FUNimation's Dragon Boxes have indeed been discontinued

[INVINCEABLE]

I'll be putting up my Dragon Box Volume 2 and probably Volume 1 as well on eBay this Sunday. I need some money to replace my broken PS3.

[Takkun]

When using handbrake to get the discs on your hard drive, how would you split the video into each episode?

[dbboxkaifan]

I'll be putting up my Dragon Box Volume 2 and probably Volume 1 as well on eBay this Sunday. I need some money to replace my broken PS3.

Dragon Box 2 for PS3? Just wait a little longer, the price of PS3'll decrease.

I rarely ever boot my PS3 Slim.

Should've bought a Blu-ray Player standalone than PS3 Slim because I do all the gaming and etc on Xbox 360.

[sumpter360]

Should've bought a Blu-ray Player standalone than PS3 Slim because I do all the gaming and etc on Xbox 360.

I'd be with you if it weren't for my PS1 games. I own 5 PS1 games, plus 4 PS1 on PSN, and 0 PS3 games Mostly use it for Blu-ray and Netflix.

Anyways, on topic...

How do you guys think the Blu-ray cancellations will affect the value of the FUNi Dragon Boxes? At all?

[Pokewhiz7]

Not really. Come to think of it, I don't think Box one changed at all even before they were cancelled.

[dbboxkaifan]

When using handbrake to get the discs on your hard drive, how would you split the video into each episode?

Load the disc, choose the video track (it's at the left top below choose-thing) you want to rip and that exact is what you'll be getting as the final version.

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[BluezaBladeNZ]

With the FUNimation version, you'll have to select a start and end chapter since all the episodes are in one title, unlike the Japanese version which has both. But it should typically be every five chapters.

[Takkun]

With the FUNimation version, you'll have to select a start and end chapter since all the episodes are in one title, unlike the Japanese version which has both. But it should typically be every five chapters.

Whoa thanks! I actually got it to work, but are there some instances where an episode would be more than 5 chapters?

[BluezaBladeNZ]

Whoa thanks! I actually got it to work, but are there some instances where an episode would be more than 5 chapters?

Shouldn't be.

[kidglov3s]

With Dragon Box One at my door today I now have a complete set, for a total of about $210 (4-6 last July about $24 each, 2 this January about $23, 3 and 7 this January about $30 each, 1 this February about $52). I should have bought 1-6 last July for $24 each and then 7 later on for around $30, I had no idea that would be my last opportunity to do such a thing or that the prices would go up the way they did. I'm also kinda bummed they canceled the level sets, I really would've been fine with levels 1.1, 1.2 and 2.1 bridged to Dragon Box 2-7. Oh well I'm definitely happy to have them all AND I'M NEVER SELLING THEM EVER!.....unless there's like Dragon Box Blu Rays or something.

[Daimakku]

With Dragon Box One at my door today I now have a complete set, for a total of about $210 (4-6 last July about $24 each, 2 this January about $23, 3 and 7 this January about $30 each, 1 this February about $52). I should have bought 1-6 last July for $24 each and then 7 later on for around $30, I had no idea that would be my last opportunity to do such a thing or that the prices would go up the way they did. I'm also kinda bummed they canceled the level sets, I really would've been fine with levels 1.1, 1.2 and 2.1 bridged to Dragon Box 2-7. Oh well I'm definitely happy to have them all AND I'M NEVER SELLING THEM EVER!.....unless there's like Dragon Box Blu Rays or something.

Nice deals on all of them! I got awesome deals on all my boxes too, so we're pretty lucky.

The thing with the Level sets being discontinued is that now FUNimation is focusing on bringing the Dragonball dragonbox or the Movies to the U.S. So it's more or less a good thing the Level sets are on hiatus.

[Daimo-Rukiri]

With the FUNimation version, you'll have to select a start and end chapter since all the episodes are in one title, unlike the Japanese version which has both. But it should typically be every five chapters.

Whoa thanks! I actually got it to work, but are there some instances where an episode would be more than 5 chapters?

From personal experience Handbrake can blur the video compared to the original MPEG-2 file, just be careful when ripping, also select H264 and Quality 0 for the best possible quality, rip the aduio at FFpeg, 48, 640, 4DB.

For perfect 1:1 direct rips, DVDfab works great.

[Corporate_Nothing]

To the guy having trouble encoding stuff: I've had a lot of experience with this lately restoring the colors on the dragon boxes, so here you go.

-Upgrade VLC like they said and see if this helps.
-If not, use a decryption software such as DVD Decrypter to export the episodes into singular vobs.
-You can then dump the vobs right into handbrake. If you find it looks interlaced after test-encoding, make sure you set it to ivtc to progressive.
-You will want to see if it wipes away the grain or not. Usually I set it to tune:grain so it encodes with grain in mind. Since the source is grainy, the encodes may be slightly larger than normal stuff.

He could just use AnyDVD HD it works perfectly and hasn't failed with me at all.

DVD Decrypter is outdated.

That's what I'm using right now, and so far it seems to be working. DVD Decrypter and IMGBurn failed miserably, presumably due to Funimation's extensive copy protection measures. I'm just creating ISO disc images now, and I can always create MKV files from the images later down the line.

Progress so far -


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Well...my copy of Disc 20 (Volume 4, Disc 2) is irrevocably damaged, or so it seems. I had problems with this disc when I first watched it a few months ago -

For some reason, every media player I use on my computer freezes about halfway through episode 137. Has anyone else had this problem?

Idk wtf is wrong. It locks up at 1:30:32 on Disc 20. I will try playing another disc, I guess.

Weird. When I played it on my DVD player, it locked up at that spot, but was able to skip ahead a few seconds and play through the rest of the episode. It skipped in a few other spots in 137 and the very beginning of 138, but after that, the last few episodes played without a problem.

Idk, there are a few tiny, tiny smudges at the very edge of the disc, but still within the data ring (idk what to call it, you know, the edge of the disc where there's no data present), but I don't see how such a tiny flaw could possibly affect playback.

I'd just like to say I seem to having the same problem with the first episode of Disc 22. Although I did get it to play smoothly on my computer, it tends to skip and freeze a lot during the second half of the episode on my DVD player.

This is really unfortunate, because I've been able to successfully create disc images for all of Volumes 1-4, except for this ONE damaged disc. Sigh...

[Vash1306]

Hi, I ordered Dragon Box Three on Saturday from a seller called "MovieMars" on Amazon.com for $58.58 (before shipping). It was the last one on Amazon listed below $99. Reading through this thread, I hear they don't actually have most of their Dragon Box listings in stock? Can anyone confirm this?

Should I cancel my order and get my money back and try else where before its too late or wait and see if they will actually ship it?

[samuraix123]

I would wait, they're not going to rip you off, I pre-ordered ''Werewolf the series'' and it got canceled and I got my money back. if you ordered it Saturday give it time to ship

[Vash1306]

I don't mind waiting but with Dragon Box 3's price rising, I don't want to miss my chance. I don't want to wait a week to find out they don't really have it in stock like some people are saying when they ordered from them. >.<

[orangebrick94]

I don't mind waiting but with Dragon Box 3's price rising, I don't want to miss my chance. I don't want to wait a week to find out they don't really have it in stock like some people are saying when they ordered from them. >.<

I know how you feel man i would probally wait seen as how a lot of sellers on amazon have DragonBox 3 at close to 100 dollars now.

[email2003]

I checked Amazon this morning and Dragon Box #7 is no longer sold by Amazon. The same goes for Dragon Box #3. 5 & 6 are the only ones still left.

[Daimo-Rukiri]

That's due to a complaint, not for running out.

It'd be awesome in the end if FUNi just released everything in a single collectors box, but we all know that would never happen.

[Raithos]

Hmm interested to see if prices spike for the other boxes. You know ill be right there ready to sell