Molly said:

bkev said:

To be fair to FUNimation I would only imagine that's what they received. Toei's not known for high-quality preservation efforts; the master tapes for all of DragonBall were thrown out, and the difference between the original broadcast audio and the home video releases is staggering. Not to mention the uncut version of the Fist of the North Star movie is completely lost!

No excuse for the SE Bond DVDs though.

The R2 Dragon Box has 448 kbps dual mono. Still sounds like garbage though (especially compared to videotapes from 1989).

ETA, compare the UUE raw audio with the Orange Brick. There's something else going on than "this is what Toei gave us".

Or you could get a mono mix retracked into stereo like Shoutfactory did for Transformers and not have the untouched original on the DVD.

Sure better than Rhino's new fake 5.1 but still.