I understand. But they still made the Dragon Boxes which are still to date the best release. I also realize that Toei tried their hand at Blu-ray with Kai and it ended up being a blurred mess. I get that. But reality is still that Funimation never had the best footage to begin with. Whatever Funimation has in their possession is a poor copy. Now, could they make it look better than the Dragon Boxes? Sure. But can they make it look better than how Toei could with their film? No.FPSSJ4_Goku wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 10:23 amHow would you go about remastering the footage, then? Since apparently when Toei was working on the Dragon Boxes, the film's colors were already fading, and even though they tried their best, there wasn't much they could do.TheGreatness25 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 9:34 pmAgreed. And as I've said, the footage that Funimation has on their possession will never be as good as it can possibly be no matter what they do to it.
I would hope that when doing the Dragon Boxes, Toei would digitize the film to preserve it at least as well as they possibly could. Then, a frame by frame restoration would be the best.
Please don't get me wrong; if Funimation just took their film as-is with zero done to it (I'm talking an unconventional aspect ratio complete with the round corners and absolutely no color touch-ups/cleaning), then that would be pretty close to perfect. Even if Hell freezes over and they resurrect the Level Sets, I'd get them. But that wouldn't be a perfect release.
Perfect release? Frame by frame restoration (to original colors, etc) of Toei's film. That's about it. Second to that? Funimation just releasing what they have as-is. I don't care if it has scratches, tape marks, burn marks, or if a dog screwed on the film--don't do anything to it. Of course, broadcast audio is likely as good as it's going to get since Toei's copy isn't the greatest. But, to me, this is more about video than audio, so that's not a hill I'd be willing to die on. But for the sake of the "perfect release," yes.
To make it a truly perfect release, it would need to also have every dub that ever existed for the series. There's more to Dragon Ball than Toei and Funimation.
For the record, I don't think that any of what I wrote will ever happen.