Dragon Box Z 2's Hands On Discussion

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Re: Dragon Box Z 2's Hands On Discussion

Post by ShadowDude112 » Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:48 pm

I am jealous of all of you. The anticipation is killing me.
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Post by jjgp1112 » Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:51 pm

I might post some Orange Brick screencaps for comparison later tonight or tomorrow.
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Post by Greenman » Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:55 pm

A quick comparison. Original FUNimation single DVD release on top. FUNi Dragon Box on bottom.

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Post by Piccolo Daimaoh » Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:56 pm

I still haven't got the first one. :cry: I have to catch up :P
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Post by jjgp1112 » Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:58 pm

Greenman, what source did you use for your screencaps? They look really compressed. I'd recommend screencapping them in Media Player classic and then resizing the caps to 640X480 using whatever image program you have (and make sure you set the options so that it doesn't "lock" an image to a certain aspect ratio so you can separately adjust the length and width).
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Post by Greenman » Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:05 pm

jjgp1112 wrote:Greenman, what source did you use for your screencaps? They look really compressed. I'd recommend screencapping them in Media Player classic and then resizing the caps to 640X480 using whatever image program you have (and make sure you set the options so that it doesn't "lock" an image to a certain aspect ratio so you can separately adjust the length and width).
I used the original DVD. I used Media Player Classic to take a screen cap straight from the DVD then used Gimp to resize it to 640X480 using the linear option with aspect ratio lock off. Following the DBox 1 thread payed off. 8)
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Post by jjgp1112 » Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:08 pm

Greenman wrote:
jjgp1112 wrote:Greenman, what source did you use for your screencaps? They look really compressed. I'd recommend screencapping them in Media Player classic and then resizing the caps to 640X480 using whatever image program you have (and make sure you set the options so that it doesn't "lock" an image to a certain aspect ratio so you can separately adjust the length and width).
I used the original DVD. I used Media Player Classic to take a screen cap straight from the DVD then used Gimp to resize it to 640X480 using the linear option with aspect ratio lock off. Following the DBox 1 thread payed off. 8)
Hmm, I guess it's just the result of me being tired as hell and reading this thread...
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Post by Greenman » Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:22 am

The spine image is going to look a bit odd with all the yellow spaces in between the sets.
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Post by ka1oken » Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:28 am

^ Almost looks like a first one is a tad bit taller.

Probably just the angle though..
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Post by B » Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:29 am

Eeeeew, his forehead bleeds into the first volume. If that had just been hair, it would look fine.
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Post by ka1oken » Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:50 am

^Yeah well it would look fine if it wasn't in the box but its not really a big deal to me though since i always put my dvd's facing the other way when i put them on a shelf.
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Post by Piccolo Daimaoh » Sat Jan 30, 2010 2:13 am

When you put the spine art together like that it just looks plain bad, but at least we can display them on the other side.
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Post by SuperSaiyan3Goku » Sat Jan 30, 2010 2:43 am

DAMN IT!!

I envy you so effing much right now, Greenman. :evil:

I gotta wait till Wednsday to even ORDER the damn thing.
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Post by G1Ravage » Sat Jan 30, 2010 2:55 am

Wow, looking at those comparison shots between the Dragon Box and the original FUNi singles...we're getting a lot more footage on the Dragon Box.

Gaining footage without cropping and losing footage...what a concept! :roll:
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Post by LeprikanGT » Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:07 am

Gah, I forgot about the yellow in between the picture.

Yet another reason why ours is less cool.
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Post by ka1oken » Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:16 am

Piccolo Daimaoh wrote:When you put the spine art together like that it just looks plain bad, but at least we can display them on the other side.
I prefer the other side anyway showing all 7 dragon balls.. pretty cool how they did that.
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Post by Mountain » Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:21 am

The spine art is definitely going to be odd-looking. Perhaps they will sell us one long box that will hold each set's contents. That way, the image will look perfect and they will sit secure on the shelf. Problem solved.
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Post by SHINOBI-03 » Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:34 am

That's wonderful! I'll order mine pretty soon.

Question about the box... did they glue the parts in a cheap way like the first box? And does it have the same "Hard-core" ad the first box had glued on the back?
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Post by Greenman » Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:57 am

SHINOBI-03 wrote:That's wonderful! I'll order mine pretty soon.

Question about the box... did they glue the parts in a cheap way like the first box? And does it have the same "Hard-core" ad the first box had glued on the back?
It looks the same. I haven't seen any indication that anything is going to come loose yet, but we'll see. Yes, it does have the same ad on the back of the box.
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Post by Piccolo Daimaoh » Sat Jan 30, 2010 4:03 am

ka1oken wrote:
Piccolo Daimaoh wrote:When you put the spine art together like that it just looks plain bad, but at least we can display them on the other side.
I prefer the other side anyway showing all 7 dragon balls.. pretty cool how they did that.
Yeah when I get them, thats definately how I will display them.
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