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Post by Popeye Doyle on Mar 21, 2017 5:47:15 GMT
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Post by rateater on Mar 21, 2017 5:57:05 GMT
police academy and austin powers. the computer we got had a dvd player.
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Post by juicebox07 on Mar 21, 2017 6:00:18 GMT
Halloween Resurrection in 2002.
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Post by shield on Mar 21, 2017 7:09:47 GMT
The Matrix. Perfect movie for trying my new dvd-player at the time
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Post by mslo79 on Mar 21, 2017 7:25:31 GMT
We got a DVD player in the early 2000's. i want to say about 2001-2002 but i know it was no later than 2003 for sure as that was the year i figured out our DVD player would play SVCD's as that's what i basically started with and eventually moved to XviD on a moded XBox console with XBMC (XBox Media Center) then to the modern SD/HD x264 stuff. main issue with the SVCD option is that you had to span a movie across 2-3 CD's.
also, i read somewhere online that DVD rentals overtook VHS rentals in the year 2003 if i recall correctly.
i can't imagine too many people had a DVD player in the late 1990's as prices where too steep. if i recall correctly, i remember seeing a commercial for a DVD player advertisement and it was something like $700 and i imagine $100-ish (or less) is probably when the masses start jumping on board as much over that and it's a bit pricey, especially if your not sure the technology is going to stick around as you had that HD-DVD vs BluRay format war a while ago and obviously BluRay won that one for the HD stuff.
as far as our first purchase on that format... i want to say it was likely a Clint Eastwood Western but i can't remember any specific title as i remember renting DVD's here and there back in the day.
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Post by J.B. on Mar 21, 2017 8:02:37 GMT
I think Blu-ray discs have mostly blended in with the entire concept of the DVD, unlike representing a new and drastically different successor taking the DVD's place. I am probably more glad that the disc style has remained the same over the years, even if the two aren't exactly compatible (at least strictly DVD players and Blu-ray). Most Blu-ray players seem to always play DVDs, though.
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Post by Jonesy1 on Mar 21, 2017 8:17:36 GMT
I think the first one I bought was Batman (1989)
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Post by miike80 on Mar 21, 2017 8:19:05 GMT
First one was Gladiator followed by Matrix and The Good The Bad and The Ugly
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Post by ck100 on Mar 21, 2017 10:18:59 GMT
T2 Ultimate Edition.
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Post by sostie on Mar 21, 2017 10:25:42 GMT
I remember I had to trek to the other side of London to a specialist shop to buy my first (multi-region) player...it was over £500 (expensive but when I upgraded I gave it to my brother and it was in perfect working order for over 15 years).
The first disc I bought I think was Blade. Also ordered the Leon extended cut from Japan.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Mar 21, 2017 12:48:35 GMT
I finally had to admit that the DVD was there to stay and that VHS were going down, fast.
So I began buying DVDs of my favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger films, even before I had a DVD player.
The first film on DVD was around early 2003, and I think it was either Conan: The Destroyer (1985) or The Running Man (1987).
I still buy DVDs and will continue to do so, as long as it is possible.
And while Blu-ray might have better picture/sound, I really hate the horrible Blu-ray plastic cover which looks awful standing next to my VHS/DVDs along with the far too often "updated" artwork that is so cheaply done, that it lookes like som drunk 90 year old has done it within a few minutes using the Paint function on his computer.
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Post by louise on Mar 21, 2017 12:58:06 GMT
Don't remember. we didn't get a DVD player until several years after they came out. I remember we got one for no.1 son first, for his birthday or Christmas, it was very expensive. I don't think we got one until they started doing recordable ones. i do remember transfering a lot of videos onto disc, and being quite annoyed because a few of them had been doctored so they couldn't be copied. One of them, annoyingly, was one of my fqvourite dr Who stories, terror of the Zygons. it was years before they brought it out on DVD.
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Post by izon on Mar 21, 2017 13:04:22 GMT
The first disc I got was Star Trek: Insurrection in 2002, I stuck with VHS until about 10 years ago when it became harder and harder to find tapes without resorting to the net. I used the original Xbox as my DVD player for many years.
I still buy more DVD's than Blu-Ray's, and I maintain that when viewed on a CRT via RGB, DVD does not look that bad.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 13:06:24 GMT
Army of Darkness Limited Edition back in 1999. This was the first time the director's cut was legally available in the US. Before that, my buddy had a laserdisc from Singapore. I bought this before I even had a DVD player, but I got one shortly after.... My first DVD player. It was $300 at the time:
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Post by Marv on Mar 21, 2017 13:06:57 GMT
Training Day
I remember because I got mad at myself for not buying one of my favorite films first. Not that TD is bad, just not my favorite.
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Post by Jerk on Mar 21, 2017 13:31:18 GMT
Dr. NO
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Post by SuperDevilDoctor on Mar 21, 2017 15:25:50 GMT
First DVD purchase, in 1999:
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (Anchor Bay edition)
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Post by NewtJorden on Mar 21, 2017 16:03:23 GMT
Carrie in 1998
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Post by jesserebel on Mar 21, 2017 16:49:09 GMT
The first DVD I bought was "The World is Not Enough" in 2000 with allowance money.
I watched that movie over and over lol. I was like 9.
I hated the idea of DVD when i was a kid. I did not want my parents to upgrade from VHS but they did in 1999 so I had to go with the flow lol.
In 2002 they bought me my own dvd player and a new TV and a bunch of 007 movies for my bday
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Mar 21, 2017 16:53:23 GMT
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