unnatural sharp edges everywhere. Unless you're saying th...

Sometimes I get the feeling that people don't really understand why the Level Sets were good. For the most part, the Levels were good not because of what Funimation did , but rather because of what they didn't do . The Levels didn't have much (if any) DNR. The Levels didn't have a destructive sharpe...

That said, I do think some people need to come back down to earth and realize a good portion of the fandom isn't interested in fighting some decades-long crusade against FUNi for better video quality. Some people want to just, ya know, watch the show. There's not really a crusade. There's just a re...

Just to weigh in, wanting to "look cool" is not a reason that people will refuse to buy this set. If that were a motivation, then they'd simply buy the set, but not post about it. If people aren't buying this set, it's because they're not happy with what they've seen of it. Secondly, I do ...