Koby Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 Funimation announced on Thursday that it has suspended production on all future Blu-ray releases of the Dragon Ball Z television anime series, including the Level 2.1 disc that was originally scheduled to be released on March 27.Funimation said that it had produced the Blu-ray editions of the series due to fan demand; however, the company explained that "due to technical challenges of restoring from the original film frame by frame, we are unable to continue these releases by way of this process." The company added it will re-evaluate its process of creating these Blu-rays and will research more efficient methods of restoration.Funimation announced last July that it would release the series for the first time on Blu-ray. Funimation and the Dallas-based company ANDTRANSFER remastered the series from the original Japanese 16mm film reels at 1080p, keeping the original 4:3 aspect ratio. The first set, Dragon Ball Z Level 1.1, was released with the first 17 episodes on November 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spitfire_313 Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 I liked dbz a lot. The story, the characters, the powers, and the fight scenes, but im not interested in getting the series in blu-ray. Im too poor for that lool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathzangetsu Posted February 5, 2012 Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 i think i just died a little inside Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elite49 Posted February 7, 2012 Report Share Posted February 7, 2012 I did die a little inside, I personally think the bluray version looks years ahead of the Dragon Boxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowtheman Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 I think its understandable thats hard stuff. Heck try this, pull a bs flv vid off of you tube and see how much work is needed to up the quality from bs to fair. The way I see it is there honestly trying. They could just do it any way with sub par vid techniques but than you would end up with sub par HD or something over priced. Its one of those "your patience will be reworded" things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vampireheart Posted February 10, 2012 Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 Well tbh I feel like they did good work on the first 2 blu ray sets of this so why the hell did they stop? I can understand its hard but tbh I feel they dont want to put all the time and effort in. I feel dissapointed by this big time, I think it would of been great for the fans to get all of them on blu ray hope they sort this out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectre289 Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 I hope they do decide to continue, I would love to have them all on Bluray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrKillzone546 Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 imho who cares when you can get it here for free? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted February 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 imho who cares when you can get it here for free?You can't get it here if they don't release it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenSei Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Yep, we need patience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ussjtrunks Posted February 13, 2012 Report Share Posted February 13, 2012 I know it cost them alot to produce it but its really annoying being cutoff after 2 releases hopefully they will eventually release the rest under a cheaper remastering method Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kira Light Posted February 13, 2012 Report Share Posted February 13, 2012 That's a bummer. I loved DBZ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revolusmaster Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 Probably costs too much, understandable though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtabd Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 That blows, we want Blu-ray Funimation!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afterburn999 Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 The kai set is still coming out right ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinryuuu Posted February 17, 2012 Report Share Posted February 17, 2012 Hopefully, they release it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbret12 Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Sure sucks that they suspended these. Wish they'd just continue them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mallatratt1 Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 Guess people just wasnt interested in another version of dbz to come out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-Lord Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 It would be nice if they do continue this again but im not very interested in the blu ray project, ive already bought the remastered sets I really don't feel like spending another small fortune on blu ray copies. So this is no big loss to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
† Koga Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 I wouldn't buy these anyway. I mean...how many times have they re-released DBZ? Honestly I feel the Dragon Boxes and DBZ Kai should be it. But to make it even worse the BR sets had even less episodes than Season 7 of the Brick sets which has the least amount of episodes (25) out of those sets. I would have taken forever for them to release it again. And I honestly wouldn't want to spend another +2 years collecting the series....again. I love the DB series....but they need to let it go. the Dragon Boxes were excellent. Only missing teh Dub score...but thats the only thing wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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