Dragon Ball Madman Set Auction

[Spike_86]

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[sumpter360]

I live in the US. How are the quality of these releases? Equal to Blue Bricks, old FUNi Singles? Also, will they play on R1 DVD players? I know you already say R4 in the description, but sometimes they will play on both...

[DragonBoxZTheMovies]

These are just the old 2-Disc Dragon Ball sets repackaged in to larger sets. I'm gonna assume they're worse, because y'know, Madman and Region 4.

[Craddle]

I live in the US. How are the quality of these releases? Equal to Blue Bricks, old FUNi Singles? Also, will they play on R1 DVD players? I know you already say R4 in the description, but sometimes they will play on both...

Quality is lower than FUNi's 2-Disc Special Uncut releases and much lower than the Blue Bricks. If you live in the US, I don't see a reason why you'd want these. The first 2 discs out of the first set, maybe. They only play on r4 or region free DVD players.

The Saga of Goku discs are the only ones sought after by US fans.

[TheGreatness25]

Back before the blue bricks were announced and after the original Dragon Ball singles in the US were nearly impossible to find (like they'd have the Baba Saga for like $55 and stuff like that), I saw the entire Madman singles set for $200. Bought it and never regretted it. However, the blue bricks may just be better than these. I never thought about it, I just buy whatever comes out -_- Honestly, don't see why you wouldn't get the Season Sets.

[Pokewhiz7]

Back before the blue bricks were announced and after the original Dragon Ball singles in the US were nearly impossible to find (like they'd have the Baba Saga for like $55 and stuff like that), I saw the entire Madman singles set for $200. Bought it and never regretted it. However, the blue bricks may just be better than these. I never thought about it, I just buy whatever comes out -_- Honestly, don't see why you wouldn't get the Season Sets.

The only reason I could think of would be Japanese title cards, if he happens to care about those. I think the season sets easily trump every other English release.

[Craddle]

Back before the blue bricks were announced and after the original Dragon Ball singles in the US were nearly impossible to find (like they'd have the Baba Saga for like $55 and stuff like that), I saw the entire Madman singles set for $200. Bought it and never regretted it. However, the blue bricks may just be better than these. I never thought about it, I just buy whatever comes out -_- Honestly, don't see why you wouldn't get the Season Sets.

The only reason I could think of would be Japanese title cards, if he happens to care about those. I think the season sets easily trump every other English release.

And the excessive zooming...

Which is the main reason I still have my 2-disc Sets. Patiently waiting for a US DBox or BR release.

[Pokewhiz7]

Back before the blue bricks were announced and after the original Dragon Ball singles in the US were nearly impossible to find (like they'd have the Baba Saga for like $55 and stuff like that), I saw the entire Madman singles set for $200. Bought it and never regretted it. However, the blue bricks may just be better than these. I never thought about it, I just buy whatever comes out -_- Honestly, don't see why you wouldn't get the Season Sets.

The only reason I could think of would be Japanese title cards, if he happens to care about those. I think the season sets easily trump every other English release.

And the excessive zooming...

The zooming is not that bad. Unlike the orange bricks, the frame composition is still preserved.

[Craddle]

And the excessive zooming...

The zooming is not that bad. Unlike the orange bricks, the frame composition is still preserved.

Please tell me something I don't know. However, nearly the same amount of the image has been cropped in comparison to the Orange Bricks. They just cropped in 4:3. This way it doesn't appear as jarring. Some one did a comparison on the forums a while a back. It showed how much was taken from all sides. It's almost same amount, just in 4:3, rather then 16:9.

[Pokewhiz7]

And the excessive zooming...

The zooming is not that bad. Unlike the orange bricks, the frame composition is still preserved.

Please tell me something I don't know. However, nearly the same amount of the image has been cropped in comparison to the Orange Bricks. They just cropped in 4:3. This way it doesn't appear as jarring. Some one did a comparison on the forums a while a back. It showed how much was taken from all sides. It's almost same amount, just in 4:3, rather then 16:9.

So if it looks good, you're seeing everything important, and it doesn't look awkard, then why the fuck do care how much you lose?

[Craddle]

So if it looks good, you're seeing everything important, and it doesn't look awkward, then why the fuck do you care how much you lose?

No reason to get defensive and curse. It wont help get your point across.

My personal opinion shouldn't really matter that much to you. Since it clearly does, I'll explain.

I prefer for as much of the original image to be available as possible. I'm not going to spend more money on a series I already own, to lose nearly 20% due to cropping. Even if the cropping is done in 4:3. Let's say the Blue Bricks were 5$ each, I still wouldn't bother. It's just not worth it to me to double dip. Knowing full well, down the road, FUNi will release DB with a better remaster.

All that being said, to all the fans out there looking to own DB for the first time, I highly recommend the Blue Bricks. They are easier to obtain, better encode, and much cheaper in comparison. They probably wont miss the portion that's cropped anyways. Just like the Orange Brick fans.

[Pokewhiz7]

I didn't mean to come off as rude, so if I did, I apologise.

[Craddle]

I didn't mean to come off as rude, so if I did, I apologise.

No problem at all. Most of us are simply here for the sake of discussion anyways. The only reason I still come here is to try and learn something new about the franchise.

[Daimo-Rukiri]

At this point the only way to get the first dvd set is by ebay(with sheer luck..) or getting the first DVD pack than buying the rest off of Amazon.

It still boggles me that the season sets are zoomed in and the original DVD releases are not.. I prefer the original release to the seasons because of that reason and also the dvnr..

Edit:
Bought your listing, will be paying tomorrow once my check goes though.

[Craddle]

It still boggles me that the season sets are zoomed in and the original DVD releases are not.. I prefer the original release to the seasons because of that reason and also the dvnr..

When seeing the actual amount of zooming that was done in comparison to the US 2-disc sets, it's very minimal. From what I looked at from the comparisons, the 2-disc sets and the season sets do not have that much of a difference. Maybe 10% total. 20% compared to the DBoxes. This is due to FUNi always zooming in their releases. (US 2-Disc Sets are 10% zoomed compared to the DBoxes.) I could be wrong and I honestly welcome being proven wrong. I want to know as much about the US home release info as possible. Also, the DVNR plays little to no role in choosing a release for US consumers. When it come to DB. If I'm wrong, show me the evidence. I welcome any and all that will help educate me.

[Rukura]

From comparison screenshots that I've seen here on the forum, if it's 10% it must be 10% from each side. It's really that noticable. It's the reason I haven't bought the season sets (besides, you know, blurred, dvnr, color correction).

One thing that boggles MY mind, is why they zoomed in the Dragon Ball sets so much....but the GT sets that came before didn't have this issue...

[Buda64]

I'm assuming it's the masters they had.

[Daimo-Rukiri]

FUNi said it was there TV masters, so it should have been the same as there 2 Disk release except you know with better encoding.
I don't think they used there TV masters for GT or DB mainly cause GT was interlaced and DB has a zoom problem or this is the result of bad remastering.

And that's the main reason why I bought these(I'll get the US 2-disk sets) but it was a bonus that it was both of them and for 40 bucks you simply can't beat that bargain.

[DBZ Mick]

I've got these from Madman, since for some reason they didn't release the 'remastered' DVDs in Australia- though I did see them in a shop that has import DVDs...






They were reasonably cheap, IMO, Volume 1 has from the beginning of the series until the end of the training for the 22nd Budokai filler. Cost around $90.

Picture and sound quality is a little so-so at times, but it has the Japanese titlecards. Has a few bugs though like ep 73 only having dubtitles, ep 81 if watching in Japanese after the eye catches, skips to the end of ep 83 (which can be fixed, thanks to whoever it was on here who helped out, by playing the episode in English, it plays normally so you can put Japanese back on after the eye catches). Also Ep #57 only had the English titlecard, not sure if there are others like this...

Oh, yeah, my DVD disc cover for Disc #1 of the 'Tournament' collection faded in some spots pretty quickly. It has these little white spots, but nothing that effects the running of the disc thankfully.



I'm quite happy with them personally.

[Spike_86]

Buyer didn't pay so I re-uped the auction.
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