Idea: More Dragon Ball Z Preservations...

Now that Funimation’s started to release BluRays that are even better than the best Toei has to offer, I’m considering what else I might be able to reconstruct.

• Ultimate Uncut Edition (covers episodes 1-67)
  This was only released on DVD through episode 27.  However, the names of episodes and the 2.0 audio were released, both on DVD (Orange Brick) and BluRay.  The Japanese audio is comparable to the BluRay and Dragon Box.  The 5.1 audio, well…  Also, R4 DVDs exist of the Mexican dub, allowing me to preserve that at the same time (the UUE DVDs have the Mexican dub on them as well).  What I can’t preserve, because I don’t have them, are the exactly typeset end credits (I lack the font to recreate them) and the title cards (I can’t do the “blood wash” effect).  Apparently it did air on Cartoon Network, though?

• Saban Z
  Most likely mixed with R4, if I can detelecine it.  I’ll prolly be imperfect with the editing though and do it like CardCaptors (that’s still on tap, I haven’t forgotten).

• Original version Funi 68-291.
  Funi fixed a few problems with their original dub.  Most likely I can fill in recaps for the Ginyu eps with the redone versions (the DVDs don’t have recaps).  About 2/3 of the next-episode previews are missing.

Rebuilding the original dub should be almost mindless, apart from the NEPs… and would furthermore make it easier to recreate THESE:

• Broadcast version Funi 68-291 (53-276).
  I have one VHS tape of this, but my VCR has trouble with it (prolly better if I had a remote).  The tape is like Geneon’s Saban tapes - only 1 recap, only 1 preview, so stuff needs to be rebuilt.  Also there are some paint edits - mainly because “Mr. Satan” was renamed “Hercule” and “Hell” was renamed “Home for Infinite Losers” (as in Saban’s version).  1 ep was omitted from this version.

THIS leads back to the main project - Canadian broadcast version, 123-291 (108-276), which was mostly done using the Funi broadcast masters.

(The UUE opening I have looks like holy hell, too… too much read is death on mpeg-2 codecs.  Maybe it oughta be rebuilt too…)