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- Wed Aug 18, 2021 1:27 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Dragon Ball DVDs framerate
- Replies: 4
- Views: 788
Re: Dragon Ball DVDs framerate
When you encode an NTSC DVD from a 23.976fps film source, you need to run it through a process called telecine to get 59.94 fields/sec (29.97fps). Think of it like having to fit 24 frames into 60 fields. Since it doesn't divide evenly, you need to show one frame for 2 fields, and the next for 3 fiel...
- Tue Apr 27, 2021 4:29 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Missing Frames in Japanese Dragon Boxes?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2301
Re: Missing Frames in Japanese Dragon Boxes?
Edit: is this also the case for eye catchers and endings? Because then replacing the episodes OP, Ed & Catchers could also cause if frame loss if it isn't done carefully enough couldn't it? Not the case. Basically an example disc is laid out like this. from a VOB ID perspective: VID 1: episode ...
- Tue Apr 27, 2021 12:25 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Missing Frames in Japanese Dragon Boxes?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2301
Re: Missing Frames in Japanese Dragon Boxes?
I'm having a hard time believing they really had to cut frames to save disc space, but I don't have any better ideas and don't know too much about the production... For what it's worth, the JP Dragon Box has an extremely high bitrate and takes up almost the entirety of a dual-layer DVD. The OP vide...
- Tue Apr 27, 2021 12:15 am
- Forum: Fan-Created Works
- Topic: DBZ Ocean Group Remastered
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14356
Re: DBZ Ocean Group Remastered
This is really neat and it's an idea I toyed with a long time ago. It's looking pretty good, but my only criticism, that I think you should be made aware of sooner rather than later, is that it looks like you applied a deinterlace filter to the Dragon Box footage which isn't necessary; it should be ...
- Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:56 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Missing Frames in Japanese Dragon Boxes?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2301
Re: Missing Frames in Japanese Dragon Boxes?
This is one of the biggest mysteries that I don't know the answer to. I think at some point, after they got the masters finished, they decided to trim further frames for the final DVD, possibly to save space on the disc, and the least noticeable place to do it would of course be the mostly still fra...
- Thu Mar 18, 2021 2:36 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: How do you own the series? (2021 Edition)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 11189
Re: How do you own the series? (2021 Edition)
- Full set of Viz manga - Viz Jaco - Kanzenban vol. 1 - JP Dragon Boxes - JP Buyer's Remorse movie box (trying to sell it one of these days...) - Funi DB Kai + final chapters - Level 1+2 - JP Battle of Gods - JP Battle of Gods Extended - JP Super Broly - DB 30th artbook I don't anymore. I just watch...
- Thu Mar 18, 2021 2:24 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Are there "Dragon Box" styled releases for other series?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1361
Re: Are there "Dragon Box" styled releases for other series?
It is quite common for older film-based series to get high quality remasters these days. The 80s and 90s Gundam and Macross series, for example. There is also the work Discotek Media is going for some lesser known stuff.UltraInstinctRorikon wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 1:11 pm I am referring to high quality 'original source' type releases.
- Thu Feb 04, 2021 8:54 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Dragon Ball Japanese ebooks: accessible and handy?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1169
Re: Dragon Ball Japanese ebooks: accessible and handy?
Rakuten Kobo is great for ebooks, and the DRM is easily removable, however sometime in the past few months they seem to have stopped taking foreign credit cards (none of mine work at least, but YMMV). If you know anyone in Japan, they can buy you a points card at a convenience store to add funds to ...
- Mon Dec 14, 2020 1:53 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Does Toei Remaster Better?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2186
Re: Does Toei Remaster Better?
From a purely empirical and visual standpoint, yes, the Toei remaster for the movies is leaps and bounds above anything that Funimation has put out. There is no comparison as far as I'm concerned. It's worth mentioning that the intended "wide" AR for the movies is 1.85:1, which is slightly...
- Mon Sep 21, 2020 2:19 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Problem #472 with the Dragon Boxes - DNR
- Replies: 44
- Views: 5785
Re: Problem #472 with the Dragon Boxes - DNR
Out of curiosity I compared the two myself, and I didn't notice any significant blips in the Nappa cut in the R2 ver. Here's the same frame side-by-side (R2 top): https://i.imgur.com/0QwreOz.png https://i.imgur.com/bitZNXi.png There is, however, this one on R2, where the encoder really struggles to ...
- Mon Sep 21, 2020 8:17 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Problem #472 with the Dragon Boxes - DNR
- Replies: 44
- Views: 5785
Re: Problem #472 with the Dragon Boxes - DNR
just noticed they fixed this issue on episode 5 with the single. Not sure of this has been mention or not (tho given the age of these releases I wouldn't be surprised) IIRC the top image is from the Funi box. AFAIK the single releases are bit-for-bit identical to the JP box, though I've only confir...
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 1:28 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: making custom DVDs?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1362
Re: making custom DVDs?
Around 6-7 years ago I was creating custom DVDs, adding the Funi brick subs to the Dragon Box, keeping menus and everything. I eventually stopped doing it because - it was incredibly time consuming and despite my attempts to automate, it just wasn't possible with some of the tools - Burning DVDs tak...
- Fri Jul 17, 2020 10:12 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Funimation's 30th anniversary collectible home video release
- Replies: 5398
- Views: 904597
Re: Funimations 30th anniversary collectible home video release
No, I know for a fact they do. You can see artefacts of it in dark areas. See: https://slow.pics/c/kH6BObxt Toei's DNR largely relies on motion blurring. As for "natural bandwidth limitations of mpeg2"; that shouldn't really be an issue with material like this, particularly with the rathe...
- Thu Jul 16, 2020 9:30 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Funimation's 30th anniversary collectible home video release
- Replies: 5398
- Views: 904597
Re: Funimations 30th anniversary collectible home video release
The Dragon Boxes most definitely had both DNR and sharpening, but it was applied tastefully. I dont think the dragonboxes had dnr, rather they were hit with the natural bandwidth limitations of the mpeg2 on dvd format. No, I know for a fact they do. You can see artefacts of it in dark areas. See: h...
- Sat Apr 18, 2020 2:34 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Dragon Ball Rewatch, Week 16 - DB episodes 71-75
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5782
- Wed Dec 25, 2019 10:13 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: How to sync Dragon Box R2J to video
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3426
Re: How to sync Dragon Box R2J to video
DB and GT also suffer from this. DB episode 138 actually has a REALLY bad sync issue; everything except the OP is ahead by one and a half seconds. This is a weird quirk of the way the disc is authored; no other episode in the set is like this. It's on the same logical chunk of video as #137 and if ...
- Wed Oct 02, 2019 2:23 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Funimation's 30th anniversary collectible home video release
- Replies: 5398
- Views: 904597
Re: Funimations 30th anniversary collectible home video release
That's the thing which really sucks, in that FUNi for some deliberate reason does not want to put out a release of Z that respects the show for what it is . No... to them it's all about polishing and making it look like a new thing and doing so as cheaply as possible as we have seen with the Orange...
- Mon Jul 15, 2019 10:42 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Backing Up Dragon Ball DVDs and Blu-rays 2.0
- Replies: 55
- Views: 9897
Re: Backing Up Dragon Ball DVDs and Blu-rays 2.0
Then there are the Funimation Dragon Boxes. The only release giving me any sort of issue. When you open up their "VIDEO_TS" files, it's a straight up mess. There are multiple lists of the same thing. To just copy and paste (like every other release) would leave me with 76.6GB of data per ...
- Mon May 13, 2019 10:24 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Funimation's 30th anniversary collectible home video release
- Replies: 5398
- Views: 904597
Re: Funimations 30th anniversary collectible home video release
In general there are very few examples of a long running weekly anime series from the pre digital era that have been remastered for blu ray in Japan. Seasonal shows like gundam have been remastered but nothing of the hundreds of episodes variety. The only ones I can think of are yu yu hakusho and R...
- Thu Feb 22, 2018 7:13 pm
- Forum: Fan-Created Works
- Topic: Z Kai Re-Edited Project
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3032
Re: Z Kai Re-Edited Project
The Kai master is from Toei's film, while Funi's an unknown (2nd or 3rd?) generational copy. As such Toei's will always have the strongest color & detail. I'm not a fan of Kai's post-production DNR but its color definition is the best of any of the Dragon Ball releases. Regarding what Ajay menti...