Dragonball Z final season/movies coming to DVD in May

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tootuncommon69

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May 30th, to be exact. Both season 9 of DBZ and the Fusion Reborn/Wrath of the Dragon double-pack are coming out, effectively completing DBZ's new DVD run.
 
Licensing fees, advertizing, scripting, recording, hiring actors, directors, engineers all add up. I believe the typical figure per episode is (someone correct me if I'm wrong) $10,000+
 
I'll take what they released for now. It's not that bad, it's better than how it used to be done. I'm just happy they put out something. Someday we'll get something different. Things change.
 
I still need to know what has been added to the episodes themselves. People in another topic said the episodes have additional content, but they never stated what. Is it just more grunts, moans, and constipation, or is it actual battle footage? Is it significant battle footage? Meaning, the fight between Goku and Freezer last 5 minutes longer before they start their mindless banter.
 
There's no additional footage at all, just the best damn picture quality you can get out of a DBZ series without them animating the entire thing from the ground up.

Then again...we'll have to see how the new airings are in that area...
 
I've never actually seen the actual footage from a Dragon Box. One of those would be good. God, I could imagine that is a load of money to get from anywhere.
 
Singles have been released over in Japan (about $40USD a pop for six episodes, no subs). The quality is the best of any current master.
 
Wow...

How did they accomplish that? The remastered ones here look ok. But I suppose Funimation doesn't have the resources to do the same? I've never seen the releases there so I don't know what's different in how they look.
 
FUNimation got their masters for free from Toei because Gen Fukunaga had an uncle who was pretty up high in the Toei board it would seem. However Toei is...Toei. Their masters aren't the best (and the previews for the next episode lacked audio, unlike international releases) and so when FUNimation chose to remaster they simply through them in a automated machine where as the higher-grade masters Toei used for their DBOX release were cleaned up frame by frame (by a person, as opposed to a machine). FUNimation's 'remastered' sets also cropped off the top and bottom of the frames (which is something like 20% of the footage) and also washed out many colors (Season Two looking the most terrible, as I hear). Additionally, during the scenes where the footage is shaking (like during a power up or earthquake) lines DISSAPEAR. Completely. Additionally, detail is lost and sometimes so are faces in the background, as I understand it.

All-in-all many fans have refused to buy the FUNimation sets and have bought the DBOX or its singles.
 
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