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by MarcFBR » Sat Feb 08, 2014 5:52 am
TheGreatness25 wrote:It still doesn't play! WTF!? I downloaded the CCCP thing too!
That's because the disks are protected. Not sure what he's talking about saying it isn't.(I can't recall a Funi disk that didn't have AACS on it in fact.) [edit- It's AACS MKB v42 for DBZ Season 1.)
And CCCP is junk and unnecessary, get it off your system.
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by Ajay » Sat Feb 08, 2014 10:33 am
MarcFBR wrote:TheGreatness25 wrote:It still doesn't play! WTF!? I downloaded the CCCP thing too!
That's because the disks are protected. Not sure what he's talking about saying it isn't.(I can't recall a Funi disk that didn't have AACS on it in fact.) [edit- It's AACS MKB v42 for DBZ Season 1.)
And CCCP is junk and unnecessary, get it off your system.
Yeah, my bad. I forgot I had AnyDVD installed.
It was either K-Lite or CCCP. I don't see how they're 'junk' bar avoiding a few toolbars on installation. It's just a quick way of gathering some codecs for the guy.
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by TheGreatness25 » Sat Feb 08, 2014 1:10 pm
So AnyDVD HD would let me do the screenshot? I only ask because I've seen Blu-ray screenshots before.
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by ect5150 » Sat Feb 08, 2014 1:21 pm
MarcFBR wrote:And CCCP is junk and unnecessary
I've always liked it...
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by sumpter360 » Sat Feb 08, 2014 1:23 pm
TheGreatness25 wrote:So AnyDVD HD would let me do the screenshot? I only ask because I've seen Blu-ray screenshots before.
AnyDVD HD will disable the discs' security encryption. I'd then open the corresponding .m2ts files using VLC Player. That program has the best way to take screenshots (though VLC calls them Snapshots) IMO.
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by RocktheDragon » Sat Feb 08, 2014 2:54 pm
Vaughngief wrote:I've been really tempted to pick up the blu-ray sets once Amazon gets the first one back in stock. I just don't know if I should since I already has all the orange bricks, Dragon Boxes, and Kai on DVD. From what I hear the quality is pretty good, but I don't know if it'd be worth the extra investment.
I think it's worth it if you're interested in collecting all the iterations of DBZ that have been released in the U.S. Some would disagree with my choice/view on the matter but I also think and feel that by buying this new Blu-ray series of DBZ and supporting Funimation it will eventually allow for more BD releases that would cater to the more hardcore fanbase.
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by dbboxkaifan » Sat Feb 08, 2014 3:06 pm
RocktheDragon wrote:I think it's worth it if you're interested in collecting all the iterations of DBZ that have been released in the U.S. Some would disagree with my choice/view on the matter but I also think and feel that by buying this new Blu-ray series of DBZ and supporting Funimation it will eventually allow for more BD releases that would cater to the more hardcore fanbase.
Doesn't FUNimation already get monetised enough from all those Dragon Ball Z videos (1k, 2k, 4k, whatever-k) to fund a definitive release? Sure they do.
This one has 3mil views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB45FE6y_wg
Let's just be honest here, FUNimation does this because they know people will buy it that's all there is.
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by Vaughngief » Sat Feb 08, 2014 3:08 pm
RocktheDragon wrote:Vaughngief wrote:I've been really tempted to pick up the blu-ray sets once Amazon gets the first one back in stock. I just don't know if I should since I already has all the orange bricks, Dragon Boxes, and Kai on DVD. From what I hear the quality is pretty good, but I don't know if it'd be worth the extra investment.
I think it's worth it if you're interested in collecting all the iterations of DBZ that have been released in the U.S. Some would disagree with my choice/view on the matter but I also think and feel that by buying this new Blu-ray series of DBZ and supporting Funimation it will eventually allow for more BD releases that would cater to the more hardcore fanbase.
That's my mind set too, but I've seen the Saiyan and Freeza saga so many times! It's just the completionist in me would allow the first few sets to be missing. I'll more than likely cave in though.
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by JEFFMAN219 » Sat Feb 08, 2014 4:44 pm
Will funimation ever release Dragon Ball Z in 4:3 again?
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by DarkPrince_92 » Sat Feb 08, 2014 4:46 pm
JEFFMAN219 wrote:Will funimation ever release Dragon Ball Z in 4:3 again?
Considering the general populous now have Widescreen TV's... I'm guessing no.
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by Black_Anime_Fan » Sat Feb 08, 2014 4:51 pm
DarkPrince_92 wrote:JEFFMAN219 wrote:Will funimation ever release Dragon Ball Z in 4:3 again?
Considering the general populous now have Widescreen TV's... I'm guessing no.
Um, with a logic like that, then Yu Yu Hakusho should've been released on Blu-Ray in widescreen.
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by JEFFMAN219 » Sat Feb 08, 2014 5:17 pm
Black_Anime_Fan wrote:DarkPrince_92 wrote:JEFFMAN219 wrote:Will funimation ever release Dragon Ball Z in 4:3 again?
Considering the general populous now have Widescreen TV's... I'm guessing no.
Um, with a logic like that, then Yu Yu Hakusho should've been released on Blu-Ray in widescreen.
Well yu yu hakusho is not as popular as Dragon Ball Z in North America.
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by ABED » Sat Feb 08, 2014 5:26 pm
But by that logic wouldn't making it widescreen make it more popular?
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by bkev » Sat Feb 08, 2014 5:51 pm
Did FUNimation have to pay for the Yu Yu Hakusho remastering process? No. There's your answer.
This is still a cop-out with a good marketing spin, and the Level sets prove that.
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by RocktheDragon » Sat Feb 08, 2014 6:00 pm
JEFFMAN219 wrote:Will funimation ever release Dragon Ball Z in 4:3 again?
Of course it will. It's not a matter of "if" but "when" (at least for me).
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by dbboxkaifan » Sat Feb 08, 2014 6:34 pm
bkev wrote:Did FUNimation have to pay for the Yu Yu Hakusho remastering process? No. There's your answer.
This is still a cop-out with a good marketing spin, and the Level sets prove that.
Likewise for Cowboy Bebop Blu-rays but that's a 1080i and knowing FUNimation they'll try to fix what isn't broken.
RocktheDragon wrote:JEFFMAN219 wrote:Will funimation ever release Dragon Ball Z in 4:3 again?
Of course it will. It's not a matter of "if" but "when" (at least for me).
If this is a "filler" release then we're getting the definitive BD edition next year.
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by bkev » Sat Feb 08, 2014 6:39 pm
dbboxkaifan wrote:
Likewise for Cowboy Bebop Blu-rays but that's a 1080i and knowing FUNimation they'll try to fix what isn't broken.
Where's your rationale for this? When have they screwed up a master they got straight from Japan that wasn't already of pretty low quality?
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by dbboxkaifan » Sat Feb 08, 2014 7:22 pm
bkev wrote:dbboxkaifan wrote:
Likewise for Cowboy Bebop Blu-rays but that's a 1080i and knowing FUNimation they'll try to fix what isn't broken.
Where's your rationale for this? When have they screwed up a master they got straight from Japan that wasn't already of pretty low quality?
For home releases they tend to compress more episodes per disc, change the text to English plus other minor changes.
Dragon Ball Z: Dragon Box US Edition suffers from compression sadly so it's better to get the R2J DBOX Z at this stage since the prices have increased too much.
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by MarcFBR » Sat Feb 08, 2014 9:09 pm
dbboxkaifan wrote:
For home releases they tend to compress more episodes per disc, change the text to English plus other minor changes.
Japanese releases tend to be undercompressed. Simply being compressed 'more' isn't a bad thing when it's done right.
Changing the text to English. Well sure you can complain about it... but eh.
And as for 'other minor changes.' If you are gonna make a statement about them screwing something up you have to actually state what the problem might be, not just a statement that says nothing.
Dragon Ball Z: Dragon Box US Edition suffers from compression sadly so it's better to get the R2J DBOX Z at this stage since the prices have increased too much.
Ehhhhhh.... it's so minor that in many examples it's not even easy to pick out in a screencap. In motion on TV, it's doubtful people would notice it except in a handful of rare cases.
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by KentalSSJ6 » Sun Feb 09, 2014 2:42 am
bkev wrote:dbboxkaifan wrote:
Likewise for Cowboy Bebop Blu-rays but that's a 1080i and knowing FUNimation they'll try to fix what isn't broken.
Where's your rationale for this? When have they screwed up a master they got straight from Japan that wasn't already of pretty low quality?
Not to get off topic, but does anyone have screenshots of the Bebop Blurays? I am really looking forward to getting it but if it ends up anything like these DBZ season sets...yeah...
