FUNimation Dragon Box Z #1 (In-Hands) Discussion

Vivisection · Post by **Vivisection** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:13 am

Wow. I...

A confirmation of the (Japanese) audio bitrate would be great, though—the quality on the orange brick sets was just atrocious.

DemonRin · Post by **DemonRin** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:15 am

SSj_Rambo wrote:
DemonRin wrote:
hunterxhunter21 wrote:I'm kinda interested in a orange brick/funi dbox/dbox shot now. Anyone else?
What Ep is that Raditz Shot from? I'll pull out my Orange Brick and Add it to the comparison shot I made.
Pretty sure it's episode 2 (I just flipped through my .vob files until I found it).

And yes guys, there is a visible different between the two, but it could easily be attributed to the fact that Haseowolf's .jpg FUNi DBox screens were compressed to JPEG format by Photobucket. We should wait for lossless versions before a definitive judgement is made.

I'm having a hard time locating my Orange Bricks (I just moved) if you have the VOB files handy, could you take the shot?

Haseowolf · Post by **Haseowolf** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:20 am

Sorry everyone, I'm back. AND WITH GOOD NEWS!!! Apparently, Photobucket wasn't liking me putting Dragon Box caps in a Dragon Box album? So now that I've got those up, here we go!!!

So now the comparisons can truly begin! Also, its totally a coincidence that I started the original DBOX thread. I was just the guy who posted after getting Mike's tweet about it first. And I just happen to be the guy who lives 5 hours away from RightStuf's warehouse :p

email2003 · Post by **email2003** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:22 am

Big Momma wrote:Call me a black sheep, but I'm not really a fan of the way these look. All the colors just look a little..."faded" if that makes sense (I believe someone brought up contrast a few posts back). I mean, they look good, all in all, but there's just this dark "gray-ness" to it for me =/

I dunno, maybe I'm just used to the brightness of the orange bricks.

In other news...........................

DRAGON BOX RULES!!!

Captain Awesome · Post by **Captain Awesome** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:26 am

SSj_Rambo wrote: And yes guys, there is a visible different between the two, but it could easily be attributed to the fact that Haseowolf's .jpg FUNi DBox screens were compressed to JPEG format by Photobucket. We should wait for lossless versions before a definitive judgement is made.

Then why make the comparison in the first place?.

The screencap isn't even in the correct resolution, and you're adding fuel to the fire of moronic paranoia by making worthless comparisons that aren't indicative of anything.

So instead of lovely thread celebrating a release that we've all been waiting for, it's already degenerated to a clusterfuck of misinformed opinions and baseless assumptions by the technically inept.

Haseowolf · Post by **Haseowolf** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:27 am

Whoops, forgot to check. For the next episode previews on the English Dub option it switches to Japanese audio with English subtitles.

email2003 · Post by **email2003** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:28 am

Haseowolf wrote:Whoops, forgot to check. For the next episode previews on the English Dub option it switches to Japanese audio with English subtitles.

Sounds like the only way to handle it.

Question, were there any extras on these dics or just plain FUNi trailers?

Taku128 · Post by **Taku128** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:30 am

Haseowolf wrote:New caps

Why are these 720 by 540?

Edit: Just read godofchaos' post three posts down from this one.

KinoFourpaws · Post by **KinoFourpaws** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:34 am

Taku128 wrote:
Haseowolf wrote:New caps
Why are these 720 by 540 when standard definition is 640 by 480?

I thought standard definition was 720 by 480? Those are the exact dimensions DV/NTSC uses, anyway... (I actually don't know what format these DVDs use, but I thought that was the usual... )

(There goes my evil post count. Aww. :[ )

Taku128 · Post by **Taku128** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:38 am

KinoFourpaws wrote:
Taku128 wrote:
Haseowolf wrote:New caps
Why are these 720 by 540 when standard definition is 640 by 480?
I thought standard definition was 720 by 480? Those are the exact dimensions DV/NTSC uses, anyway... (I actually don't know what format these DVDs use, but I thought that was the usual... )

(There goes my evil post count. Aww. :[ )

It is, I'm just stupid. At some point in my life I heard standard def is 640 by 480 and it's stuck with me ever since.

Edit: Or not. I know standard resolution isn't 720 by 540 though.

MarcFBR · Post by **MarcFBR** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:38 am

Standard definition as encoded is 720x480, that isn't the display resolution though (it has to do with different sized pixels.)

Display resolution for 4:3 DVD content on a PC monitor is 640x480

Don't cap in VLC, it's had issues lately with MPG2.

Capping in SMplayer may work.

The option I normally use, is I cap in MPC-HC (with CCCP, default settings).
Then you go into Photoshop and use a bi gradient filter to change the resolution to 640x480, which shows them how they should appear.

As I'm not currently on my primary machine I can't double check things for Haseo, but if he uploads native 720x480 PNGs I can still properly alter them to what we need to do a proper and fair comparison.

Or he can e-mail me them or message me on AIM, whatever he wants.

DemonRin · Post by **DemonRin** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:40 am

Ok, as soon as we have the caps and they're definitely good, someone get me them in both FUNi and Toei DBOX format, I wana make Side-by-side comparisons XD

EDIT2: Nevermind, I'm apparently a Moron

SonGokuGT · Post by **SonGokuGT** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:53 am

I'm going to reserve judgment until I see these puppies in motion. The Japanese ones blew my mind! From what I've seen so far the differences are minute. I'm pretty confident the American counterparts will be just as impressive. I do, however, want a confirmation on the Japanese mono at 96kbps. I sure hope that that's not true!

MarcFBR · Post by **MarcFBR** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:54 am

DemonRin wrote: Took those new shots we got and made an updated comparison.
NOTE: I had to downsize the FUNi Shot to make it the same size as the Toei DBox shot we were given before in this thread. And again, there's some dispute about the quality of the shots provided, so take them with a grain of salt so far.

Stop rushing to make fucking comparison images.

The screencaps aren't right: the resolution is wrong, and the mpg stream isn't being decoded properly.

Wait until there are proper caps to make comparisons, you aren't doing anything worthwhile rushing and doing it to captures we know aren't good.

This is as polite as I'm going to get on this matter, so just stop it.

DemonRin · Post by **DemonRin** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:55 am

I'm sorry, I'm apparently a moron...

MarcFBR · Post by **MarcFBR** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:57 am

DemonRin wrote:I'm sorry, I'm apparently a moron...

Now that we are on the same page, we can wait until proper caps appear.

Congratulations and good luck on future endeavors.

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:58 am

I'm 99% sold.

I'm going to wait for more information to come through in this thread, but yeah, this looks phenomenal. Thank goodness I still have another week left to pre-order through Amazon if I choose to buy.

DemonRin · Post by **DemonRin** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:58 am

Wow... way to be a complete bastard about this godofchaos...... seriously... It's not like I didn't FLAT OUT PUT "These were made with potentially Low Quality Caps, view at your own Risk' RIGHT ON the comparison Image I made...

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 2:02 am

Enough dickery and over-sensitivity all around, please.

Taku128 · Post by **Taku128** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 2:02 am

DemonRin wrote:It's not like I didn't FLAT OUT PUT "These were made with potentially Low Quality Caps, view at your own Risk' RIGHT ON the comparison Image I made...

But if the caps aren't actually representative of the product what's the point of the comparison?