Kanzenshuu

I've hated the overcooked contrast look of the Funimation releases for what fees like decades. Good riddance forever.

Here's a bunch of comparisons I made: the Dragonboxes were upscaled to 1440x1080 in Photoshop, and pillarboxes were added for easier comparing the Blu-ray. The US Dragonbox shots were shifted up 11 pixels to match the frame positioning of the JPN release. All shots lossless PNG. Level 1.1 Blu-ray | ...

Here's the bitrate info for those interested: DISC INFO: Disc Title: DRAGON BALL Z L1 P1 D1 Disc Size: 49,822,736,670 bytes Protection: AACS BD-Java: No BDInfo: 0.5.3 PLAYLIST REPORT: Name: 00000.MPLS Length: 3:38:11 (h:m:s) Size: 49,474,289,664 bytes Total Bitrate: 30.23 Mbps VIDEO: Codec Bitrate D...

Any word on the JPN audio? If it's anything less than lossless mono, I'm gonna be disappointed.

It's 16mm film, which means it will be an upscale. The DragonBoxes will still be the best release. Rofl, one of the wrongest things I've read all month. Film does not have a resolution and 16mm definitely does not translate to less than HD quality. Modern 16mm film can resolve more detail than 1080...

I assume there's no way to get the Japanese credits?

I grew up on the dub, but once I heard the original, I never went back.

LOLOLOLOLOLautotune. I guess it matches the trashy techno music of the outro though.

Not much difference with the early episodes, but the HD quality improves as the series goes on. By end you'll definitely want it in HD. Having part of the show in DVD will looks stupid on your shelf.

Somehow the transition of rip to YouTube got screwed up. The Blu-rays are 24fps (23.976 actually), your YouTube videos are 30fps, looks like dup frames resulting in choppiness. Just sayin'.

No DVD drive in 2010? Seriously?

There's a post in the first Dragon Box thread that justifies the brightness. It has to do with NTSC-J formatting displaying the encoded material brighter than NTSC-U, thus making the original D Box darker, for us not in Japan anyways. At least that's what I got from it. I can't really remember the ...

Bleh I hate how it's still brighter than it should be. I really wish Funi did something to correct/compensate for the color standard differences. Goku/Gohan/Vegeta's etc hair should be a deep, rich black, not a dark gray.

Would be a DNR'd upscale anyway... Err, no. It'd be DVNR'd to death, but it would be a native 1080p release. FUNimation scanned the film masters at 1080p when they did their abortion of a release (which is what this BD release would relate to, not the DragonBoxes). Though, seeing how bad it looked ...

Would be a DNR'd upscale anyway...

Dragon Ball Z: Dragon Box One listed as an upcoming deal in Amazon's "Weeklong Lightning Deals": http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?i ... 1000452571

Sorry if old.

Ok I've begun my nitpicking... Left is JP release, right is US release: http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/6922/dbz1jp.th.png http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/2316/dbz1us.th.png few things I've noticed: -Funi version is bit brighter, but that means the colors look a bit washed out (see Goku's hair...

Anyone else slightly grumpy Funi didn't utilize all the potential disc space? From the first few discs I checked they all seemed to be about 6.8gb. So there was another 1gb or so available to increase the Japanese audio bitrate or the video bitrate :/

MajinVejitaXV wrote:It took half my life nearly, but DragonBall Z has finally arrived in a respectable form in North America ;p

Hear hear!

Saying 96kbps is good enough for mono is an opinion. Not everyone has the same tolerances for compression noise.