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How would you rank these 4 screenshots (of the same scene) in terms of picture quality?
2003 Warner Vision "Big Green dub" DVD screenshot
2006 Ultimate Uncut Edition DVD screenshot
2008 Double Feature DVD screenshot
2013 Rock the Dragon Edition DVD screenshot
For me it would go: UUE > RTD > Big Green > DF. The Ultimate Uncut screenshot (which looks identical to the Pioneer DVD) seems the most natural looking to me, despite all the obvious edge enhancement and such. The RTD set screenshot sort of looks like a brighter, poorly encoded duplicate of it. The Big Green dub screenshot makes the film seem like its from the 60s or something, although i think it still looks better than the oversaturated Double Feature screenshot.
Last edited by Kakacarrottop on Thu Jul 23, 2015 8:04 am, edited 1 time in total.
"I will literally dress as Goku and walk around jumping up and down, pretending to fly, in public if this ever gets an official release"
Well, only the Ultimate Uncut screenshot seems to have been taken properly, so it's not really a fair comparison.
"Kenshi is sitting down right now drawing his mutated spaghetti monsters thinking he's the shit..."--Neptune Kai "90% of you here don't even know what you're talking about (there are a few that do). But the things you say about these releases are nonsense and just plain dumb. Like you Metalwario64"--final_flash
Okay, in hope of making it a somewhat more even comparison, i just re-uploaded the "Ultimate Uncut" shot in the same quality as the other 3. I still think it's the best looking one.
"I will literally dress as Goku and walk around jumping up and down, pretending to fly, in public if this ever gets an official release"
The screenshot from the Ultimate Uncut edition looks the best, hands down.
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Metalwario64 wrote:Well, only the Ultimate Uncut screenshot seems to have been taken properly, so it's not really a fair comparison.
None of these appear to be taken properly, so there's no point in making any judgement call beyond pointing out the rainbowing in the Big Green version.
There is no reason a DVD screen shot should be taller than 480 pixels (well, maybe with a PAL encode you could make an argument, but still...). You're stretching/resizing at some point along the way, and if you're doing that, Dende only knows what else is happening along the way.
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Metalwario64 wrote:Well, only the Ultimate Uncut screenshot seems to have been taken properly, so it's not really a fair comparison.
None of these appear to be taken properly, so there's no point in making any judgement call beyond pointing out the rainbowing in the Big Green version.
It was at first, but as he posted above, he screwed with the picture quality and edited it into his post to make it a "fair" comparison (which it still isn't, at all).
"Kenshi is sitting down right now drawing his mutated spaghetti monsters thinking he's the shit..."--Neptune Kai "90% of you here don't even know what you're talking about (there are a few that do). But the things you say about these releases are nonsense and just plain dumb. Like you Metalwario64"--final_flash
I have taken comparison shots, but Imgur won't let me upload anything right now for some reason...
"Kenshi is sitting down right now drawing his mutated spaghetti monsters thinking he's the shit..."--Neptune Kai "90% of you here don't even know what you're talking about (there are a few that do). But the things you say about these releases are nonsense and just plain dumb. Like you Metalwario64"--final_flash
Original Thread Topic wrote:Did Dragon Ball ever motivate you to exercise?
No, why would it? It's fiction. The strength of the characters is not possible to reach in reality.
I mean, you're pretty open about looking at cartoon porn. Why would you do that? It's fiction. The proportions of these women are not possible to reach in reality.
For comparison's sake, here are the rest everyone else has posted:
Big Green:
Dragon Box:
Rock the Dragon:
"Kenshi is sitting down right now drawing his mutated spaghetti monsters thinking he's the shit..."--Neptune Kai "90% of you here don't even know what you're talking about (there are a few that do). But the things you say about these releases are nonsense and just plain dumb. Like you Metalwario64"--final_flash
