The DBZ Season One Review: R.I.P.

[desirecampbell]

Wasn't Star wars released in Widescreen after it originally came out. (for the special editions.) You do not have the cut head thing with them. So why not dragonball?
As for two people who said why. Widescreen plus 5.1 surround sound is much better for any show or film.

Star Wars was filmed in widescreen. When they released full-screen homevideos they cropped the sides off.

DBZ was animated in full screen, to make it widescreen your only option is to crop the tops and bottoms.

[SSJmole]

Wasn't Star wars released in Widescreen after it originally came out. (for the special editions.) You do not have the cut head thing with them. So why not dragonball?
As for two people who said why. Widescreen plus 5.1 surround sound is much better for any show or film.

Star Wars was filmed in widescreen. When they released full-screen homevideos they cropped the sides off.

DBZ was animated in full screen, to make it widescreen your only option is to crop the tops and bottoms.

Oh. I figured what they had to do to make it wide screen was , Using computers or something , Extend the background to make it wider. I guess I was wrong.

[laserkid]

I would rather have it widescreen but with out loosing any part of the picture. Is that too much to ask?

Yes, actually.

The only possible way I can think of converting the picture to 16:9 without cropping would be adding black space on the left and right sides to widen the picture. But if they did that, on a widescreen TV (their target audience, since every 9 year old has one), it would just look identical to watching 4:3 video with the picture uncompromised, similar to watching letterboxed movies on a fullscreen TV. (Thus, it would be pointless, since it would look no different than if they'd just bought a 4:3 release and let the TV add its own black space.) But on a fullscreen TV, you'd not only have the black space on the left and right, but you'd have the anamorphic widescreen's black space on the top and bottom, too, so the whole thing would be surrounded in empty space, leaving a very tiny picture.

So yeah, the whole picture would be there if they did that, but it would be no different than a 4:3 release for a widescreen TV, and a stupid mess on a fullscreen TV.

...Oh, I guess there is one other alternative: stretching the picture out horizontally, and I'm sure I don't have to explain why THAT would look bad on any kind of TV.

Wasn't Star wars released in Widescreen after it originally came out. (for the special editions.) You do not have the cut head thing with them. So why not dragonball?


As for two people who said why. Widescreen plus 5.1 surround sound is much better for any show or film.

You've opened my eyes, THE WAY IT WAS MEANT TO BE SEEN must cross into EVERYTHING!

No longer will I put up with Thundercats in fullscreen like so: http://www.ultrapublications.com/forump ... wdscrn.jpg

NOW SEE THE WAY IT WAS MEANT TO BE...Okay I'm going to drop the sarcastic attitude but this is just a silly statement.

But whether you do the FUNimation thing: http://www.ultrapublications.com/forump ... crnlol.jpg

Or as you suggest stretch the picture:
http://www.ultrapublications.com/forump ... echlol.jpg

It just doesn't look right. Now I'll admit, I bought the DBZ season 1, and pre ordered the season 2 set. Thats because I can't afford (or understand) the alternative. That does NOT mean everything needs to be seen in widescreen. I don't think you should pan and scan native widescreen either. Things should be left in the format they were made/filmed for...if you will, the way it REALLY was meant to be seen.