Dragon Ball Movies Available in HD

[roseofpain]

I'm not sure if everyone is aware of this, but the first seventeen DB/Z movies are available in HD on Prime Video Japan.

If anyone's interested, I can post screenshots to compare some of them with the Dragon Box DVDs.

[eledoremassis02]

I'm not sure if everyone is aware of this, but the first seventeen DB/Z movies are available in HD on Prime Video Japan.

If anyone's interested, I can post screenshots to compare some of them with the Dragon Box DVDs.

They have been available for a while, but thank you for the update! I know they had a slightly less HQ version before posting a higher bitrate version so I say throw a few caps up to see if they're still the same

Are they still not using the HQ audio?

[Pride9000!!!]

I'm not sure if everyone is aware of this, but the first seventeen DB/Z movies are available in HD on Prime Video Japan.

If anyone's interested, I can post screenshots to compare some of them with the Dragon Box DVDs.

In 2018 Toei released the Movies and TV specials in HD.

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

They are a significant upgrade over the original D-boxes and light years better than funnies blu-rays. They released it on streaming (later with a better encoding). They were also released on blu-ray unfortunately DNRed, but had higher quality audio (from the laserdisc). Unfortunately many of them suffer from "The Toei Tint" where things are colored super green or yellowish. This is currently the highest quality that we can watch for movies and TV special. This master at the moment has not been released in north america. Because we can't have good things.

[roseofpain]

I'm not sure if everyone is aware of this, but the first seventeen DB/Z movies are available in HD on Prime Video Japan.

If anyone's interested, I can post screenshots to compare some of them with the Dragon Box DVDs.

In 2018 Toei released the Movies and TV specials in HD.

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

They are a significant upgrade over the original D-boxes and light years better than funnies blu-rays. They released it on streaming (later with a better encoding). They were also released on blu-ray unfortunately DNRed, but had higher quality audio (from the laserdisc). Unfortunately many of them suffer from "The Toei Tint" where things are colored super green or yellowish. This is currently the highest quality that we can watch for movies and TV special. This master at the moment has not been released in north america. Because we can't have good things.

If the Blu-rays have DNR, then the VOD would be the best choice. You could also swap out the audio from it with the audio tracks from the BD.

Also, you mentioned that the audio was taken from the Laserdisc but what about DB Movies 01-03?

[Raki]

Hasnt Toei censored the remastered movies?

[Pride9000!!!]

I'm not sure if everyone is aware of this, but the first seventeen DB/Z movies are available in HD on Prime Video Japan.

If anyone's interested, I can post screenshots to compare some of them with the Dragon Box DVDs.

In 2018 Toei released the Movies and TV specials in HD.

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

They are a significant upgrade over the original D-boxes and light years better than funnies blu-rays. They released it on streaming (later with a better encoding). They were also released on blu-ray unfortunately DNRed, but had higher quality audio (from the laserdisc). Unfortunately many of them suffer from "The Toei Tint" where things are colored super green or yellowish. This is currently the highest quality that we can watch for movies and TV special. This master at the moment has not been released in north america. Because we can't have good things.

If the Blu-rays have DNR, then the VOD would be the best choice. You could also swap out the audio from it with the audio tracks from the BD.

Also, you mentioned that the audio was taken from the Laserdisc but what about DB Movies 01-03?

Fans of dragon ball have already synchronised the streaming version (video) and the audio from the blu ray + the 2 english funny dubs (kikuchi eng dub, eng dub with the replacement score). They are also currently working to fix the colours (I cannot tell you where to find those releases because it's against the rules of this forum but you can find them online)

Hasnt Toei censored the remastered movies?

For the streaming version no but for the blu ray version yes https://www.kotaku.com.au/wp-content/up ... ze=720,405

[dragonmagico]

Hasnt Toei censored the remastered movies?

A scene or two on bluray but not on web. And on bluray the only one that comes to mind is trunks flipping people off.


Also not all the blurays had bad dnr. Z movie 1 is over all better on bluray for example

[roseofpain]

Were the blu-rays released as a box set?

[VegettoEX]

Were the blu-rays released as a box set?

I haven't seen anything like that, no -- just the single-disc double features as originally released (well, triple feature in the case of the first three DB movies). The only recent home video releases have been Super Hero and then box sets of the Super TV series.

[TheGreatness25]

Hasnt Toei censored the remastered movies?

For the streaming version no but for the blu ray version yes https://www.kotaku.com.au/wp-content/up ... ze=720,405

Of course. The physical version has the green tint and is censored, but the streaming version is the good one. Of course. Because one way or another, Toei and Funimation are hell-bent on pushing fans away from the physical release in favor of streaming and even illegal means of watching/owning.

How is it that I can be willing to spend a bunch of money on a product, have it shipped from a foreign country, deal with everything that entails (had three Dragon Boxes that were a pain to get because they couldn't leave them at my door and kept trying to redeliver so going to the post office to pick them up was challenging too), and in the end, I'd still have an inferior product to what's on a streaming service or illegally available?

Were the blu-rays released as a box set?

Mine came like this:



So, there's at least a box for the set... Just don't think it was released as one package. I could be wrong.

[VegettoEX]

I was about to edit that into my post, hah!

Yeah, you could buy the first Blu-ray (DBZ movies 1 & 2) to come with a box that would hold all the discs that would (at that point) still be coming out later.

It hasn't all, later after that, come out together as one complete package to purchase directly from the producer.

[roseofpain]

Were the blu-rays released as a box set?

Mine came like this:



So, there's at least a box for the set... Just don't think it was released as one package. I could be wrong.

How many discs does each case hold?

[TheGreatness25]

Were the blu-rays released as a box set?

Mine came like this:



So, there's at least a box for the set... Just don't think it was released as one package. I could be wrong.

How many discs does each case hold?

One disc each, two movies per disc except #8, which has the first three Dragon Ball movies.

[roseofpain]

Mine came like this:



So, there's at least a box for the set... Just don't think it was released as one package. I could be wrong.

How many discs does each case hold?

One disc each, two movies per disc except #8, which has the first three Dragon Ball movies.

Last question, is this the only censorship that was made to the movies or is there more than that?

[TheGreatness25]

Spoiler:

How many discs does each case hold?

One disc each, two movies per disc except #8, which has the first three Dragon Ball movies.

Last question, is this the only censorship that was made to the movies or is there more than that?

You know, I honestly don't know. Truth be told, I haven't really watched them while paying attention. And even if I did, I would likely not notice unless it's something super obvious like that. I think someone else much more knowledgeable than me would be more qualified to answer.

I'm weird with releases--I own a bunch of stuff, but the only releases I saw all the way through were the movie single DVDs, the Dragon Ball singles, the Funimation Z Dragon Box, GT singles, Kai Blu-rays, and Super Blu-rays. All other releases that I have are pretty much to satiate my collector illness (as I call it). I've had some of these movies on in the background while doing other stuff.

[tinlunlau]

I just checked out the Japanese Amazon Prime Video with VPN and I can't seem to find the Dragon Ball movies. Would I have search with the Japanese titles? Cuz searching for "Dragon Ball" sure gave me zero results.

[Cold Skin]

We have those masters in the French release too, so after having watched all movies, I can tell you that middle fingers is the only thing that was censored to my knowledge.

None of the violence has been toned down or anything.

[TheGreatness25]

We have those masters in the French release too, so after having watched all movies, I can tell you that middle fingers is the only thing that was censored to my knowledge.

None of the violence has been toned down or anything.

And yet, that still bugs me. Not because I care about middle fingers--I'd be perfectly happy if they were never in the movies in the first place. It's just like... why? Why can't we just get a release without anything missing or anything blurred to or anything looking like it went down with the Titanic? Why? Why can't they just make a normal Blu-ray release? It's like re-releasing Batman Returns with a pink filter and cutting out the Christmas tree lighting scene. Just why?

[SuperSaiyaManZ94]

We have those masters in the French release too, so after having watched all movies, I can tell you that middle fingers is the only thing that was censored to my knowledge.

None of the violence has been toned down or anything.

And yet, that still bugs me. Not because I care about middle fingers--I'd be perfectly happy if they were never in the movies in the first place. It's just like... why? Why can't we just get a release without anything missing or anything blurred to or anything looking like it went down with the Titanic? Why? Why can't they just make a normal Blu-ray release? It's like re-releasing Batman Returns with a pink filter and cutting out the Christmas tree lighting scene. Just why?

What's even more baffling is they did this to the pricey BD's, the ones that the nostalgic collectors with disposable income are likely to purchase. OTOH the streaming editions of the movies are completely unaltered and not de grained or plagued with green color casts. It seems so backwards to me, that the BD version is the one that got edited in this minor form yet the VOD versions have no changes whatsoever.

[TheGreatness25]

We have those masters in the French release too, so after having watched all movies, I can tell you that middle fingers is the only thing that was censored to my knowledge.

None of the violence has been toned down or anything.

And yet, that still bugs me. Not because I care about middle fingers--I'd be perfectly happy if they were never in the movies in the first place. It's just like... why? Why can't we just get a release without anything missing or anything blurred to or anything looking like it went down with the Titanic? Why? Why can't they just make a normal Blu-ray release? It's like re-releasing Batman Returns with a pink filter and cutting out the Christmas tree lighting scene. Just why?

What's even more baffling is they did this to the pricey BD's, the ones that the nostalgic collectors with disposable income are likely to purchase. OTOH the streaming editions of the movies are completely unaltered and not de grained or plagued with green color casts. It seems so backwards to me, that the BD version is the one that got edited in this minor form yet the VOD versions have no changes whatsoever.

That's what I'm saying! It's like Toei and Funimation are pushing fans away from spending money on physical releases.