The Westwood Dub Remastered Release!

What Is The Westwood Dub & Why It Takes So Long To Sync:

This dub only aired in international English speaking countries (UK, Canada, Netherlands etc.). It is a rare lost media that has been preserved by fans who recorded this from TV between 2001 to 2005. This dub will never have a official release on DVD due to being stuck in licensing hell. The Westwood dub was heavily edited for TV airing meaning that each episode has approx. 2 Minutes of cut content. This can be anywhere in the episode. It takes about 1 to 2 hours to sync one episode because of these cuts. We are doing this lengthy process per episode in order to preserve this dub, and to prevent it from being lost to time. Here is what the typical timeline looks like for a single episode:

If you want to learn more about the Westwood Dub, how it came to be and how it aired then watch this video: Dragon Ball Z in the UK.

Video:

The video for this release has been sourced from SoM’s Merge R1+R2 Dragon Box. This has been synced to the best audio of any given episode of the dub. Merge Dragon Box retains as much detail as possible, ensuring that Dragon Ball Z can be viewed in its highest quality. You can read more about this version of Dragon Box here.

Audio:

This release serves to include the best recorded version of each episode synced to the best possible video that we have. The audio is sourced from the +500GB Westwood Blue Water Torrent. The sources are Hi-Fi and Stereo recordings, the best possible version of any given episode.
Our audio sources for an episode of the Westwood dub are: Robo4900, xodanox, DAGAME and as a last resort OceanDan93 (in order of quality).

Opening & Ending:

The Opening and Ending have been recreated for this release. The Opening features video sourced from The Rock The Dragon Set and UUE Movie 3 and Merge Dragon Box. The Ending is recreated with Merge Dragon Box video and recreated credits. They have been recreated by Enigmo and encoded by JySzE.

Title Cards:

English title cards for each episode have been sourced from Funi Singles by DBZimran and recreated by ManifestX.

Credits:

This was possible thanks to the efforts of:

• Wonder inc and Zero Cool who organised and split each individual episode ready to sync and edit.

• Ajay, iKaos and JySzE for quality control and encoding instructions.

• ManifestX and Venny for syncing and editing episodes.

Episodes 108 to 110 have been synced by DBZimran.