/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1457703
>they know how badly received it was the first time

They do and they don't at the same time. It's very obvious they're sorry about what they did to DBZ in 2007; otherwise we probably never would have gotten the Dragon Boxes as compensation. The thing is when they tried Blu Ray the first time, they had to pretty much re-do the entire remaster process from scratch because the 2007 master was a mess. Only thing is it was a painstaking and expensive process, but very, very obviously done with a lot of love and care. (It paid off in my eyes. The film grain, lack of frame jitter and more accurate to the original cel colors made it far better looking than even the Dragon Boxes in my opinion). It was such an expensive ordeal that they were more or less losing money on it (Partly due to their inexpensive price and the fact that it was just poor timing, coming right off the final Dragon Box and Kai releases), so it had to be discontinued. So basically in order to even have an affordable (to FUNimation) Blu Ray release of DBZ they pretty much were forced to go back to their 2007 remaster (Which, conveniently for them, was scanned at 1080p and downscaled for the DVDs). It's a hell of a lot less expensive to throw something that's already finished onto a Blu Ray and call it a day as opposed to doing an entirely new master. I have a feeling that once this release is over with they're probably going to go back to the Level sets. DBZ releases have been in a really weird good-bad-good-bad pattern since 2006.

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