Korean Dragonball bootlegs: stay away!!

ETC123 · Post by **ETC123** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 4:15 am

I would be suspicious of DVDs made in Korean, especially for Anime. While companies there may have the license to certian series, they dont always have the license to the material that they use. Korea's R3 Trigun box uses R2 masters, R1 english audio and subtitles when it shouldnt, their giant robo box used the R2 discs without permission, and it wouldnt suprise me if this uses Dragonbox footage without approval.

nwoo_2002 · Post by **nwoo_2002** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:49 pm

Any sign of a 'Z' box set?

sangofe · Post by **sangofe** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 9:03 am

Ok, I got my Dragonball set today.
Corey, any preferences for episodes to screen cap from?
Bit rate seems to be from 4-9.97 mbps...
It's lacking previews

It does indeed have both Japanese and Korean dubs, plus Korean subs.

I'll start by making screen captures of menus (if or when I figure out of how).

sangofe · Post by **sangofe** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 9:58 am

I'm sorry to say, but I'm now 100% sure this is a bootleg. Why?

The menus change, and video quality also changes dramatically through out the set...

Mike, please lock this thread, and use it as a warning for others...

SonEric84 · Post by **SonEric84** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 10:11 am

Damn that sucks...sorry you got ripped off. But those first 3 menus actually look kinda cool.

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 12:36 pm

Is it strange that I'm sad that bootlegs have nicer looking holders than Funi's widescreen boxes?

The bootleg's menu screens are horrible though.

sangofe · Post by **sangofe** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 2:54 pm

Actually, thinking about it, this topic should be up so people can avoid it.

Shin Moonwalker · Post by **Shin Moonwalker** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 4:23 pm

Is the video quality (during the episodes) crap too ?

sangofe · Post by **sangofe** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 5:10 pm

Discs 1-10 are dragonbox rips without previews.
Rest is some source i dont know, with korean hardsubs for japanese version, and korean dub only for korean version, so meaning 12 eps a disc.

Raki · Post by **Raki** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 6:07 pm

Thanks for the headsup.

Tsukento · Post by **Tsukento** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 7:51 pm

Chuquita wrote:Is it strange that I'm sad that bootlegs have nicer looking holders than Funi's widescreen boxes?

I think it is rather sad that bootlegs look loads better than the official product.

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 2:29 am

Tsukento wrote:
Chuquita wrote:Is it strange that I'm sad that bootlegs have nicer looking holders than Funi's widescreen boxes?
I think it is rather sad that bootlegs look loads better than the official product.

What's even worse is when the audio and video quality of a Hong Kong DBZ bootleg is better than anything FUNi's ever put out. The only downside is that people who absolutely need English subtitles would be sorely disappointed...

...and that they're bootlegs.

Tsukento · Post by **Tsukento** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 3:27 am

Well I wouldn't say the video quality is better since I've seen a few that had hella macroblocking and looked more like it was of YouTube quality on DVD.

Any chance of screenshots from actual episodes on these sets?

sangofe · Post by **sangofe** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 5:45 am

Tsukento wrote:Any chance of screenshots from actual episodes on these sets?

What's the use? It's a no no bootleg that people should avoid...

SatoSky · Post by **SatoSky** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 6:24 am

sangofe wrote:
Tsukento wrote:Any chance of screenshots from actual episodes on these sets?
What's the use? It's a no no bootleg that people should avoid...

It'd still be nice to compare sources; FUNimation, Dragon Box and Korean.

Captain Awesome · Post by **Captain Awesome** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:44 am

sangofe wrote:
Tsukento wrote:Any chance of screenshots from actual episodes on these sets?
What's the use? It's a no no bootleg that people should avoid...

Well I for one am curious, I own Madman's R4 sets and I'd like to see the difference.

Casual Matt · Post by **Casual Matt** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:31 am

Tsukento wrote:
Chuquita wrote:Is it strange that I'm sad that bootlegs have nicer looking holders than Funi's widescreen boxes?
I think it is rather sad that bootlegs look loads better than the official product.

I think that's proof that FUNi can do better.

But I also think people would be very happy if FUNi had just used the grainy footage they've had all along and slapped that into the new boxsets at that lovely price point instead of starting this remastered (

) widescreen controversy. Come to think of it, that's exactly what happened with Batman TAS. The grainy episodes are still grainy, the dirty cells are still dirty, it's fullscreen like it should be, and all put into 30 or so episodes per set at 50 bucks or so a pop. And, dammit, I love those sets with every ounce of my BTAS loving heart.

But I digress. Back on topic. Some of those menus look like ass. The colours on some confuse and anger me.

Dan no saisei · Post by **Dan no saisei** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:49 am

Well the menus look crap...but I like the idea of the first menu with the "globe" in the background (even if it looks cheap the way they did it).
Is the menu with the Buu saga group poster (I own that poster...) from a DB or a DBZ DVD?

And on the first site are that 2 or 4 boxes, because they look like they are 2 different 2 Box-sets (I know that sentence sounds wired), because design and the picture on the side of the DVDs are different so that can’t be only 2 boxes

And I want to see some screen caps from the episodes too

Captain Awesome · Post by **Captain Awesome** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 1:12 pm

Tsukento wrote: I think it is rather sad that bootlegs look loads better than the official product.

Tell me about it, and I thought the R4 sets looked great for a FUNi release.

Now they look ugly as hell.

*places season set next to it*

I take that back!

The Lecherous Muten Roshi wrote: The grainy episodes are still grainy, the dirty cells are still dirty, it's fullscreen like it should be, and all put into 30 or so episodes per set at 50 bucks or so a pop. And, dammit, I love those sets with every ounce of my BTAS loving heart.

I couldn't agree more (I'm a huge BTAS fan) it's also the case with my Tintin complete box set, the cels are dirty, the scenes with a high cel count look like blurry scratched crap.

But It's still a fantastic box set (It could use a French language track though) :

sangofe · Post by **sangofe** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:40 pm

Ok, since you guys absolutely wanted...
Like I said: discs 1-10 seem to be a direct rip of the Dragonboxes, with previews cut out.
Disc 11-26, are however, dreadful.
Video quality itself is "fine" (probably a very good TV rip), but, the bitrate absolutely is not.
What's done, is that they slam 6x2 eps on a DVD; they don't put dual audio tracks, but rather one that is Korean dub only, and the other Korean hardsub only... While on the first 10 discs, there were softsubs with dub/original like normal dvds...
Beware the screencaptures.

General quality of discs 1-10

General quality of discs 11+

Kanzenshuu

Korean Dragonball bootlegs: stay away!!

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