I asked today on twitter if AB would do a new scan of the movies, or the DB TV series (that are supposed to come out at the end of this year) and how their remastering process is. I was told to ask Gib'(animeguides) as AB's twitter is supposedly managed by a company for AB... He is as far as I know someone who has worked with AB before, or is in close touch with them. I am not 100% sure.
Here was his reply:
Source:Toutes les oeuvres suivent le même process : Mediawan récupère l’image auprès des japonais, puis restaure l’audio VF (et non l’image), insère les crédits VF et fait créer un sous-titrage. Pour les films, vous pouvez déjà voir le résultat sur Mangas.
Translation: Everything goes through the same process: Mediawan gets the image from the japanese, then restore the french dub (and not the image), insert french credits and make sub titles. For the movies, you can already see the result on Mangas. *Note: Mangas is a TV channel AB owns.
https://mobile.twitter.com/AnimeGuides/ ... 8889200640
Animeguides hasn't to this yet, but "Jetblack" did saying AB isn't doing a new scan. I am not sure how close this Jetblack is with AB, so I will wait until Animeguides replies (if he replies). In worst case we will have to wait until the BDs for the TV series are out.
I hope this doesn't mean that we will get shitty upscales because Toei won't let AB do their own remaster. Or let anyone do their remasters again after how FUNimation failed with their remasters. You'd think Toei wouldn't care but... Who knows?
Edit: updates. Animeguides replied saying he never said AB will be processing the Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z TV series this way. For whatever reason he said in his reply that he was simply pointing out how the process usually goes:
https://mobile.twitter.com/AnimeGuides/ ... 5379898371
What the hell does this mean? I tried asking a reply on twitter to see if he's not allowed to talk about it. Maybe it could be he was assuming they're doing it that way but AB is doing it another way? I guess we will have to wait with patience. My hopes felt pretty crushed at first though. But now I have to admit I have a slight light of hope again. I guess a good indication of the process will be however the GT special ends up looking. Or if AB actually upload unedited footage (which is very unlikely knowing how they communicate).Je n’ai pas dit cela, j’ai simplement rappelé le process habituel.
For wthatever reason.