Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z Movies in Fullscreen torrent

Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z movies in 4:3 aspect ratio and with high-quality audio

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As is well-known, the classic 17 Dragon Ball movies were originally animated in open matte even though they were intended to be shown in widescreen in theatres. Indeed, most people (myself included) prefer to watch them that way, nevertheless, it is always nice to have them available in fullscreen as well.

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Video

No reencoding was performed on any of the videos.

As a result, some of them are interlaced (namely the ones taken from Funimation's DVDs) and so will have to be deinterlaced during playback; some players do it automatically while others require this option to be manually enabled.

Also, some others come from PAL DVDs, meaning that they run at a faster speed than the native film rate, an effect which needs to be taken into account in order to properly sync the audio. In this regard, one could change either the video or the audio; in the end, I chose to stretch the video length (by a factor of 1001/960).

The sources used were as follows:

• DB movies 1-4 in 1080p: Funimation web streaming (contains black bars on the sides; there's an issue with movie 2's frame rate that may render it unwatchable to many people);
• DB movie 2 and DBZ movies 1-13 (including movie 7 announcement) in 480i: Funimation single DVDs (interlaced video);
• DBZ movies 7-11 in 576p: AB Vidéo remastered DVDs (PAL video);
• DBZ movie 13 in 576p: Madman DVD (PAL video; uses the same master as the Funimation single, but arguably the video quality is slightly better).

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Audio

This contains the original Japanese version only.

The audio was sourced from Toei Animation's Blu-ray releases (24-bit uncompressed stereo at 48 kHz sample frequency), synched to the respective videos and then losslessly converted to FLAC.

Team Mirolo's sync was used for DBZ movies 1-13 at 480i (Funimation singles) and DBZ movies 7-11 at 576p (AB Vidéo); for the latter, they downsampled the audio to a 16-bit depth (a difference which should be imperceptible to human ears) and kept only one of the channels (which were identical anyway, as only the last two of the 17 movies have an actual stereo mix).

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Subtitles

Subtitles were adapted from Pendekar's, which ultimately come from Funimation DVD's, noted for their excellent translations. Formatting was kept as simple as possible.

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Movie list

→ Dragon Ball: Shenron no Densetsu
→ Dragon Ball: Majin Jō no Nemuri Hime
→ Dragon Ball: Makafushigi Dai Bōken
→ Dragon Ball Z: Ora no Gohan o Kaese!!
→ Dragon Ball Z: Kono Yo de Ichiban Tsuyoi Yatsu
→ Dragon Ball Z: Chikyū Marugoto Chōkessen
→ Dragon Ball Z: Sūpā Saiya-jin da Son Gokū
→ Dragon Ball Z: Tobikkiri no Saikyō tai Saikyō
→ Dragon Ball Z: Gekitotsu!! Hyaku-Oku Pawā no Senshi-tachi
→ Dragon Ball Z: Kyokugen Batoru!! San Dai Sūpā Saiya-jin
→ Dragon Ball Z: Moetsukiro!! Nessen - Ressen - Chō-Gekisen
→ Dragon Ball Z: Ginga Giri-Giri!! Butchigiri no Sugoi Yatsu
→ Dragon Ball Z: Kiken na Futari! Sūpā Senshi wa Nemurenai
→ Dragon Ball Z: Sūpā Senshi Gekiha!! Katsu No wa Ore da
→ Dragon Ball Z: Fukkatsu no Fyūjon!! Gokū to Bejīta
→ Dragon Ball Z: Ryū-Ken Bakuhatsu!! Gokū ga Yaraneba Dare ga Yaru
→ Dragon Ball: Saikyō e no Michi

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