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

[samuraix123]

Hahaha I bet they did the connected cover art that way rather than spine art in case they cancel this release before they complete the entire series, that's slick on their part!

Oh God don't even say that hahaha I would be sooooooooooooooo mad if I got these and Funimation decided to cancel them like they did the level sets and ultimate uncut. but I'd say this release will probably be like the orange bricks. people will buy them up. and I might get the first season just to see it and If it looks a little better than the orange bricks, I'll just give my set to my brother.

[Baggie_Saiyan]

Amazon recently updated the product image, we can see clearly that the image is one large image.
http://i.imgur.com/6i6Rkkk.jpg

Those discs say region AB right?

Yes they do . Although I'll be waiting to support the UK release if it ever happens.

Well, that certainly lightened my mood up today! Hopefully Manga UK could pick it up after GT

[Kakarot88]

The only downside is the art style they chose has Freeza and Bulma look like different people meh

[samuraix123]

Haha I never noticed this til now but all three sets make 1 image I feel like slowpoke haha

[DragonBalllKaiHD]

Only if Freeza looks at Vegeta, then the spine arts would feel natural. Clearly, they don't know how to draw poses properly, which is sad because drawing poses properly is a very basic thing for a beginner artist.

[KentalSSJ6]

As I thought, the cover arts link together. A shame considering how sub par the actual product is. Id happily buy a single poster or scroll of all the cover arts together though.

[theoriginalbilis]

The cover art is lookin' pretty sweet, though some of the characters look a bit off.

Still highly doubtful I'll buy this release unless we get the 4:3 picture or improved Japanese audio, but I wouldn't mind picking up a poster of that art.

[ect5150]

Looking at the larger picture above I noticed something -- we're talking 10 episodes per disc. That somewhat confirms the picture quality. It must be extremely cleaned up (i.e. DNRed) if they hope to use 10 episodes per disc and maintain any type of decent picture quality. DB Kai was cleaned up (cleaned up well, in my opinion), but I think it only have 7 or 8 episodes per disc. These will have 10 eps and possibly 3 audio tracks? Something smells...

[qjz123]

Looking at the larger picture above I noticed something -- we're talking 10 episodes per disc. That somewhat confirms the picture quality. It must be extremely cleaned up (i.e. DNRed) if they hope to use 10 episodes per disc and maintain any type of decent picture quality. DB Kai was cleaned up (cleaned up well, in my opinion), but I think it only have 7 or 8 episodes per disc. These will have 10 eps and possibly 3 audio tracks? Something smells...

The level sets had extremely grainy footage which doesn't compress well at all and they contained 9 episodes per disc. So they're squeezing an additional episode onto 3 of the 4 discs, the 4th disc will still contain 9 episodes. So while there will be a video bit rate hit I wouldn't expect anything to drastic.

[KingofWisdom]

The set with Freeza looks off to me.

[ect5150]

Looking at the larger picture above I noticed something -- we're talking 10 episodes per disc. That somewhat confirms the picture quality. It must be extremely cleaned up (i.e. DNRed) if they hope to use 10 episodes per disc and maintain any type of decent picture quality. DB Kai was cleaned up (cleaned up well, in my opinion), but I think it only have 7 or 8 episodes per disc. These will have 10 eps and possibly 3 audio tracks? Something smells...

The level sets had extremely grainy footage which doesn't compress well at all and they contained 9 episodes per disc. So they're squeezing an additional episode onto 3 of the 4 discs, the 4th disc will still contain 9 episodes. So while there will be a video bit rate hit I wouldn't expect anything to drastic.

9 eps per disc? Hmm... for some reason I was thinking it was 6. My bad. You're right though - grainy sources don't compress well and need extra bitrate. Some of the levels set has blocking due to the lower than needed bitrates.

[VegettoEX]

Weren't the Kai discs that way, too? I seem to remember it being super weird and the two-disc sets being, like, 9 episodes and 4 episodes per disc, respectively.

[qjz123]

Weren't the Kai discs that way, too? I seem to remember it being super weird and the two-disc sets being, like, 9 episodes and 4 episodes per disc, respectively.

I believe that the reason the final set of kai which contained only nine episodes had the episodes spread among two discs was because Funimation used two single layer BD 25's as apposed to using a Double layer BD 50.

[ect5150]

Weren't the Kai discs that way, too? I seem to remember it being super weird and the two-disc sets being, like, 9 episodes and 4 episodes per disc, respectively.

I know some were like that. But my original points was Kai doesn't have much grain and didn't need as much bitrate (which it doesn't). These discs are using the same logic by using more episodes per disc.

[The Time Traveller]

Weren't the Kai discs that way, too? I seem to remember it being super weird and the two-disc sets being, like, 9 episodes and 4 episodes per disc, respectively.

What are the 4 disc sets like? 9 episodes, 4 episodes, 9 episodes, 4 episodes?

[Roland_ELoG]

Oh jeez that box art. It makes me feel all funny inside.

But then again, who displays their games and movies like that? Does anybody? I don't have that kind of free shelf space to devote to Another Dragon Ball Z Collection (TM); all of it is taken up by those chunky Funimation singles, and they get filed away like normal DVDs.

[Big Momma]

Only if Freeza looks at Vegeta, then the spine arts would feel natural. Clearly, they don't know how to draw poses properly, which is sad because drawing poses properly is a very basic thing for a beginner artist.

Not really. There's a whole formula to what makes a good pose (Line of action, showing weight, etc) that even someone who's been drawing for years can still struggle with.

However, I will agree that at least getting Freeza to at least look at Vegeta should be a very simple task.

[G1Ravage]

I don't care for the box art. Who displays their boxes like that?

[TheAldella]

I don't care for the box art. Who displays their boxes like that?

...Wal-Mart?

[Roland_ELoG]

I think Freeza is looking at Raditz. You know, with longing.