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

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:55 am

Acid_Reign wrote:
Tanooki Kuribo wrote:Setup...
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Wait, so there ISN’T an American broadcast BGM track? I thought FUNi had confirmed that.

Nope, Japanese BGM only. Got re-confirmed a little while back... and boy howdy, was there ever "discussion" on it...

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:55 am

Acid_Reign wrote: Wait, so there ISN’T an American broadcast BGM track? I thought FUNi had confirmed that.

It was later confirmed otherwise... maybe a few weeks ago?

russ869 · Post by **russ869** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:58 am

godofchaos wrote:It was NEVER going to be exact, period, regardless of disc/episode count, which is exactly what I said on the podcast right after the license was announced.

Naturally. I merely meant to say that it wasn't technologically impossible.

Acid_Reign · Post by **Acid_Reign** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:02 am

Kendamu wrote:It was later confirmed otherwise... maybe a few weeks ago?

SSj Kaboom wrote:Nope, Japanese BGM only. Got re-confirmed a little while back... and boy howdy, was there ever "discussion" on it...

Ah, I’m fortunate to have missed it then, lol.

MarcFBR · Post by **MarcFBR** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:02 am

russ869 wrote:
godofchaos wrote:It was NEVER going to be exact, period, regardless of disc/episode count, which is exactly what I said on the podcast right after the license was announced.
Naturally. I merely meant to say that it wasn't technologically impossible.

Hence,

Yeah, and if a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass when he hops.

Being technologically or technically possible doesn't mean it was ever going to happen, so anyone acting like it was going to if they magically added a disc, well... gotta go with Red again, they deserve a swift kick in the ass.

Acid_Reign · Post by **Acid_Reign** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:09 am

If they had kept the video bit-for-bit the episodes literally wouldn’t have been able to fit on the discs. I did the math to demonstrate this a while ago.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:11 am

I never knew Chris Sabat had a brother named "Christoper".

Acid_Reign · Post by **Acid_Reign** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:14 am

Castor Troy wrote:I never knew Chris Sabat had a brother named "Christoper".

lmao, good catch. Why on earth would they re-type a name that repeats that many times instead of copying and pasting?

SSj_Rambo · Post by **SSj_Rambo** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:15 am

mikezilla2 wrote:
mikezilla2 wrote:Regions 1 and 4

Erm, wait a min - are you saying they're import-friendiy for PAL regions?
?

What does "?" mean?! I'm assuming "?" is reffering to the red text, which are corrections to the words you didn't spell/punctuate/capitalize properly, which you agreed to do in the rules, which also entails agreeing to making posts that serve some sort of purpose, and have some meaning to them (i.e. more than a single character, much more).

Welcome to the boards, by the way! I really hope I didn't sound like an ass right there...

piccolo-san785 · Post by **piccolo-san785** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:16 am

I see Funimation managed to screw up again. No surprise.

BrollysKin · Post by **BrollysKin** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:21 am

How exactly did they screw up now?

TheSonofKakarrot · Post by **TheSonofKakarrot** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:24 am

G1Ravage wrote:I don't know how anyone can complain about the picture of the FUNi DBox. I'm playing my discs on my PS3 Blu-ray set to upscale, and the colors are gorgeous.

Hell, it looks gorgeous even on my car's DVD screen.

Can you tell me your EXACT settings that you are watching the DVDs under on your PS3?

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:25 am

BrollysKin wrote:How exactly did they screw up now?

As far as I can see, they didn't. This is an awesome release!

YouTube · Post by **Hujio** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:27 am

Kendamu wrote:
BrollysKin wrote:How exactly did they screw up now?
As far as I can see, they didn't. This is an awesome release!

There are some minor things here and there. It's pretty darn close to being "awesome", but it is definitely the best we're gonna get from FUNimation.

piccolo-san785 · Post by **piccolo-san785** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:30 am

I don't mean the release; I meant that they managed to misspell Christopher R. Sabat.

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:30 am

Hujio wrote:
Kendamu wrote:
BrollysKin wrote:How exactly did they screw up now?
As far as I can see, they didn't. This is an awesome release!
There are some minor things here and there. It's pretty darn close to be "awesome", but it is definitely the best we're gonna get from FUNimation.

Well, yeah. Minor things. Even I have a few minor things in mind they could've done or improved on, but considering what's been going on with US Dragonball Z since 1997, I'd have to say that this is an awesome release. At the very least, FUNi's Dragonball brand managers need a "Most Improved" award or something.

mikezilla2 · Post by **mikezilla2** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:34 am

SSj_Rambo wrote:
mikezilla2 wrote:
mikezilla2 wrote:Regions 1 and 4

Erm, wait a min - are you saying they're import-friendiy for PAL regions?
?
What does "?" mean?! I'm assuming "?" is reffering to the red text, which are corrections to the words you didn't spell/punctuate/capitalize properly, which you agreed to do in the rules, which also entails agreeing to making posts that serve some sort of purpose, and have some meaning to them (i.e. more than a single character, much more).

Welcome to the boards, by the way! I really hope I didn't sound like an ass right there...

Nope, I was referring to the question at hand. Put simply, I find it really (difficult?) to keep my spelling in line at times.

The OP said regions 1 and 4; is he referring to the Dragon Box that (Australia?) is getting will be the same, or is he referring to the fact that there are 2 region codes on the disks, 1 and 4? Please explain. I'm also noticing a crap load of grain in those bits of footage, but then again I guess that's the price you pay for not having FUNi tamper with stuff. What are all the errors so far?

EricM · Post by **EricM** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:40 am

Ok I've begun my nitpicking...

Left is JP release, right is US release:

few things I've noticed:
-Funi version is bit brighter, but that means the colors look a bit washed out (see Goku's hair), they look richer in the JP version
-The grain has a slight nicer appearance in the JP version, it looks finer where Funi's looks lumpier
-Top of the frame is cleaner on the JP version, Funi version has a band along the edge, and some dead space.
-Tiny bit of the frame is chopped off the bottom of the Funi version, as the frame is moved down slightly for no apparent reason.
-Less compression artifacts in the JP version, as expected

More tomorrow, with bitrate distribution graph comparisons.

russ869 · Post by **russ869** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:42 am

TheSonofKakarrot wrote:
G1Ravage wrote:I don't know how anyone can complain about the picture of the FUNi DBox. I'm playing my discs on my PS3 Blu-ray set to upscale, and the colors are gorgeous.

Hell, it looks gorgeous even on my car's DVD screen.
Can you tell me your EXACT settings that you are watching the DVDs under on your PS3?

I'm more interested to know if he made any kind of setting adjustments on his TV.

YouTube · Post by **Hujio** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:44 am

mikezilla2 wrote:
SSj_Rambo wrote:What does "?" mean?! I'm assuming "?" is reffering to the red text, which are corrections to the words you didn't spell/punctuate/capitalize properly, which you agreed to do in the rules, which also entails agreeing to making posts that serve some sort of purpose, and have some meaning to them (i.e. more than a single character, much more).

Welcome to the boards, by the way! I really hope I didn't sound like an ass right there...
nope , i was referring to the question at hand , put simply i find it really to keep my spelling in line at times , the OP said regions 1 and 4 is he reffering to the drgaon box that AUS is getting will be the same or is he reffering to the fact that there are 2 region codes on the disks 1 and 4 ? please explain ? I'm also noticing a crap load of grain in those bits of footage but then again i guess thats the price you pay for not having funi temper with stuff , what are all the errors so far ?

I know SSj_Rambo didn't answer the specific "?" you asked, but did you even read what he wrote? Apparently not...

I've always been amused when people stick it to the man by not using their "shift" key. They're put them on a keyboard for a reason, so you might as well use them, right?