"Ultimate Uncut Edition" DVDs Discussion

tlsmith1963 · Post by **tlsmith1963** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:19 pm

Ricochet0082 wrote:Right Stuf took volume 10 off of their site and replaced it with the season one box set. Many other sites have removed listings for future volumes. Nothing has been officially announced but all signs are pointing to no more single releases.

Oh, just great. I've bought every DVD so far & have the two boxes. Now my second box won't be filled completely.

Tammy

OutRun2 · Post by **OutRun2** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 6:08 am

Hi guys.

Can I ask you a question? In your opinion, if you had to speculate, when would you say Funimation will have the entire DBZ series out and complete, with the release of these new season box sets? Do you think they will release a season box set once every, say, couple of months?

Ricochet0082 · Post by **Ricochet0082** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 6:19 am

Until we find out a date for Season Two from FUNimation, there is no way to honestly tell when we can expect to see the entire series in season sets. I would have to speculate that they may be released from three to six months apart to allow fans to save up enough money for the next set and to watch all 39 episodes. We just won't know until later.

OutRun2 · Post by **OutRun2** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:49 pm

Ricochet0082 wrote:Until we find out a date for Season Two from FUNimation, there is no way to honestly tell when we can expect to see the entire series in season sets. I would have to speculate that they may be released from three to six months apart to allow fans to save up enough money for the next set and to watch all 39 episodes. We just won't know until later.

That's too bad

Grandmaster J · Post by **Grandmaster J** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:43 pm

Blitzen wrote:
VegettoEX wrote:
BrollysKin wrote:Ughh... The japanese audio quality on these disks suck.
That's what happens when you have a weekly TV show from 1989 to 1995.
Actually, it's what happens when you get bad masters for a weekely TV show from 1989 to 1995. Saint Seiya, an older series, sounded fine (from what I can remember) on it's DVD release, though my memory is kinda fuzzy on that.

This is true, because I still have some old VHS tapes, with Dragon Ball Z episodes in Japanese w/ subs, that I bought a long time ago (back in '98 or '99). And even though the picture quality isn't great, the sound quality on them is crystal clear, and on par with the FUNimation dubbed audio. I'm not kidding. I bet FUNimation can't do anything about it anyway. They probably tried to clean it up as much as possible. Man, sometimes the Japanese audio on the FUNi DVDs makes my speakers pop at a certain volume.

Oh well. It's better than nothing.

I wonder how the Dragon Box sets sound compared to FUNimation's Japanese audio.

Blitzen · Post by **Blitzen** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 2:50 am

Grandmaster J wrote: I wonder how the Dragon Box sets sound compared to FUNimation's Japanese audio.

With the TV series, it sounds better. No popping and generally, you can get it louder than funimation's discs without any problems.

Movies, OTOH, are a vast improvement, even for simple Mono.

BoxerGloves · Post by **BoxerGloves** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 11:20 am

Blitzen wrote:
Grandmaster J wrote: I wonder how the Dragon Box sets sound compared to FUNimation's Japanese audio.
With the TV series, it sounds better. No popping and generally, you can get it louder than funimation's discs without any problems.

Movies, OTOH, are a vast improvement, even for simple Mono.

Also, sometimes the audio suddenly "drops", and everything gets mute on the FUNimation's discs. On the UUE DVDs, I've alreay noticed that ln the episode where Nappa blows up the news helicopter, and when King Kai speaks to Goku before he trains him. There are numerous instances when the Japanese audio hissed and crackled as well, the eyecatchers being the most notable. Yeah, sometimes the DBZ audio sound can really sound like shit. And even though the Saiyan Saga that's on the UUE is only 16/17 years old, but judging by its Japanese version's audio "quality", it sounds like it's seventy years old. Even the old Popeye or Felix the Cat cartoons that were produced in mono sound in 1930's, even they did not have such shitty audio quality when they got re-issued on DVDs, like the Japanese version of DBZ on FUNimation's DVD releases did.

Lobster_Rage155 · Post by **Lobster_Rage155** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 3:54 pm

Seems like FUNimation has figured out everything BUT how to encode DVDs...

MysticGogeta · Post by **MysticGogeta** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 2:57 pm

I liked the DVDs but I still wish funimation could get a hold of the original masters used in the dragonbox set. But that will never happen.

The Tori-bot · Post by **The Tori-bot** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 3:38 pm

MysticGogeta wrote:I liked the DVDs but I still wish funimation could get a hold of the original masters used in the dragonbox set. But that will never happen.

Oh really? Is that what you think? *pokes VegettoEX*

Then have you ever heard of a little Dragon Ball fansite that has a Podcast with all the latest news...?

MysticGogeta · Post by **MysticGogeta** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:35 pm

The Tori-bot wrote:
MysticGogeta wrote:I liked the DVDs but I still wish funimation could get a hold of the original masters used in the dragonbox set. But that will never happen.
Oh really? Is that what you think? *pokes VegettoEX*

Then have you ever heard of a little Dragon Ball fansite that has a Podcast with all the latest news...?

Aww, darn I forgot about that news post, but I really do hope that the new box sets uses the dragonbox masters.

Stoney · Post by **Stoney** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:19 pm

It has probably already been asked and answered by someone else but this "Ultimate Uncut Edition", has it been released in box sets yet?
I bought the first DVD with the first three episodes but it was way too expensive.
If there are box sets, where can I get them from? I've looked all over the net, I need somewhere in the UK or that ships to the UK.

Blitzen · Post by **Blitzen** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 6:43 pm

Stoney wrote:It has probably already been asked and answered by someone else but this "Ultimate Uncut Edition", has it been released in box sets yet?
I bought the first DVD with the first three episodes but it was way too expensive.
If there are box sets, where can I get them from? I've looked all over the net, I need somewhere in the UK or that ships to the UK.

Currently, the Ultimate Uncut edition is at volume 9, but the release has been cancelled, so there won't be any more Ultimate Uncut DVDs. There will also be no boxsets released based on this version.

Next year, on the other hand, starting Febuary, there will be new boxsets, containing more episodes at a much lesser price. These may or may not use the Dragonbox remaster footage or some kind of actually decent masters.

DVDpacific.com is a good place to order R1 DVDs from if you're in the UK. lEgit, cheap, and good rates on shipping.

Kula · Post by **Kula** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:39 pm

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.a ... 5713&BAB=M

I just thought I'd point out this box set for the Vegeta saga, as it hasn't been mentioned in the podcast. I've been getting emails telling me that it will ship on time.

Slickmasterfunk · Post by **Slickmasterfunk** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 2:51 pm

Kula wrote:http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.a ... 5713&BAB=M

I just thought I'd point out this box set for the Vegeta saga, as it hasn't been mentioned in the podcast. I've been getting emails telling me that it will ship on time.

I wouldn't trust that just because Funimation themselves have said that they delayed the set until February.

Kula · Post by **Kula** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:31 pm

Slickmasterfunk wrote:I wouldn't trust that just because Funimation themselves have said that they delayed the set until February.

It looks like it's the first 6 UU DVDs in a box set, so it could be different from the one due out next year.

Ricochet0082 · Post by **Ricochet0082** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:47 pm

The first UU set was seven discs and this set appears to be the season set that was originally set for this month and then delayed until a future date.

Tanooki Kuribo · Post by **Tanooki Kuribo** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:33 am

Ok, funny story. I just sold my entire UUC set for 142.50. Seems pretty good concidering the re-released box set in 2007 will be under 40 bucks!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

Slickmasterfunk · Post by **Slickmasterfunk** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:22 am

Tanooki Kuribo wrote:Ok, funny story. I just sold my entire UUC set for 142.50. Seems pretty good concidering the re-released box set in 2007 will be under 40 bucks!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

Good for you! Unfortunatley, when I put mine on ebay (just vols. 1-9, not movie 1) I only made about $45.

Undercooked Sausage · Post by **Undercooked Sausage** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:48 am

Cduniverse just e-mailed me saying the Vegeta Saga has been placed on back order:

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