FUNimation DBZ TV Blu-ray Official On-Going Thread

[sangofe]

I always had this idea that, since the DBox was limited, that maybe FUNi could release the footage on cheaper box sets similar to their season sets as a replacement for said season sets. It'd be the US equivalent of the R2 singles; just basic boxes with basic art (maybe drawing from the R2 singles if they were able to) and no booklet but with the great footage we've come to expect from the DBox.

I actually left that as a suggestion on FUNi's latest survey.

I so wish they'd do so. I really hate knowing that if something happens to my Dragon Boxes down the road that I'm stuck replacing them with a mix of Orange Bricks (for some of my favorite episodes at that) and singles (which are at least decent), or with potential Blu-rays for which I won't have a player for, nor an HDTV in the foreseeable future.

Really has me kinda paranoid about them.

You know, you could make digital backups of your Dragonboxes... Just saying...

[Metalwario64]

I always had this idea that, since the DBox was limited, that maybe FUNi could release the footage on cheaper box sets similar to their season sets as a replacement for said season sets. It'd be the US equivalent of the R2 singles; just basic boxes with basic art (maybe drawing from the R2 singles if they were able to) and no booklet but with the great footage we've come to expect from the DBox.

I actually left that as a suggestion on FUNi's latest survey.

I so wish they'd do so. I really hate knowing that if something happens to my Dragon Boxes down the road that I'm stuck replacing them with a mix of Orange Bricks (for some of my favorite episodes at that) and singles (which are at least decent), or with potential Blu-rays for which I won't have a player for, nor an HDTV in the foreseeable future.

Really has me kinda paranoid about them.

You know, you could make digital backups of your Dragonboxes... Just saying...

Yeah, and I plan to. But if a tornado hits my house, my PCs hard drive goes down the toilet, or anything of the sort, I'm screwed again...

I know, I'm extremely paranoid about this.

[DragonBoxZTheMovies]

So, uhhh, Madman has gone through with putting out this release:
http://www.madman.co.nz/catalogue/view/ ... 1-1-bluray
Thoughts?

[sangofe]

Yeah, and I plan to. But if a tornado hits my house, my PCs hard drive goes down the toilet, or anything of the sort, I'm screwed again...

I know, I'm extremely paranoid about this.

Then buy an extra hard drive and make a friend keep it! And also burn out DVDs!

So, uhhh, Madman has gone through with putting out this release:
http://www.madman.co.nz/catalogue/view/ ... 1-1-bluray
Thoughts?

Yes, I think them releasing this is equal to screwing over fans from Australia and New Zealand.

[Metalwario64]

Then buy an extra hard drive and make a friend keep it!

I can imagine walking to my friends house and handing him the drive saying "Dude, whatever you do, make sure you don't lose this, and be sure to take care of it! The data on it is very important to me!"

Then he'd ask "what's on it?" to which I'd respond, "I can't tell you... Please, look after it", then I'd leave in his hands.

Years later after my house burns down, I'd return to him, and if he still had them I'd ask for the drive. He'd explain all of the hardships and challenges he endured to protect this data which must be sacred. He'd ask me to show him the data on the drive, to which I'd agree to, as he'd earned my trust. Once I'd set up the drive, he'd ask "What's this?".

"Dragon Ball Z".

"..."

But anyway, yeah, I've thought about doing that. Just have to wait until the finances roll in.

[MarcFBR]

Then buy an extra hard drive and make a friend keep it!

I can imagine walking to my friends house and handing him the drive saying "Dude, whatever you do, make sure you don't lose this, and be sure to take care of it! The data on it is very important to me!"

Then he'd ask "what's on it?" to which I'd respond, "I can't tell you... Please, look after it", then I'd leave in his hands.

Years later after my house burns down, I'd return to him, and if he still had them I'd ask for the drive. He'd explain all of the hardships and challenges he endured to protect this data which must be sacred. He'd ask me to show him the data on the drive, to which I'd agree to, as he'd earned my trust. Once I'd set up the drive, he'd ask "What's this?".

"Dragon Ball Z".

"..."

But anyway, yeah, I've thought about doing that. Just have to wait until the finances roll in.

One of the rules of proper data backup is basically to do this.

You get hard drive, as large as you can afford, and you put important documents on it. use the extra space for any 'normal' files you don't want to lose, and make sure the whole disk is encrypted.

[VegettoEX]

I know we're heading into slightly off-topic territory, but yeah -- that's not only suggested, but pretty normal.

I have a totally separate back-up disc of all my podcast incidental music, project files, etc... which I gave to Jeff and have him hold onto at his place, in the event every single computer and back-up I have in my own house goes up in flames.

Something goes wrong (and it has; not in flames, but minor explosions ), and I'm back up and running on a separate computer the same day.

[Ashura]

On the Madman thing:

The safe assumption is that they had already completed whatever amount of (re)packaging they needed to do, so they probably didn't want to take the loss and just released them as-is.

[CyberpunkCentral]

Has anyone notice the random Dragon Ball Z videos FUNimation has been uploading on YouTube lately?

[dbboxkaifan]

Has anyone notice the random Dragon Ball Z videos FUNimation has been uploading on YouTube lately?

You mean this?

Do they define "Special Low Price" as increasing the prices to $20? Guess so.

[MarcFBR]

Has anyone notice the random Dragon Ball Z videos FUNimation has been uploading on YouTube lately?

You mean this?

Do they define "Special Low Price" as increasing the prices to $20? Guess so.

That isn't Funimation's copy, Craddle just took it and re-uploaded it for some reason.

And Funimation hasn't increased the price.

The MSRP is lower than it ever has been. Outside of setting the MSRP Funimation has no say over what a singular store will charge you.

[Corporate_Nothing]

Has anyone notice the random Dragon Ball Z videos FUNimation has been uploading on YouTube lately?

You mean this?

Do they define "Special Low Price" as increasing the prices to $20? Guess so.

That isn't Funimation's copy, Craddle just took it and re-uploaded it for some reason.

And Funimation hasn't increased the price.

The MSRP is lower than it ever has been. Outside of setting the MSRP Funimation has no say over what a singular store will charge you.

I love how he asks his viewers to dislike the video as if Funimation will actually take notice that one of their videos is receiving a handful of dislikes on someone else's channel.

[Aoi]

This really ticks me off. I could have gotten DBOX 4 last year for $40, but I really liked how Level 1.1 looked so I killed my DBOX collecting. Now I've got two volumes of a defunct release, no way of completing my DBOX collection, with Funi hinting at pursuing more DBOX releases. The least they can do is put the out of print boxes back up on rightstuf for a limited run for those of us who got suckered into the shiney Blu-ray sets.

Though this is probably the last straw for me and Funi. I've been burned by their shenanigans for the last time.

This. This is exactly why I didn't buy some of the D Boxes, the Level sets. Now the prices have gone up and I feel a bit ripped off. I really do hope that FUNI will re-release the out of print boxes. Mean time, I'm collecting the Blue bricks (starting the series from scratch). I'm sure that the D Boxes prices can't go higher than they are. $200 for D Box 2 seems to me like a pretty good "limit".

A lot of this isn't FUNI's fault (Yamamoto scandal); however, they could make some of this up to us. Still, better than being a Star Wars fan. Man, do I feel sorry for those guys. They can never get their prefect release. It's the equivalent of Toriyama making "GT" the prime focus of the entire epic, and re-editing "Z" by inserting characters like "Dr. Myuu" , and "Bebi" to have it fit "his original design"

[ET93]

This really ticks me off. I could have gotten DBOX 4 last year for $40, but I really liked how Level 1.1 looked so I killed my DBOX collecting. Now I've got two volumes of a defunct release, no way of completing my DBOX collection, with Funi hinting at pursuing more DBOX releases. The least they can do is put the out of print boxes back up on rightstuf for a limited run for those of us who got suckered into the shiney Blu-ray sets.

Though this is probably the last straw for me and Funi. I've been burned by their shenanigans for the last time.

This. This is exactly why I didn't buy some of the D Boxes, the Level sets. Now the prices have gone up and I feel a bit ripped off. I really do hope that FUNI will re-release the out of print boxes. Mean time, I'm collecting the Blue bricks (starting the series from scratch). I'm sure that the D Boxes prices can't go higher than they are. $200 for D Box 2 seems to me like a pretty good "limit".

A lot of this isn't FUNI's fault (Yamamoto scandal); however, they could make some of this up to us. Still, better than being a Star Wars fan. Man, do I feel sorry for those guys. They can never get their prefect release. It's the equivalent of Toriyama making "GT" the prime focus of the entire epic, and re-editing "Z" by inserting characters like "Dr. Myuu" , and "Bebi" to have it fit "his original design"

Haha this exactly, I mean wtf happened to Lucas You do wonder what the original Star Wars & Indiana Jones would be like if this technology was available back than. On topic though I agree with 'Ashura'. I suppose most people who intended to buy these are probably aware of the cancellation.

[Gotham22]

FUNimation sure loves to make their DB fans question them on what they are doing with the franchise.

1. Cancellation of the UUE.
2. The messed up Z season sets.
3. F*cking up the artwork/cover for the Kai sets.
4. The whole Kai season set and wrong music mix-up.
5. Discontinuing the Kai part sets.
6. Cancelling (the) BD 2.1 release and putting the release on hold.
7. Thinking(?) of releasing(?) future Dragon Box releases.

[dbboxkaifan]

funimation sure loves to make their DB fans question them of what they are doing with the franchise.

1. cancellation of the UUE
2. the messed up Z season sets
3. f*cking up the artwork/cover for the Kai sets.
4. the whole kai season set and wrong music mixed up.
5. discontinuing the kai part sets
6. cancelling BD 2.1 release and putting the release on hold.
7. think of release future dragon box releases.

1) If I'm not mistaken, it was said the Orange Bricks were the replacement of the UUE.
2) Steve Franko or FUNimation thought it'd be a great idea to give the show a "new look".
3) The simple covers on Kai really aren't that bad, they're great actually, in my opinion.
4) Yeah, the DBZ Kai Season One using Yamamoto Kai music was a mistake that should not have happened.
5) Well, FUNimation's going to release the DBZK series on 4 Season Sets, so it's better for the newcomers. Besides, they've only cancelled Parts 1 to 4.
6) They're looking for a cheaper solution, "Steve's Transfer" looked really good, don't know how good in 1080p HD.
7) Loved that they did a survey for more Dragon Boxes, it's a sign more Dragon Boxes may be incoming.

[Gotham22]

1) If I'm not mistaken, it was said the Orange Bricks were the replacement of the UUE.
2) Steve Franko or FUNimation thought it'd be a great idea to give the show a "new look".
3) The simple covers on Kai really aren't that bad, they're great actually, in my opinion.
4) Yeah, the DBZ Kai Season One using Yamamoto Kai music was a mistake that should not have happened.
5) Well, FUNimation's going to release the DBZK series on 4 Season Sets, so it's better for the newcomers. Besides, they've only cancelled Parts 1 to 4.
6) They're looking for a cheaper solution, "Steve's Transfer" looked really good, don't know how good in 1080p HD.
7) Loved that they did a survey for more Dragon Boxes, it's a sign more Dragon Boxes may be incoming.

3. Well it seemed at first just one character and the side bander on the DVD/BD to match the character was a good idea until they messed up with part five and onward with two characters added in a battle pose.
6. I hope something new and good comes out of this soon.
7. I'll sure buy them when ever they are released.

[Tanooki Kuribo]

...
3. F*cking up the artwork/cover for the Kai sets...

Looks fine to me. Did they actually mess something up that I missed or is this just your opinion?

[Gotham22]

Funimation sure loves to make their DB fans question them on what they are doing with the franchise.

1. Cancellation of the UUE.
2. The messed up Z season sets.
3. F*cking up the artwork/cover for the Kai sets.
4. The whole Kai season set and wrong music mix-up.
5. Discontinuing the Kai part sets.
6. Cancelling the BD 2.1 release and putting the release on hold.
7. Thinking of releasing future dragon box releases.

[Kingdom Heartless]

F*cking up the artwork/cover for the Kai sets.

How so?

I mean, if you don't like it, that's fine, but it's not like it means they screwed up the release.