Robo4900 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2019 9:42 pm
- They would like to release the first DB BD set at the end of this year, hopefully in December, but they can’t say it for sure.
Hopefully they'll be able to release the first set by the end of the year, I've actually been keeping my eye on this for a while and am curious as to what the quality will be like when it comes out or is previewed.
Robo4900 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2019 9:42 pm[*]Selecta Vision gets the original master from Toei Animation to work with it. Then, they send it back so that Toei can check it.
They get the "original masters" but what does that actually mean, do they mean a new scan of the original 16mm negatives, a scan of the first gen copy of the prints, a scan of 2nd or 3rd generation prints similar to FUNi's in quality (before FUNi did their remastering bullshit), the wording is a little too vague to draw any concrete conclusions at this point.
Robo4900 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2019 9:42 pm[*]Regarding the image, they haven't added DNR. They want to be really faithful to the original colours and art, maintaining the full essence. Also, the materials Toei gave them are top and the aspect ratio will be 4:3.
The fact that they aren't adding DNR at first glace already makes this a step up over FUNi, the color comment is up in the air, just like the original masters comment the wording is too vague about what that actually means in this case, will it be just a straight transfer without any color correction, or will there be an attempt at careful color correction? As for 4:3, if they don't do the excessive crop like FUNi is doing with their 30th Anniversary set, Selecta Vision can pretty much expect a lot of customers from outside Spain buying these sets as they come out in addition to their Spanish consumers.
Robo4900 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2019 9:42 pm[not sure what this means, precisely, however I would guess at best, it's simply a new transfer of the optical tracks from Toei's negatives, and perhaps they've got the original M&E and dub voice tracks involved to get that sounding nice. But this is Selecta Vision, their history would suggest they wouldn't put quite that much work in. We'll see as further details emerge].
Since this has taken over 2 years to happen it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility that they are putting that much work into this release we'll just have to wait and see.
As for the Japanese audio possibly be a new transfer of the optical tracks, I seriously hope that's not going to be the case, the optical tracks have seriously degraded over the years and it wouldn't surprise me if they were completely unusable by this point, they were already pretty degraded by 2003 when Toei did the DBOX's (not to the point where they were unusable mind you but the degradation on the optical tracks was very apparent and obvious nonetheless), now imagine how a new transfer of those tracks would sound like now in the intervening years since the DBOX's, if they're more than just noise and static at this point I'd be very surprised.
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