FUNimation's Dragon Boxes have indeed been discontinued

[DNA]

So you buy them cheaper and make a quick buck selling them for more money to fans who are trying to complete their collections. Great job contributing to the comunity.

[orangebrick94]

So you buy them cheaper and make a quick buck selling them for more money to fans who are trying to complete their collections. Great job contributing to the comunity.

Hey hes only doing what everyone else is doing.He see's and opportunity to make some money. I'm sure you and everyone else would do the same if you had a spare box 2 or one you didnt want anymore.

[ricecake]

Hey hes only doing what everyone else is doing.He see's and opportunity to make some money. I'm sure you and everyone else would do the same if you had a spare box 2 or one you didnt want anymore.

I'm not knocking him for what he's doing, but not everyone feels the same way. I sold my extra DBox 2 for $40 to a fellow member.

[Android 50]

Well people need money to live. I don't blame him for selling them for that much when people are actually buying them. Might as well get some extra cash while getting rid of some extras. Although I'd keep some of them for a few years and sell them for even more down the line.

[DNA]

What you guys are not getting is that he just admitted to actively look for cheap boxes to sell them for more money. Of course I would sell MY boxes, I wouldn't buy extra boxes JUST to sell them for more money, that would be a dick move on my part and I simply couldn't bring myself to do it, even if simply because I would not like to be done the same.

Selling your box for $200, $400 or even $900 is you own business, buying a cheaper box (thus not letting someone who actually needs the box buy it) only to sell it (possible to that person he didn't let buy) for more money is a major dick move in my view.

[KiddoCabbusses]

Hey hes only doing what everyone else is doing.He see's and opportunity to make some money. I'm sure you and everyone else would do the same if you had a spare box 2 or one you didnt want anymore.

I'm not knocking him for what he's doing, but not everyone feels the same way. I sold my extra DBox 2 for $40 to a fellow member.

I myself had a spare DBox 1, but it's packaging was not in a condition that any collector would probably want to buy it from me in, so I've attempted to trade it in to Amazon, since the trade-in value is significantly more than I paid for it even if it's not 3 digits.

I don't have any other DBox spares.

[Super Ghost Kamikaze]

I'm trying to rip these, so I don't have to access the physical discs as often and wear down the packaging less. I know it would be a large HDD requirement, but I have an extra 1.3TB so that's not a problem. What IS a problem is that when I rip them with Handbrake, there is a LOT of weird noise filling the video feed. Anyone know what I did wrong?

[Perfect]

You can rip them and maybe only use about 15-20 gigs per box, which is what mine are around, so I'm using over 100 gigs of space for it, but the hard-drive on my laptop is over 600 gigs. Can you pose an example of what you mean by noise filling the video?

[Super Ghost Kamikaze]

Sure. "Noise" is probably a bad term, anyway.



The whole video looks like this or worse, sadly.

[VegettoEX]

Haven't dealt with it in a long while, but looks to me like Macrovision (copy protection) at work. Does Handbrake perform any decryption on DVDs? I can't say I actually use it for DVDs. Not to mention FUNimation's Dragon Boxes use a different type of (more advanced) copy protection than prior releases like the orange bricks...

[MarcFBR]

Haven't dealt with it in a long while, but looks to me like Macrovision (copy protection) at work. Does Handbrake perform any decryption on DVDs? I can't say I actually use it for DVDs. Not to mention FUNimation's Dragon Boxes use a different type of (more advanced) copy protection than prior releases like the orange bricks...

That most definitely is not Macrovision.

That's either an error in decoding the video, or an error when the DVD was being ripped.

My suggestion- Upgrade Handbrake, upgrade your VLC.

Perhaps even switch from Handbrake to Vidcoder (Vidcoder uses Handbrakes engine, but often upgrades quicker, which can often fix small issues.)

[VegettoEX]

All righty then (like I said, been a long-arse time since I've had to deal with it)! What do you recommend? Not using Handbrake first? Use something like DVDFab to copy it over to a directory first, then run Handbrake over it?

[MarcFBR]

All righty then (like I said, been a long-arse time since I've had to deal with it)! What do you recommend? Not using Handbrake first? Use something like DVDFab to copy it over to a directory first, then run Handbrake over it?

I tend to run AnyDVD in the background to deal with any of this stuff from step one.

It is possible I'm wrong and it is some sort of new copy protection I'm not aware of (you get to the point where you basically forget that stuff exists running AnyDVD), but if it was copy protection you'd expect the whole frame to be destroyed. Instead it looks more like it's not converting 'moving' stuff properly, which is part of why I think it's just a ripping or decoding error.


I may recommend you try running Shark007s codec pack with his build of MPC-HC.

Although the more I look at that cap, the more it looks like an older version of VLC (some slight differences in the skin.) So I'd start with my first suggestion- Upgrade Handbrake (or switch to VidCoder) and upgrade VLC.

[PhoenixEX]

What you guys are not getting is that he just admitted to actively look for cheap boxes to sell them for more money. Of course I would sell MY boxes, I wouldn't buy extra boxes JUST to sell them for more money, that would be a dick move on my part and I simply couldn't bring myself to do it, even if simply because I would not like to be done the same.

Selling your box for $200, $400 or even $900 is you own business, buying a cheaper box (thus not letting someone who actually needs the box buy it) only to sell it (possible to that person he didn't let buy) for more money is a major dick move in my view.

Survival of the fittest.
In this day and age it's a smart tactic to buy something for cheap when you know that the price for it will eventually skyrocket. It's a smart investment and pays off.

[MarcFBR]

Survival of the fittest.
In this day and age it's a smart tactic to buy something for cheap when you know that the price for it will eventually skyrocket. It's a smart investment and pays off.

That isn't survival of the fittest.

[PhoenixEX]

Survival of the fittest.
In this day and age it's a smart tactic to buy something for cheap when you know that the price for it will eventually skyrocket. It's a smart investment and pays off.

That isn't survival of the fittest.

I believe most of what we tend to do links to survival.

[AgitoZ]

I believe most of what we tend to do links to survival.

I don't think scalping DVDs was what Darwin or Spencer had in mind.

[MarcFBR]

Survival of the fittest.
In this day and age it's a smart tactic to buy something for cheap when you know that the price for it will eventually skyrocket. It's a smart investment and pays off.

That isn't survival of the fittest.

I believe most of what we tend to do links to survival.

Which still doesn't change that that isn't what 'survival of the fittest' means.

I believe most of what we tend to do links to survival.

I don't think scalping DVDs was what Darwin or Spencer had in mind.

To both of you...

Back on topic.

I'll start.

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[BlazingFiddlesticks]

I'll start.

CHA LA! HEAD CHA LA! SOMETHING SOMETHING... DINOSAUR ON A BALLLLLLLL

The emptier your head is!

[dprez]

I'm not knocking him for what he's doing, but not everyone feels the same way. I sold my extra DBox 2 for $40 to a fellow member.

What you did could be seen as nice by some, and dumb by others.

Now for me personally, well kind sir, you my friend are a god-send to whomever you sold that to.

I'll start.

CHA LA! HEAD CHA LA! SOMETHING SOMETHING... DINOSAUR ON A BALLLLLLLL

The emptier your head is!

The more room there is to fill with dreams!