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

[Gonstead]

If it counts, this is what we have as the preview shots.

[RocktheDragon]

Goku's foot! Now we can see it in all it's irregular glory '

Not bad, but like with the logo, I think it will be a bit distracting with it's repetitiveness when you link all the covers together. I know why they didn't do it this way, but it would have been cool if the slip cover (atleast first print or maybe right stuff exclusive) was just the raw art and all the logos and things were on the regular cover/spine

Edit: I just realized this is not a slip cover these dont come with them I'd assume? I like the spine art better in this version

Oh my! I just realized the problem with the cover art and didn't even pay attention to it in the first place! You're right that it is going to be very annoying have the logo on every cover...one oversight that I think should have been handled for aesthetic purposes. Oh well, I'm sure that Funimation will put out a poster with this design and there will be no dumb repetitive logo to ruin the entire shot.

Actually, when you think about it, maybe Funimation kept the logo so we'd all buy the eventual poster release.

[kidglov3s]

DoubleGulpShrimp on Blu-ray.com posted some US screenshots, and I made some quick comparisons.

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[TheGmGoken]

Which one is blu-ray? The left side looks much better. I hope that's the BluRay.)

[Valentine]

http://www.madman.com.au/catalogue/view ... n-2-bluray

There are also screens for the season 2 bluray up if any one can do a comparison, the kaio-ken doesn't seem so pinky-orange anymore more a crimson.

[kidglov3s]

Which one is blu-ray? The left side looks much better. I hope that's the BluRay.)

Left is Madman website jpg screenshot upscaled to Blu-ray resolution, right is uncompressed PNG screenshot from Funimation Blu-ray.

I was able to find one screenshot that matched what they have for season 2.

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Note the Madman screenshots were blown up to 3.2x their size, from Jpegs. I love this one because on the surface it looks ok but you see them side by side and you can notice the blurring.

If someone can take screenshots I think the most worthwhile to compare would be:


They look like just the kind of shot that the Funi Blu-rays mangle.

[Gonstead]

Season 2 screenshots for the Madman Season 2.

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[sangofe]

Apart one being pal and the other ntsc, ares there any differences between funi's and madman's releases?

[MarcFBR]

Apart one being pal and the other ntsc, ares there any differences between funi's and madman's releases?

Ignoring that the Madman release isn't out yet, PAL and NTSC don't come into play for 1080p24 content.

[Valentine]

It'd be cool if Madman actually paid for say previous stage production masters. So they have grain intact and the unchanged colours just left with cropping I would actually consider buying that.

They did have a stink asking for the old orange brick masters in 4:3 I remember.......

[DragonBoxZTheMovies]

It'd be cool if Madman actually paid for say previous stage production masters. So they have grain intact and the unchanged colours just left with cropping I would actually consider buying that.

They did have a stink asking for the old orange brick masters in 4:3 I remember.......

Ah, yes. I remember that.

Yet they turned down the opportunity to put out the Dragon Boxes. I mean, I understand their reasoning behind that decision, but....

[qjz123]

The season 2 shots look pretty similar the main difference comes from the fact that the images taken from Madman's site have been significantly downscaled. The season 1 shots however look very different. I noticed that with the season 2 blu rays it seemed like Funimation turned down their artificial sharpening which in season 1 lead to weird artifacting in backgrounds most notably in clouds(it's still present in season 2 but significantly less than in season 1). It would be interesting if Funimation went back and toned down some of their filters to make it similar to the way they did season 2 for Madman's release of season 1. Actually come to think of it wasn't season 1 removed from amazon for over a month? Even now that it's back up it says that it'll take 1-3 weeks to ship. Could it be possible that Funimation made the same changes to the U.S. release of season 1 that we're seeing on Madman's release of the blu rays? This all seems incredibly unlikely but it is interesting to consider and there's no denying that the colors in the Madman shots from season 1 look different than their U.S. counterparts.

[Valentine]

Ugh don't get me started how we never got the Dragonboxes, I have never actually owned a release of DBZ due to this issue. I remember renting the orange bricks and being confused as to why it was widescreen.

[kidglov3s]

I worked this up:



Still looks over processed. But if it doesn't have the hideous blur, at least it's a more successful effort at what they're going for. Even if it's still revisionist. Of course it'll probably be like what months until we know what these even look like.

[qjz123]

Which one is blu-ray? The left side looks much better. I hope that's the BluRay.)

Left is Madman website jpg screenshot upscaled to Blu-ray resolution, right is uncompressed PNG screenshot from Funimation Blu-ray.

I was able to find one screenshot that matched what they have for season 2.

Spoiler:

Note the Madman screenshots were blown up to 3.2x their size, from Jpegs. I love this one because on the surface it looks ok but you see them side by side and you can notice the blurring.

If someone can take screenshots I think the most worthwhile to compare would be:


They look like just the kind of shot that the Funi Blu-rays mangle.

Here's the shot with Kuririn's head from the season blu rays downscaled to match the screenshot from Madman's website.

Like I said in my previous post the season 2 shots look pretty much identical the difference is that because madman's shot's are downscaled they end up hiding the blurring that's noticeable in a full res screenshot. Here is a link to the full res version of the shot with Kuririn's head http://i2.minus.com/iJURGHQa8frVk.png . I'm not sure which episode the shot with Piccolo is from but i'd be more than willing to post it if someone told me when it takes place.

[kidglov3s]

Like I said in my previous post the season 2 shots look pretty much identical the difference is that because madman's shot's are downscaled they end up hiding the blurring that's noticeable in a full res screenshot. Here is a link to the full res version of the shot with Kuririn's head http://i2.minus.com/iJURGHQa8frVk.png . I'm not sure which episode the shot with Piccolo is from but i'd be more than willing to post it if someone told me when it take place.

I think you're dead on, those S2 shots do look like they're identical.

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[Metalwario64]

Wow, it's crazy that even though the image was shrunk so much, you really don't lose much detail at all compared to the Blu-ray.

[eledoremassis02]

What would the these sets look like scaled down to DVD?

[JackyBoi99]

Wait, did madman use some different kind of film for the blu rays? they look pretty different to me.

[kei17]

I worked this up:



Still looks over processed. But if it doesn't have the hideous blur, at least it's a more successful effort at what they're going for. Even if it's still revisionist. Of course it'll probably be like what months until we know what these even look like.

Here's a R2 DBox version.