New Fans

jda95 · Post by **jda95** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 4:04 am

People were so fascinated about this thought that there was a Japanese version out there that went far beyond what we got and was so different.

I remember once looking Dragon Ball on the internet in it's heyday. I was terrified.

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 4:13 am

lol I didn't particularly care. But then, when I was in 6th grade and my parents came home from Manhattan (living in Brooklyn) and they took out Dragon Ball Z Legends and Final Bout... Man, I think that's what really made me fascinated with the Japanese version. I loved those two games. And at that point, I was in DBZ frenzy. I got the games like the weekend where the very next episode would be the first time Goku would become Super Saiyan in the US. Man, I was so in love with that show.

Minigt · Post by **Minigt** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:02 pm

laserkid wrote:Just to throw in my own two cents on the current topic divergence, the main problem for someone in the USA buying the Madman releases is -NOT- regions, its the PAL format. US televisions run on NTSC, a different format of video. To work with the madman releases, you need a region free DVD player and either a TV that plays PAL video, or a PAL to NTSC converter of some sort. Now if you have an HDTV this is less of an issue, since its a digital thing, but if its an old tube TV, this still applies.

Madman is Australian based - no region based DVD players here now, but used to be PAL only (except the PS3) - hence the PAL format.
Its great to see the release of the bricks has brought on some new fans!

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:08 pm

I have an HDTV with a built-in DVD player and it still doesn't play the Madman DVDs. It irritates me beyond belief to know that I have to sit and watch it from the computer. Either that, or go through some pains in the buttocks connecting the computer to my TV. They're not exactly close together.

Captain Awesome · Post by **Captain Awesome** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:58 pm

The whole 50hz PAL and 60hz NTSC thing is a bitch for you guys, all of our standard definition tv's are 50/60hz compatible, not to mention many of them have a PAL 60 function, so playing NTSC dvd's is a snap here.

Taku128 · Post by **Taku128** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:01 pm

Minigt wrote:
laserkid wrote:Just to throw in my own two cents on the current topic divergence, the main problem for someone in the USA buying the Madman releases is -NOT- regions, its the PAL format. US televisions run on NTSC, a different format of video. To work with the madman releases, you need a region free DVD player and either a TV that plays PAL video, or a PAL to NTSC converter of some sort. Now if you have an HDTV this is less of an issue, since its a digital thing, but if its an old tube TV, this still applies.
Madman is Australian based - no region based DVD players here now, but used to be PAL only (except the PS3) - hence the PAL format.
Its great to see the release of the bricks has brought on some new fans!

I don't really know much about NTSC and PAL differences, but do the Madman releases speed up audio and video to fit the PAL frame rate? I wouldn't want to purchase them if they did.

JulieYBM wrote:I don't recall Lance telling me the Lion's Gate rumor to be true.

Everytime I see the rumor about Lion's Gate's license runing out in 2010 the person who says it either doesn't have a source or gives Wikipedia as their source, and the statement on Wiki doesn't have a source. Pretty sure it's just a baseless rumor.

shenron002 · Post by **shenron002** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 5:37 pm

Iv been a fan for 13 years! Ever since I saw my first ad for posters and action figures in "Electronic Gaming Monthly", it was very hard to find info about dragon ball before 1996.

Minigt · Post by **Minigt** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:25 am

Q: I don't really know much about NTSC and PAL differences, but do the Madman releases speed up audio and video to fit the PAL frame rate? I wouldn't want to purchase them if they did.

A: Nope