Can we convince FUNimation to make more Level sets?

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Re: Can we convince FUNimation to make more Level sets?

Post by coola » Fri May 05, 2017 3:19 pm

I think they made huge mistake releasing them so soon, we just had Orange Bricks and Dragon Boxes, who, besides huge fans (like us :wink:. would buy 3rd release of same show? Had they wait another year or two, and, i dont know, release The Movies first, I'm sure sales would be much better.
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Re: Can we convince FUNimation to make more Level sets?

Post by Kojiro Sasaki » Fri May 05, 2017 5:43 pm

I think that we cannot convince FUNimation to spend heavy money on this kind of release. There is no market for it.

We would need to create the market and inform FUNimation about our desires, but nobody is interested in doing this (excluding me, Robo and sangofe :P (at least, they are the ones I know about...))

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Re: Can we convince FUNimation to make more Level sets?

Post by KentalSSJ6 » Fri May 05, 2017 9:49 pm

Kojiro Sasaki wrote:I think that we cannot convince FUNimation to spend heavy money on this kind of release. There is no market for it.

We would need to create the market and inform FUNimation about our desires, but nobody is interested in doing this (excluding me, Robo and sangofe :P (at least, they are the ones I know about...))
They heard our desires back when they held a poll to see which aspect ratio was wanted for the season blurays and they went with 16:9 even though 4:3 won.
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Re: Can we convince FUNimation to make more Level sets?

Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Sat May 06, 2017 6:25 am

KentalSSJ6 wrote:
Kojiro Sasaki wrote:I think that we cannot convince FUNimation to spend heavy money on this kind of release. There is no market for it.

We would need to create the market and inform FUNimation about our desires, but nobody is interested in doing this (excluding me, Robo and sangofe :P (at least, they are the ones I know about...))
They heard our desires back when they held a poll to see which aspect ratio was wanted for the season blurays and they went with 16:9 even though 4:3 won.
Yeah plus it seemed like cropping was a last minute decision, in one of the footages from the earlier Z BD Season's in one of the extra's they were talking about the footage and they were showing the remaster in 4x3. Plus S2 ended up being delayed a month too. Had they not done the survey and did this then I'd understand it but the fact people told them 4x3 and they chickened last minute makes it hard to understand the decision.

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Re: Can we convince FUNimation to make more Level sets?

Post by Kojiro Sasaki » Sat May 06, 2017 8:27 am

KentalSSJ6 wrote:They heard our desires back when they held a poll to see which aspect ratio was wanted for the season blurays and they went with 16:9 even though 4:3 won.
Of course they heard our desires. Those were 16:9 digitally garbagized, (far from) modern-looking version. They didn't ignore the poll because they hate fans. They ignored it, because lazy 16:9 releases were cheap to produce and sold like crazy. Don't forget about this tweet: https://twitter.com/lheiskell/status/623695483081351169

By the way... I remember somebody saying that there were some changes of people on decisive positions in FUNimation and the new crew decided to cancel the old “honest” project and start the new “modern” project.
Wasn't it Steve Franko himself who told it to some Kanzenshuu user who contacted him by email? (can somebody confirm it?)

There are to few of us. The only thing we can do is increase our number, keep telling companies what we want and then think about what to do next. Anybody interested? I guess not...

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Re: Can we convince FUNimation to make more Level sets?

Post by Deli295 » Sun May 21, 2017 11:55 am

Can somebody explain to me in a nutshell how Dragon Ball audio was recorded for DB/Z/GT/Movies? I've heard that if I happen to put the Movies audio (from the Dragon Boxes) in a Dolby mastering software I will get a 5.1 track, is there any truth to this?

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Re: Can we convince FUNimation to make more Level sets?

Post by Kojiro Sasaki » Sun May 21, 2017 1:20 pm

Deli295 wrote:Can somebody explain to me in a nutshell how Dragon Ball audio was recorded for DB/Z/GT/Movies?
It cannot be explained in a nutshell :P It would be the best, if you could ask more detailed question. Or a couple of questions.
Deli295 wrote:I've heard that if I happen to put the Movies audio (from the Dragon Boxes) in a Dolby mastering software I will get a 5.1 track, is there any truth to this?
The movies are 2.0 monaural, excluding DBZ Movie 13 and DB Movie 4, which are stereo. Everything was produced with mono in mind (excluding two mentioned movies).

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Re: Can we convince FUNimation to make more Level sets?

Post by Puto » Sun May 21, 2017 5:30 pm

I think a few of the movies got stereo audio on CDs.
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Re: Can we convince FUNimation to make more Level sets?

Post by Kojiro Sasaki » Sun May 21, 2017 6:18 pm

Puto wrote:I think a few of the movies got stereo audio on CDs.
BDZ 11 on CD, DBZ 6 on compact cassette.

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Re: Can we convince FUNimation to make more Level sets?

Post by Deli295 » Wed May 24, 2017 6:43 pm

Kojiro Sasaki wrote:
Puto wrote:I think a few of the movies got stereo audio on CDs.
BDZ 11 on CD, DBZ 6 on compact cassette.
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