Your first ever DVD?

[Yonathan Gal]

For me, it was American History X, right here from the forums!... Nothing particular, just happened to be the first dvd I bought... and you? :)

[NexusSheep]

The Sixth Sense R2 from Play, back in March.

[JamieC460]

My first disc was the image entertainment edition of Robocop, I purchased this from the late, Lamented Laserdiscount in Chelmsford. I wonder whatever happened to Tom, Does anyone know?

[ian_davies]

Fight Club R1 from my good friend Neetsy in #dvdtimes ;) Bought it two months before I got my player! Still my fave film. :clap:

[mikegray]

Scream (R1) - back in April of '98... to think it was nearly two hundred discs ago now... <sigh> - all that money... :(

[charlie angel]

Dog Day Afternoon R2 - great film, average disc.

[john316]

Austin Powers: IMoM and WWF: Stone Cold in a 2 for £30 at Virgin were my first 2 purchases. Got them a week before my Sammy 709 arrived!

Got the DVDs and player in about April/May 2000 for my birthday in May

[mjb1975]

I bought The Matrix and Go in a 'two for thirty quid' thing at Virgin. It was a while back now maybe around September 99......

[TimK]

Matrix (R2) in Dec 99. Since exchanged for R4 thanks to this Forum.

[cervaro]

My first ever DVD was 'Out of Sight' (R1) which I asked my parents to get for me whilst out in the US in early 1999. First one I actually bought was American Pie : Unrated (R1) I seem to recall, and was my first order with DVD Box Office. That was nearly 450 discs ago. :eek:

Note to self : must drastically prune DVD purchases this year (with over 10 already on pre-order for early 2002!)

[Citysmith]

I bought Goodfellas when I bought my player, my fave film of all time. The thing is that it's a flipper, and in all my wisdom I believed that all DVDs were made that way. Now a silly amount of DVDs later it's still my fave film what a terrible DVD for extras and the like.

Special Edition please:)

[Bedford]

Pokemon 2000 R1 on the 01/01/01 from some nice woman in Scotland of Ebay.

[jroadley]

OK, I got the R2 Godzilla with my DVD player (Still have it!) I then purchased R2 Leathel Weapon 4 from Virgin Megastores. Then got it chipped (£80!!!) and the mass DVD purchasing started.

Sold LW4 to get the uncut R1 for a tenner! :D

[cheese_mcphee]

Mine were Sleepy Hollow and Mystery Men from a buy-one-get-one-half-price sale in Woolworths.

Bought them before the player which was a mistake considering I had to take it back :(

[urruri]

Taxi Driver Region 2

[Akuma]

My first was Lethal Weapon 4 (R2)

"Sold LW4 to get the uncut R1 for a tenner! "
Uncut? damn it :(

[danielsesay]

Bring It On (R1), back in March 2001 from DVD Box Office. That film made me a Kirsten Dunst fan! :nuts: :D

[JamesW]

LA Confidential (R2) back in December 1999 before I even had a player. :D

[kcxdev]

Armageddon r2, after my player was delivered in Nov 99 and I realised I had nothing to test it with :p

[Paul490]

My first ever DVD was Midnight Express (R2) from HMV for £19.99 in early 2000. I absolutely adored that film - I gradually came to know a lot more about DVD, though.

I am now a DVD addict with my own DVD player and plenty of DVDs... help me get out of this life!!!!!!11111111 ;)

[psycrow]

The epic I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. Jennifer Love Hewitt's in it, man!

[Gandalf]

The Matrix in 1999 from DVDExpress in the good old days :)

Got my Sammy 709 2 months later and my credit card has never been the same :rolleyes:

Paul.

[Alan. b]

The Corrs - Live At The Royal Albert Hall and Merlin back in June 1999. My first 'film' was Armageddon from Play later that month.

[Idle Child]

ah, fond memories.

my first two dvds (bought at the same time from PC world, in a 2 for £30 deal) back in Sep 99 were the r2 bare bones From Dusk Till Dawn ;) and R2 warner flipper Wild Bunch.
had to test out the DVD rom somehow!
Quite a nice couple to start my legacy and new addiction i believe. and i've come along way since then too.. :D

[Enforcer]

My first DVD was "The Exterminator - Director's Cut".


Too bad it's not an Anamorphic DVD, but it's still a good movie.

[jonathan_d]

matrix region 1 :)

[Madm@tt]

TWINE - From Tesco £17.99... D'oh!

[sampath]

T'was the night before Christmas.... err, well not quite, mid December of the year 1999 - I had placed the order for my first ever DVD player, and before I even got hold of it I rushed off to my local Tescos and for the sum of £16.99 got myself a brand spanking new copy of The Matrix...

...before I found out the film was cut and £17 was a ripoff. :rolleyes: Ah well ya win some, ya lose some.

:D

[FightForTheRight]

That'll be Bad Boys and Ghostbusters from WH Smith in a Buy One Get One Half Price offer - back in July this year (when I got me DVD player).

150 discs later (I've now got a total of 152! :eek: ) and Ghostbusters still ranks as one of my faves.

I might add that all 152 have been bought in the last 5 months! :eek: :nuts:

[Xenole]

The Matrix (R2) and two others I can't remember from WHSmiths as I got some gift vouchers for Xmas, they were doing 3 for 2, and if I bought them, I'd have to buy a DVD player to watch them......

[Alanok]

Ahhhh memories....... Iron Giant R2 and Contact R2 in a by two for £20 Virgin offer.

First trade on the DVDclassifieds was Beastie Boys Criterion.

[Darlo]

Snake eyes, before I realized that DVDs should have special features!

[Sima]

Blade (R2) - Way back in August 99

:)

[Gromit]

Mummy R2 before I discovered the forums and got my played chipped.

[carrott_girl]

Originally posted by danielsesay
Bring It On (R1), back in March 2001 from DVD Box Office. That film made me a Kirsten Dunst fan! :nuts: :D

OI! you copy! Bring it On was my first disk as well in March. But not for the same reasons I guess. :D

[Pentasa]

My first purchase was R2 version of Fallen which I eventually got round to enjoying about a year after I got my DVD player :clap:

[Mr Perfect]

hmm...

I bought Urban Legend and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer in a WH Smith 2 for £30 thing on the way to pick up my little Wharfedale back in December '99.

I believe it was the cover of I Still Know... with Jennifer Love Hewitt which finally drove me to get a DVD Player :D


High brow entertainment (http://www.dvdprofiler.com/mycollection.asp?alias=MrPerfect)

[r.griffiths]

As Good As It Gets - Region 2

8 mm - Region 1

Three Kings - Region 4

Croughing Tiger HD - Region 3

Cannibal the Musical :clap: - Region 0

[Lee S]

Starship Troopers (R1),Fifth Element (R1) and Tomorrow Never Dies (R1) back in May'98.

Had only seen Starship Troopers a couple of months before in the cinema and couldn't believe it was available to buy albeit on R1.

[danrees]

American Beauty R2, which I got at the same time as my player.

[Davester]

Us Marshalls, then some other r2's (rip offs) then i found reel!!:D

[Joe Pasquale]

Feb 2000 - R1 Shawshank Redemption, watched it straight away, never watched it since. :(

My first R2 was after buying a good 40 or so R1's while living in the states, True Romance I think around summer 2000.

[r.griffiths]

Oh, small hint if anyone doesnt know, but if you have a player which doesnt play RCE titles, then try the Region 3 version. So far so good. The animal and Charlies Angels work!

[JimDriver2]

I bought 2 in a buy 1 get 2nd 1/2 price in Smiths way back in June '99. I got Face/off and Jackie Brown, and both flippers :mad: I was a bit put out until I found out not all dvd's were flippers!

[MrThomas]

My first ever was Matrix RC2 .... ! Now, I have 90 discs. Very proud of it :D

[DavidMcGowan]

The first DVD I ever tried on my player was a rented copy of Father's Day in February 1999 -- I really wanted to try out my player, and of the extremely poor selection of discs at my local rental store this was the best!
My first purchased DVD was the following month - Lethal Weapon 4 - because I wanted to see what extras were like. Little did I know the R1 edition was much better...

[Riker]

The Mask Of Zorro Region 1 way back in January 98 - still a lovely little disc even though its been replaced by a special edition now.

My god - I now have over 260 DVD's I need to stop (I want to buy a house!)

[nickeng]

StarShip Troopers R1 in Mid 1998 was my first on. Picked up in the Mall of America in the USSA (the USA biggest shopping center)

Well worth a visit....

[Toothy]

Contact R2 which IIRC I bought in April 1999.

[Matt.Wild]

Notting Hill - my little sister bought me it and forced me to get a player in very late '99!! Would have saved me a pile of cash if she hadn't!!!

That said, the dvd bug has died on me now... only bought 4 since September or so :(

[Roberto]

Contact - September 1997

quickly followed by, Batman, Sphere and Maverick in the same month. (got my player 2 weeks later :D) has anyone bought anything pre September 1997?

[jeddie]

Mine were The Matrix & Armaggeddon in a two for £30 in 99

Still got both but would like Criterion Armageddon

[cwjliu]

R2's "Batman & Robin" for testing the audio, back in July of 1998.
R1's "Sliding Doors" for testing my chiped dvd player, back in Dec of 1998.

[nwgarratt]

Air Force One R1
Mars Attacks R2

July 98

[CLH]

R2 Enemy of the State December 1999.

Wife allows me one per month so today must be somtime in 2007 I guess?!:clap:

[Robby]

Shawshank Redemption, Brassed Off & Riverdance i got free with my players. (Sammy 807)

My first purchase was Godzilla at Woolies.
Followed by Rush Hour 1 & Blade as my first r1 from Admit One (anyone remember them??)
And Battle Royale my first R3. No R4s as of yet.

[Rathion]

Matrix R2 gift from my wife for my ps2!
Waiting for my new player should be here next week and it's multi region so will be after a better version.

[mardyChris]

Seven Samuri BFI R2

Do I win anything for having a classy 1st dvd?

[AndyWilson]

Big Lebowski R1 from Play in Dec 98 was the first I ordered...
Contact R2 from MVC was the first i played..

[jimmyx]

Hellraiser amazing 4:3 picture and Jerry Maguire for the missus, don't tell her I sold it!!!!

[Nimak]

Starship Troopers - Just got a DVD Player for my PC and wanted to try it out.. Took longer to find some DVD Software.. But 1 year later - Got 250+ DVD's and rapidly growing - (Order 4 more today) LOL:brickwall

[keoma]

Originally posted by Roberto
Contact - September 1997

quickly followed by, Batman, Sphere and Maverick in the same month. (got my player 2 weeks later :D) has anyone bought anything pre September 1997?

Nearly.
I got I know What You Did Last Summer in October '97.
I'd imported a Panasonic A310 and it was so bloody frustrating
waiting to get something to play on it.
Had 3 more machines since and I'm considering upgrading again.
Damn this hobby !!.

[deftone666]

Although I'm embarrased to admit it,if my memory serves me correctly it was a copy of Friends that my missus picked up when we got our DVD drive in the PC.This was in October '99, I then brought The Mummy and in March the following year brought my Sammy 709 and joined these here forums (had to change names for technical reasons). You may be amazed to know I still haven't cracked the 100 mark although I'm now on my second player and have spent a bomb on hardware.

[Ol' Blue Eyes]

LA Confidential & Tin Cup together way back in January 99.

[phlebas]

R2 Life is Beautiful in January 2000 from Blackstar, the only online DVD retailer I knew about at the time. I had just bought a DVD-ROM drive and watched the DVD with rather poor software decoding on my PII 233 with its 15 inch monitor. I subsequently moved to a hardware decoder and a 17", before finally getting myself a Pioneer DV444.

[M@T]

The Rock R1 back in Feb 98 which I paid £24:nuts:

[sbooth]

Species and Goldeneye! Way back 190 discs ago in 1998. Sold Goldeneye to get the SE when that came out though.

[splobber]

First region 2 - There's Something About Mary

First region 1 - The Matrix

[Ragnar]

Mine was Starship Troopers & I Know What You Did Last Summer, both R1, costing £21 each from Laser Enterprises, along with my first DVD player Panasonic A110 (R1 only) in June 98.

[Gorky]

On the day i got my player, i went out and got R2 Matrix Pleasantville, and Run Lola Run, a couple of weeks later i made my first R1 order of Three Kings, Bugs life:collectors edition, and, Being John Malkovich

[rumbletum]

Back in May 99, the day I got my player I bought Scream, Scream 2, Jackie Brown & From Dusk Till Dawn (WH Smth were doing buy 1 get 1 half price)

The worrying thing is, nearly 3 years later I still havent got round to watching Jackie Brown

[pompeyfan]

The Mummy and The 13th Warrior in a DVDStreet 15% off promotion in March 2000:)

Still watch both of'em:)

[mixalot]

Mine was Region 1 Starship troopers bought it before I even had a dvd player.

[neilalford]

February 1998, from the Bristol Hi-Fi show, The Toxic Avenger, Mars Attacks and Jerry Maguire. Then I went up to Richer Sounds to get a player and they'd sold out:mad:

[Dan Druff]

The Game, Dixons, Dublin. October 1999.

[Werdna007]

Mine were R1 versions of Die Hard and Die Hard II. (I'd worn out my VHS copies).
Actually I purchased both discs together before buying my first DVD player. (Like quite a few other members of this forum) :nuts:

[JonBurns]

American History X for me. Came out of the Cinema and thought Wow, got to see that film again, brutal ending.

Paid about £18 I think from DC-DVD. when it still seemed to be a home based opperation. Had to send a cheque as no online ordering.

[sanejo]

The Thin Red Line or was it MIB, bugger I forgot.

[Questor]

Fight Club R1 for me, back in June last year, 2 months before I got my first player, from reel.com

I got it with $10 off after answering all those movie trivia questions they used to do, remember that? 709 online was a godsend then, giving us the answer every day ;)

[Mark]

I bought Grosse Point Blank the day before the courier delivered my trusty Sony 725. :cool:

[playaslaya]

My first was Men In Black (R2) Limited Edition in Sept 2000. I had a £5 Amazon voucher which was about to run out so I thought I have to use it quick!

Cool film, cool DVD set!
It will always hold a special place in my heart!!!:D :clap: :nuts:

[Mark Orme]

Both The Thing and Ronin from Virgin the morning after I got my player almost 2 years ago. Both full price :eek: but I think I got a 10% student discount ;) . Both very enjoyable.

First R1, Fight Club.

[Ben Martin]

blade runner (R1) from the disc emporium way back at the end of april 1998.

[Dear Mr Echo]

I got The Thing R1 quickly followed by Starship Troopers from DVD Box Office in September 98.
Can't believe I paid just shy of £600 for my player (Sony S715) in October 98 - its still going strong though.

I was in the USA in April '97 about the time of the launch and was very, very tempted to get a player and some discs then - player was $399 - can't remember how much the discs were then - but there were just the Warner titles available, Batman, Exorcist and the like.

Andrew

[Cali Clarke]

Emergency purchase of The Matrix and A Bugs Life (think it was a buy one get one cheaper deal) in Blockbusters in Reading when we realised that we'd got all the right cables from Richer Sounds to make the new dvd player, amp and speakers work but we didn't have a disc to play! Must've been about Feb 2000

Both great movies, my first experience of the wonders of DVD and blew me away with the new setup - Don't think I've bought another disc from Blockbuster since tho...

[dlintheuk]

Disclosure & Mars Attacks, scammed with the player on the day of Launch of DVD in the UK (Or the first day the Local Sony Centre actually had a player). April 1998 I believe.....

[skier1066]

R2 Contact was my first purchase, it was the film that was demo'd to me at the Comet where I bought my first dvd player.

Still remember how fantastic I thought the picture quality was....