Bootleg DVD thread

[ss4songoku]

Wow the artwork is actually quite well done however I don't condone buying them whatsoever. It's ignorant people buying crap like that drive Funi to release products of lesser quality and higher price like how they cancelled the Level sets in favor of the season blu-rays with a cheap transfer. No excuse for cropping though lol. I found this on ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dragon-Ball-Epi ... 1553289215

can't find the real thing anywhere from the magazine

[thomas1up]

Wow the artwork is actually quite well done however I don't condone buying them whatsoever. It's ignorant people buying crap like that drive Funi to release products of lesser quality and higher price like how they cancelled the Level sets in favor of the season blu-rays with a cheap transfer. No excuse for cropping though lol. I found this on ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dragon-Ball-Epi ... 1553289215

can't find the real thing anywhere from the magazine

Yeah I'd agree but the only dbz release in the uk is the orange bricks and I don't have a fortune to import dragon boxes :/

I'm gonna get MangaUKs dragon ball release tho

[Fulicer]

Wow the artwork is actually quite well done however I don't condone buying them whatsoever. It's ignorant people buying crap like that drive Funi to release products of lesser quality and higher price like how they cancelled the Level sets in favor of the season blu-rays with a cheap transfer. No excuse for cropping though lol. I found this on ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dragon-Ball-Epi ... 1553289215

can't find the real thing anywhere from the magazine

Is that a real bluray? I wonder where he got the "HD" copy from

Edit: Actually he says it's a DVD in the description, but the picture has the bluray logo...

[Gdugz]

Wow the artwork is actually quite well done however I don't condone buying them whatsoever. It's ignorant people buying crap like that drive Funi to release products of lesser quality and higher price like how they cancelled the Level sets in favor of the season blu-rays with a cheap transfer. No excuse for cropping though lol. I found this on ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dragon-Ball-Epi ... 1553289215

can't find the real thing anywhere from the magazine

Yeah I'd agree but the only dbz release in the uk is the orange bricks and I don't have a fortune to import dragon boxes :/

I'm gonna get MangaUKs dragon ball release tho

The Blu ray season sets work in the uk aswell, not much better than the orange bricks tho.

[dbboxkaifan]

This one seems to pop up every now and then:






"Surroud" lol and instead of using actual screenshots it's wallpapers.

This is currently going for £30 on eBay and regardless of telling the seller this is another booty (I reported though) it'd be pointless because what he wants is just to sell the damn thing and get his money back (he apparently paid £50 for it).

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dragonball-Z- ... 1c43077003

[Sin]

I've always been curious about this bootleg set:



It's the english dub and stretches out over 'parts'. I have always wondered if it is just the Pioneer release copied DVD > DVD or whether there is compression, I'm sure I also remember someone saying it was just a home recording of the Toonami broadcast, so I'd be interested to know either way as this bootleg has been around for a while.

[sangofe]

After chatting with the seller of the awesome looking DBZ bootleg he decided to post more pics and oh my god, how cool is that! The reversible covers have each character printed on them as well as the discs!


If he'd sell me this for £10 it'd go asap.

You know these aren't bootlegs, right? They're official Chinese releases of DBZ.

[Dragon ball master]

I think it's weird but kind of understandable. The confusion between fansubs and bootlegs like fan subs are more of just translating a Japanese shows with subtitles that aren't really accurate to the actual source. Like does anybody know what's the true difference between bootleg and fansub

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

. Like does anybody know what's the true difference between bootleg and fansub

I mean, I don't see why they should be mutually exclusive?

Bootlegs can contain fansubs. They are unofficially licensed products and back in the 90s there was an underground scene populated by people who wanted to watch the show uncut and in Japanese who built up collections of tapes subbed by Anime Labs. These fansubs, like most at the time, were notoriously inaccurate and used a lot of swears for shock value, which probably influenced Funimation in some way with their attempts to portray Dragon Ball Z as a mature, adult show in the Ultimate Uncut era and in their bizzarre love for the word "bastard" in more recent dubs. Those old fansubbed versions of Dragon Ball were evidently popular though as they made their way to an official outlet, on the Nippon Golden TV channel in Hawaii.

I guess nowadays there are less bootlegs, as more fans are content with owning their content in digital form so they'd rather download fansubs online than import tapes or discs from places like Hong Kong, although I've heard reports of there being quite a few bootleg Super Blu-Rays and Dragon Ball's Blue Bricks, so they are still out there, likely to capitalize on the fans who wanted to own the former physically but didn't want to pay $30 for 13 episodes or didn't like the cardboard packaging for the latter.

Fansubs are probably less common now for stuff Funimation/Crunchyroll has already released but when Daima comes out we'll probably see more as there will be plenty of fans not willing to wait for Steve Simmons' official subs and will settle for what makes the rounds online.

[sangofe]

. Like does anybody know what's the true difference between bootleg and fansub

Those old fansubbed versions of Dragon Ball were evidently popular though as they made their way to an official outlet, on the Nippon Golden TV channel in Hawaii.

This is wrong. Nippon Golden TV didn't use fansubs.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

This is wrong. Nippon Golden TV didn't use fansubs.

Fair enough. Did they sub it themselves?

[sangofe]

This is wrong. Nippon Golden TV didn't use fansubs.

Fair enough. Did they sub it themselves?

As far as I know, they did. Maybe they hired someone but it wasn't a fansub.

[MasenkoHA]

Fansubs are probably less common now for stuff Funimation/Crunchyroll has already released but when Daima comes out we'll probably see more as there will be plenty of fans not willing to wait for Steve Simmons' official subs and will settle for what makes the rounds online.

I wouldn't be terribly suprised if there's some sort of simulcast where official subs are released the same time as the Japanese release. Especially with Toei announcing Daima at a New York con. Although watch it be Toei approved subs where we see things like Shenron, Flying Nimbus, and Power Pole.

[VegettoEX]

Chiming in that the Nippon Golden Network subs were not "fansubs" and were indeed internal creations.

Recordings were routinely distributed in fansub circles, but it's not technically correct to categorize them as fansubs.

Also: this thread was a full ten years dead. I don't see/understand why it was responded to...? I don't really understand how/why people look up extremely old threads and respond to them as if it's a current conversation.

[bernhard90]

I already made this topic. There is much info also.

viewtopic.php?t=43610

[Kid Trunks]

Little bump here, I'm considering buying some of the old Funimation DVD singles on ebay but I see that in many cases some of the discs are reflective and some of them are not. Is this normal? Are both legit? Here's an example:

[eledoremassis02]

Little bump here, I'm considering buying some of the old Funimation DVD singles on ebay but I see that in many cases some of the discs are reflective and some of them are not. Is this normal? Are both legit? Here's an example:

I am pretty sure the matte ones are latter/cheaper pressings

[TechExpert2021]

Little bump here, I'm considering buying some of the old Funimation DVD singles on ebay but I see that in many cases some of the discs are reflective and some of them are not. Is this normal? Are both legit? Here's an example:

The latter (the matte/non-reflecting top-facing DVD) has the late-2005 FUNimation logo and former (the reflecting top-facing DVD) has the 1994 FUNimation logo. Therefore, the former is legitimate. The latter is not.

Man, I wish FUNimation/Crunchyroll implement their own official seal of quality (their equivalent to the Official Nintendo Seal of Quality) on their packaging of their home releases…