Playdia Footage to possibly see DVD release in Spain!?

SonGokuGT · Post by **SonGokuGT** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 5:40 am

According to a Spanish blog, it looks like Selecta Vision is currently in talks with Toei to release the Playdia footage on DVD in Spain! According to the site they are currently undergoing negotiations so that the release will be ready by the time they are done re-releasing the uncut original Dragonball, the movies and the specials. This release will take extra time due to the fact that it will need to be dubbed for the first time in Castilian Spanish and possibly Catalan!

Here's the link:

http://ramenparados.blogspot.com/2008/0 ... espaa.html

I think this is pretty damn exciting! Looks like we'll finally get an accessible version of this animation!

Thoughts?

Captain Awesome · Post by **Captain Awesome** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:19 am

If this does happen, as long as it's got the original Japanese audio, I'm importing for sure.

Between this and the Dbox single of DB movie 1, I can't wait to throw my money away.

Raki · Post by **Raki** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:15 pm

Talk about awesome. If this does happen, I'll import it like the Captain. Anime in the next few months is going to bankrupt me.

SSJ Helldog · Post by **SSJ Helldog** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:49 pm

Didn't I see somewhere that this was released in France on VHS?

SonGokuGT · Post by **SonGokuGT** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:16 pm

SSJ Helldog wrote:Didn't I see somewhere that this was released in France on VHS?

Was it really? Interesting...

Oh and Captain Awesome, it will have the Japanese track for sure. All of their redone releases have been uncut, used the DragonBox masters and have included the Japanese track.

SSj Gogito · Post by **SSj Gogito** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:24 pm

If thats all true SonGokuGT this is a definate import for me

bkev · Post by **bkev** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:46 pm

Bah... the PAL would pry get to me, unless I tried to change it myself. I'm sure there're guides for it... maybe I will end up importing these. It's not too hard to author subs, because I figure there would already be a timecode for Spanish ones.
The problem is dual-layer DVDs, my computer doesn't burn those well @_@

tinlunlau · Post by **tinlunlau** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:32 am

bkev wrote:Bah... the PAL would pry get to me, unless I tried to change it myself. I'm sure there're guides for it... maybe I will end up importing these. It's not too hard to author subs, because I figure there would already be a timecode for Spanish ones.
The problem is dual-layer DVDs, my computer doesn't burn those well @_@

You can always use DVDShrink and make it single layer.

SatoSky · Post by **SatoSky** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:45 am

It's not very hard to convert PAL to NTSC, but I don't suggest you do it. There will definitely be some loss of quality. And please, never use DVDShrink... it's just ass. And it makes sweet baby Jesus cry. If you seriously need to know how to bring a DVD9 down to DVD5, send me a PM and I'll point you to the right place. Just don't use DVDShrink.

SonGokuGT · Post by **SonGokuGT** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 2:59 am

OFF TOPIC: Interesting, I'd be interested in knowing the steps to subtitling my own DVDs if anyone can recommend some literature...

SSJ Helldog · Post by **SSJ Helldog** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:16 pm

I've got subtitles for this if/when anybody needs them. I just took the ones floating around online, cleaned up the timings a bit, and fixed the English.

Darknat · Post by **Darknat** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:31 pm

I don't want to destroy anyones hopes, but I'm spanish, and that site justs talks about the supposed OVAs...

so it's not the footage from the Playdia games, just what already came from Dragon Box as OVAs

SSj_Rambo · Post by **SSj_Rambo** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:46 pm

If this does go through than this is will be the first time that the "OVA" will get an individual DVDrelease! But seeing that it is in a different language and encoded for a different region I see no difference between this release and the Dragonbox release besides the major price difference.

The thing that I'm hoping for is that this footage will be remastered (by the Dragonbox masters). I know that Selecta Vision is always saying that they are using the Dragonbox masters, but do they mean that they are just using their work or that they are actually hiring them to do more remastering? Because I know that when the Dragonbox masters released this "OVA" in the second Dragonbox they did not remaster it.

SonGokuGT · Post by **SonGokuGT** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:44 pm

Darknat: I'm Spanish as well, and they do mean the Playdia footage as that's the only "OVA" released, so to speak. The footage from the games were released on VHS in Japan and from what I heard France as well. They were also included in the DragonBox Z Vol. 2 as well.

So then, SSj_Rambo... These were left untouched by the Pony Canyon remastering process in DragonBox Z Vol. 2!? Does anyone have screencaps of the footage to check out the quality?

Post by **VegettoEX** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:12 pm

Something that needs to be pointed out is that in many countries (or at least a few), the DB & DBZ movies were flat-out called "OVAs" for their respective release... which is quite accurate, since in those countries, they were released straight to home video.

SSj_Rambo · Post by **SSj_Rambo** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:44 pm

SonGokuGT wrote:So then, SSj_Rambo... These were left untouched by the Pony Canyon remastering process in DragonBox Z Vol. 2!? Does anyone have screencaps of the footage to check out the quality?

The only other screenshots you could compare the Dragonbox screenshots to would be shots from the VHS release after it was transferred to DVD, which would give you a loss of quality from the start.

I'm not an expert on the Dragonboxs, especially since I don't even have one, so if you want the full story on this matter either Herms or Hujio could probably explain it best.

Darknat · Post by **Darknat** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:23 am

SonGokuGT wrote:Darknat: I'm Spanish as well, and they do mean the Playdia footage as that's the only "OVA" released, so to speak. The footage from the games were released on VHS in Japan and from what I heard France as well. They were also included in the DragonBox Z Vol. 2 as well.

So then, SSj_Rambo... These were left untouched by the Pony Canyon remastering process in DragonBox Z Vol. 2!? Does anyone have screencaps of the footage to check out the quality?

It's not the same. The ones that got released early in the 90s in VHS were the ones that the japanese got in the Dragonbox.

The playdia footage took the footage from the vhs, added new music, and new scenes.

What that blog says is that they are gonna release the "OVA" based on the playdia. Even though it's the other way around, the playdia games were based on the OVA and the NES game.

Kanzenshuu

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