Madman Questions

Kodoshin · Post by **Kodoshin** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:24 am

I've decided to import the Madman Entertainment, Dragon Ball Collection 1 as it stands and have a few questions:

I've decided to order from www.ezydvd.com.au have any of you ordered from this site in the past? Did you experience any major problems?

Second, are the Madman Entertainment DVD's region 4 only? I tend not to trust the product info listing I find on sites, since I notice it's often incorrect on Funimations own DVD's even.

Adamant · Post by **Adamant** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 2:08 pm

Kodoshin wrote:
Second, are the Madman Entertainment DVD's region 4 only? I tend not to trust the product info listing I find on sites, since I notice it's often incorrect on Funimations own DVD's even.

They work on my region 2 DVD player (PAL).

PsyLiam · Post by **PsyLiam** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 12:53 am

Could you look on the back of the box and see what regions it says that it supports? They're the numbers over globe type things.

tablet the eunuch · Post by **tablet the eunuch** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 3:58 am

They're Region 2 and 4.

They're also PAL.

Kodoshin · Post by **Kodoshin** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 8:39 pm

Thanks for the info, everybody.

PsyLiam · Post by **PsyLiam** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 9:38 pm

Why are both the American and Australian releases region 2 compatible? Not that I'm complaining, but I don't have any other DVDs that are multi-region like this. They are either just region 1, just region 2, or region free.

laserkid · Post by **laserkid** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 6:38 pm

No clue but for reffrence all DB/Z DVDs I have at least are Reigon 1, 2 and 4!

PsyLiam · Post by **PsyLiam** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:12 pm

That's what I was talking about. The FUNi and Madman ones are all region 2 compatible, for no apparent reason. I've never seen that on any other DVDs. Even the Pioneer ones were just region 1.

Kodoshin · Post by **Kodoshin** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:05 pm

Total speculation from here on out:

Since they (Funi) apparently bought video rights to distribute their product in several reigons, it'd just make more sense to have the discs function in all reigons they can distribute in, right?

And in the case of the (apparent) sub-license to Madman, the discs not being reigon 1 compatible (besides the whole PAL/NTSC issue) makes plenty of sense, that way in the case of legal issues (like the whole Trimark issue with Dragon Ball episodes 1-13) slowing the pace of their releases, it discourages importing.

Just a wild guess based on a few ideas though, thats all.

PsyLiam · Post by **PsyLiam** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:17 pm

Except that FUNi don't have the rights to distribute the episodes in region 2 (Europe). Or region 4, I don't think. So that shoots that theory down.

Kodoshin · Post by **Kodoshin** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:27 pm

Indeed it would, though in that case I guess it's Madman who handles the distribution then in R4 I'd take it? I guess they could actually be encouraging importing then right?

If that is the case though then I guess Madman has a pretty rough deal.

tablet the eunuch · Post by **tablet the eunuch** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 12:28 am

I would imagine Kidmark only have video distribution rights to north america, so FUNimation could technically still have region 2 and 4 distribution rights, which madman bought. FUNimation really want to release this set, but Kidmark is in the way, so i'd imagine all the work for that set is already done, so Madman have used that.

Kodoshin · Post by **Kodoshin** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 12:48 am

Yeah it's for sure done, a month or so ago I emailed Clyde Mandelin to see if he had done subtitles for these episodes. He eventually responded confirming that indeed the subs are done, so I guess it's probable that his translations for these episodes will debut on the Madman release.

Adamant · Post by **Adamant** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 2:27 pm

laserkid wrote:No clue but for reffrence all DB/Z DVDs I have at least are Reigon 1, 2 and 4!

Some of them play like crap on my region 2-player, though.

PsyLiam · Post by **PsyLiam** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 3:10 pm

Which ones? I never have any problem.

Kidmark have the rights in Europe, I believe. At the very least, I'd imagine that non-English speaking countries get their own dubs, but I dunno what music they'd use. In the UK we get the same dub as in Canada, as well as another company releasing DVDs of the movies, so I'd put money that FUNi have no distribution rights over here.

Adamant · Post by **Adamant** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 5:49 pm

PsyLiam wrote:Which ones? I never have any problem.

"Androids - Dr. Gero" for instance.
Pretty much unplayable on my regular DVD player. (works fine on my region free player, though.)

PsyLiam · Post by **PsyLiam** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 6:12 pm

Weird. I wonder if that's due to your region-2 player not being able to cope with region 1, 2, and 4 discs (which are, to be fair, an extremely uncommon format), a problem with FUNi's manufacture of them, or a problem with them being NTSC.

I confess to not having problems myself, apart from an occasional unwillingness to stay on the Japanese track when jumping around the disc. What problems happen?

Adamant · Post by **Adamant** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 3:44 pm

PsyLiam wrote:Weird. I wonder if that's due to your region-2 player not being able to cope with region 1, 2, and 4 discs (which are, to be fair, an extremely uncommon format), a problem with FUNi's manufacture of them, or a problem with them being NTSC.

I confess to not having problems myself, apart from an occasional unwillingness to stay on the Japanese track when jumping around the disc. What problems happen?

Slowdown, or whatever it's called. The disc stops, then resumes after about a second.

sangofe · Post by **sangofe** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:50 pm

hmm...
I know EX hates that old topics get revided...
but I wonder if thread starter ordered the dvds, and if they really have FUNimation translations of the japanese version and not only dub sub?

Kodoshin · Post by **Kodoshin** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 11:16 pm

I did end up ordering the discs, they indeed do use Clyde Mandelins subtitles for the Japanese version that have graced all of the original Dragon Ball releases thus far aside from the 21st Tenkaichi Tournament, which uses Steve Simmons translations.

Kanzenshuu

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