FUNimation Dragon Box Z #1 (In-Hands) Discussion

MarcFBR · Post by **MarcFBR** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:57 pm

jjgp1112 wrote:The Season Sets were one of the releases that still used alternate angles. 6-9 still use them.

Hence...

godofchaos wrote:that outside of a few preexisting shows, they also switched to single angle.

Super Ghost Kamikaze · Post by **Super Ghost Kamikaze** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 10:27 pm

Speaking of alternate angles:

I don't think this was answered, and I'm pretty sure this won't be an issue, but what's the status on the title cards of the Dragon Box? Single angle for the Japanese cards, alternate angles?

.:PoetikaL:. · Post by **.:PoetikaL:.** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 10:31 pm

There are no alternate angles on the Dragonbox. It will always stay 1, which will show the intros with the lyrics, the title cards, same as for the ending and next episode previews.

DBZfan29 · Post by **DBZfan29** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 10:52 pm

So has anyone who owns FUNimation's Dragon Box compared it to my clip of Dragon Box Z (Japan) - DBZ ep. 31 ? You can use it to compare both the audio and video, so why hasn't anyone worked with it yet?

sangofe · Post by **sangofe** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 10:57 pm

Seems like I have to re-ask my question:

sangofe wrote:A question for the owners; are the menus the same for all discs in the set, or do they change with each disc?

Tanooki Kuribo · Post by **Tanooki Kuribo** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:01 pm

Seems like I have to re-ask my question:

Join the club. I asked what the extras were, four times. Still no answer.

jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:01 pm

DBZfan29 wrote:So has anyone who owns FUNimation's Dragon Box compared it to my clip of Dragon Box Z (Japan) - DBZ ep. 31 ? You can use it to compare both the audio and video, so why hasn't anyone worked with it yet?

Yeah, can someone post a vob here? Haseowolf? Poetikal? Anyone else who owns it?

.:PoetikaL:. · Post by **.:PoetikaL:.** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:02 pm

sangofe wrote:Seems like I have to re-ask my question:

sangofe wrote:A question for the owners; are the menus the same for all discs in the set, or do they change with each disc?

The menus are the same as follows:

Contains the 3 options of playing all, set-up and episode selection.
The scouter with the 9000 reference in it :p

Differences on each disc:

So far all I seen is the image of the background is matched within the scouter, which are scenes from the corresponding disc. All images are different on each.

.:PoetikaL:. · Post by **.:PoetikaL:.** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:03 pm

jjgp1112 wrote:
DBZfan29 wrote:So has anyone who owns FUNimation's Dragon Box compared it to my clip of Dragon Box Z (Japan) - DBZ ep. 31 ? You can use it to compare both the audio and video, so why hasn't anyone worked with it yet?
Yeah, can someone post a vob here? Haseowolf? Poetikal? Anyone else who owns it?

I'll get on it, but I'm wary because the the whole copy-right protection that's on it seems almost impenetrable. Give me a few minutes.

DBZfan29 · Post by **DBZfan29** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:15 pm

.:PoetikaL:. wrote:
jjgp1112 wrote:
DBZfan29 wrote:So has anyone who owns FUNimation's Dragon Box compared it to my clip of Dragon Box Z (Japan) - DBZ ep. 31 ? You can use it to compare both the audio and video, so why hasn't anyone worked with it yet?
Yeah, can someone post a vob here? Haseowolf? Poetikal? Anyone else who owns it?
I'll get on it, but I'm wary because the the whole copy-right protection that's on it seems almost impenetrable. Give me a few minutes.

I don't know and don't feel like learning how to rip the audio from the vob file, so please do everything! I've done the only thing I can do at this point and that's providing a 40 or so second clip from a Japanese Dragon Box I don't even own, so thanks...

RoarkVegeta · Post by **RoarkVegeta** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:19 pm

Tanooki Kuribo wrote:
Seems like I have to re-ask my question:
Join the club. I asked what the extras were, four times. Still no answer.

There are no extras.

.:PoetikaL:. · Post by **.:PoetikaL:.** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:20 pm

My only thing is, which VOB file would it be... because right now as I'm ripping one, Windows Explorer kept crashing on me when I tried copying... FUNi got smart on this one.

Super Ghost Kamikaze · Post by **Super Ghost Kamikaze** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:24 pm

.:PoetikaL:. wrote:There are no alternate angles on the Dragonbox. It will always stay 1, which will show the intros with the lyrics, the title cards, same as for the ending and next episode previews.

What I'm asking is basically:

Was Funimation stupid enough to have English title cards? Or is the one angle for the Japanese title cards(as it should be)?

BrollysKin · Post by **BrollysKin** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:25 pm

I would expect most of the community would really appreciate if someone could do a split screen with both dragonboxes.

.:PoetikaL:. · Post by **.:PoetikaL:.** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:27 pm

Super Ghost Kamikaze wrote:
.:PoetikaL:. wrote:There are no alternate angles on the Dragonbox. It will always stay 1, which will show the intros with the lyrics, the title cards, same as for the ending and next episode previews.
What I'm asking is basically:

Was Funimation stupid enough to have English title cards? Or is the one angle for the Japanese title cards(as it should be)?

Oh yeah, there are no English title cards whatsoever on this set. So it is what you expected.

Mystery Person X · Post by **Mystery Person X** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:27 pm

Further to that question, what subtitle displays for the title cards when watching the dub? The dub episode title, the Japanese episode title, no subtitle at all? For that matter, is there even a second subtitle track for the dub?

Not that it really matters, but I'm curious.

.:PoetikaL:. · Post by **.:PoetikaL:.** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:36 pm

The subtitle shown for that episode is the original episode title. As for the second question, there is no second subtitle track. Even though it shows 2 subtitle tracks... there both the same.

Super Ghost Kamikaze · Post by **Super Ghost Kamikaze** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:38 pm

.:PoetikaL:. wrote: Oh yeah, there are no English title cards whatsoever on this set. So it is what you expected.

Okay, thanks. I didn't expect it to be a problem, but we are dealing with Funimation...so it felt necessary to check when it wasn't mentioned.

linkdude20002001 · Post by **linkdude20002001** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:07 am

.:PoetikaL:. wrote:The subtitle shown for that episode is the original episode title. As for the second question, there is no second subtitle track. Even though it shows 2 subtitle tracks... there both the same.

What? How can they be the same? If they're the same, then either there is no subtitle track that translates the episode titles for dub watchers, or there's subtitles during the ENTIRE episode for dub watchers. Neither make sense...

LeprikanGT · Post by **LeprikanGT** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:22 am

Werent the JP Dboxes a lot taller than regular DVD cases or am I mistaking that for some other release?

I thought they were goig to be noticably taller than the Season Brick sets.