Dragon Ball - Toei Dragon Box vs. Funimation Box DVD's 

It was 1986 lol

It fucking slaps

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Yeah. They actually knew what they were doing this time. DBZ was their first "remaster".

Yes they did. The endings are incorrect for seasons 1,4 and 5. The intros are incorrect for seasons 4 and 5.

@@Akchun21 Toei only licensed Funimation one clean opening and ending to use for their versions, so even if they took clean footage from another source, they wouldn't legally be allowed to use it.

Funimation is overexposed, though. look at the background at 1:32 . Also, as for crop, the crop was done by me since I could only fit one 720x480 source in a 1280x720 space without doing any scaling. I gave the remaining space to the blue brick.

@@wyatt8740 what is it with the funimation dvds having a really dark blue sky when other releases have a bright one?

The DVD's I borrowed at least, yes.

@@wyatt8740 I love this song and opening

Since YT doesn't allow PM's anymore IDK how best to contact you, but I still have them.

AB Video used a Dragon Box upscale for the BD and the Japanese audio is sourced from internet.

@@ChaosGokuSSJ4Original Toei has refused to use the sourced from-tv audio and insisted on the sound on film before regrettably. Thanks for informing me that AB Video exists though.

@@wyatt8740 I prefer SoM's version but it's not a bad option the French BD

Yeah, and the colours are pretty off. At least those can be fixed to some degree, though

Quite the opposite actually

@@AlexanderDiviFilius Quite the opposite actually

@@illegalalien6542 in what manner? For all the flaws of the Dragon Box's release, the colours are far closer to what they're meant to be than Funimation's. Especially since the Blue Bricks get worse after the first "Season" or so.

@@illegalalien6542the picture is darker than it's meant to be, but the Funimation quality is still worse. The Blue Bricks are massively overexposed, meaning that very few of the colours are remotely accurate. You also accentuate the problem of crushed blacks. While you didn't refer to specific detail regarding the plane, I wouldn't be surprised if it's detail in shaded areas you're referring to. They're less visible than they should be in the Dragon Boxes, but overexposing the image to compensate is far from an appropriate solution. Frame rate is hard to judge on this sort of video, but they'd both run at the same rate on your TV in person. www.oasidelleanime.com/minisiti/dragonball/cels/index.htm This link should help give you an idea of what the show should look like, though it's not exactly what it would have been like when first airing.

The funimation ones look a little overexposed (blown out) to me. Also check out the color difference at 1:14 .

wyatt8740 Yeah i do agree, but i still think it still looks nice

The funimation one also removes a little bit of the horizontal edges. I think it was to make it more like 4:3

***** Yeah

***** Yes very true

My eyes are probably just tricking me

Thinking back, I think that I remember the real reason why now. I think I cropped the funimation one so I could keep the native resolution or the dragon box version; that's all. It's the color and brightness/contrast that's important here.

@@wyatt8740 I was wondering about that! It made me all confused. I think I prefer the funimation dub, so I don't need to shill for the dragon box... for the moment.

Thank you! Made it in a combination of Grafx2 and Amiga deluxepaint. :)

Please give me the link

I'm currently watching the Dragon ball dragon box visuals with English voices on a firestick. Looks great!

@@stevangonzalez5908 Sub only Bruh!

@@majorpaynenyc i'm gonna respectfully disagree. While I respect Masako's Goku I grew up with Stephanie's kid Goku voice so naturally I prefer it

@@stevangonzalez5908 How did you do it? Can I have a link?

2009, 99% certainty. They were checked out of a library, but they looked newish and I checked them out in 2012.

they're blue in hmv

link?

@@hha8356 Here it is Link: www.amazon.co.uk/Dragon-Ball-Season-Episodes-Region/dp/B00I0VV88Y/ref=pd_lpo_107_t_0/257-3519856-1994366?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00I0VV88Y&pd_rd_r=9a612934-a385-4f2b-8426-a6040a54a571&pd_rd_w=uuwBT&pd_rd_wg=M5q8F&pf_rd_p=7b8e3b03-1439-4489-abd4-4a138cf4eca6&pf_rd_r=MNFY60H62ZVYW87GNC2T&psc=1&refRID=MNFY60H62ZVYW87GNC2T

Thanks. Do you think this version is good enough, it's the only 1 i can find

@@hha8356 Its basely like the Blue Brick though it change to PAL region. Season 2: www.amazon.co.uk/Dragon-Ball-Season-Episodes-29-57/dp/B00I0VV8SY/ref=pd_sbs_74_1/261-3313455-5549532?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00I0VV8SY&pd_rd_r=764db755-104d-4728-886a-adf70ed08777&pd_rd_w=0hMb7&pd_rd_wg=ZeKQc&pf_rd_p=2304238d-df78-4b25-a9a0-b27dc7bd722e&pf_rd_r=ZX7E8EA4MGYYBNSHSVTZ&psc=1&refRID=ZX7E8EA4MGYYBNSHSVTZ Season 3: www.amazon.co.uk/Dragon-Season-Episodes-58-83-Region/dp/B00I0WR74C/ref=pd_sbs_74_2/261-3313455-5549532?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00I0WR74C&pd_rd_r=764db755-104d-4728-886a-adf70ed08777&pd_rd_w=0hMb7&pd_rd_wg=ZeKQc&pf_rd_p=2304238d-df78-4b25-a9a0-b27dc7bd722e&pf_rd_r=ZX7E8EA4MGYYBNSHSVTZ&psc=1&refRID=ZX7E8EA4MGYYBNSHSVTZ Season 4: www.amazon.co.uk/Dragon-Season-Episodes-84-122-Region/dp/B00I0WR73I/ref=pd_sbs_74_3/261-3313455-5549532?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00I0WR73I&pd_rd_r=764db755-104d-4728-886a-adf70ed08777&pd_rd_w=0hMb7&pd_rd_wg=ZeKQc&pf_rd_p=2304238d-df78-4b25-a9a0-b27dc7bd722e&pf_rd_r=ZX7E8EA4MGYYBNSHSVTZ&psc=1&refRID=ZX7E8EA4MGYYBNSHSVTZ Season 5: www.amazon.co.uk/Dragon-Season-Episodes-123-153-Region/dp/B00I0WR6UW/ref=pd_sbs_74_4/261-3313455-5549532?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00I0WR6UW&pd_rd_r=764db755-104d-4728-886a-adf70ed08777&pd_rd_w=0hMb7&pd_rd_wg=ZeKQc&pf_rd_p=2304238d-df78-4b25-a9a0-b27dc7bd722e&pf_rd_r=ZX7E8EA4MGYYBNSHSVTZ&psc=1&refRID=ZX7E8EA4MGYYBNSHSVTZ So don't expect this to be like the Dragon Boxes.

Actually the blu bricks arnt cropped the person whk made this video just did that so he could show the whole dragon box footage

IKAOS and SoM released a version that has both Japanese and English audio, with the Japanese audio including the original broadcast audio, and dragon box audio. English audio is funimation. It's quite easy to find if you know where to look

@Mouayyed Alghulamy I'm agreeing with you. Funimation's better. I guess my phrasing isn't so clear so I'll change that.

the left one. The right one is just what I had space left to cram in, so I think I cropped that one horizontally to fit.

I remember 'descargar' is the word in spanish for a download. So I'm making a guess and saying you're probably looking for a link. Sorry I don't have a download link, if that's what you're asking. It's out there though, if you can't get your hands on the DVD's themselves.

The color levels? Yeah, mostly, but since you're working from the same color depth that ends up actually removing details (which is why, in photography, setting the correct exposure before taking a photo is important, and why having a raw to work from is better than working from a jpeg). The crop is something I think I did because i wanted to not do any resizing to fit a 720p box and my old machine that I encoded the video on was slow enough I didn't want to do 1080p.

The funimation release has lots of crop.

If you like your skies being a single color instead of a nuanced gradient, and you don't mind purple outcroppings occasionally, sure. And I'm not sure what you mean by "crushed," since there's more nuance in the dragon box than in the funimation version, where everything's overexposed.

@@wyatt8740 I'm specifically talking about picture quality, not cropping. That's definitely an issue, but none of the Dragon Ball home media releases are remotely perfect. And the sky isn't a nuanced gradient on the Dragon Box, it's a blurred mess. The gradiation is far cleaner on the Blue Bricks. Meanwhile most of the detail is easier to see on the Blue Bricks and the bizarre blue tint is gone too.

The Blue Bricks have pretty crushed blacks, you just can't tell so much with this opening. It's very apparent during actually dark scenes. The Dragon Boxes, while far from perfect, have much more accurate colours.

Funimation themselves cropped dragon ball and dragon ball z to 16:9 with their "remastered edition". It sucks!

I think i cropped the funimation one so i didn't have to downscale dragon box, since it was hard when i uploaded this to find any dragon box footage on YT and thought that would be the center of attention. I've caused a lot of confusion with that choice. :\