The Season Sets aren't widescreen?

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Re: The Season Sets aren't widescreen?

Post by Tanooki Kuribo » Mon Dec 31, 2012 2:48 am

ringworm128 wrote:I think the only reason it even sold in the west was because of the new dub.
Well, yea. That was one of the main selling points. I'm sure that's why most people bought it. That's why I bought it.

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Re: The Season Sets aren't widescreen?

Post by penguintruth » Mon Dec 31, 2012 4:21 am

Or hey, maybe it sold because Goku doesn't dick around on Serpentine Road, Bulma doesn't fight crabs (any more than her sex life affords her), Goku's fight with Freeza isn't 19 episodes long, Garlic Junior doesn't show up, Gohan doesn't meet a girl named Lime, and we don't spend two episodes on Mr. Satan's crew.

The good dub is icing on the cake.
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Re: The Season Sets aren't widescreen?

Post by Mewzard » Mon Dec 31, 2012 9:26 am

Tanooki Kuribo wrote:
ringworm128 wrote:I think the only reason it even sold in the west was because of the new dub.
Well, yea. That was one of the main selling points. I'm sure that's why most people bought it. That's why I bought it.
Agreed. Without a new Dub, I would have probably ignored it. I still don't care about the Japanese side because I'm buying the Dragon Boxes (finally ordered DB 6 for Christmas). The series needed a new dub, and Kai let us have it, so I've fully supported and enjoyed it.
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Re: The Season Sets aren't widescreen?

Post by dbboxkaifan » Mon Dec 31, 2012 12:27 pm

SparkyPantsMcGee wrote:It's because I have a plasma and I don't want Screen burn-in.
I can't remember anyone ever complaining about their HDTV having this problem, it's more about broken down / lines / dead pixels / whatever.

Oh well, if you're worried about getting a problem with your Plasma giving it little to no use perhaps would be ideal.

I've never had an issue and nor about burn screen when watching 4x3 Blu-rays (Pinocchio, TLK, YYH, DBK, etc). If the black bars annoyed me I'd just zoom in the picture, problem solved.
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Re: The Season Sets aren't widescreen?

Post by SparkyPantsMcGee » Mon Dec 31, 2012 9:52 pm

Tanooki Kuribo wrote:
ringworm128 wrote:I think the only reason it even sold in the west was because of the new dub.
Well, yea. That was one of the main selling points. I'm sure that's why most people bought it. That's why I bought it.
It's why I bought it. That and the fact that so far I've only had to by 3 season sets and I have most of the series. It's kind of nice.
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