What was your 1st Blu-ray?
11-24-15, 09:44 AM
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Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
I bought All-Star Superman and Scott Pilgrim shortly before I bought a blu-ray player. They had special features the DVD versions didnt' have.
11-24-15, 10:06 AM
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11-24-15, 10:12 AM
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Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
I can't say I'm real proud of that answer, but I think it was a Columbia House deal where I got it for free. And like you, I didn't have a BD player at the time.
And here's the evidence.
11-24-15, 10:14 AM
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I tried advanced search but it told me "first" was too common. 
But here's a previous thread. I found it by searching for Bridge to Terabithia, which was my first title because it was on a list of eligible titles free with the PS3. I like the movie but of course I've never watched the BD.
First Blu-ray/HD-DVD title purchased?
But here's a previous thread. I found it by searching for Bridge to Terabithia, which was my first title because it was on a list of eligible titles free with the PS3. I like the movie but of course I've never watched the BD.
First Blu-ray/HD-DVD title purchased?
11-24-15, 10:48 AM
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Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
But then you explained it later in the thread:
11-24-15, 11:20 AM
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Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
During Blu-ray's launch weekend, I trekked out to Best Buy and picked up the obscenely overpriced, total p.o.s. Samsung BDP-1000 Blu-ray player along with copies of the notorious Fifth Element and House of Fying Daggers discs, plus The Terminator (indistinguishable from DVD) and Terminator 2 (mediocre at best).
Not a great start for the format. It almost didn't survive. Fortunately, things started to turn around about a year later.
Not a great start for the format. It almost didn't survive. Fortunately, things started to turn around about a year later.
11-24-15, 11:33 AM
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Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
Fifth Element
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And 8 others that were returned to WalMart after picking up a PS3 when they offered 10 free blurays with a PS3 purchase.
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And 8 others that were returned to WalMart after picking up a PS3 when they offered 10 free blurays with a PS3 purchase.
11-24-15, 12:37 PM
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Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus
IIRC, I found it in the local $2/$3 dump bins. I bought it two days before I actually purchased a bluray player. (It was less expensive than the dvd version of Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, in the same dump bin).
(Long rant).
Back in 2011 when I first started buying a lot of dvds, I kept on telling myself (privately) that I would never buy bluray. I had all kinds of excuses (whether true, false, or somewhere in between), such as:
- the bluray encryption was the uncrackable government grade AES standard
- requirement to constantly upgrade the firmware
- too many bluray movies didn't look much better than the dvd version (ie. Fifth Element, etc ...)
- too many complaints about excessive DNR (ie. First Blood 1, etc ...)
- no original Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones trilogy, etc ... (at the time unavailable on bluray)
- more expensive than the dvd versions (at the time)
- etc ...
When I came across Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus in the local $2/$3 dump bins, that's when I knew I had to buy a bluray player, despite all my previous resistance. At the time, I suspected bluray prices would be tumbling fast soon thereafter. It made no sense anymore to be dvd-only/anti-bluray.
IIRC, I found it in the local $2/$3 dump bins. I bought it two days before I actually purchased a bluray player. (It was less expensive than the dvd version of Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, in the same dump bin).
(Long rant).
Back in 2011 when I first started buying a lot of dvds, I kept on telling myself (privately) that I would never buy bluray. I had all kinds of excuses (whether true, false, or somewhere in between), such as:
- the bluray encryption was the uncrackable government grade AES standard
- requirement to constantly upgrade the firmware
- too many bluray movies didn't look much better than the dvd version (ie. Fifth Element, etc ...)
- too many complaints about excessive DNR (ie. First Blood 1, etc ...)
- no original Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones trilogy, etc ... (at the time unavailable on bluray)
- more expensive than the dvd versions (at the time)
- etc ...
When I came across Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus in the local $2/$3 dump bins, that's when I knew I had to buy a bluray player, despite all my previous resistance. At the time, I suspected bluray prices would be tumbling fast soon thereafter. It made no sense anymore to be dvd-only/anti-bluray.
11-24-15, 01:35 PM
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Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus
IIRC, I found it in the local $2/$3 dump bins. I bought it two days before I actually purchased a bluray player. (It was less expensive than the dvd version of Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, in the same dump bin).
(Long rant).
Back in 2011 when I first started buying a lot of dvds, I kept on telling myself (privately) that I would never buy bluray. I had all kinds of excuses (whether true, false, or somewhere in between), such as:
- the bluray encryption was the uncrackable government grade AES standard
- requirement to constantly upgrade the firmware
- too many bluray movies didn't look much better than the dvd version (ie. Fifth Element, etc ...)
- too many complaints about excessive DNR (ie. First Blood 1, etc ...)
- no original Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones trilogy, etc ... (at the time unavailable on bluray)
- more expensive than the dvd versions (at the time)
- etc ...
When I came across Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus in the local $2/$3 dump bins, that's when I knew I had to buy a bluray player, despite all my previous resistance. At the time, I suspected bluray prices would be tumbling fast soon thereafter. It made no sense anymore to be dvd-only/anti-bluray.
IIRC, I found it in the local $2/$3 dump bins. I bought it two days before I actually purchased a bluray player. (It was less expensive than the dvd version of Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, in the same dump bin).
(Long rant).
Back in 2011 when I first started buying a lot of dvds, I kept on telling myself (privately) that I would never buy bluray. I had all kinds of excuses (whether true, false, or somewhere in between), such as:
- the bluray encryption was the uncrackable government grade AES standard
- requirement to constantly upgrade the firmware
- too many bluray movies didn't look much better than the dvd version (ie. Fifth Element, etc ...)
- too many complaints about excessive DNR (ie. First Blood 1, etc ...)
- no original Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones trilogy, etc ... (at the time unavailable on bluray)
- more expensive than the dvd versions (at the time)
- etc ...
When I came across Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus in the local $2/$3 dump bins, that's when I knew I had to buy a bluray player, despite all my previous resistance. At the time, I suspected bluray prices would be tumbling fast soon thereafter. It made no sense anymore to be dvd-only/anti-bluray.
11-24-15, 01:43 PM
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11-24-15, 02:10 PM
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Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
The free box set of 50 First Dates, A Night at the Museum, and Invincible that came with my purchase at Circuit City in April 2008. It was a spur of the moment 18 month same as cash decision to get the PS3 as well on the week night that my box TV finally crapped out. I didn't actually go Blu-Ray shopping until later that weekend.
I have never watched any of those movies on Blu-ray though having recently watched the Dick Vermeil football life documentary on the NFL Network I'm sure I'll eventually revisit Invincible at some point.
I have never watched any of those movies on Blu-ray though having recently watched the Dick Vermeil football life documentary on the NFL Network I'm sure I'll eventually revisit Invincible at some point.
11-24-15, 05:32 PM
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Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
First Panasonic player I bought came with the first two Pirates of the Caribbean, Fantastic Four, Transporter, and Crash.
First movie I picked up was 300.
First movie I picked up was 300.
11-24-15, 06:00 PM
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Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
Inception steelbook.
11-24-15, 06:46 PM
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Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
The Expendables: Extended Director's Cut
Live Free or Die Hard
Both were purchased at Target at the same time as my Blu-ray player.
Live Free or Die Hard
Both were purchased at Target at the same time as my Blu-ray player.
11-24-15, 07:59 PM
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Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
Got my first Blu Rays after picking up a PS3 in early 2008
Not 100% sure but it might have been Blade Runner Complete Collector's Edition which I hemmed and hawed about ordering on Blu Ray or HD-DVD. That was one case where I chose correctly.
Also got very early on :
Underworld 1 & 2
Hellboy
Curse of the Golden Flower
Hairspray
Chicken Little*
Click*
The Corpse Bride*
Bridge To Terabithia*
The Last Waltz*
(*I think that these were from a promotional giveaway with purchase of a Blu Ray player as HD-DVD and Blu Ray fought each other to the death)
Not 100% sure but it might have been Blade Runner Complete Collector's Edition which I hemmed and hawed about ordering on Blu Ray or HD-DVD. That was one case where I chose correctly.
Also got very early on :
Underworld 1 & 2
Hellboy
Curse of the Golden Flower
Hairspray
Chicken Little*
Click*
The Corpse Bride*
Bridge To Terabithia*
The Last Waltz*
(*I think that these were from a promotional giveaway with purchase of a Blu Ray player as HD-DVD and Blu Ray fought each other to the death)
The only title I remember was Sphere.
