Do you think the Blu-Ray Season sets are the last release?

[TheKingOfKamehamehas]

Funimation has been milking this franchise for a long time. They had the Ocean singles, Funimation singles, Ultimate Uncut, Orange Bricks, Dragon Boxes, Levels and finally the Blu-Ray season sets. For DBZ only being here in America since 1996, these are a lot of releases. I mean Funimation has got to stop and for me this looks like it is the point. There are much greater materical such as Kai and video games that Funi could expand on.

[Ajay]

Not a chance.

I'd bet any money they bring out some revamped Level Sets-esque release in the future once Kai is done.

[penguintruth]

They'll find a way to beam the series into your brain.

It will kill hundreds within the first few months, but eventually they'll get the hang of it. But it'll still be 16:9 and the survivors will envy the dead.

[B]

They don't have a 4:3 version of the series in regular production anymore. So, no, they still need to print another one of those, take it away, give us another cropped release, and then run another limited 4:3 print... Worst case scenario FUNimation becomes sustainable without releasing Dragon Ball during a 16:9 run.

[Gotham22]

Probably not. If Toei ever releases DBZ on Blu-ray, then Funimation would want to buy that product.
I hope Funimation will focus on the original series after these Z season Blu-ray sets.

[MarcFBR]

Probably not. If Toei ever releases DBZ on Blu-ray, then Funimation would want to buy that product.
I hope Funimation will focus on the original series after these Z season Blu-ray sets.

There really isn't much for them to do with the original series.

Outside of a few odd off exceptions (frankly I can only actually think of one, of which I'm not sure because I've never watched it) Funi doesn't upscale stuff that has film masters for Blu-ray releases.

I mean, you could always theorize that they could get new masters from Toei... but as it stands, they've largely done what they can with what they have...

Well.... actually, there is one thing.

Dragonball: The "He's Gonna Help You Find the Way" Edition, with the original dub of the first few episodes and the first film...

[sintzu]

No way they will always find new ways to release it

[dbboxkaifan]

Yeah wake me up when that happens but no, as long as people keep buying them FUNimation keeps re-releasing them.

Single DVDs (Fullscreen)
Ultimate Uncut (Fullscreen)
Orange Bricks (Widescreen)
Dragon Box Z (Fullscreen)
Level BDs (Fullscreen)
Season BDs (Widescreen)

We have had so far two 16x9 AR releases and four 4x3 AR releases of Dragon Ball Z so the Fullscreen is still technically dominating. Maybe we'll see a 4x3 AR release next time.

[Gyt Kaliba]

It's possible that it might be the last release for a while, what with Battle of Gods and Buu Kai coming up, but the last one period? Ha!

In all seriousness, I'm sure there'll eventually be another home format beyond Bluray, and they'll have to port the series over to that as well. So at the very least, there'll be that.

[RocktheDragon]

It's possible that it might be the last release for a while, what with Battle of Gods and Buu Kai coming up, but the last one period? Ha!

In all seriousness, I'm sure there'll eventually be another home format beyond Bluray, and they'll have to port the series over to that as well. So at the very least, there'll be that.

At the very least there will be that but I'm more curious as to what comes next for Z after the current iteration ends. How soon will another release be announced after this series end? What kind of presentation will the release be in? Will it be another Dragon Boxesque release or something entirely different?

I'm very excited to see if there will even be another immediate release or announcement after. There will of course eventually be one but...I think OP's question would be better framed in asking "will there be another release announced 6-12 months after the current BD version finishes?

[Hellspawn28]

We still have the Buu saga of Kai and Battle of Gods to look forward to in the US. It won't surprise me if we 3D releases of DBZ on home video soon.

[dbboxkaifan]

We still have the Buu saga of Kai and Battle of Gods to look forward to in the US. It won't surprise me if we 3D releases of DBZ on home video soon.

The new trend of TV's is going to be about 2k/4k and curved TVs, sure they'll have the 3D feature as an extra but it just never made itself that amazing and huge success as they planned to.

Oh and, there's going to be Blu-rays that store 300 GB of storage (DB episodes in 1080/4x3 and with few discs? Yes please!).

[RocktheDragon]

We still have the Buu saga of Kai and Battle of Gods to look forward to in the US. It won't surprise me if we 3D releases of DBZ on home video soon.

I thought we were just speaking in terms of the Z series but yes the Buu arc and BOG both still need to see release...though there is that slight chance (however improbable) that fox themselves would release the BD instead of Funimation.

Also, at this point in time it seems highly unlikely that DBZ will see a 3D release on home video. 3D just isn't what it was cracked up to be and isn't what people are looking for when they buy a TV. 4K, or "Ultra HD" TV's are the future but a future that is still many years away from us at the current moment.

[kei17]

I mean, you could always theorize that they could get new masters from Toei... but as it stands, they've largely done what they can with what they have...

Well.... actually, there is one thing.

Dragonball: The "He's Gonna Help You Find the Way" Edition, with the original dub of the first few episodes and the first film...

This made me think of releasing the so-called Westwood dub as "the lost dub edition". FUNi probably doesn't have access to it themselves, but the Ocean Group used FUNi's masters and scripts for the dub, so maybe it's easy for them to license it.

[FortuneSSJ]

Just wait. There's always more milk.

[Black_Anime_Fan]

Oh and, there's going to be Blu-rays that store 300 GB of storage (DB episodes in 1080/4x3 and with few discs? Yes please!).

They're already working on next-gen Blu-Ray discs that can store up to 1TB of storage? Imagine that for a DB release? Jsjfklskdfs.

[Valerius Dover]

It'll probably be out on Holo-Disc or whatever they do after Blu-Ray in the next 5 years.

[Hellspawn28]

3D is still popular since a lot of movies still have their movies be made in 3D and they do 3D releases for home video since the first Predator movie just got a 3D release a few months ago. 3D DBZ releases could work and I would imagine Funi will mark them with a giant Kamehameha wave coming out of your TV screen. I'm still surprise that BOG was not even in 3D. 3D in my opinion is fine depending how you handle it.

[Gokuden]

Obviously not, DragonBall Z is the whole reason as to why Funimation became a corporation, if they didn't have this series they wouldn't even exist.
They are grinding my gears focusing solely on DBZ though, get your butts to work on Dragon Ball Blu-rays damn it!
Make sure they are full 4:3 like the amazing job WarnerBros is doing with Ranma 1/2, then after those you can focus on remastering DBZ for the 70th time, and actually following through with 4:3 Bluray FULL HD. GT too!

[dbboxkaifan]

Obviously not, DragonBall Z is the whole reason as to why Funimation became a corporation, if they didn't have this series they wouldn't even exist.
They are grinding my gears focusing solely on DBZ though, get your butts to work on Dragon Ball Blu-rays damn it!
Make sure they are full 4:3 like the amazing job WarnerBros is doing with Ranma 1/2, then after those you can focus on remastering DBZ for the 70th time, and actually following through with 4:3 Bluray FULL HD. GT too!

Talk about Warner Bros, they were going to release a censored release of Tom and Jerry: The Golden Collection Volume 2 and then what happened? Customers wrote angry reviews/comments and so TaJ:TCV2 remains unreleased to this very day. It stopped them from releasing an edited version but no uncut release so far.

Link: http://www.amazon.com/Tom-Jerry-Golden- ... 800&sr=8-1

I don't know how FUNimation released the Season BDs seeing how much hatred they got before being released.