Dragonball DVDs in bali; only crazy bootlegs?

sangofe · Post by **sangofe** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 6:40 am

'Kay, so I am currently staying in Bali for a few months to study, and brought up the question whether there are Dragonball DVDs to buy. "Yes", was the answer, but, at the bootleg market. I was still curious, so he took me there.

And... wow... these are the worst bootlegs I have ever seen. Firstly, one freaking DVD has at least 27 episodes, and most had 40 episodes a disc, and secondly, they are all rips of FUNi singles! Only thing I cared about was the Indonesian dub, so I was pretty disappointed when I found out they only had the Japanese version with English subs, and some with Indonesian and French subs.
Final question: Anyone here knows if there are official dvds for sale? There are for Bleach and Naruto...

SonGokuGT · Post by **SonGokuGT** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 6:49 am

sangofe wrote:'Kay, so I am currently staying in Bali for a few months to study, and brought up the question whether there are Dragonball DVDs to buy. "Yes", was the answer, but, at the bootleg market. I was still curious, so he took me there.

And... wow... these are the worst bootlegs I have ever seen. Firstly, one freaking DVD has at least 27 episodes, and most had 40 episodes a disc, and secondly, they are all rips of FUNi singles! Only thing I cared about was the Indonesian dub, so I was pretty disappointed when I found out they only had the Japanese version with English subs, and some with Indonesian and French subs.
Final question: Anyone here knows if there are official dvds for sale? There are for Bleach and Naruto...

40 episodes a disc!? I'd buy that just to see the abysmal video quality out of pure curiosity! If you have one post screencaps... FOR SCIENCE!!

kei17 · Post by **kei17** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 8:47 am

The indonesian dub certainly exists. Seeing this video, I think this must be VCD rip. So you should search VCD instead of DVD. Maybe there could be still no DVD release there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNdEEI5EG2g&fmt=18

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:27 pm

SonGokuGT wrote:
sangofe wrote:'Kay, so I am currently staying in Bali for a few months to study, and brought up the question whether there are Dragonball DVDs to buy. "Yes", was the answer, but, at the bootleg market. I was still curious, so he took me there.

And... wow... these are the worst bootlegs I have ever seen. Firstly, one freaking DVD has at least 27 episodes, and most had 40 episodes a disc, and secondly, they are all rips of FUNi singles! Only thing I cared about was the Indonesian dub, so I was pretty disappointed when I found out they only had the Japanese version with English subs, and some with Indonesian and French subs.
Final question: Anyone here knows if there are official dvds for sale? There are for Bleach and Naruto...
40 episodes a disc!? I'd buy that just to see the abysmal video quality out of pure curiosity! If you have one post screencaps... FOR SCIENCE!!

Dear God! I too want to see how these look!

..and I thought the old school TMNT discs were pushing it with 12 eps a disc...

SuperSaiyan3Goku · Post by **SuperSaiyan3Goku** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 4:14 pm

40 episodes a DISC? Is there truly no boundaries that bootleggers won't cross? 40 episodes, the quality must have gone to shit, and I'm curious to see the hilariously laughable quality.

Raki · Post by **Raki** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 4:57 pm

SuperSaiyan3Goku wrote:40 episodes a DISC? Is there truly no boundaries that bootleggers won't cross? 40 episodes, the quality must have gone to shit, and I'm curious to see the hilariously laughable quality.

Quality is non-existant.

ect5150 · Post by **ect5150** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:15 pm

SonGokuGT wrote:40 episodes a disc!? I'd buy that just to see the abysmal video quality out of pure curiosity! If you have one post screencaps... FOR SCIENCE!!

What macroblocking?

(sorry, its a fake)

sangofe · Post by **sangofe** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 4:23 am

Haha, maybe I should buy a disc just for fun as they're only 1000 rupies anyways... (which is basicly nothing).

sangofe · Post by **sangofe** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 4:24 am

kei17 wrote:The indonesian dub certainly exists. Seeing this video, I think this must be VCD rip. So you should search VCD instead of DVD. Maybe there could be still no DVD release there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNdEEI5EG2g&fmt=18

Are you taking a wild guess here, Kei?

Puto · Post by **Puto** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 11:09 am

SonGokuGT wrote:
sangofe wrote:'Kay, so I am currently staying in Bali for a few months to study, and brought up the question whether there are Dragonball DVDs to buy. "Yes", was the answer, but, at the bootleg market. I was still curious, so he took me there.

And... wow... these are the worst bootlegs I have ever seen. Firstly, one freaking DVD has at least 27 episodes, and most had 40 episodes a disc, and secondly, they are all rips of FUNi singles! Only thing I cared about was the Indonesian dub, so I was pretty disappointed when I found out they only had the Japanese version with English subs, and some with Indonesian and French subs.
Final question: Anyone here knows if there are official dvds for sale? There are for Bleach and Naruto...
40 episodes a disc!? I'd buy that just to see the abysmal video quality out of pure curiosity! If you have one post screencaps... FOR SCIENCE!!

Well, I once recorded 38 episodes of a show to a single DVD while I was on holiday... the quality was indeed abysmal.

ect5150 · Post by **ect5150** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 1:42 pm

Puto wrote:Well, I once recorded 38 episodes of a show to a single DVD while I was on holiday... the quality was indeed abysmal.

Abysmal quality? Ha! For those of us that used to get DBZ on AnimeLabs fandubs 10th generation VHS copies, that screen looks like an HD master!

MCDaveG · Post by **MCDaveG** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:39 pm

ect5150 wrote:
Puto wrote:Well, I once recorded 38 episodes of a show to a single DVD while I was on holiday... the quality was indeed abysmal.
Abysmal quality? Ha! For those of us that used to get DBZ on AnimeLabs fandubs 10th generation VHS copies, that screen looks like an HD master!

Can't forget about GT from Super5 some 10 years ago....... remember one sentence from that funsub: What do you want you flying shit

sangofe · Post by **sangofe** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 5:06 am

Okay, so since people seemed to be interested in getting pictures of the overly compressed DB, DBZ, and DBGT DVD «releases» here in Bali, I bought a few dvds; DB 1-40, DBZ 1-40, DBZ 201-245, and DBGT 25-42 (or so I thought). And what a HUGE letdown all of these «purchases» were.

First off, DB 1-13 only had subs, and for the rest of the episodes on DVD, they had the English dub. Amazingly they had ripped the English subtitles from probably the Madman set for the first dozen of episodes and the timing was on, but after that, yep, straight to the American dub (yay, sarcasm).

As for DBZ, the disc which I really wanted to take screen captures from so there could've been comparison with the FUNi WS boxes works once in a full moon. On three tries, I've made it work only once, and unfortunately I popped it out after this one time, but I did manage to see that it was a rip from the HK dvds along with HK subs that were horribly mistimed. I'm currently trying to make it work as I type this very moment, but it really does not seem to be working anymore. I wonder if I can get this one replaced?

What did work was the Great Saiyaman & Boo Saga signle layered DVD, nope, you didn't read wrongly, all these episodes were crammed onto one darn single layered DVD. Makroblocking? Yes, please, very much so, I love those sexy blocks. Still menus that are stretched are also pure win. When I say pure win, I mean it, nothing's better. Nothing in the whole wide world ~~~

To my huge surprise I found that the DBGT DVD looked ok, I could also be tempted to say it looked hot, as hot as its DVD case at least. What was its source, you ask? This time, it was neither a HK bootleg (which look and are rather professional in comparison these DVDs), but actually a DVD rip of the FUNimation dvd's ripped by one of the major dvd ripping groups.

So to sum up how the Indonesian releases of the three Dragonball series are, I'd have to say that they seem to take whatever source is easiest and most available, slam a maximum of episodes per DVD of what is possible on one disc and sell it. Labeling the right episode numbers is not so important either. I mean, who cares which episode it is, as long as it's Dragonball when they buy a bootleg?

Edit: pictures are uploading... slowly...

SHINOBI-03 · Post by **SHINOBI-03** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 8:25 am

What the...?!

That's one hellova bootlegs they got...!! FUNimation's & DBox covers + non-profit DVD ripped episodes?!

No thanks

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Tweaker · Post by **Tweaker** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 8:29 am

The footage looks dreadful, but I can't say I don't think that some of those covers with art taken from multiple sources and clumped together looks pretty sweet.

RoarkVegeta · Post by **RoarkVegeta** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:30 am

ROFL.

One of them has Sparking Neo and Meteor on it.

Commander_Red · Post by **Commander_Red** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 10:11 am

Ha ha ha.

Crazy old bootlegs, that was a good laugh. I hope they didn't cost you too much, but it was funny to see. Thanks.

RoarkVegeta · Post by **RoarkVegeta** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 10:16 am

HAHAH! Is that SSJ3 Gogeta?!

Commander_Red · Post by **Commander_Red** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 11:42 am

Found it! http://alessandelpho.deviantart.com/art ... oodonly=69

RoarkVegeta · Post by **RoarkVegeta** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 11:54 am

Commander_Red wrote:Found it! http://alessandelpho.deviantart.com/art ... oodonly=69

It's fan artwork?! O_O

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The payback for buying Indonesian bootlegs