900 Minutes of Uncut Action, DBZ Season 1 Arrives

[Mystery Person X]

Ask yourself this. Are you REALLY going to miss that little bit on the top and bottom? Is it ruining the experience in any way?

Yes. Next?

[Smooth Criminal]

Then don't buy the fucking set. Stop crying like children. It's embarrasing.

[JAPPO]

What matters to me is what I get, for how much, and how it looks/sounds.

You're getting an entire saga of DBZ, for 30-40 bucks, in VERY GOOD QUALITY, with terrific audio and the most accurate subtitles you could ask for.

Ask yourself this. Are you REALLY going to miss that little bit on the top and bottom? Is it ruining the experience in any way? Of course not. You're nitpicking.

I think the majority of people are going to be VERY HAPPY with what they're getting. Awesome show, great quality, great price. That's it.

How did you get the set this early though?

[Smooth Criminal]

What matters to me is what I get, for how much, and how it looks/sounds.

You're getting an entire saga of DBZ, for 30-40 bucks, in VERY GOOD QUALITY, with terrific audio and the most accurate subtitles you could ask for.

Ask yourself this. Are you REALLY going to miss that little bit on the top and bottom? Is it ruining the experience in any way? Of course not. You're nitpicking.

I think the majority of people are going to be VERY HAPPY with what they're getting. Awesome show, great quality, great price. That's it.

How did you get the set this early though?

I already said, I work at a movie store. We get our shipments early.

Pics? OK.

[Mystery Person X]

Then don't buy the fucking set.

I'm not.

Stop crying like children. It's embarrasing.

If you feel a need to characterise our legitimate complaints as "crying like children", that's your problem, not mine. This is an appropriate place to express our unhappiness about this worthless mess of a DVD release, so I don't particularly care if you find it embarrassing to read.

[Smooth Criminal]

19 pages of bullshit. Don't like it, don't buy it. This is what you get.

The end.

Need some tissues to wipe those tears away?

[JAPPO]

I already said, I work at a movie store. We get our shipments early.

Pics? OK.

I wasn't doubting you, I just didn't see where you said that.

I for one think the box is nice. It reminds me of the manga a little.

[SonGokuGT]

New drinking game! Every time the "Reverse Widescreen" image pops up, we take a shot!

Seriously though... We've all seen it... ~_~

[JAPPO]

Smooth Criminal, when or if you get a chance, could you post a small video of it? 10 secs even. It would end a lot of discussion.

[TheMajinRedComet]

It funny that all of you want the DVD singles now, when they have almost the same amount cut off because of the zooming.

Well anyway have fun picking up all those volumes ( i tryed that once, but settled for only the Cell Saga) it will only cost you a like over $1000, at least from the math I did.

Also sorry for sounding like a ass before and possibly now.

[SonGokuGT]

Smooth Criminal, when or if you get a chance, could you post a small video of it? 10 secs even. It would end a lot of discussion.

I really wanna see it in motion... That'll probably be the deciding factor for me, I'm still really torn.

[Goshin]

Yes it's cheap. Cheap doesn't always equal good however. Funny thing is, I think people would have been 100x happier if they'd just done a cheap set of the previous masters. 4:3 episodes, UUE quality, same price.

-Corey

I happen to be one of those people. I don't think I've said anything here on the subject yet, but I've been reading it all diligently throughout the days.

Anyways, I'm a bit resentful STILL at Funi for releasing the UUE's and then stopping midway through the second box set to give us this huge set. Seriously, why couldn't they have just done this in the first place? Even if I do somehow sell the 9 UUE DVDs that I bought, I probably won't even have enough to buy this new set! They should've either just stuck with the UUE or not even come out with it at all.

So that makes me think that there will be no way that Funi will ever fix this (at least in the near future). That would be like making a second recall on their merchandise. The only way that could work is if Funi would allow consumers to trade in their current box set for one where the cropping is fixed. Hoenstly though, this is what they SHOULD HAVE done with the UUE's. It's not fair to myself and plenty of other fans that stupidly wasted their money on them

[MajinVejitaXV]

It funny that all of you want the DVD singles now, when they have almost the same amount cut off because of the zooming.

Wow...which DVD's were you watching? People posted pics from the UUE's, which were nowhere near as bad.

Anyway, I'm retreating from this topic for a week or so. I'll be back when I have my review, try not to kill eachother in the meantime ;p

-Corey

[Mystery Person X]

19 pages of bullshit. Don't like it, don't buy it. This is what you get.

The end.

I have found the discussion to be very interesting. You don't like it, don't read it. The end.

Need some tissues to wipe those tears away?

Funny, I don't recall crying at any point. Again, I'm not sure why you feel a need to characterise our complaining in terms of a child crying. I can't speak for anyone else, but it certainly doesn't reflect the way I feel about this widescreen issue, or how I have reacted to it.

It seems to me that you're the one being childish, attempting to bring ad hominem belittlement into a discussion about a DVD release.

[Brad Redfield]

Okay, there's no way I'm leaving the discs in that case. I better get to work on those custom ones...

[Smooth Criminal]

I'll do it if you tell me how to do it.... I'm not good with video editing/any of that techy stuff.

[JAPPO]

I'll do it if you tell me how to do it.... I'm not good with video editing/any of that techy stuff.

I use DVD Shrink. Not sure if it rips, but probably. It's free.

DOWNLOAD: http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video ... shrink.cfm

If for any reason this download does not work, just search google. It's pretty popular.

A GUIDE: http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive ... shrink.cfm

GUIDE (might be outdated): http://www.mrbass.org/dvdshrink/

[fps_anth]

Okay, there's no way I'm leaving the discs in that case. I better get to work on those custom ones...

I have a fat-pack that holds four discs, so...I guess I put four in there, leave on in the original packaging, and create a custom cover?

Or...request a custom cover!

[JAPPO]

I'll do it if you tell me how to do it.... I'm not good with video editing/any of that techy stuff.

I use DVD Shrink. Not sure if it rips, but probably. It's free.

DOWNLOAD: http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video ... shrink.cfm

If for any reason this download does not work, just search google. It's pretty popular.

A GUIDE: http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive ... shrink.cfm

GUIDE (might be outdated): http://www.mrbass.org/dvdshrink/

But you'll probably need to convert the video once it's ripped.

I'm sure there is a simpler way that someone can post.

[DaemonCorps]

I'm glad you're happy, but what I want is something a simple fansubber could provide.

Agreed. What's stopping any one of us to use their DragonBox episodes, sub them, and throw them on YouTube?

The problem is that we really don't want to have to resort to that unless there's something completely and utterly wrong with the American releases (like One Piece, Shaman King, etc.) We know that FUNimation's got a 4:3 version of the show. Sure it's not the best quality, but at lest you were actually able to see it "as it was meant to be seen." And don't go saying that the FUNi masters were slightly zoomed in. We already know that, and a good number of those who seriously didn't like that they were having zoomed in footage ended up getting the DragonBoxes.

DragonBall was not meant to be seen in widescreen. As seen numerous times throughout the series, it makes good use of the 4:3 aspect with stuff like close-ups, splitting the screen multiple times, and having one guy hit the other guy from the top corner of the screen to the lower opposite corner. This is more than being nitpicky about a little thing here or there.

At least with stuff like movies being transferred from full to widescreen, the editors (or whoever crops the movies for 4:3) take the time to consider how particular scenes should be handled. They know when to stretch the screen, or cut certain parts of it, or even where to focus during stuff like fight scenes. From what's been put up here (and a good number of stuff has been put up here), you can tell that FUNi just "placed the black bars" at the top and bottom of te 4:3 image and walked away.

The only reason I'm still not cancelling my preorder is that I want to have these episodes on something other than my VHS recordings of the UUEs on Cartoon Network. That, and I actually like digipacks .

:whew: With that out of the way, I've got a question. Are there any noticeable changes made in the dub script that weren't there when they were dubbed in the UUEs? For example, in the re (or I guess it would be "re-re") dub, Vegeta asks Goku if he would like to be his new right hand man, since Nappa's gone and all. However, I'm pretty sure that in the JP script, Vegeta tells Goku about how Saiya-jinns have their power levels measured and are sent to planets based off of that. So... is this corrected in this release? I'm pretty sure the conversation is in episode 30.