Dragon Ball Z "Seasons" On Blu-ray: News & Discussion

[KingofWisdom]

Hm... that is interesting. Maybe this will be a worthwhile release just yet.

[Kojiro Sasaki]

Must be in response to the negative reviews.

Couldn't they just have amazon remove those bad reviews or all of the reviews since the product hasn't been released yet.

16:9 is enough to write a professional review.

Just talked to Amazon, and this is what the guy said

Amazon:Thank you for waiting.
I checked and see that this item is available in 1.33:1(4:3) aspect ration only.

He probably took this information from the description...

[eledoremassis02]

Must be in response to the negative reviews.

Couldn't they just have amazon remove those bad reviews or all of the reviews since the product hasn't been released yet.

16:9 is enough to write a professional review.

Just talked to Amazon, and this is what the guy said

Amazon:Thank you for waiting.
I checked and see that this item is available in 1.33:1(4:3) aspect ration only.

He probably took this information from the description...

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I mentioned the description said 4:3 and that the review said 16x9 but that it disappeared. Said to wait for about 2 minutes while he checked it out. Though if others ask as well, we may see if he just did look at the page.

[Kojiro Sasaki]

I mentioned the description said 4:3 and that the review said 16x9 but that it disappeared. Said to wait for about 2 minutes while he checked it out. Though if others ask as well, we may see if he just did look at the page.

Maybe they want also 4:3 fans to pre-order it? Good marketing strategy

I will never understand why some people can't just sit and write their opinions. Look at these reviews, comments and posts - it is possible. Instead of sitting and crying or naively hoping, we can start to fight for what we want. Let's write about it everywhere! We have nothing to lose! At least, we will have clear conscience - we did everything what was possible.

I think that all this babble about milions of 16:9 fanboys is far from true. We made it ourselves. Or maybe we all are the silent 16:9 fans?

[KingofWisdom]

To reiterate, our opinions don't matter. FUNimation's main concern is profitability. They gave us the sets we wanted, and they did not sell. There is no conspiracy here. If the sets were making money, they would not have been cancelled. It would also be impossible to convince the majority of the fanbase that a 16:9 product is bad.

[Kendamu]

This isn't our first tangle with FUNimation. If history has taught us anything, though, it's that they will listen if we do make our opinions known and we will eventually get what we want. Subtitled DVDs? Check. Dragon Box? Check. If this does turn out to be a crappy release, FUNimation will make it up to us sooner or later as long as we tell them, "Thanks, but no thanks," and refuse to buy the product.

Now... If only they could get past whatever rights issues there are in regards to JSAT and BoG.

[KingofWisdom]

Well, the fact that this set is already on the Amazon bestseller tells us that this is going to sell like crazy. Even if we don't buy it, the majority will.

[Kendamu]

Well, the fact that this set is already on the Amazon bestseller tells us that this is going to sell like crazy. Even if we don't buy it, the majority will.

The majority bought the Orange Bricks, too. The majority bought the dub VHS tapes and likely bought the singles for the dub. Still, we got subs and we got DBox. Heck, FUNi even catered to Ocean nostalgia geeks and that's probably a really small market. No matter what the majority buys, if we let ourselves be known, we'll eventually get what we want.

[MarcFBR]

I don't know why anyone would ask customer service at a store for a product that is months away. They aren't going to know. Their only source of information is looking at the product pages they have, or product pages for similar items.

[bkev]

Well, color me impressed if they did in fact go back to 4:3. If that's the case - which I doubt - I wouldn't be surprised if the 16:9 listing in the first place was to drum-up interest more than anything else. Is FUNimation capable of doing a fake-out like that for their marketing?

[Kendamu]

I don't know why anyone would ask customer service at a store for a product that is months away. They aren't going to know. Their only source of information is looking at the product pages they have, or product pages for similar items.

I thought about that, too, and shot FUNimation an email instead. I hope to get a response within a couple days.

[eledoremassis02]

I don't know why anyone would ask customer service at a store for a product that is months away. They aren't going to know. Their only source of information is looking at the product pages they have, or product pages for similar items.

I thought about that, too, and shot FUNimation an email instead. I hope to get a response within a couple days.

because it worth a shot and they sorted out the issues of 4:3 vs 16x9 before and were right then (before target and others listed the set as widescreen). E-mailing FUNimation never works for me, even when I have a question about a product. so I don't even bother with e-mailing them anymore.

[MarcFBR]

because it worth a shot and they sorted out the issues of 4:3 vs 16x9 before and were right then (before target and others listed the set as widescreen). E-mailing FUNimation never works for me, even when I have a question about a product. so I don't even bother with e-mailing them anymore.

So instead you are asking people who won't know for sure, and can just repeat information that might not be right in the first place?

[eledoremassis02]

because it worth a shot and they sorted out the issues of 4:3 vs 16x9 before and were right then (before target and others listed the set as widescreen). E-mailing FUNimation never works for me, even when I have a question about a product. so I don't even bother with e-mailing them anymore.

So instead you are asking people who won't know for sure, and can just repeat information that might not be right in the first place?

Because they might be right? If others contact FUNimation and get a reply, then great! They'll have more solid evidence of what we might be getting. But I figure I'd ask Amazon because they'd get updates from FUNimation for their products? I figure it would not hurt. Sometimes Amazon do make mistakes when listing that are noticed when you mention or ask about them. It's really not that big of a deal. When/if others get an answer from FUNimation then we'll know even though their answers could change as well if they decided to go back and forth between 4:3 and 16:9. Who knows whats goin on.

[Gonstead]

*crosses fingers for 4:3*

[SupremeSSJ]

Everyone just ask the question on FUNi's forum,i know they read that. We are bound to get some answer that way. I posted.

[eledoremassis02]

Everyone just ask the question on FUNi's forum,i know they read that. We are bound to get some answer that way. I posted.

Thats a good idea. Eventually we'll find out. I'm not gonna get it (though I may get Namek and Androids to fill the Dragon box gap). But given FUNi's record with Z...the suspense is killing me! lol

[Daimo-Rukiri]

Lol, I have a feeling they're going to release the full image inside a 1920x1080 resolution which they can actually advertise as "16x9" because 1920x1080 is full hd which is 16x9.

Someone posted earlier that these may just be a color corrected dbox, actually I doubt Funimation received the Film Masters for the dbox but either digital files or beta tapes.
Purchasing the Dbox Film Masters would result in these being much more expensive.

[Kendamu]

If the digital masters of the Dragon Box are high-resolution then they could still be color corrected. I wasn't exactly being serious with that statement though. I just thought it would be funny if such were the case.

[dprez]

I don't think amazon knows anything. This does make the release slightly more interesting but I don't think we should take much from it.