Terminator 2 WMV, can it be played?

I just got the two DVD set copy of T2, but I got stuck finding that I won't be able to play the ultra high definition WMV files just because I'm outside of the US. Is there any ay that I can watch `em????

WMV on a DVD? Thats new to me, are there more of those discs on the market?

@CharlyAR well they are supposed to only work on computer, so what does WMP say when you put 2nd DVD with WMV in? @neo75903 there just some more DVD's MS put out to show case thier tech in hope to convince DVD Forum (and others) to pick it's tech for upcoming HD-DVD format.

the DVD standard doesnt allow the usage of wmv, therefore these things m$ tries to sell are not DVDs they also arent HD-DVDs, as HD-DVDs will not use wma9, the .wmv container nor wmv drm to sum it: this has nothing to do with dvd, from my point of view its only a marketing move of m$ with the goal to make wmv more popular

Bond is 100% right. It's really just DVD-ROM content and a way for MS to advance the codec as the next compression standard. I've heard that you can get it to play by using a proxy server, but it's a bit of a pain. If you do a search you'll find it was discussed in the forum.

bond is right, but totally off topic since nobody implied things he argued agains, he seemed to have argued with himself :rolleyes: oh but I must put some solt on the wound though: it seems we getting stand alone support for VC-9 and they all seem to refer to it as HD-DVD (the manufacturers that is) and since HD-DVD must be a registered trademark of DVD Forum, they (companies) wouldn't use it lightly, since misrepresentation/misuse of a trademark is something that can get them sued.

Bond's comments where very informative. We in Europe are not aware from such discs. To be honest, i prefer not to see those discs showing up on the market. Anyway, i also hope our ameican friends can find a solution to backup those discs when they do show up on our shelves :)

i know that wmv9 have been taken into the new hd-DVD standard, but does this mean all the discs will be encoded in this format, or is MPEG4 (h264) also available? And if i am not interested in wmv9, do i also have to pay for it?

That's The 64,000 Dollar Question. There will probably be only one format on the disc. Maybe some of you (bond ?) can drop the DVD forum a mail about this to ask them how they see this (ie. dvd studios can choose which one out of the three they use?). I'm going on holidays, so I don't have time to do this.

@neo gecko