Dragon Ball Season 1 coming to DVD mid-September

[gobo]

Dragon Ball Season 1 Uncut DVD Set (Hyb)
Age Rating - 14+ More Information
Date Available - Sep 15 2009
Format - Hybrid
Media - DVD
Product Availability - Pre-Order, Not Yet Shipping
Publisher - FUNIMATION

It appears Columbia/Trimark have finally let loose their vice grip on the first 13 eps and first movie. By that MSRP, I expect that it will be no less than 26 eps.

[The Terror of Death]

Funi informed someone that the set would contain the first 31 episodes which means the entire Emperor Pilaf and World Martial Arts Tournament arcs along with the first three episodes of the Red Ribbon Army saga.

[gobo]

O_o That's kind of a weird decision... Is it possible these Funi DB 'season' sets are actually following notes from the Japanese owners as to how many eps are in the season either according to broadcast or production packages? I always thought they were just dropping how ever many eps they felt were needed to reach a conclusion into the sets...

[The Terror of Death]

Funi did the same thing with DBZ season one. The last three episodes of the set dealt with Bulma and co finding Kami's ship and beginning their journey to Namek but those episodes are still considered to be apart of the Sayian Saga.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLLBrC_wZtU

[Cipher]

They obviously want each set to end on a cliffhanger to entice people to buy the next one.

The question is...widescreen?

[Anarchistguy]

They obviously want each set to end on a cliffhanger to entice people to buy the next one.

The question is...widescreen?

Probably fullscreen. The Dragon Ball GT sets were fullscreen, so I think it's safe to say the same thing will be applied to Dragon Ball.

[Cipher]

Probably fullscreen. The Dragon Ball GT sets were fullscreen, so I think it's safe to say the same thing will be applied to Dragon Ball.I think the only reason GT got the fullscreen treatment was because it's more recent and the film hadn't degraded as much. It's been fairly well established by this point that a major factor in making DBZ widescreen was hiding cell damage on the top and bottom of the screen. DB is older than sh*t though, so unless they get some high quality masters, I wouldn't be surprised to see widescreen sets return.

[The Terror of Death]

Fullscreen confirmed http://www.mania.com/dragon-ball-rights-issue-settled-releases-forthcoming_article_116084.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dhfg6wSPQ0 (since the other trailer was taken down)

[Anarchistguy]

AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHH!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7aVA...e=channel_page (9:00 min. into the video)

They're going to RE-RELEASE DBZ SEASON SETS IN FULLSCREEN AND IN CRYSTAL CLEAR QUALITY!!!

THE DRAGON BOX Z SETS ARE COMING TO NORTH AMERICA!!!!

I just HAD to buy those GOD DAMN orange bricks!!!!!

F*************K!!!

[The Terror of Death]

As f***ed up as that is (I bought those orange sets too :cry:) I'm just going to wait until Funi eventually acquires the Dragonball Kai episodes. All the filler and slow pacing post season two hurt my enjoyment of the series on the second viewing.

[Tarog]

I'm happy with my Funi Singles, Plus over here in Aus we have had the first 13eps of dragonball uncut for years.

[saiyan_monkey]

I'm happy with my Funi Singles, Plus over here in Aus we have had the first 13eps of dragonball uncut for years.


We've had them here in NZ for sometime as well. I remember reading a Beckett DBZ mag and there was an episode listing which also stated the American versions were missing 15 episodes. Does anyone know anything about that?

[gobo]

Does anyone know anything about that?
If referring to the Z series, that would be because all eps up to the Ginyu saga were chopped up and remixed to keep it from being too 'unAmerican'. If they claimed there were 15 DBs skipped, I think they were mistaken.