superrayman3 wrote:If this was a normal situation I would probably agree with you Marc however given the nature of the DBOX material and FUNimation, I seriously doubt FUNi would go to such lenghts and spend so much money on something that they have no intention of using at all (not to mention the fact the DBOX masters probably cost FUNi a good amount of money to acquire to begin with, so from a business perspective it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to spend that much money like that and not try to recoup what you paid for your acquisition).
Which misses the point that we don't KNOW what they did, or what they cost, or anything. We don't even know if they ever HAD the movies.
If there was a miscommunication (which I doubt there was in this case but it is possible), then FUNi should have done the right thing and immediately clarified such a miscomunication to avoid confusion, transparency and honesty goes a long way when it comes to business.
Which has nothing to do with the reality of how companies announce things. The fact you WANT it to work this way doesn't mean it doesn't.
That's true it was only announced that they had the masters, however judging by this quote from their own DBOX announcement press release "The Dragon Box will be produced from the original Dragon Box masters after a frame by frame restoration and will span the entire 291 episode television series and all 13 of its movies" it's pretty clear to me that they did intend to release them.
Quoting a press release doesn't really help your argument when everyone is aware it existed. It doesn't mean the realities of it allowed them to on, even if they did have them, as I'll point out below.
Considering how popular the DBZ movies are, it makes even less sense for them not to release the DBZ Movies DBOX at all, unfortunately at this point FUNimation would be wasting their time in releasing the movies DBOX as the DVD market is pretty much a dying market.
Some could argue it always would have been a waste. I could think of a dozen reasons why they had the movies and never released them. Let's just go with one of the more obvious ones. The Dboxes were always niche sellers in the first place. For something people were chomping at the bit to have. Most of the audience was perfectly happy with the movie versions that existed.
Doesn't mean they won't ever release them, but the movies were always a slimmer market than the show was for this type of release.
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