Mary Poppins SE DVD

[Sarangel]

From my favorite DVD source, DVDFile.com:

One of the most beloved films of all time, the incomparable Mary Poppins will at last get the special edition treatment from Buena Vista Home Entertainment on December 14. The full specs have been announced, and there are tons of 'em: in addition to a newly remastered 1.66:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer and Dolby Digital 5.1 Enhanced Home Theater mix (the original 2.0 surround theatrical mix is also included), goodies include new audio commentary with Julie Andrews, Dick Van ****, Richard Sherman, and Karen Dotrice, the Poppins Pop-Up subtitle trivia track, "The Cat That Looked at the King" animated short, "Chimpazoo" deleted song, the "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: The Making of Mary Poppins," "Movie Magic," "Magical Mystery Reunion" and "Musical Journey" featurettes, "Jolly Holiday" and "Step In Time" scene deconstructions, a Dick Van **** makeup test, premiere footage, an eleven-part still gallery, and no less than eight theatrical trailers. Retail for this two-disc wonder will be $29.95.

 

[barreloflaughs]

heh.... I guess we need to refer to him as Dick Van Dike.

Thanks for the good news, Sara.....this one is a real classic in my book!

carl
barrel of laughs

 

[Bstanley]

LOL!

Why is it I feel compelled to quote Robin Williams from Good Morning Vietnam???

 

[Sarangel]

This is one of those cases where I think the filter is too touchy, but I can see where the word alone could be offensive.

Either way, I'm looking forward to the DVD, even if it does mean buying it *again* (see many personal rants about the DVD industry & re-releasing titles forever).

Sarangel

 

[Cricket2]

I'm waiting for the SuperBit release before I take the plunge

JC

 

[Bstanley]

?? Has Disney signed on to do SuperBit-ized versions of their movies ??

I think my leg was just pulled...

 

[KNWVIKING]

Don't Superbit movies sacrifice the extra material,scenes,bloopers, etc in order to enhance the video quality ?

 

[Razor Roman]

Originally posted by KNWVIKING
Don't Superbit movies sacrifice the extra material,scenes,bloopers, etc in order to enhance the video quality ?

Yes they do


And no, Disney doesn't do SuperBit, it's just a Sony-Columbia thing... and most of the time there usually isn't that vast of an improvement in them, from what I've read. They could easily make their movies "SuperBit" quality (since it's just a marketing term to describe a movie that was recorded in a higher quality level because they put less extra stuff on the disc) if they did things like got rid of a "foolscreen" transfer and just leaving the OAR, and put the extras all on the second disc, rather than trying to squeeze so much on to 1 disc, like 4 language tracks, including 2 separate 5.1 tracks (ala lion king)

 

[Snowgod]

Like High definition for television, Superbit DVDs are marketed as being better than standard DVDs. Hype doesn't always equal the truth as each company can decide on what bit rate to encode their movie in so as to provide more or less space for extras. If you include the extras on a second disk, you can use better encoding on the movie disk and if you just cram everything on one disk then you must use a lower bit-rate to make room. Some super-bit labled movies have been less than stellar because they did not put the extras on a second disk.

 

[Bstanley]

Superbit-ized DVDs can be poorly made/implemented, just like anything else.

If the original material isn't that good, or the transfer isn't handled properly, or limits to the number of disks included, etc, etc - then the SuperBit version may not look all that different from the 'normal' release.

But I suspect that the biggest single reason that people don;t see any improvement in a SuperBit release is because they are watching it on their same old television...

Watching the SuperBit version of Gladiator (or Lawrence of Arabia) on an appropriate system is pure joy.

 

[Razor Roman]

Exactly... Because it's just the amount of data on the disc alloted to the movie, SuperBit is nothing more than a clever term used to differentiate one edition of a movie from another - a movie could be recorded at SuperBit-like data rates, and look awesome, but not actually be a "SuperBit" DVD, because it's not a Sony Pictures DVD.