900 Minutes of Uncut Action, DBZ Season 1 Arrives

Mr.Piccolo · Post by **Mr.Piccolo** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:55 pm

Hey, if they started with orange, which wasn't the end of the world believe it or not, I'm glad they are being consistent by doing the next set the same.It's better than, uh, a mango orange or something.. (Couldn't think of an extremely bad color like the ones mentioned above)..
-Rick

nathantheguitarist · Post by **nathantheguitarist** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:03 pm

Actually, I've bashed the orange color before... but after thinking about it, orange represents the series quite well... it's the color of the dragon ball themselves for fucks sake lol.

So now that I think the orange and consitency of it... the cross-eyed Vegeta is terrible, this Goku is ok... but it could've been better. end.

Kirbopher · Post by **Kirbopher** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:10 pm

Hey Brad, sorry if I overlooked this, but did you put up the video of Goku and Vegeta's fight you spoke of earlier?

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:13 pm

No, he didn't. The store fucked up and didn't have the right DVD for him.

Brad Redfield · Post by **Brad Redfield** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:13 pm

Kirbopher wrote:Hey Brad, sorry if I overlooked this, but did you put up the video of Goku and Vegeta's fight you spoke of earlier?

No, Best Buy's "service" made a mistake and I didn't get the set...so no. Sorry.

EDIT: Damn you Kendamu! I shall have revenge!

theoriginalbilis · Post by **theoriginalbilis** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:17 pm

If the Goku was a tad smaller, so you can see more of the whole body, it'd be just great in my eyes. I have no real qualms with the boxset packaging, the design is simple and eyecatching in my eyes.

The orange doesn't bother me. This looks better than the Vegeta cover.

dasmith · Post by **dasmith** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:40 pm

I'd rather have a random stretched out screenshot with a logo slapped on the top

MajinVejitaXV · Post by **MajinVejitaXV** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 10:44 pm

Brad Redfield wrote:No, Best Buy's "service" made a mistake and I didn't get the set...so no. Sorry.

EDIT: Damn you Kendamu! I shall have revenge!

It's better than a rather...manly woman telling you they have the DVD, but the company hasn't confirmed they can sell it. I laughed since I didn't really care (it's not like I'm buying this for keeps), but the fact that she didn't understand that sometimes things ship early and can be released upon receipt of the shipment ("soft street dates") made me wonder how she became a supervisor as her nametag implied.

-Corey

EvilGamerX · Post by **EvilGamerX** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:38 pm

Well I watched some eps from the set. A lot better looking than just seeing still frames, but here are some issues.

You can without a doubt see dust popping in and out. You can see the frames moving up and down, because it is film being worked with. You think that with frame by frame editing, they could have made it so that didn't happen.

This was viewed on a Samsung 26" HDTV.

The lines on the edge of the film aren't that noticeable on the TV.

SelMod · Post by **SelMod** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:16 am

DaemonCorps wrote:Though I am still anxiously waiting for SelMod's final version of that custom packaging (and hoping that there'll be one made for each set. Sorry if that sounds too demanding).

Well, since you're being so flattering about it, I'll post my Work-In-Progress Freeza Saga cover. I'm going to start a new thread for it though, since it has nothing to do with this one.

JAPPO · Post by **JAPPO** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:27 am

Wikipedia page is updated with latest DVD cover. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball_Z

Acid_Reign · Post by **Acid_Reign** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:59 am

JAPPO wrote:Wikipedia page is updated with latest DVD cover. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball_Z

Looks the same to me...

JAPPO · Post by **JAPPO** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:00 am

Someone changed it back, actually. Maybe FUNimation ? lol

Acid_Reign · Post by **Acid_Reign** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:07 am

Wikipedia is anal-retentive. Only "necessary" edits are allowed; the rest is reverted.

Snail · Post by **Snail** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 3:11 am

DaemonCorps wrote:Ah... another orange box. Umm... at least they're being consistent . But really, this is definitely a step up from the cross-eyed crap of the first season Vegeta picture. If they keep using the same art style as they did from the UUEs, I see no problem with that.

Though I am still anxiously waiting for SelMod's final version of that custom packaging (and hoping that there'll be one made for each set. Sorry if that sounds too demanding).

Holy shit. That custom box art looks awesome. If only FUNimation went for this. It'd be totally consistent with the Dragonball dvd sets. Continually I lose respect for FUNimation. The fuck mate..? =_=.

gohanku · Post by **gohanku** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 3:44 am

Comparison images from the new set show that while there is missing footage on the top and bottom, there is at least additional footage on the right and left that has not appeared in any prior release, having been taken straight from the original Japanese film master recording. In response to negative fan outcry regarding the release's apparent cropping of the source video, a FUNimation representative has released a document from the team remastering the video, which explains the logistics of the new release. This document details how certain areas of the original film are damaged, and admit that though the video is cropped, this release will eliminate the grain that would be present on prior 4:3 releases. It has also been theorized that it is ultimately more inexpensive to transfer the series in 16:9 and thereby remove the damaged portions of the frame than to repair 291 episodes' worth of damaged film.

That is so crap, the excuse given is horrible. Does anyone know how the second season back cover looks? If it still the 4:3 pictures, then I will know that Funimation are being an asshole.

slice-n-dice trunks · Post by **slice-n-dice trunks** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:56 pm

I remember searching google a few weeks back about DBZ season 1 and I came up on some Australian forum on the issue. A madman rep said that the second set was to contain the Namek and Ginyu saga, while the third set is to contain the Freeza saga, so not all sets will have as many episodes as the first, if the information was reliable.

Taku128 · Post by **Taku128** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:19 pm

SelMod wrote:
DaemonCorps wrote:Though I am still anxiously waiting for SelMod's final version of that custom packaging (and hoping that there'll be one made for each set. Sorry if that sounds too demanding).
Well, since you're being so flattering about it, I'll post my Work-In-Progress Freeza Saga cover. I'm going to start a new thread for it though, since it has nothing to do with this one.

Very professional looking. You should look into getting a job in packaging design.

EvilGamerX · Post by **EvilGamerX** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:30 pm

OK, I watched like 10 episodes last night. So as an HDTV owner, I still say FUNi, wtf? You should have made it in 4:3 and if I wanted it to be in widescreen for whatever reason, I would just hit zoom on my TV and I guarantee it would look the same as this set.

Gokuden553 · Post by **Gokuden553** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:27 pm

The widescreen format looks bad.

Kanzenshuu

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