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fps_anth
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by fps_anth » Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:53 am
KillerCory wrote:Delayed?!
This is horrible.
I have the money and I want to spend it now!
Exactly. I'll rage if this gets delayed.
Not as much if they announce the 7th disc, but I shall still rage. One whole month because of an extra disc? What are you guys doing between now and November?
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by Kendamu » Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:36 am
I've pre-ordered it and I still have yet to receive any sort of notice about any kind of delay.
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by Char Aznable » Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:45 am
As far as I can tell, I'm the only one that's in favor of the delay if it ends up happening, I'm biased with my lacking of funds at the moment, though I guess if I'll have some at the beginning of next month it won't really matter in that case anyway...
It would be cool to have it early, but if it's a quality issue then by all means I'm in agreement. If it's a delay just for the sake of delaying, well...that's kind of annoying. At the very least I'm looking toward the possible December 15th date and think of the Dragon Box as an excellent pre-Christmas thing to watch.
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by linkdude20002001 » Thu Aug 13, 2009 6:01 am
What if the delay was so Funimation could have more time to... ACCURATELY RE-DUB THE EPISODES! It would be a dream come true!
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by Rory » Thu Aug 13, 2009 6:01 am
Char Aznable wrote:As far as I can tell, I'm the only one that's in favor of the delay if it ends up happening, I'm biased with my lacking of funds at the moment, though I guess if I'll have some at the beginning of next month it won't really matter in that case anyway...
It would be cool to have it early, but if it's a quality issue then by all means I'm in agreement. If it's a delay just for the sake of delaying, well...that's kind of annoying. At the very least I'm looking toward the possible December 15th date and think of the Dragon Box as an excellent pre-Christmas thing to watch.
Agree'd. I'm suprised everyone's bitching so much, wern't we sending those "Up the DVD count!" e-mails not so long ago?
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by EricM » Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:28 am
Does anyone know if they will just be copying and pasting the video and audio encodes, and just simply adding English subtitles and menus?
Reason I ask is because Japanese DVDs (and Blu-rays) usually have very high bitrate video encodes (and PCM audio often), would be a shame if Funimation did inferior video encodes to accommodate more dubs.
Additional wishful thinking is they will have the original mono as PCM instead of the Mono DD 2.0 @ 448kbps on the Japanese Dragon Boxes. 16-bit 1.0 PCM only takes up 768kbps, which is only 320kbps more than DD 2.0 @ 448kbps.
Even more wishful is that they would release it on Blu-ray
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by Krakabeast » Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:28 am
If a seventh disc is added for the sake of adding extras, and squeezing both dub tracks on there, than I'm in favor of the delay. I don't think this delay was for nothing.
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by gallagtor » Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:39 am
EricM wrote:Does anyone know if they will just be copying and pasting the video and audio encodes, and just simply adding English subtitles and menus?
Reason I ask is because Japanese DVDs (and Blu-rays) usually have very high bitrate video encodes (and PCM audio often), would be a shame if Funimation did inferior video encodes to accommodate more dubs.
Additional wishful thinking is they will have the original mono as PCM instead of the Mono DD 2.0 @ 448kbps on the Japanese Dragon Boxes. 16-bit 1.0 PCM only takes up 768kbps, which is only 320kbps more than DD 2.0 @ 448kbps.
Even more wishful is that they would release it on Blu-ray
I'm pretty sure FUNi is doing their own encodes from the Dragon Box masters.
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by VegettoEX » Thu Aug 13, 2009 10:03 am
EricM wrote:Does anyone know if they will just be copying and pasting the video and audio encodes, and just simply adding English subtitles and menus?
Reason I ask is because Japanese DVDs (and Blu-rays) usually have very high bitrate video encodes (and PCM audio often), would be a shame if Funimation did inferior video encodes to accommodate more dubs.
Additional wishful thinking is they will have the original mono as PCM instead of the Mono DD 2.0 @ 448kbps on the Japanese Dragon Boxes. 16-bit 1.0 PCM only takes up 768kbps, which is only 320kbps more than DD 2.0 @ 448kbps.
Even more wishful is that they would release it on Blu-ray
If you're interested, we went in-depth with comparisons and speculation on this very subject on
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by DemonRin » Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:56 am
Well, Remember what I said about Rightstuff having a sale pretty soon?
Well, they're having one! And guess what the theme is?!
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by Choujin Daizenshuu » Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:58 am
Hey gang!
Long time leerer and stalker, first time poster.
Just want to ask about shipments of these here sets to Canada. If anyone here is from Canada, how well do orders from Rightstuf of Amazon ship to your destination?
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by The Tori-bot » Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:41 pm
DemonRin wrote:Well, Remember what I said about Rightstuff having a sale pretty soon?
Well, they're having one! And guess what the theme is?!
Holy crap! Dragon Ball Season One is
$29.98!!
Grab that shiz up, people!
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by dragonfist » Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:55 pm
With this promotional sale the Dragonbox is at the low price of 47.99 with free shipping in the USA.
I guess I'll go cancel Amazon's pre-order now.
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by nathantheguitarist » Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:03 pm
The Tori-bot wrote:Holy crap! Dragon Ball Season One is
$29.98!!
Grab that shiz up, people!
I thought that was standard "brick" price? At least it is at Wal-Mart.
dragonfist wrote:With this promotional sale the Dragonbox is at the low price of 47.99 with free shipping in the USA.
I guess I'll go cancel Amazon's pre-order now.
Same here! That's a whole $8 less. And that extra $8 is going towards some more anime for me.
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by Big Boss » Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:09 pm
It appears Rightstuff have also fixed their listing about the so called "Dragonball Dragonbox" to
Dragon Ball Z.
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by Choujin Daizenshuu » Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:14 pm
dragonfist wrote:With this promotional sale the Dragonbox is at the low price of 47.99 with free shipping in the USA. I guess I'll go cancel Amazon's pre-order now.
I guess it's true what they say:
"Never send a river to do a
Stufed man's job."
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by dragonfist » Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:32 pm
Choujin Daizenshuu wrote:dragonfist wrote:With this promotional sale the Dragonbox is at the low price of 47.99 with free shipping in the USA. I guess I'll go cancel Amazon's pre-order now.
I guess it's true what they say:
"Never send a river to do a
Stufed man's job."
Jaja Nice one
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by Choujin Daizenshuu » Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:50 pm
Rollin' rollin' rollin'
Get those star balls rollin'
Keep those orders goin'
RightStuf!
Move em out
Move em in
Head em up
Move em in
RightStuf!
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by SSJSteve » Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:05 pm
Do Rightstuff ship to the UK?
