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Move over Aquaman

mrSHEiK124

mrSHEiK124

Lifer
FUNimation constantly screws up DVD releases of DBZ here. Their newest attempt is no different, but the topic's been beat to a pulp. Basically, instead of properly restoring the 4:3 image, they cropped it to 16:9, creating an "awesome widescreen" version of DBZ with missing picture tops and bottoms instead of properly restored ones. The Dragonbox DVD releases in Japan made by Toei Animation have a fully restored print of DBZ, but are only in Japanese. Whatever, backstory is annoying and boring. I'm buying every single episode of DBZ from both the Dragonbox collections and the crappy US FUNimation collections, and putting my 1337 DVD authoring skills to use in order to take the audio from both sets, the picture from the Japanese set, and the subtitles from the English set, along with extras and menus from both, in order to create a super mega ultra DBZ DVD collection. There's 293 episodes of DBZ; American "season" box sets cost $30 (about 40 episodes), and Dragonbox discs are $30, with only 6 episodes. It's going to cost me $1500 to do this, ignoring the cost of any blank media I'll need. I'm crazy.

Capital
Cost of project: ?200,000
Currently invested: ?8,000
Complete: 4%

Labor
Total episodes: 293
Episodes completed: 0
Complete: 0%
 
Originally posted by: BriGy86
you are crazy, you could put that money to good use and build a new computer
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My computer is fast enough. Athlon 64 X2 4200+ overclocked by I forgot how much, GeForce 7800GT, it's fast. I need my DBZ. I just ordered the first Japanese disc from Amazon.co.jp for ?3,872.

For the sake of added humor, the cost of this endeavor will now be displayed in yen. I was also a little off with my calculations, it's going to be closer to $1650.

Cost of project: ?200,000
 
how do you kill that which has no life?

but seriously dude, there has to be SOMETHING more worth your time and money. For that money you could fly out to Nevada, get laid by a bunch of high class hookers and just deal with watching the cutoff versions. OR maybe you could use all the time you spend editing and watching them to get a social life...
 
You should just take the subtitle file from the american version instead of using the dub. Unless you prefer the american voices.
 
Originally posted by: BrownTown
how do you kill that which has no life?

but seriously dude, there has to be SOMETHING more worth your time and money. For that money you could fly out to Nevada, get laid by a bunch of high class hookers and just deal with watching the cutoff versions. OR maybe you could use all the time you spend editing and watching them to get a social life...
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I've got a social life, thank you; the child in me wants to see DBZ really bad, and it will.

Originally posted by: hehatedme
You should just take the subtitle file from the american version instead of using the dub. Unless you prefer the american voices.
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I'm using both the subtitle file and the dub, along with the original Japanese audio track.
 
Uh, does anybody speak Japanese? Amazon.co.jp just sent me this, and it's not an order confirmation:

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DBZ episode:

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*20 min. later*

"You *might* get to see the final battle between Goku and *insert name here* on the next Dragon Ball Z!!!!" *cue ending theme music*
 
Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
Uh, does anybody speak Japanese? Amazon.co.jp just sent me this, and it's not an order confirmation:

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Sure, it says

"wtf are you doing with your life" over and over again...
 
Babelfish says it has something to do with the expiration date I used for the credit card that paid for my wooden pail order.
 
Don't they edit out portions of the show in the American versions? The audio won't sync up properly.
 
Originally posted by: Fox5
Don't they edit out portions of the show in the American versions? The audio won't sync up properly.
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Although they completely mangled the video itself, they didn't cut anything timewise for these DVDs (they're uncut). I'm hoping both prints of film used to create the Jap and US DVDs are identical though, things like differences in the dead spots between scenes, bumpers for commercial breaks, etc. would screw things up.
 
you are crazy, you could put that money to good use and build a new computer
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I've noticed that any time anyone mentions buying something expensive, whether it be a watch or this, etc., you always get this response as if it's somehow infinitely better. Just kinda funny 😛
 
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