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NEWS: Funimation Suspends Dragon Ball Z Blu-ray Production


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walw6pK4Alo



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:12 pm Reply with quote
I don't think anyone's attempted to make a new transfer of a show this long before. Movies and OVAs are no brainers for remastering, and the longest other show that comes to mind is Yu Yu Hakusho. Legend of the Galactic Heroes, of similar length to YYH, wasn't a new transfer for the BluRay, but instead an upscale of the DVD masters. Most longer TV shows to get full BD treatment are usually 50 episodes, like Zeta Gundam, ZZ, Patlabor, or Card Captor Sakura at 70 episodes; so near 300 episodes of material is a really ambitious effort. We are starting to see tons more normal length shows come out as well: Tylor, Escaflowne, Nadia; but they're all fractions of the length of a long running shounen fighting series. Maybe they should have put this off until after the Dragon Boxes became old hat?
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Cecilthedarkknight_234



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:15 pm Reply with quote
...PFFFTTTT....BWAHAHAHA... okay goes back looking at my dbz sets.. well I suppose it can't be helped..
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Kruszer



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:22 pm Reply with quote
No loss. The market is already flooded with like 10 different types of Dragonball related releases as is. It's not like we needed more.
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mabber36



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:26 pm Reply with quote
yep, this is why you never start buying funi's releases of dragonball until they are done

I still haven't bought any dragon boxes because they haven't released dragonball dragon boxes yet
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TitanXL



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:33 pm Reply with quote
I'd rather they do this for Dragonball instead.
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penguintruth



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:38 pm Reply with quote
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I still haven't bought any dragon boxes because they haven't released dragonball dragon boxes yet


Joke's on you, then, because the DBZ Dragon Boxes are out of print now.
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Wakazhi



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:39 pm Reply with quote
It must have been a ton of work to do the amount of restoring they've already done so far, and with the kind of profit that anime distributors make in America, I would've probably called it quits eventually too. I just wish they didn't hype it up so much online just to end up like this, oh well. Hopefully, Japan will do the Blu-ray versions for us like they did with Yu Yu Hakusho. I don't mind waiting for that.
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mabber36



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:41 pm Reply with quote
penguintruth wrote:
mabber36 wrote:

I still haven't bought any dragon boxes because they haven't released dragonball dragon boxes yet


Joke's on you, then, because the DBZ Dragon Boxes are out of print now.


I think you mean jokes on funimation, when I buy them used
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ssgOverlord



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:49 pm Reply with quote
mabber36 wrote:
penguintruth wrote:
mabber36 wrote:

I still haven't bought any dragon boxes because they haven't released dragonball dragon boxes yet


Joke's on you, then, because the DBZ Dragon Boxes are out of print now.


I think you mean jokes on funimation, when I buy them used




Although I'm happy with my collection, I hope they release them again for the sake of others. Or at least in a thin-pack collection that isn't as fancy.
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Teriyaki Terrier



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:02 pm Reply with quote
Guess the sales weren't over 9000, were they?

Joking aside, I love Dragon Ball Z and it's one of my favorite Shonen shows of all times. I can't get enough of that show and I have seen the DBZ Blu-ray DVD's and they were pretty nice.
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Mr Big200



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:12 pm Reply with quote
I know everyone has already said this but...


the Dragon Boxes are all I need


but besides that I thought it was a bad idea anyway
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Zump



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:18 pm Reply with quote
ssgOverlord wrote:
mabber36 wrote:
penguintruth wrote:
mabber36 wrote:

I still haven't bought any dragon boxes because they haven't released dragonball dragon boxes yet


Joke's on you, then, because the DBZ Dragon Boxes are out of print now.


I think you mean jokes on funimation, when I buy them used




Although I'm happy with my collection, I hope they release them again for the sake of others. Or at least in a thin-pack collection that isn't as fancy.


And this is why I don't plan on buying DBZ anytime in the near future. I think I'll save that money for when Viz releases Tiger and Bunny.
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KabaKabaFruit



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:24 pm Reply with quote
Congratulations, Blu-Ray buyers! You now know exactly how the devoted fans felt after the Ultimate Uncuts got canceled!

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Mesonoxian Eve



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:26 pm Reply with quote
Interesting prices of those OoP boxes. I can see it now, in the near future: "OMG! IT'S OVER $9000!"

Yeah, you thought of it. You know you did. Don't play that game.

As for the news, I'm rather indifferent to it only because the product never interested me.
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Mr Big200



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:31 pm Reply with quote
Mesonoxian Eve wrote:
Interesting prices of those OoP boxes. I can see it now, in the near future: "OMG! IT'S OVER $9000!"

Yeah, you thought of it. You know you did. Don't play that game.

As for the news, I'm rather indifferent to it only because the product never interested me.



welp someone had to do it! lol
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