{"id":556,"date":"2013-07-01T14:13:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T14:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notonbluray.com\/blog\/?p=556"},"modified":"2022-09-02T08:50:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T08:50:08","slug":"mary-poppins-itunes-hd-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notonbluray.com\/blog\/mary-poppins-itunes-hd-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Poppins iTunes HD Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\"><p><b>Mary Poppins<\/b> is a 1964 childrens classic based on the books written by\u00a0Pamela Lyndon Travers. Since it&#8217;s not available on Blu-ray (thought there are rumours about 2014) I thought I&#8217;d give the <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/movie\/mary-poppins-45th-anniversary\/id298457309?uo=4&amp;at=11l66h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HD iTunes version<\/a> a look.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Mary Poppins iTunes Review<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_563\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notonbluray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Mary-Poppins-Halos.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-563\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-563\" alt=\"Mary Poppins sits on a cloud, wondering what DVNR has done to her film.\" src=\"http:\/\/notonbluray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Mary-Poppins-Halos-300x182.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notonbluray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Mary-Poppins-Halos-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/notonbluray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Mary-Poppins-Halos-1024x623.png 1024w, https:\/\/notonbluray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Mary-Poppins-Halos-624x380.png 624w, https:\/\/notonbluray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Mary-Poppins-Halos.png 1780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edge halos. The rest of the film is scattered with Halos. I suspect this is an attempt to re-introduce contrast killed by the aggressive application of DVNR.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to keep this short and sweet. This film is ruined by a one-two combo of DVNR and edge-enhancement, faces look like waxworks, backgrounds shimmer horribly. The opening scene of Mary Poppins sitting on a cloud has Mary surrounded by a Halo. I actually have the DVD of the 45th anniversary edition to hand, and about the only positive thing that I can say about the iTunes version is that it&#8217;s slightly less horrible than the DVD.<\/p>\n<p>Bit-rate is standard iTunes 5Mbps with a English and French stereo track (why ?) and an English Dolby Digital track.<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_562\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notonbluray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Mary-Poppins-DVNR-wax.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-562\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-562\" alt=\"Mary Poppins on iTunes. Waxy. Really aggressive DVNR can lend a waxy appearance to faces.\" src=\"http:\/\/notonbluray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Mary-Poppins-DVNR-wax-300x182.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notonbluray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Mary-Poppins-DVNR-wax-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/notonbluray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Mary-Poppins-DVNR-wax-1024x621.png 1024w, https:\/\/notonbluray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Mary-Poppins-DVNR-wax-624x378.png 624w, https:\/\/notonbluray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Mary-Poppins-DVNR-wax.png 1781w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waxy. Really aggressive DVNR can lend a waxy appearance to faces.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Horrible: 1 out of 5.<\/strong> No amount of sugar can make the DVNR medicine go down in this case. In situations like this &#8211; I have been known to recommend the DVD over the HD version, but it&#8217;s equally bad, and has slightly worse mosquito noise. If you want to watch it, and can&#8217;t wait until next year, then the<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/movie\/mary-poppins-45th-anniversary\/id298457309?uo=4&amp;at=11l66h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> iTunes HD version<\/a> is at least convenient. Keep your fingers crossed that the 2014 Blu-ray ditches the DVNR and edge-enhancement.<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0<strong>FTC Disclosure:<\/strong>\u00a0I am an iTunes and Amazon affiliate advertiser, this means that if you click on one of the links above, I get a very small amount of money.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><div id=\"schema_block\" class=\"schema_review\"><div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Review\"><div class=\"schema_name\" itemprop=\"name\">Mary Poppins iTunes HD Review<\/div><div class=\"schema_description\" itemprop=\"description\">Mary Poppins iTunes HD Review<\/div><div class=\"schema_review_name\" itemprop=\"itemReviewed\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Thing\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Mary Poppins<\/span><\/div><div itemprop=\"author\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">Written by: <span itemprop=\"name\">Mac<\/span><\/div><div class=\"pubdate\"><meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2013-07-01\">Date Published: 07\/01\/2013<\/div><div class=\"schema_review_body\" itemprop=\"reviewBody\">A Children&#039;s classic ruined by DVNR. Avoid.<\/div><div itemprop=\"reviewRating\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Rating\"><meta itemprop=\"worstRating\" content=\"1\"><span itemprop=\"ratingValue\">1<\/span> \/ <span itemprop=\"bestRating\">5<\/span> stars<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Poppins is a 1964 childrens classic based on the books written by\u00a0Pamela Lyndon Travers. Since it&#8217;s not available on Blu-ray (thought there are rumours about 2014) I thought I&#8217;d give the HD iTunes version a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-itunes","category-review"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mary Poppins iTunes HD Review - Not on Blu-ray<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A review of Mary Poppins on iTunes in HD. This version of Mary Poppins is ruined by DVNR. 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