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Funimation Puts Dragon Ball Z on Blu-ray Disc This Fall


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The North American anime distributor Funimation announced at its Comic-Con International panel on Thursday that it will release the Dragon Ball Z television anime series for the first time on Blu-ray Disc starting this November.

Dallas-based ANDTRANSFER will remaster the anime from the original Japanese 16mm film reels at 1080p. Colorist Steve Franko will work with Funimation to digitally restore the footage. The release will have both the Japanese and English soundtracks.

Source: http://kametsu.com/2011-07-21/funimation-puts-dragon-ball-z-on-blu-ray-disc-this-fall/

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Blu Ray releases are just cut down from the original aren't they. They are cutting away a bunch of the screen and putting it into 1080p format.

Cut-down? Um.. no.. DVD's are by default usually 420p. Blu-rays are 1080p. That means if the video wasn't animated at a large enough resolution they must upscale it for Blu-ray not cut it down.

If you were trying to say crop, well -- FUNimation hasn't stated whether they would make it 16:9 or keep the original 4:3. Considering they kept Kai 4:3 just like Japan did then it's a huge chance they will keep the Blu-ray of Z 4:3 as well which would mean no cropping.

Now it's just a matter if FUNi is any good at remastering as past attempts have shown they weren't. At least they don't have to upscale it as Japan has given them the 16mm film reels at 1080p. Essentially if they do it right it could look a lot like the Kai Blu-rays but have all the Z episodes and the Z music and voices.

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I don't see why you would go through the trouble making a Blu-ray version of DBZ, It's not like the show isn't kick-ass to begin with.

Because Dragon Ball Z is FUNimations cash cow. They will continue to milk the series and make as many various releases as they can as long as people still buy it. Heck if it wasn't for Dragon Ball Z then FUNimation may not have even existed anymore.

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