Not quite, the dub that aired on children's television is different from the uncut DVD's in a few ways.
The VIZ TV version has it's own theme song a.d credits for the first two seasons as well as translated text.
One person mentioned before how the title cards and credits were translated to english but the edited DVD'S are the only ones containing the raw edited footage.
The encodes from Cartoon_Palace and such are very pixilated and have the CN logo on it so if other fans can preverve lost versions of franchises like Dragon Ball than Naruto deserves the same.
You know nobody has archived the edited toonami Funimation dragon ball dub. I wish they did so I could see the infamous tomato soup edit.
Perhaps but there are a bunch of lost versions of Naruto nobody preserved.
The VIZ edited DVD'S, the UK Jetix broadcast, the Naruto Hundo marathorn, the remaining bits of the Naruto recap special and so on.
I might make a thread about the Jetix UK version, since no one has any footage of it and there are only two promos and a bunch of threads detailing it's censorship.
Not quite, the dub that aired on children's television is different from the uncut DVD's in a few ways.
The VIZ TV version has it's own theme song a.d credits for the first two seasons as well as translated text.
One person mentioned before how the title cards and credits were translated to english but the edited DVD'S are the only ones containing the raw edited footage.
The encodes from Cartoon_Palace and such are very pixilated and have the CN logo on it so if other fans can preverve lost versions of franchises like Dragon Ball than Naruto deserves the same.
You know nobody has archived the edited toonami Funimation dragon ball dub. I wish they did so I could see the infamous tomato soup edit.
Overall, this CN-censored Naruto is partially lost. More precisely, for almost 10 years 150 episodes have been hanging on the Polish paid website - chomikuj
The VIZ edited DVD version is lost, but the CN Broadcast isn't.
What makes you think those aren't the same thing? Those DVDs literally have "As Seen on Cartoon Network" and "North American TV edited version" written on the sleeve.
The only episodes missing are the last 10, which CN didn't run, but aired on YTV in Canada.
I also have to say, describing a DVD release that can readily be found on Ebay for <$10/volume as "lost" is a little much to me. Yeah, they're not in print and collecting them all wouldn't be cheap, but they're also not egregiously difficult or expensive to find.