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> * The Dragon Ball Z Orange Brick DVD set [16:9 Cropped], which are criticized for their aggressive filtering, over-contrasted colors, automated center crop, and excessive detail loss during scenes with shaky picture.

The above is from our FAQ. If you know what you're expecting, then they're a decent buy. My option, if I were you, would to be picking up an external USB blu-ray player. You could either then rip them or watch them on the disk on your laptop. This would put you at an additional $40 dollars or so, but you could always try to find a cheaper drive.

Someone recently asked if Dragon Ball would ever make it to Bluray. To quote /u/VegettoEX:

>Asked often, but no real updates. For an actual HD release, someone would need to pony up and scan film masters. Right now, that would have to be Toei; FUNimation's current masters are digibeta tapes at best.
I mean, they could do an upscaled release to Blu-ray, but that'd be a lot more trouble than it's worth with their current materials, and if they crop anything else... (insert fist-shaking here)
I would honestly expect to see something from Toei on Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball GT in HD before I would expect to see it from FUNimation.

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That being said, our FAQ in the sidebar has a list of your options when it comes to purchasing the series.

>##Q: What is the best way to purchase the anime?
A: There are many different ways to purchase the anime. While all releases of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball GT are in their native 4:3 fullscreen aspect ratio, most English releases of Dragon Ball Z were cropped to 16:9 widescreen.

>* For Dragon Ball, your best option is the Blue Brick DVD sets. [4:3 Native]

• For Dragon Ball Z, your best option is the most recent Bluray set. [16:9 Cropped]
  
• For Dragon Ball Z Kai, your best option is most recent Bluray/DVD set. If you prefer Kenji Yamamoto's musical score, you want "Parts 1-4" of the Part set. [4:3 Native]
  
• For Dragon Ball GT, your best option is the Green Brick DVD set. [4:3 Native]
  
  >Other releases include:
  
  >* The Dragon Ball Z Orange Brick DVD set [16:9 Cropped], which are criticized for their aggressive filtering, over-contrasted colors, automated center crop, and excessive detail loss during scenes with shaky picture.
  
• The Dragon Ball Z Dragon Box set [4:3 Native], the now-out-of-print collector's edition which is considered by many to be the best DVD set of the series. Unfortunately, they run around $700 for a complete set on eBay, and don't include the American broadcast score.
  
• The Dragon Ball Z Bluray Level Sets [4:3 Native], the now-cancelled Bluray set which was praised for its faithful colors, grain preservation and original 4:3 aspect ratio.
  
• The Dragon Ball Z "Rock The Dragon" set [4:3 Native], which contains all 53 episodes of the original Ocean Group dub.

There honestly is no definitive release. The Blu-ray Level Sets are the closest we've gotten - faithful colors, grain preservation and original 4:3 aspect ratio. It also included all three uncut audio tracks; the original Japanese, the English dub with Kikuchi's score, and the English dub with the American replacement scores.

• The Blu-ray Season sets are cropped to 16:9, removing 20% of the vertical image.
  
  
• The Orange Brick DVD set were criticized for their aggressive filtering, over-contrasted colors, automated center crop, and excessive detail loss during scenes with shaky picture.
  
  
• The Dragon Box set is an out-of-print collector's item, widely considered to be the best DVD set of the series. Unfortunately, they run around $500 - $700 for a complete set on eBay, and don't include the American broadcast scores.
  
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  In regards to the English dub, the dub found on all current DVD and Blu-ray sets of Dragon Ball Z is pretty fast and loose with the fine details; there's quite a bit of improvisation. Since you're new to the series, I would strongly recommend Dragon Ball Z Kai instead. It's Dragon Ball Z, except with most of the episode padding and filler content (scenes not present in the original comic book) removed, and features a much more faithful-to-the-Japanese English dub. If you're looking for the "definitive" dub in terms of script accuracy, Kai is your best bet.
  
  The final story arc of Dragon Ball Z Kai has yet to be released outside of Japan. Because of this, if you choose to watch Kai (legally, and in English), you will need to switch to episode 200 (season 7) of Dragon Ball Z after finishing episode 98 (season 4) of Kai.

>Could someone please sum of the differences between versions? I'm really not entirely sure of all the differences.

From our FAQ in the sidebar:

>####Q: What is the best way to purchase the anime?
A: There are many different ways to purchase the anime. While all releases of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball GT are in their native 4:3 fullscreen aspect ratio, most English releases of Dragon Ball Z were cropped to 16:9 widescreen.

> For Dragon Ball, your best option is the Blue Brick DVD sets. [4:3 Native]
> For Dragon Ball Z, your best option is the most recent Bluray set. [16:9 Cropped]
> For Dragon Ball Z Kai, your best option is most recent Bluray/DVD set. If you prefer Kenji Yamamoto's musical score, you want "Parts 1-4" of the Part set. [4:3 Native]
> For Dragon Ball GT, your best option is the Green Brick DVD set. [4:3 Native]

>Other releases include:

> The Dragon Ball Z Orange Brick DVD set [16:9 Cropped], which are criticized for their aggressive filtering, over-contrasted colors, automated center crop, and excessive detail loss during scenes with shaky picture.
> The Dragon Ball Z Dragon Box set [4:3 Native], the now-out-of-print collector's edition which is considered by many to be the best DVD set of the series. Unfortunately, they run around $700 for a complete set on eBay, and don't include the American broadcast score.
> The Dragon Ball Z Bluray Level Sets [4:3 Native], the now-cancelled Bluray set which was praised for its faithful colors, grain preservation and original 4:3 aspect ratio.
> The Dragon Ball Z "Rock The Dragon" set [4:3 Native], which contains all 53 episodes of the original Ocean Group dub.

There are other releases, like the old DVD singles (fullscreen video, first Funimation dub) and the Ultimate Uncut set (debut of 001-067's redub), but these have been out of print for ages.

There's only one way that I know of to buy pre-Z Dragon Ball uncut and in its entirety. You'll want to pick yourself up the Blue Bricks. The quality isn't terrible compared to the Orange Bricks. Don't forget about the movies.

For Z, you'll definitely want to avoid the Orange Bricks. The only good thing about this release is that it finally made Dragon Ball Z easy to buy without collecting endless DVDs. But the picture is botched up beyond being saved, and it's cropped to widescreen. Ideally you'd want to purchase the Dragon Boxes, but they're out-of-print and cost a pretty penny. Maybe check eBay if you're interested. You're probably going to want to go with the latest Blu-Ray releases. They're still cropped like the Orange Bricks, but they're a superior overall product even if they still aren't up to par with what we should be getting. Pick up the movies and Battle of Gods too.

GT is pretty simple. Buy the Green Brick. Like the pre-Z Blue Brick, the "remastering" didn't destroy the integrity of the product. It also comes with the one GT TV special. Yay!

And if you're interested in what order you should watch all this, check out our guide.

Dragon Ball is available on DVD on these blue sets http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Ball-Season-One/dp/B002FOQXTQ

Dragon Ball Z is available in it's entirety on DVD on similar sets but they are fairly awful quality (fake widescreen, heavy filtering applied, etc) http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Ball-Season-Vegeta-Saga/dp/B000KWZ1TI

Dragon Ball GT is available in a single DVD set
http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Ball-GT-Sean-Schemmel/dp/B0063RE4X8

They've released the Dragon Ball Z movies on blu-ray, and Dragon Ball Z Kai is available on blu-ray, and they've started and stopped releasing the series previously with the Level 1.1 and Level 1.2 sets (no longer available). It looks like they are going to try releasing it on blu-ray AGAIN though http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Ball-Blu-ray-Sean-Schemmel/dp/B00F9IB1M4

I wouldn't hold my breath though. Funimation likes to start releasing a set and then cancel halfway through. Plus from what I'm reading it's the same garbage quality as the orange brick sets, only it's the 1080p version of it.

Get these DVD sets or

These Bluray sets.

They both have the option of choosing between Japanese and US music. Starting at episode 68 you will want to select US Broadcast Audio in the audio settings for Faulconer music. I would also recommend not getting the DVD sets and going for the Blurays if you have a Bluray player. The Blurays look much better.

They started breaking them up by seasons for the orange box releases. They pretty much follow the sagas though.

These episodes look like they have been ripped from the orange boxes. The dub you are hearing is the FUNimation dub with the original Japanese soundtrack. On the orange boxes, there are 3 choices: FUNi dub w/ Japanese sountrack, FUNi dub w/ Bruce Faulconer soundtrack, or Japanese dub w/ Japanese soundtrack. Whoever ripped the videos from the orange boxes must have edited out the opening and closing sequences for each episode and that's why they are gone.

These older box sets are called orange bricks.

Yeah Dragonball is 153, DBZ is 291 and GT is 64. I am not really sure where you can download the episodes but if you buy or find a download for these dvd's then it will have all 291 uncut and with 3 different audio tracks. They are great!

Found a lower price

I used to torrent them in middle school and the like when Toonami got stuck in a loop repeating the Majin Buu saga endlessly while waiting for the rest to finish translation, so I imagine it's easy enough to still do so.

I, personally, decided this is something I want to own physical copies of in a nice set to maybe show my kids some day if I ever have them so I've been purchasing the DVD collections. There's a bunch of different sets but I recommend those orange boxed ones - they're all completely remastered and they got the original English voice actors to re-record all of the dialogue, plus it includes the original TV run soundtrack as well as a soundtrack with the American dialogue but the original Japanese run's background music (which I prefer). http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Ball-Season-Vegeta-Saga/dp/B000KWZ1TI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1334594298&sr=8-2

What? All the Dragon Ball remasters have done very well.

FUNimation's horribly insulting remaster, where they over-saturated the colors and cut off 20% of the picture, did extremely well on DVD, and continues to do so Blu-Ray. I, personally, hate their remastering, but it was the top selling anime DVD for multiple years.

Kai did really well everywhere but Japan. Hell, in the U.S. it was on multiple channels at the same time. The Buu arc of Kai was created solely for the international market because of how will it did outside of Japan. (It wasn't until later that Japan decided to air a different.version of Buu Kai than what was made for the international market.)

I see where you're coming from and I can definitely see YGO going that way, but DB absolutely didn't end up like that.

It's Dragon Ball. It's the biggest anime in the world. It will always do well. Even when I think the product is a piece of shit, it does extremely well.

Like I said, I agree with what your saying, but maybe Dragon Ball wasn't the best series for you to use.

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>This topic is addressed in our FAQ. See the link for more details about the different dub versions and soundtracks.

There are many different ways to purchase the anime. While all releases of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball GT are in their native 4:3 fullscreen aspect ratio, most English releases of Dragon Ball Z were cropped to 16:9 widescreen. All home releases except for the "Dragon Box" and "Rock the Dragon" sets offer three soundtrack options: Japanese with original soundtrack, English dub with original soundtrack, and English dub with Funimation's replacement soundtrack. (There is no Funimation soundtrack for Kai or Super.)

• For Dragon Ball, your best option is the Blue Brick DVD sets. [4:3 Native]
  
• For Dragon Ball Z, your best option is the most recent Blu-ray set [16:9 Cropped]
  
• For Dragon Ball Kai, your best option is most recent Blu-ray/DVD set. If you prefer Kenji Yamamoto's musical score, you want "Parts 1-4" of the Part set. [4:3 Native]
  
• For Dragon Ball GT, your best option is the Green Brick DVD set. [4:3 Native]
  
  Other releases include:
  
  
• The Dragon Ball Z Orange Brick DVD set [16:9 Cropped], which are criticized for their aggressive filtering, over-contrasted colors, automated center crop, and excessive detail loss during scenes with shaky picture.
  
• The Dragon Ball Z Dragon Box set [4:3 Native], the now-out-of-print collector's edition which is considered by many to be the best DVD set of the series. Unfortunately, they run around $700 for a complete set on eBay, and don't include the American broadcast soundtrack.
  
• The Dragon Ball Z Blu-ray Level Sets [4:3 Native], the now-cancelled Blu-ray set which was praised for its faithful colors, grain preservation and original 4:3 aspect ratio.
  
• The Dragon Ball Z "Rock The Dragon" set [4:3 Native], which contains all 53 episodes of the original Ocean Group dub.
  
  If you prefer a stream, you can watch the series on several online services including FUNimation. Streams are available subbed or dubbed, but both versions will feature the original Japanese soundtrack.
  
  
  
  If you have any questions, see our extended rules. If you believe this removal was made in error, you can appeal to the moderating team.

The best way to collect GT is in a garbage bag. All jokes aside the Blue and Orange bricks are the cheapest solution for a complete collection of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. As far as I know GT hasn't been released on blu ray yet, so this is what you want. For the Dragon Ball Z TV specials the bluray release of History of Trunks/Bardock is the best way to get those two.

i would love space balls, its such an awesome movie

[dragonball z season 1] (http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Ball-Season-Vegeta-Saga/dp/B000KWZ1TI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371768999&sr=8-1&keywords=dragonball+z+dvd)

I'm entering on behalf of /u/ScribblerJack!

But an anime I always enjoyed was Dragon Ball Z. I got a lot of flack for it too, being a girl and all. But it was fun and it was ridiculous. I used to get pissed when Cartoon Network would run out of episodes and start ALL over in the middle of an epic battle. My preteen self was not happy with not knowing how things ended.

And I don't know what Attack on Titan is. I'm so behind with shows!

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  New episodes come online around 10:30am JST, 1:30am GMT, 8:30pm EST. Episodes sometimes show up earlier for premium users and later for free users; sometimes they are late for everyone because of production issues.
  
  

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• Livestream
  
  
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• FUNimation (North America):
  Dragon Ball · Dragon Ball Z · Dragon Ball GT
  
  
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  Dragon Ball · Dragon Ball Z · Dragon Ball Z Kai · Dragon Ball GT · Dragon Ball Super
  
  
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  >This topic is addressed in our FAQ. See the link for more details about the different dub versions and soundtracks.
  
  There are many different ways to purchase the anime. While all releases of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball GT are in their native 4:3 fullscreen aspect ratio, most English releases of Dragon Ball Z were cropped to 16:9 widescreen.
  
  
• For Dragon Ball, your best option is the Blue Brick DVD sets. [4:3 Native]
  
• For Dragon Ball Z, your best option is the most recent Blu-ray set [16:9 Cropped]
  
• For Dragon Ball Kai, your best option is most recent Blu-ray/DVD set. If you prefer Kenji Yamamoto's musical score, you want "Parts 1-4" of the Part set. [4:3 Native]
  
• For Dragon Ball GT, your best option is the Green Brick DVD set. [4:3 Native]
  
  Other releases include:
  
  
• The Dragon Ball Z Orange Brick DVD set [16:9 Cropped], which are criticized for their aggressive filtering, over-contrasted colors, automated center crop, and excessive detail loss during scenes with shaky picture.
  
• The Dragon Ball Z Dragon Box set [4:3 Native], the now-out-of-print collector's edition which is considered by many to be the best DVD set of the series. Unfortunately, they run around $700 for a complete set on eBay, and don't include the American broadcast soundtrack.
  
• The Dragon Ball Z Blu-ray Level Sets [4:3 Native], the now-cancelled Blu-ray set which was praised for its faithful colors, grain preservation and original 4:3 aspect ratio.
  
• The Dragon Ball Z "Rock The Dragon" set [4:3 Native], which contains all 53 episodes of the original Ocean Group dub.
  
  If you prefer a stream, you can watch the series on several online services including FUNimation. Streams are available subbed or dubbed, but both versions will feature the original Japanese soundtrack.
  
  
  
  If you have any questions, see our extended rules. If you believe this removal was made in error, please respond to this comment or appeal to the moderating team.

18.96 a season on Amazon right now

http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Ball-Season-Vegeta-Saga/dp/B000KWZ1TI/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1394140434&sr=8-4&keywords=dragon+ball+z

While i cant say for sure what it is, I can tell you what it is not.

It's Widescreen, so this excludes the Dragon Box and Blu-Ray "Level Sets"(discontinued before finishing) because they are 4:3.

Audio is clearly the "Remaster" or "Funi V2" (post singles release).

If i had to take a guess id say this came from Either the Orange Bricks or the Blu-ray Release

One other possibility is the more obscure "Ultimate Uncut" version which was discontinued before finishing also, however i don't think its this version because it usually comes pared with a unique intro rather then the japanese one.

It shouldn't be to hard to tell if its the Orange Brick version with a little searching, its rather notorious for having bad cropping to fit the widescreen format (the blurays apparently do a more selective and thus better job at this).

This is why most people praise the Dragon Box version and were rather upset that the Level Sets got canceled in favor of the Cropped/Widescreen Blu-Rays.

The Orange Brick DVD collections should contain the original broadcast (Faulconer) soundtrack. The Blu-rays should also have it.

Here's a link to our FAQ if you need more info.

Here http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Ball-Season-Vegeta-Saga/dp/B000KWZ1TI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342987259&sr=8-1&keywords=dragon+ball+z+season+1