The EMBARRASSING Failure of Dragon Ball Z Home Releases

Summary by Krater

An in-depth review and comparison of the major English home video releases of Dragon Ball Z, analyzing visual fidelity, colors, audio, and availability across different formats from the singles to the 30th Anniversary edition.

From the video

Answers: Which Dragon Ball Z home video release is the best to buy?

• Dragon Ball Z home video releases
• Aspect ratio cropping and film grain removal
• Color correction and saturation issues
• Audio tracks and dubbing history
• Blu-ray and DVD box set analysis

What it concludes

• Most Dragon Ball Z home video releases are terrible in one way or another.
• DBZ Singles are surprisingly decent on color accuracy and aspect ratio, but use an unstable film print and are long out of print.
• Orange Bricks are widely available and cheap, but suffer from heavy cropping, terrible over-saturation, and grain removal.
• Dragon Box sets feature pristine 4:3 uncropped footage and original Japanese audio, but are rare, expensive secondhand, and suffer from audio sync and slight color issues.
• Level Sets offered high-definition 4:3 scans with proper grain management and audio tracks, but were cancelled after two sets due to poor sales.
• Blu-Ray Season Sets feature 1080p high definition 4:3 with multigen master scans that make the image overly grainy and muted in color, and are currently out of print in steelbooks or standard editions.