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Dragon Ball Z Dragon Box 1080p Upscales of Movie 5, Movie 8, and Movie 12 With English and Japanese Audio Tracks

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I recently completed upscale projects with three of my favorite DBZ movies, that being Cooler’s Revenge, Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan, and Fusion Reborn. The source footage comes from the highly sought after Dragon Box releases that are the most true to form video masters of the show and the films. They are each presented in 1080p in there original theatrical aspect ratios.

I accomplished the upscaling by using several avisynth filters, such as NNEDI3 and aWarpSharp2. I also made sure to use color matrix adjustments to make sure color shifting didn’t occur. The image quality is noticeably sharper while still looking natural. I didn’t want to go too overboard with sharpening. People who are more familiar with Funimation’s remastering attempts may say this is as softer, but much like the original Dragon Box treatments, this isn’t meant to a complete digital overhaul. Comparing the upscaled footage to the original SD source, the grain structure is preserved as well.

Included with these upscales are multiple audio track options that include each major dub and remastered soundmix, such as:

-Original 2.0 Japanese
-Original Funimation Dolby Digital 5.1 English tracks from the standalone DVD sets
-Remastered Funimation 5.1 English tracks with US soundtrack from the Blu Ray releases (using the Dolby Digtal core audio)
-Remastered Funimation 5.1 English tracks with Japanese soundtrack from the Blu Ray releases (using the Dolby Digtal core audio)
-Big Green Dub tracks (with the exception of Fusion Reborn)
-Speedy dub tracks

PM me if interested in checking these out.

Source used: Pendekar’s lossless Dragon Box Movie rips

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Too bad getting the original broadcast audio added to the dragon ball franchise tv series specials and movies I think is considered stealing just because toei and funimation won’t accept the tapes. 😦

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Fullmetaled said:

Venny said:

Hey uhhh those movies already have higher quality 1080p Web-DLs. All the movies got new HD remasters from Toei in 2018
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That’s great too bad the high quality audio tapes are rejected by the companies that own the series.😦

The movies already have high quality master tape audio in the Toei Blu-Ray

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Venny said:

Fullmetaled said:

Venny said:

Hey uhhh those movies already have higher quality 1080p Web-DLs. All the movies got new HD remasters from Toei in 2018
https://mei.animebytes.tv/urIYVRgsei0.png
https://mei.animebytes.tv/QVLwnvFdQrL.png
https://mei.animebytes.tv/1d83c38eff7be4312a224a0a47426b4ec29b7e32ad6eb0e5272d0020eb72683b.png

That’s great too bad the high quality audio tapes are rejected by the companies that own the series.😦

The movies already have high quality master tape audio in the Toei Blu-Ray

What about the two specials?

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Venny said:

Hey uhhh those movies already have higher quality 1080p Web-DLs. All the movies got new HD remasters from Toei in 2018
https://mei.animebytes.tv/urIYVRgsei0.png
https://mei.animebytes.tv/QVLwnvFdQrL.png
https://mei.animebytes.tv/1d83c38eff7be4312a224a0a47426b4ec29b7e32ad6eb0e5272d0020eb72683b.png

Interesting. I didn’t even know Toei did newer remasters. Given what little I’ve been able to read online, others seem to be in the same boat. Typical of Funimation not releasing proper releases done by them.

Comparing the Dragon Box masters to the ones you’re talking about, the remasters definitley look higher quality…except for Coolers Revenge. Colors are odd and the picture looks weirdly sharpened. Perhaps this is another master from them that is different from the screenshot you linked, but frankly finding information on newer Toei remasters is surprisingly scarce. Any other info such as direct links you have would be nice.

Regardless, this is also just a means for people to experience what the Dragon Box masters have to offer but in HD. In regards to colors, grain or detail, really can’t tell how similar the newer remasters are to say whether you get the same experience but in better quality with those newer blurays if that’s what you’re getting at.

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PJ said:

Venny said:

Hey uhhh those movies already have higher quality 1080p Web-DLs. All the movies got new HD remasters from Toei in 2018
https://mei.animebytes.tv/urIYVRgsei0.png
https://mei.animebytes.tv/QVLwnvFdQrL.png
https://mei.animebytes.tv/1d83c38eff7be4312a224a0a47426b4ec29b7e32ad6eb0e5272d0020eb72683b.png

Interesting. I didn’t even know Toei did newer remasters. Given what little I’ve been able to read online, others seem to be in the same boat. Typical of Funimation not releasing proper releases done by them.

Comparing the Dragon Box masters to the ones you’re talking about, the remasters definitley look higher quality…except for Coolers Revenge. Colors are odd and the picture looks weirdly sharpened. Perhaps this is another master from them that is different from the screenshot you linked, but frankly finding information on newer Toei remasters is surprisingly scarce. Any other info such as direct links you have would be nice.

Regardless, this is also just a means for people to experience what the Dragon Box masters have to offer but in HD. In regards to colors, grain or detail, really can’t tell how similar the newer remasters are to say whether you get the same experience but in better quality with those newer blurays if that’s what you’re getting at.

That’s only the movies and I think the two specials. the og dragon ball and z have no blu rays from toei but they are just as bad as funi at least on the blu rays believe it or not the Amazon versions actually have the film grain.

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PJ said:

Venny said:

Hey uhhh those movies already have higher quality 1080p Web-DLs. All the movies got new HD remasters from Toei in 2018
https://mei.animebytes.tv/urIYVRgsei0.png
https://mei.animebytes.tv/QVLwnvFdQrL.png
https://mei.animebytes.tv/1d83c38eff7be4312a224a0a47426b4ec29b7e32ad6eb0e5272d0020eb72683b.png

Interesting. I didn’t even know Toei did newer remasters. Given what little I’ve been able to read online, others seem to be in the same boat. Typical of Funimation not releasing proper releases done by them.

Comparing the Dragon Box masters to the ones you’re talking about, the remasters definitley look higher quality…except for Coolers Revenge. Colors are odd and the picture looks weirdly sharpened. Perhaps this is another master from them that is different from the screenshot you linked, but frankly finding information on newer Toei remasters is surprisingly scarce. Any other info such as direct links you have would be nice.

Regardless, this is also just a means for people to experience what the Dragon Box masters have to offer but in HD. In regards to colors, grain or detail, really can’t tell how similar the newer remasters are to say whether you get the same experience but in better quality with those newer blurays if that’s what you’re getting at.

It’s not sharpened (at least not to an amount that would come off as distracting).

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Venny said:

PJ said:

Venny said:

Hey uhhh those movies already have higher quality 1080p Web-DLs. All the movies got new HD remasters from Toei in 2018
https://mei.animebytes.tv/urIYVRgsei0.png
https://mei.animebytes.tv/QVLwnvFdQrL.png
https://mei.animebytes.tv/1d83c38eff7be4312a224a0a47426b4ec29b7e32ad6eb0e5272d0020eb72683b.png

Interesting. I didn’t even know Toei did newer remasters. Given what little I’ve been able to read online, others seem to be in the same boat. Typical of Funimation not releasing proper releases done by them.

Comparing the Dragon Box masters to the ones you’re talking about, the remasters definitley look higher quality…except for Coolers Revenge. Colors are odd and the picture looks weirdly sharpened. Perhaps this is another master from them that is different from the screenshot you linked, but frankly finding information on newer Toei remasters is surprisingly scarce. Any other info such as direct links you have would be nice.

Regardless, this is also just a means for people to experience what the Dragon Box masters have to offer but in HD. In regards to colors, grain or detail, really can’t tell how similar the newer remasters are to say whether you get the same experience but in better quality with those newer blurays if that’s what you’re getting at.

It’s not sharpened (at least not to an amount that would come off as distracting).

No but the blu ray versions not the Amazon prime versions have grain reduction.