My Hypothetical Dragonbox

[Bardo117]

Why don't they just move the series to Blu-Ray already?(The original series, not Kai)

[jpdbzrulz4sure]

My hypothetical Blu-ray Dragon Box:

-Fully remastered at 1080p from original 16mm film (with grain intact, no DVNR)
-Japanese audio remixed into stereo (default)
-New English dub true to the original, complete with the original music, proper names and pronounciations, and correct episode titles
-Japanese and English video via alternate angles
-Textless versions of all opening and ending animations
-Japanese and English cast profiles
-Music videos of theme songs

Yeah, this seems like enough stuff.

[penguintruth]

Obviously my perfect Dragon Box would include the Creative Products Corp dubs of DBZ movies 5 and 6.

[AnimeMaakuo]

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[Piccolo Daimaoh]

Why don't they just move the series to Blu-Ray already?(The original series, not Kai)

I'm up for that, provided FUNimation leaves it uncropped and does something about those occasional missing lines.

[penguintruth]

Is Blu-Ray going to do the original Z any favors, though? It barely does Kai any.

[BluezaBladeNZ]

Using the Dragon Box masters wouldn't benefit much anyway on Blu-Ray as Toei/Pony Canyon's remastering was done at 480p since it was before the HD era hit so the only thing that would benefit is a bigger bitrate and loseless audio (if there was any).

[gallagtor]

Why would you ever put the Dragon Boxes in Blue Ray? It's already as good as it's going to get, I believe. Anything else, and it would look drained. Besides, it looks classy. >.>

Drained? What does this even mean? I think a 1080p transfer is probably going to happen at some point. If they can do it to Star Trek, they can do it to Dragon Ball.

[Bardo117]

Is Blu-Ray going to do the original Z any favors, though? It barely does Kai any.

If you drop the disk, it won't scratch.

[CODii]

I can't figure out why so many people seem to want a 5.1 mix for a show that was produced in mono.

[AgitoZ]

I can't figure out why so many people seem to want a 5.1 mix for a show that was produced in mono.

I'm pretty sure there was a stereo track it was just "lost", I don't think they thought they would still be releasing the show about 20 years later.

[Bardo117]

I can't figure out why so many people seem to want a 5.1 mix for a show that was produced in mono.

They can always remaster the series.

[BluezaBladeNZ]

They can always remaster the series.

Not if the master audio is mono and they don't have the individual tracks anymore, so the best we'd probably get is the Master audio tapes used in Fuji TV's first broadcast which was already much better than the Dragon Box track, if they got ahold of them that is. The reason why the movies were stereo is because they still had a seperate track for the voices and SFX so they were able to remix it, though I think the voices (maybe SFX too) were still mono.