My little great comparison (screencaps from 12 releases)

sangofe · Post by **sangofe** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 4:13 am

TheGreatness25 wrote:Damn I thought FUNimation brightened up the picture. Now I see France and Italy's version O_O

Now, now, it's done better than what FUNimation did, because they made for example Goku's white spot on his gi where his name's written look yellow, and I can assume you it doesn't in the French and Italien versions. Neither does it look too read.

samuraigundam · Post by **samuraigundam** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 7:52 am

Wow, why does the American Dragon Box shot look so bad? I thought it was supposed to be comparable to the Japanese Dragon Box, yet here, even the Remastered season 1 looks better.

Could you post the same shot from Japans Dragon Box?

On a side note, Kai looks great! I wasnt sure if I was going to pick it up when it gets an eventual release state side, but the removal of filler, combined with that screen shot showing its visual quality, has sold me.

kenshiro87 · Post by **kenshiro87** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:28 am

What are you talking about ? The american and japanese dragonbox have the SAME quality, open your eyes ...

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:35 am

sangofe wrote:
Kendamu wrote: The Italian one would be nice but they turned up the contrast way to much. It looks almost like Orange Brick Season 2. France's looks pretty nice, too.

It's also a nice reminder of how far we've come since the Pioneer releases.
As far as I can see, the French and Italien screen captures are identical.

It probably had something to do with such a dark screencap right next to the Italian one while nothing was next to the French one. Optical illusions and all...

Post by **VegettoEX** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:36 am

No shots from a downloadable encode of a Kai episode are actually representative of what is on the final Blu-ray. Just tossing that out there.

Timo · Post by **Timo** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:56 am

VegettoEX wrote:No shots from a downloadable encode of a Kai episode are actually representative of what is on the final Blu-ray. Just tossing that out there.

Right! Besides, the moment I chose wasn't in Kai.

SHINOBI-03 · Post by **SHINOBI-03** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:56 am

VegettoEX wrote:No shots from a downloadable encode of a Kai episode are actually representative of what is on the final Blu-ray. Just tossing that out there.

Well, I did mention it's from the TV version.

I didn't just say "Kai", I said "Kai (TV Version)" because I already know it's not the same as the Blu-ray quality.

Post by **VegettoEX** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 10:07 am

SHINOBI-03 wrote:Well, I did mention it's from the TV version.

I didn't just say "Kai", I said "Kai (TV Version)" because I already know it's not the same as the Blu-ray quality.

But it's really not worth tossing into the mix at all due to the compression, filters, and color adjustments thrown on by the encoding groups, which just makes it completely arbitrary.

SHINOBI-03 · Post by **SHINOBI-03** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 10:52 am

VegettoEX wrote:But it's really not worth tossing into the mix at all due to the compression, filters, and color adjustments thrown on by the encoding groups, which just makes it completely arbitrary.

I know that, but like I've mentioned somewhere else before, I'm preparing my Double Review for the two biggest Arabic communities.

Unfortunetly, about 98% of what the Arabic communites are watching are bootleges and downloaded materials.
There's no big anime market exept in some selected places who sells them in a rediculesly high price.
So, even if they wanted them, they are too expensive for them. And keep in mind the lack of Internet Shopping culture in the region because parents do not trust any place that asks for credit card information.

Which is why, I though of comparing it to a quality everyone is familier with.

((Maybe I should've said this for the communities episode, but I was abroad and it was too late when I got back.))

samuraigundam · Post by **samuraigundam** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:30 pm

kenshiro87 wrote:What are you talking about ? The american and japanese dragonbox have the SAME quality, open your eyes ...

VegettoEX mentioned in his review that there was a very slight difference in visual quality between the Japanese DBox, and American one. So I thought a shot from the Japanese version would be worth having in a thorough comparison. Especially since that shot of the American DBox looks so bad.

VegettoEX wrote: But it's really not worth tossing into the mix at all due to the compression, filters, and color adjustments thrown on by the encoding groups, which just makes it completely arbitrary.

Even still, its a very clean, good looking shot. The fact that the broadcast version surpasses even the Dragon Box in overall visual quality ( well, in these shot comparisons anyway ) , makes me excited for the future NA release of Kai.

Greenman · Post by **Greenman** » Wed Dec 23, 2009 5:00 am

samuraigundam wrote:Wow, why does the American Dragon Box shot look so bad? I thought it was supposed to be comparable to the Japanese Dragon Box, yet here, even the Remastered season 1 looks better.

Could you post the same shot from Japans Dragon Box?

It is comparable. Not exactly the same, but pretty darn close. The differences are small enough that if you don't like the way the US Dragon Box looks, you probably won't like the way the Japanese one looks either.

Still, I'd like to see that shot from Japanese Dragon Box too.

sangofe · Post by **sangofe** » Wed Dec 23, 2009 6:33 am

This will have to do for now:

And oh, it's from the French DBZ box 1.

Daimo-Rukiri · Post by **Daimo-Rukiri** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 1:40 am

Can anyone compare the original dragon ball?

Puto · Post by **Puto** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 10:54 am

Man, those French and Italian sets look way too bright...

The Spanish set looks awesome!

RoarkVegeta · Post by **RoarkVegeta** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 12:16 am

Yeah, I'm here.

So ya want a original DB comparison? YOU GOT ONE!

From the "Tien Shinhan" saga DVD 2 disc set from FUNimation.

If ya need anymore shots, tell me.

Now everyone start adding the same shot!

Puto · Post by **Puto** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 1:33 am

Using the opening is generally not a good idea, because foreign dub-only sets might have a different opening altogether.

Greenman · Post by **Greenman** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 2:38 am

Puto wrote:Using the opening is generally not a good idea, because foreign dub-only sets might have a different opening altogether.

Here's a screenshot from episode one from "The Saga of Goku" if anyone does want to make an original DragonBall comparison.

Daimo-Rukiri · Post by **Daimo-Rukiri** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 4:15 am

Since I never saw Dragon Ball as it originally aired(XD, wasn't even born yet) Is Son Goku's cloths supposed to be purple or blue.. in my friends DB DVD Box(Dragon Box) his cloths are blue. But also from somewhere I read on the Japanese interwebs they touched up or completely repainted some parts.

I'll post Remastered shots in a lil bit.

SHINOBI-03 · Post by **SHINOBI-03** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 11:34 am

Here's from the Arabic DVD.

jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 12:46 pm

Here's the Dragon Ball Season 1 screencap: