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DBZ Now Streaming on Hulu

Rather DashingRather Dashing
edited January 2011 in General Chat
The Japanese animated series, Dragonball Z, is now legally and freely streaming on Hulu(I believe this is US-only). Since I assume at least some portion of you grew up with the DBZ dub, I thought it might be relevant.

The good things about this:

1. Free, legal way to watch an admittedly really long series that would cost a lot to obtain.
2. Includes and defaults to the superior subtitled version.


The bad things about this:

1. Uses the infamous "Orange Brick" masters, which were cropped from 4:3 to 16:9(consistently chopping the tops and bottoms off the screen, not even any human realignment like in most pan and scan releases), have really messed-up brightness, the worst case of DVNR known to man, screwed-up colors, and are based off some pretty bad multi-generational masters to begin with.
2. Includes the crappy dub.
3. The crappy dub includes the shitty dub track rather than Kikuchi's excellent orchestral score.
4. Starts with DBZ, rather than the first series. Dragonball is coming at a later point.

Despite a few issues that make this stream very inferior to the excellent Dragon Box sets, the benefits of "free" and "convenient" probably well overpower them for someone that is just wanting to feel nostalgic, is curious about the original Japanese version of the show, or just wants to dip their toe in it before investing in a DVD set.

Comments

  • Giant TopeGiant Tope
    edited January 2011
    If, within the thawed polar ice there is a dinosaur, I want to train him to balance on top of a ball.
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited January 2011
    Rather Dashing wrote: »
    3. The crappy dub includes the shitty dub track rather than Kikuchi's excellent orchestral score.

    I like Bruce Falcner's music.
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited January 2011
    coolsome wrote: »
    I like Bruce Falcner's music.
    Impossible, Bruce Faulconer never created a single piece of music in his life. He took a giant shit on a synthesizer keyboard once and called it a day, then later phoned in other people's work and claimed it as his own, but he never created anything that could be called music using even the loosest definition of the word.
  • RetroVortexRetroVortex
    edited January 2011
    DARN YOU HULU!!

    Stop being so elitist.

    Can't a brit enjoy some SNL clips and watch Dragonball Z!!

    Apparently not...
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited January 2011
    Rather Dashing wrote: »
    Impossible, Bruce Faulconer never created a single piece of music in his life. He took a giant shit on a synthesizer keyboard once and called it a day, then later phoned in other people's work and claimed it as his own, but he never created anything that could be called music using even the loosest definition of the word.

    Well I really like the Super Buu theme on dub.
  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited January 2011
    I wonder what happens if I try to watch subtitled Hulu content via PlayOn on my xbox. I'll try this later.
  • SunnyGuySunnyGuy
    edited January 2011
    Rather Dashing wrote: »
    the shitty dub track

    I've seen people on the internet that would STRONGLY disagree with that and would probably murder you.

    Still, I don't care that I can't watch it because I'm not on the US, Mexican dub is superior in every way. I fear the day they dub Kai though, I'm not sure if it could match the quality of the original dub.
  • Ash735Ash735
    edited January 2011
    Bruce Falconer's music is one of the highlights to come from the dub, it completely adds a new feeling to the scenes, granted there are some themes which just sound cheesy and weird but there's a lot in that score which is just brilliant.

    Plus, I've seen a lot of both, there are moments when, IMO of course, the Dub score just outshines the original score, the original at times can sound very bland and quiet and tame, especially on certain scenes like when Goku goes SS for the first time, where as the Dub score tends to feel a lot more conflicting and emotional and overall just packed a better punch for the scene.

    To be fair, being the UK, weird enough we got BOTH dubs, which as a kid was a bit of a mind fuck having one season end with the FUNimation Dub and having the next start with the Ocean Dub. So I got to hear both re-done scores and voice acting.
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