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Post by Kendamu » Sat Jan 18, 2014 5:01 pm

Seems that the "aye"s have it. FUNimation made an extremely good business decision to try and emulate the HD/2K/4K Orange Brick videos that are all over YouTube. Of course, had they not done this widescreen nonsense back in 2007 and tried to sell it so hard with their lies, people today probably woudn't ever expect DBZ to be in anything other than 4:3 and they never would've had to make this decision for the Blu-rays.

The only reason it really sucks so hard, though, is because we got a taste of the Level sets. Knowing that we could potentially have something so much better but having this instead, and the everyday DBZ fan loving the crap out of it, is what really kills me. Has we never got the Levels, I would have written this off as, "Oh, look, another day in US DBZ anime fandom. I think I'll go read some manga and forget that his ever happened."

Hopefully right after this set finishes FUNi will throw the hardcore fans a bone. I'm not gonna hold my breath, though.
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Post by qjz123 » Sat Jan 18, 2014 5:10 pm

Shnuki wrote: It actually looks like somebody took the orange brick master, cropped it to 4:3, and then cropped it to 16:9 again :lol:
It really does :lol:.
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Post by Kakarot88 » Sat Jan 18, 2014 5:33 pm

Kendamu wrote: The only reason it really sucks so hard, though, is because we got a taste of the Level sets. Knowing that we could potentially have something so much better but having this instead, and the everyday DBZ fan loving the crap out of it, is what really kills me.
Yeah I saw the prices beginning to creep up since the new blu-rays were announced and just bought the 2 level sets and watched and was really impressed

BUT honestly with these I noticed the grain a hell of a lot more than the funimation singles. So I am wondering if that was part of the reason they just did the Orange Bricks in Blue Ray because the restoration process "looked" less clean on the level sets than the bricks because now the grain (at least to my eyes) was noticable given the HD quality.

In other words it seems to me that because the bricks are super saturated you don't see the grain and so to the average consumer who doesn't know better because it looks cleaner that means it must be better than an actual restoration which still has noticible grain.

All in all I'm just happy with my singles and the fact we have releases to watch at all. I mean it could be worse, we could have nothing, all the film could have been destroyed in a fire or some other crazy stuff...sure I wish levels kept going or that this release was better but singles, bricks, whatever...it's all better than nothing.
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Post by Black_Anime_Fan » Sat Jan 18, 2014 6:17 pm

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Shnuki wrote: It actually looks like somebody took the orange brick master, cropped it to 4:3, and then cropped it to 16:9 again :lol:
It really does :lol:.
I'll bet that's what happened
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Post by sumpter360 » Sat Jan 18, 2014 6:52 pm

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qjz123 wrote:
Shnuki wrote: It actually looks like somebody took the orange brick master, cropped it to 4:3, and then cropped it to 16:9 again :lol:
It really does :lol:.
I'll bet that's what happened
So, assuming this was an accident, do you guys think this will be corrected for future sets? I have no idea why this would happen, unless it was an accident. I mean, how bad would their masters of this ending have to be if they had to double crop it to avoid remastering part of it?
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Post by PhoenixEX » Sat Jan 18, 2014 6:56 pm

I saw the ending to my season one bluray set and yup, it's cropped to shit. I also think that this was an accident, I mean, not even FUNi would purposely do something like this. If they did, the internet hasn't made up enough profanities to express how I feel about that decision.
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Post by EA575 » Sat Jan 18, 2014 6:59 pm

If anyone wants to watch DBZ 4:3 legally, you guys can check out the site Daisuki here. I'm not good at noticing the differences between all of the remasters unless compared side by side, but so far this one seems good. The player automatically upscales to 720p when there's a good connection. They add a new episode every week, too.

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Post by dbboxkaifan » Sat Jan 18, 2014 7:17 pm

qjz123 wrote:They didn't use the overscanned season blu ray ending. The ending on the season blu rays actually is more cropped. http://imageshack.com/a/img853/7855/4mhc.png I have no idea why Funimation did it. Did they think "hey no one watches the ending lets crop off 40% of the image so we don't have to remaster it". The text under the image on amazon is misleading. It says "There seems to be more cropping with the blu-ray sets" it doesn't mention that excessive cropping is only an issue with the ending, the actual episodes actually show more of the image than the orange bricks.
Hm, thanks and sorry about that but it's kinda hard to take what's true and what isn't since there's so much unnecessary hate for these sets (they're not meant to be for the hardcore or anything so they need to settle down).
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Post by VegettoEX » Sat Jan 18, 2014 7:19 pm

dbboxkaifan wrote:since there's so much unnecessary hate for these sets (they're not meant to be for the hardcore or anything so they need to settle down).
You seem to be personifying these sets and taking your own personal offense.

We really are allowed to point out what we consider flaws and we really are allowed to editorialize and further comment on why we think it was a bad decision, why they're not the product we want, and what we would like to see done differently.

I mean, I seem to recall just recently discussing what the missing 4:3 episodes were with you, either in this or some other thread. That's not unnecessary hatred... that's a legitimate discussion point and worth pointing out to people.
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Post by dbboxkaifan » Sat Jan 18, 2014 8:22 pm

I didn't mean to offend anyone here but if FUNimation were to follow what's posted on Amazon then we might be cursed for the future releases to be like this.

It's not a terrible or perfect set, just around as serviceable as the Blue Bricks (DB) and Green Bricks (GT). Some should stick to this for now (or wait) instead of paying crazy amounts of money (DBOX2) for a possible future DBZ 4x3 AR release (bet's on Toei Animation).
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Post by B » Sat Jan 18, 2014 8:23 pm

dbboxkaifan wrote:since there's so much unnecessary hate for these sets (they're not meant to be for the hardcore or anything so they need to settle down).
The hilariously sad thing is FUNimation are truly the ones making the distinctions of "hardcore" or "casual" or whatever. Nobody asked them to crop DBZ in 2007, nor did anyone ask them to destroy the picture. I'd bet money there were young fans who didn't even have a full concept of what "aspect ratio" even means. They saw a DVD set with 40 episodes on it for $20, and said "gimme!" The same thing is happening with these sets.

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Post by Metalwario64 » Sat Jan 18, 2014 8:25 pm

dbboxkaifan wrote:It's not a terrible or perfect set, just around as serviceable as the Blue Bricks (DB) and Green Bricks (GT).
Not really. Those aren't cropped, and despite coming from Digibeta masters, they look much better than these Blu-rays.
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Post by dbboxkaifan » Sat Jan 18, 2014 9:25 pm

The Blue Bricks are zoomed in so that still counts as some cropping and GT has the issues of the metallic logo, no NEPs and no Japanese credits.

I'm not sure about how zoomed in the Green Bricks are in comparison to the FUNi Singles / Dragonbox GT.
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Post by Gaffer Tape » Sat Jan 18, 2014 9:39 pm

Yeah, I agree. The blue and green bricks do have some relatively substantial faults, which is why I've never purchased any of them (in fact, I'm currently trying to complete my DB Saga sets collection after all this time). But they are absolutely nowhere near as bad as the orange bricks and the BDs. In fact, all of the problems you mention in your post are problems the BDs have, only some are much, much worse.
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Post by Puto » Sat Jan 18, 2014 10:10 pm

dbboxkaifan wrote:I'm not sure about how zoomed in the Green Bricks are in comparison to the FUNi Singles / Dragonbox GT.
They aren't. Exact same framing.
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Post by Metalwario64 » Sat Jan 18, 2014 10:51 pm

dbboxkaifan wrote:The Blue Bricks are zoomed in so that still counts as some cropping.
The Blue Bricks are barely zoomed compared with the saga sets. Besides, I never found the zooming to be an issue, especially to the 16:9 cropping:

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Not only that, but they did do some minor clean-up on the Blue Bricks, which makes them better than the saga sets to me. You'll notice there are no tape marks between scene changes. This is because they duplicated the frame after each scene change. You can sometimes notice an extremely brief, one-frame pause, but I find it no more distracting than the tape marks and damaged frames were. I've also noticed lots of freeze framing in random shots where there is no motion, probably because there were frames with extensive damage.

Sure it's a bit of a half-assed clean-up job, but I'm happy with the results.
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Post by dbboxkaifan » Sat Jan 18, 2014 10:56 pm

Metalwario64 wrote:Image
This screenshot with Goku and Ten sure crops out a good amount of picture on the Blue Bricks which is what bothers me personally.

However, on your other screen comparison the cropping isn't too bad and rather small but as shown it's not always like that.
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Post by Metalwario64 » Sat Jan 18, 2014 10:58 pm

I'd like to see comparison shots with the saga sets for those shots actually.
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Post by SupremeSSJ » Sat Jan 18, 2014 11:09 pm

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dbboxkaifan wrote: By the way, someone used the overscanned the Season BDs to make the Season DVDs look better, er.. just stick to what you like. Amazon's fanbase can even be worse than YouTube's DB community. Damn.
They didn't use the overscanned season blu ray ending. The ending on the season blu rays actually is more cropped. http://imageshack.com/a/img853/7855/4mhc.png I have no idea why Funimation did it. Did they think "hey no one watches the ending lets crop off 40% of the image so we don't have to remaster it". The text under the image on amazon is misleading. It says "There seems to be more cropping with the blu-ray sets" it doesn't mention that excessive cropping is only an issue with the ending, the actual episodes actually show more of the image than the orange bricks.
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Post by Vegard Aune » Sun Jan 19, 2014 6:48 am

dbboxkaifan wrote:
Metalwario64 wrote:Image
This screenshot with Goku and Ten sure crops out a good amount of picture on the Blue Bricks which is what bothers me personally.

However, on your other screen comparison the cropping isn't too bad and rather small but as shown it's not always like that.
Well in fairness, it is a comparison between the Blue Brick and the Dragon Box. I seem to recall that the Dragon Box had more image than the older 2-disc sets FUNi put out for Dragon Ball as well. Also one has to take into account how the show was animated with the intent of being shown on old tube-TVs which had a considerable amount of overscan, far more than what we get on modern TVs. As such, while the Blue Bricks do indeed show less of the frame than other releases of the show do, I rather doubt the zooming is substantial enough that it actually cuts off any of the important details that Toei wanted to be seen.

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