Terminator 2 - Extreme DVD - $7

[Devil2U]

This release has been around for awhile, but the price has never been better. It comes with 2 discs. One is a Digital Video Disc that has the standard MPEG-II files encoded at 720x480. The other is a Digital Versitle Disc (in Data format) that you can only use on your PC. However, it contains the movie in Window Media 9 HD format at a whopping 1920x816!
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Through Saturday, July 22nd, Circuit City retail stores offer this title for $6.99.
http://circuitcity.shoplocal.com/circui...eid=2396869&rapid=291960&pagenumber=21

Target retail stores also have it for $7.50.
http://weeklyad.target.com/target/circu...=6&rapid=293260&listingid=-2094740175&

And finally, DeepDiscountDVD has it for $8.09 with free S/H.
http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/dvd.cfm?itemID=LVD014098

ENJOY, and post your though when (or if you have allready) watched the WM9 HD version of this film.
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F.Y.I.-
While looking around the internet, I found this really good technical F.A.Q. by Interactual:
http://player.interactual.com/help/support/articles/0134.asp

 

[fleshconsumed]

I own this edition and the second DVD is DRM infested crap and the quality isn't that great either. First in order to watch the second DVD you have to obtain license via internet. No internet, no movie, sorry. Also, although this doesn't really affect AT users, an interesting fact is you can only obtain licence to watch it only if you live in the US, the rest of the world is IP blocked (who came up with that rule?). Even after you obtain license you have to use player that supports DRM so you only have two choices, the player supplied with the disc or WMP9 or better. I did not install supplied player because most of the people recommended against it, instead I used WMP9, even so the procedure to view the movie is very unintuitive, you have to browse to obscure folder on your DVD and click on obscure file because WMP doesn't really understand the DVD format. Even after all of this the license is only good for 5-7 days so after that period you have to redownload new one (anybody wonders what happens when the server goes down or if there is some obscure glitch in their system or they decide to altogether stop supporting this DVD?). This is the future of DRM, region-divided renewable licenses over internet to watch what you rightfully own. Fvsk that! So all this trouble and for what? The quality isn't all that greater than the regular DVD. Yes, the resolution is better, I can see the difference, but you can't pull a rabbit out of a hat, a DVD has size limitations, so while the picture carries extra resolution, it does so at the expense of colors. There are very noticable color compression artefacts, especially at the dark scenes, of which there are a lot in T2, there is clearly not enough space on DVD to carry extra resolution in decent quality. Overall, I prefer the original DVD picture, which while not as sharp, has better color reproduction.

In any case, that's still a good deal on a classic movie, it's just that the second disc is not really usable because of the damn DRM and poor picture quality.

 

[palatnick]

Originally posted by: fleshconsumed
I own this edition and the second DVD is DRM infested crap and the quality isn't that great either. First in order to watch the second DVD you have to obtain license via internet. No internet, no movie, sorry. Also, although this doesn't really affect AT users, an interesting fact is you can only obtain licence to watch it only if you live in the US, the rest of the world is IP blocked (who came up with that rule?). Even after you obtain license you have to use player that supports DRM so you only have two choices, the player supplied with the disc or WMP9 or better. I did not install supplied player because most of the people recommended against it, instead I used WMP9, even so the procedure to view the movie is very unintuitive, you have to browse to obscure folder on your DVD and click on obscure file because WMP doesn't really understand the DVD format. Even after all of this the license is only good for 5-7 days so after that period you have to redownload new one (anybody wonders what happens when the server goes down or if there is some obscure glitch in their system or they decide to altogether stop supporting this DVD?). This is the future of DRM, region-divided renewable licenses over internet to watch what you rightfully own. Fvsk that! So all this trouble and for what? The quality isn't all that greater than the regular DVD. Yes, the resolution is better, I can see the difference, but you can't pull a rabbit out of a hat, a DVD has size limitations, so while the picture carries extra resolution, it does so at the expense of colors. There are very noticable color compression artefacts, especially at the dark scenes, of which there are a lot in T2, there is clearly not enough space on DVD to carry extra resolution in decent quality. Overall, I prefer the original DVD picture, which while not as sharp, has better color reproduction.

In any case, that's still a good deal on a classic movie, it's just that the second disc is not really usable because of the damn DRM and poor picture quality.

Thanks I had no idea that it was like this. I thought I remembered my brother talking about it not being as great as they advertised.

 

[dabuddha]

Wow thanks for the info fleshconsumed. You've completely turned me off on buying it lol
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[darkswordsman17]

Yeah, its ridiculous what you have to do to see it in the hi-def goodness.

It makes Blu-Ray/HD-DVD look positively unobtrusive in their DRM after it, thats how bad it is. I never could get it to work myself (I did everything they said to but it just never worked).

And likewise its still a great deal, I just wouldn't even bother considering the hi-def stuff. I would just wait until the dust settles in the format war and then pick up the Ultra Super Extra Extreme Edition then (the current T2 Blu-Ray seems to be just them taking this version and making it so you can actually just put it in and play it).