Dragon Ball Z "Seasons" On Blu-ray: News & Discussion

[Daimo-Rukiri]

I'm thinking even if it's not the orange brick footage, it won't look as good as the Level sets.

We can't say that for sure until it's released, or at the very least a trailer.

[LordCrumb]

I don't get why they cant have both 4:3 and 16x9 on the same disc.. surely they are using a 4:3 master to produce the footage.

[Daimo-Rukiri]

What's the bet they get to episode 52 and then cancel the sets.

I have quite of bit of money, hmm say 2 grand? Nah, not gonna bet it like this.

They cancelled it originally to pretty much find a better method, what they probably found is they can keep restoring the series as they have with the level sets if they drop 20% of the picture now keep in mind in terms of restoration if it say cost 1M to restore DB(I don't know the exact cause I'll just use the exagerated number from the orange bricks) and minus 20% = $200,000 less they have to spend Of course I think they spent closer to $500,000 in the level sets.

I don't get why they cant have both 4:3 and 16x9 on the same disc.. surely they are using a 4:3 master to produce the footage.

Again it probably has to do with the master they have, if you noticed in the singles there were visible damages (crop it) and it instantly solves the problem but removes some of the frame which does suck..

I think were just getting the level sets in 16x9, if they were doing the orange bricks it would have been released as really.. all they had to do was put it on blu-ray. The orange bricks were auto cropped to the center, cropping is more selective with these which means a human is doing it not a machine which means to me these are not the bricks mainly because the cropping was done at the time of the transfer which pretty much means these aren't the bricks. So it's probably a 4:3 transfer but the cropping is done after the transfer process.

They probably had 144 episodes done (well transferred anyway) for the level sets and they're just going back and selectively cropping as I do feel 2.1 and even the possibility of 2.2 actually being done but 2.1 was done(has a $17K pricetag on amazon... c'mon I'd pay $400 not 17K><)

Or Funimation is pulling a fast one and found a way to get the quality on the level sets but reducing the costs and I think this was why we're getting that but in 16x9. Sad but man>< I never minded watching the orange bricks and the 16x9 didn't bug me, what bugged me was how bright, over saturation, poor gamma control, color shifting, missing lines!, missing detail. We're probably going to see season 1 as a repackaged level 1.1 but 16x9 considering that part was already done.

http://www.visualproducts.com/productIn ... 524&Cat=96
A neat little article, but I have a feeling.

It would be sad if they blew it up to fit 16x9.

[Daimo-Rukiri]

Double Post - The edit button works in mysterious ways.

[BlazingFiddlesticks]

They probably had 144 episodes done (well transferred anyway) for the level sets and they're just going back and selectively cropping as I do feel 2.1 and even the possibility of 2.2 actually being done but 2.1 was done(has a $17K pricetag on amazon... c'mon I'd pay $400 not 17K><)

I admit, I hadn't thought of that. It would make the release very inconsistent, but they do have a good portion of the series in Level form to work with.

Or Funimation is pulling a fast one and found a way to get the quality on the level sets but reducing the costs and I think this was why we're getting that but in 16x9. Sad but man>< I never minded watching the orange bricks and the 16x9 didn't bug me, what bugged me was how bright, over saturation, poor gamma control, color shifting, missing lines!, missing detail. We're probably going to see season 1 as a repackaged level 1.1 but 16x9 considering that part was already done.

Agree; the cropping was annoying, but it's not what made the Orange Bricks look awful on the very TVs they were supposed to work best with.

[theoriginalbilis]

We should see a trailer within the next few weeks, It'll answer a lot of questions for us without a doubt.

[sangofe]

They probably had 144 episodes done (well transferred anyway) for the level sets and they're just going back and selectively cropping as I do feel 2.1 and even the possibility of 2.2 actually being done but 2.1 was done(has a $17K pricetag on amazon... c'mon I'd pay $400 not 17K><)

What are you basing this assumption on?

[Gonstead]

They probably had 144 episodes done (well transferred anyway) for the level sets and they're just going back and selectively cropping as I do feel 2.1 and even the possibility of 2.2 actually being done but 2.1 was done(has a $17K pricetag on amazon... c'mon I'd pay $400 not 17K><)

What are you basing this assumption on?

Probably shots we saw on the trailer for the Blu-Rays.

[Jackal puFF]

How many seasons will there be? My wallet cannot handle 9 seasons the orange bricks were... And what if they just discontinue these blu-rays like they did in the past?

[KingofWisdom]

I dug up the survey and it says:

Currently we plan on 9 Season Sets in total.

[Super Sayian Prime]

I don't think it's safe to assume Funimation had a tonne of lead time on the Level sets. They uploaded the footage from those releases as the HD versions of DBZ on places like Xbox Live, and PSN. While they got further than the BD releases, it wasn't much. If they had done more I can't see them not releasing it digitally.

[Ringworm128]

How many seasons will there be? My wallet cannot handle 9 seasons the orange bricks were... And what if they just discontinue these blu-rays like they did in the past?

Not that you're planning on supporting this right.

[Kojiro Sasaki]

I don't think it's safe to assume Funimation had a tonne of lead time on the Level sets. They uploaded the footage from those releases as the HD versions of DBZ on places like Xbox Live, and PSN. While they got further than the BD releases, it wasn't much. If they had done more I can't see them not releasing it digitally.

Those episodes were fully restored and prepared for the release. It's possible that they have much more unmastered footage (transferred for the Level sets).

[Daimo-Rukiri]

I don't think it's safe to assume Funimation had a tonne of lead time on the Level sets. They uploaded the footage from those releases as the HD versions of DBZ on places like Xbox Live, and PSN. While they got further than the BD releases, it wasn't much. If they had done more I can't see them not releasing it digitally.

Those episodes were fully restored and prepared for the release. It's possible that they have much more unmastered footage (transferred for the Level sets).

It's also possible they transferred the entire series, why transfer episode by episode? The entire series was probably transferred first than it was remastered.

[dbboxkaifan]

Wouldn't be surprised if it were the Orange Bricks transferred to Blu-ray as is. I'm keeping my expectations extremely low.

[penguintruth]

Why does Funimation continue to insist that there are nine seasons of the show? There weren't even nine seasons of the dub on North American television!

STOP USING THE TERM "SEASONS", FUNIMATION.

[dbboxkaifan]

Why does Funimation continue to insist that there are nine seasons of the show? There weren't even nine seasons of the dub on North American television!

STOP USING THE TERM "SEASONS", FUNIMATION.

It's too late now to stop using it.

[Gaffer Tape]

Why? The Dragon Boxes didn't use it. The "level" sets (obviously) didn't use it. It's not like we're halfway through a release, and they'd suddenly change it. This is a new, crappy, terrible release. No one who would otherwise buy it would stop doing so if it didn't have the word "season" on it.

[OutlawTorn]

Why does Funimation continue to insist that there are nine seasons of the show? There weren't even nine seasons of the dub on North American television!

STOP USING THE TERM "SEASONS", FUNIMATION.

Why? How does it possibly affect the actual show? So what if FUNimation labels them as "seasons" especially when you're not even going to be getting them? They're definitely not the Level sets nor the Dragon Boxes and it's really a non-issue compared to what is really worth complaining about. Is it really worth getting butthurt over something so minor when all you really want to do is watch the damned series?

[Gyt Kaliba]

Thing is though, this release does seem to be a Bluray version of the Season Sets - if not in footage (that remains to be seen last I heard, yes?) but in content. It will likely be broken up in the exact same way, it's going for a decent price point - it is very much that 'Season Set' release that gets so much flack. So wouldn't it make sense to call it the same thing? It does to me, 'incorrect' or not.

That and, as was said, if someone was not going to buy this release, what it calls itself is hardly going to make a difference is it?