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Old 10-11-2005, 3:47 PM   #1
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What was the first DVD everyone ever bought?
What was the first DVD everyone ever bought? My first DVD was Gladiator
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Old 10-11-2005, 3:51 PM   #2
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the waterboy and cosy £24 from hmv trafford center when dvd's 1st came out.
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1999, The Matrix (also from the Trafford Centre, WHS) and I thought there was something wrong with the DVD player as there was a lot of green in it
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Old 10-11-2005, 4:10 PM   #4
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Unforgiven, The Wild Bunch and Goldeneye on region 1. 8 yrs ago now!!!
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The Fifth Element R1 and Mars Attacks R2 back in 1998.
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Old 10-11-2005, 4:16 PM   #6
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Tomorrow Never Dies was the first DVD I bought, which I paid £24.99 from Virgin about 10 minutes after spending £450 on my old Pioneer DV-505 dvd player

And after coming from laserdisc, I thought £24.99 was cheap
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Matrix for me, was determined this DVD format would die and Laserdisc would continue to rule.....Because i had spent so much money on it....ah well.
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Old 10-11-2005, 4:19 PM   #8
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And after coming from laserdisc, I thought £24.99 was cheap
So true, i still shake my head when people say £15.99 is too expensive for a DVD, try £50 a pop on LD when new!
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Old 10-11-2005, 4:21 PM   #9
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Walking with Dinosaurs, must be 5 or 6 years ago and it remains my favourite TV programme of recent years. Bought it the same day I got my Toshiba 100e - still in use but relegated to the bedroom.
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Old 10-11-2005, 4:27 PM   #10
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Fargo Region2 for 22.99 at the same as buying my panasonic A350 for.....£599! This must have been 1998.

Not bad considering I haggled them down from £750!

And the multiregion chip cost me £150 and had to be imported from the Netherlands...adn I had to fit it myself

And the player still works perfectly!
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Old 10-11-2005, 4:49 PM   #11
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i bought my panasonic A100 and "Unforfiven" on the same day. there were only about 10 films to choose from! as for how long ago, i'm not sure if it was '98 or '97, maybe someone else remembers better when all this happened?
i too had to fit the mod chip myself, bought from the now apparently defunct techtronics.
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Old 10-11-2005, 4:51 PM   #12
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Goodfellas (2 sided ) and The Wild Bunch
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Old 10-11-2005, 4:56 PM   #13
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Ahh yes the flippers Could never understand why people moaned so much about these....after coming from laserdisc where some movies would be on 2 discs it never did (or still does) bother me.
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Old 10-11-2005, 5:13 PM   #14
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Ahh yes the flippers Could never understand why people moaned so much about these....after coming from laserdisc where some movies would be on 2 discs it never did (or still does) bother me.
Same here. My first laserdisc player didn't flip the sides for me and I didn't mind doing it myself. I bet someone with DVD wouldn't except that.
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Old 10-11-2005, 5:20 PM   #15
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The evil dead and terminator 2 in a buy one get one free from HMV,
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The Mummy I just bought my first DVD player from Dixon's it had just got a very high rating in What Hi-Fi at £230 and it was £160, and Dixon's had the DVD on cheap £10.

I was both impresed DVD and the picture quality of the disc.
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Old 10-11-2005, 5:29 PM   #17
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Bought my tosh 2109 for £300 expecting to get 3 free dvd's. Had to send off for them, so ended up buying Enemy of the State and Ronin at the same time.
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Old 10-11-2005, 5:32 PM   #18
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i bought 3 at once from play, R1 Blade, Lost in space, and R2 Fallen. and i didn't even have a dvd player!!! got them to make sure i did buy one....sat and looked at them for 4 days till my player arrived...this was way back in 99 (i think!)
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Old 10-11-2005, 5:42 PM   #19
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Back in 97 (I think) Batman and L A Confidential came free with my £560!!!! Panasonic A-360.

Which I almost destroyed fitting my own mod chip from techtronics.
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So true, i still shake my head when people say £15.99 is too expensive for a DVD, try £50 a pop on LD when new!
In 1980 my local video store wanted £89.99 for Dirty Harry....and there were people buying. I decided then to stick to renting. How times change.
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Got My first dvd player for my 21st in '02 (2 actually, that's another story). First disc was Shrek. Got that one so I could show every1 the effects of 5.1 without offending :P Well over 120 divo's now
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1999 for me, ENTRAPMENT I think was one of 5 purchases whilst I was waiting for my Sony DVD player to arrive from an internet company. Got it from play.com, when they were play247.com and they only sold DVD's!!
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My first DVD was Pink Floyd 'The Wall' film, I went out and got the DVD and a player to play it on because the VHS copy I had was SO poor. I was amazed at the picture and sound quality.
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R1 Blade Runner in 99 - Cant remember how much it was but I do remember it was quite a bit with customs charge slapped on top as well
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My first dvd was a R1 Lethal weapon 4 from www.dvdexpress.com (doesnt seem exist anymore) which i bought for my creative dvd drive next i bought R2 Tomorrow never dies from comet
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I bought the original R1 release of Terminator 2 way back in 1997 before you could buy R2 discs. £21.99 I think it was from DiscEmporium.

I remember the farce of being able to buy a R2 DVD player but not being able to buy R2 discs. Modding my original Denon DVD2000 (Panny clone) required opening the thing up yourself and snipping one of the legs on a microchip.

It was a great time.....nobody even new what a DVD was but I could wow visiters with this new marvel technology and 5.1 sound.

Its boring now everyone has one.
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Back in March 97 - bought a few when the local laserdisc dealer had imported some Toshiba 2108 players. Interview with the Vampire, Batman, Blade Runner and Space Jam. Wasn't much choice but at half the price of laserdisc's it was rude not to.
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The hubbie bought me my first dvd - Go for £19.99

think it was 2000, my first dvd player, Toshiba cost me £299 (and that was in the sale)
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