Season Six Discussion Thread

SSJToreto · Post by **SSJToreto** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 6:28 pm

MajinVejitaXV wrote:
SSJToreto wrote:I guess it depends on the person watching it. I can definetly see it dancing around all over the screen when i'm watching on my LCD monitor. Maybe my eyes see too much...
Possibly. Have you calibrated your setup? That might be making it more apparent.

-Corey

No, I haven't bothered calibrating my monitor, neither do I have the necessary knowledge to do so... I suppose you need special software?

MajinVejitaXV · Post by **MajinVejitaXV** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 6:32 pm

SSJToreto wrote:No, I haven't bothered calibrating my monitor, neither do I have the necessary knowledge to do so... I suppose you need special software?

Nah. Try this site, never used it before but at a glance it appears to cover things:

http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/

-Corey

SSJToreto · Post by **SSJToreto** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 6:39 pm

MajinVejitaXV wrote:
SSJToreto wrote:No, I haven't bothered calibrating my monitor, neither do I have the necessary knowledge to do so... I suppose you need special software?
Nah. Try this site, never used it before but at a glance it appears to cover things:

http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/

-Corey

Thanks, I'll take a look.

ect5150 · Post by **ect5150** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 10:06 pm

Here are the comparison videos for Season 6, I might do a few other from different seasons. I've redone the low-quality version as well.

High Quality
http://www.mediafire.com/?kwoamgwg1ry (~72 Megs)

Low Quality
http://www.mediafire.com/?yrjhxtykymz (~6 megs)

It should be obvious which is DBox and which is the widescreen. Audio is DBox as there is no comparison there on which is better.

BrollysKin · Post by **BrollysKin** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 10:43 pm

SSJToreto wrote:
MajinVejitaXV wrote:
SSJToreto wrote:No, I haven't bothered calibrating my monitor, neither do I have the necessary knowledge to do so... I suppose you need special software?
Nah. Try this site, never used it before but at a glance it appears to cover things:

http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/

-Corey
Thanks, I'll take a look.

My monitor doesn't even have controls for 3/4 of those tests. I did cut my contrast by half though. Lets hope I know what I'm doing.

Super Ghost Kamikaze · Post by **Super Ghost Kamikaze** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 10:53 pm

I've been watching my Season One set, and I'm honestly starting to wonder why I've been fussing over these season sets.

I mean, when you've only seen the Japanese version on VHS tapes, it's really hard to complain about the remastering process. In general, this is the best Japanese Dragonball has looked for me in a long time, and...so far, my viewings have only had me notice an Oni's mouth disappearing while the car was shaking, which was annoying for a bit.

*is a year behind everybody*

Metalwario64 · Post by **Metalwario64** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:22 pm

Super Ghost Kamikaze wrote:I've been watching my Season One set, and I'm honestly starting to wonder why I've been fussing over these season sets.

I mean, when you've only seen the Japanese version on VHS tapes, it's really hard to complain about the remastering process. In general, this is the best Japanese Dragonball has looked for me in a long time, and...so far, my viewings have only had me notice an Oni's mouth disappearing while the car was shaking, which was annoying for a bit.

*is a year behind everybody*

Honestly, with a little bit of color correcting on a computer with any program, these sets can look pretty nice. I have even gotten Season Two to look almost as good as the Dragon Boxes (color-wise) and I am considering making custom recropped horizontally 4:3 DVD's of these sets after my PC gets repaired. Honestly, that way it is only a little bit more zoomed in than the FUNi singles.

The disappearing lines are the only issues I have, and the picture quality past Season One (After you color correct) is about the same as their other earlier DVDs anyway, and these even have better encoding!

But enough of that. I don't want this to get into a flame war over the sets.

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:24 pm

ect5150 wrote:Here are the comparison videos for Season 6

It should be obvious which is DBox and which is the widescreen. Audio is DBox as there is no comparison there on which is better.

Season Six looks surprisingly good. I mean, I know it's obviously not DragonBox level, but still.

Forgotten Hero · Post by **Forgotten Hero** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:24 am

So...Is it worth buying for $30?

Big Momma · Post by **Big Momma** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:29 am

Forgotten Hero wrote:So...Is it worth buying for $30?

Considering you can get 20-30 episodes with original audio and BGM with English voices, I'd say yes.(But thats just me, and I don't really care about all the "faux" remastering. I mean, I'd like DBox Quality, but its not that important to me.)

Forgotten Hero · Post by **Forgotten Hero** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:33 am

Big Momma wrote:
Forgotten Hero wrote:So...Is it worth buying for $30?
Considering you can get 20-30 episodes with original audio and BGM with English voices, I'd say yes.(But thats just me, and I don't really care about all the "faux" remastering. I mean, I'd like DBox Quality, but its not that important to me.)

I want the DragonBox, but I'm poor...I'll just grab this then, thanks!

Super Ghost Kamikaze · Post by **Super Ghost Kamikaze** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:39 am

Forgotten Hero wrote:
Big Momma wrote:
Forgotten Hero wrote:So...Is it worth buying for $30?
Considering you can get 20-30 episodes with original audio and BGM with English voices, I'd say yes.(But thats just me, and I don't really care about all the "faux" remastering. I mean, I'd like DBox Quality, but its not that important to me.)
I want the DragonBox, but I'm poor...I'll just grab this then, thanks!

I got Season One for $20 in-store at Wal-Mart. Some of the other older sets are now $24.

If you buy them at $20-24 bucks, you're saving $6-10 per set. That's something like $64-90 saved overall, so those few bucks here or there can make a huge difference.

Big Momma · Post by **Big Momma** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:51 am

Forgotten Hero wrote:
Big Momma wrote:
Forgotten Hero wrote:So...Is it worth buying for $30?
Considering you can get 20-30 episodes with original audio and BGM with English voices, I'd say yes.(But thats just me, and I don't really care about all the "faux" remastering. I mean, I'd like DBox Quality, but its not that important to me.)
I want the DragonBox, but I'm poor...I'll just grab this then, thanks!

Thats basically why I'm getting the Funi sets, too!

@Kamikaze: Yeah, only the newer ones are up to $30, the older ones are cheaper.

Forgotten Hero · Post by **Forgotten Hero** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:52 am

Yep, which is why these sets are selling. At the Anime Club I run at my school, I know three people who have the sets just because of the cheap price. Two of them aren't even fans of the show.The other one just likes the fighting.

SSJ2bardock · Post by **SSJ2bardock** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:22 am

That's kind of strange that they bought season sets to a show they don't even like.

-edit- Am I glitching out or something because I just looked at my post count and its over 1000 which seems way too high for some reason.

Captain Awesome · Post by **Captain Awesome** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 3:35 am

Metalwario64 wrote:[ I have even gotten Season Two to look almost as good as the Dragon Boxes (color-wise)

Honestly, I really don't think thats possible with the video quality of the season two set, it's overbrightened to the point I don't think the more subtle colours like the pink in the skintones even exist anymore, no matter how much you tweak it.

And believe me, I've tried.

PrincessVegeta · Post by **PrincessVegeta** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:40 am

SSj Kaboom wrote:
ect5150 wrote:Here are the comparison videos for Season 6

It should be obvious which is DBox and which is the widescreen. Audio is DBox as there is no comparison there on which is better.
Season Six looks surprisingly good. I mean, I know it's obviously not DragonBox level, but still.

You kidding me, Season 6's brightness in this boxset was turned way down, and in some scenes there even seems to be a blue tint to it "Most noticable when the Cell JRs appeared"

I'd rather see what's happening then see nothing in darkness, so a little contrast ajusting wouldn't harm this set but Funi messed up on this one

Tweaker · Post by **Tweaker** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:38 am

Wait, I'm confused--I was under the impression that the grainy picture posted earlier in the thread was DragonBox quality. Are you saying it's not? If so, I'd like to see an example of the quality from the DragonBox so I could determine if I prefer that or not.

And please excuse my newbish questions; I'm still getting into the hang of things. :P

SSJToreto · Post by **SSJToreto** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:49 am

Tweaker wrote:Wait, I'm confused--I was under the impression that the grainy picture posted earlier in the thread was DragonBox quality. Are you saying it's not? If so, I'd like to see an example of the quality from the DragonBox so I could determine if I prefer that or not.

And please excuse my newbish questions; I'm still getting into the hang of things.

The picture is Dragon Box quality.

DBHighDefinition · Post by **DBHighDefinition** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:25 pm

If anybody wants to make a proper comparison, then here's a link to one of my uncompressed remastered clips:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PBMAJJ42

Its SSJ2 Gohan Vs Cell.