1st DVD you ever watched?
03-21-06, 04:59 PM
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Pretty sure my first one watched was the first one I purchased....Jason X.
03-21-06, 05:14 PM
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I got my player for X-mas 1999 but i had it set up a few weeks before that. I had bought "The Matrix" some weeks before getting my player and i regualrly showed off some choice scenes on it before i technically "got it".
The first actual movie i sat and watched from beginning to end was "American Pie: Unrated Version". I remember being quite amazed that i was sitting watching this movie in my home probably 6 months after i had seen in in the theater.
The first actual movie i sat and watched from beginning to end was "American Pie: Unrated Version". I remember being quite amazed that i was sitting watching this movie in my home probably 6 months after i had seen in in the theater.
03-21-06, 05:16 PM
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First one I bought and watched was Big Daddy followed by Friday. This was late 1997.
And someone else recalled the General's Daughter being his first DVD viewed in 1998. However, it also came out (theatrically) in 1999.
03-21-06, 05:59 PM
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Originally Posted by chess
The Matrix
Preordered it before I even owned a player...and made a point to play it first. Loved that flick.
Preordered it before I even owned a player...and made a point to play it first. Loved that flick.
these are fun, i am really enjoying reading everyone's stories and 1st times!!
03-21-06, 06:04 PM
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Blade Runner on my friend's dvd-player the day they first came out.
We thought it looked so amazing at the time, and now BR is considered to have one of the worst transfers out there.
We thought it looked so amazing at the time, and now BR is considered to have one of the worst transfers out there.
03-21-06, 06:14 PM
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Imax: Antartica or Imax: Tropical Rainforsest in March 1997... I can't remember which one I watch all the way through at the Home THeater Store I worked at the first day they were available. (Ah... The joys of being an independent store.)
All of our initial fears about digital compression, they were horrible.
Unfortunately, the next film we ended up watching was Twister, another disaster.
Fortunately Sony's stuff shipped sometime in April and proved the format could actually work.
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All of our initial fears about digital compression, they were horrible.
Unfortunately, the next film we ended up watching was Twister, another disaster.
Fortunately Sony's stuff shipped sometime in April and proved the format could actually work.
fitprod
03-21-06, 06:29 PM
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Ah, I remeber it well. I had just gotten my first DVD player the night before, and the next day we had a huge blizzard - there by effectively making it impossible to do pretty much anything but stay home and break in the new unit watching movies all day.
First up was The Matrix, and it was also the first time I saw it, having not gotten the chance to see it in the theaters. Next up was Mallrats (which was the first DVD owned), followed by The Beatles-Yellow Submarine.
First up was The Matrix, and it was also the first time I saw it, having not gotten the chance to see it in the theaters. Next up was Mallrats (which was the first DVD owned), followed by The Beatles-Yellow Submarine.
03-21-06, 06:30 PM
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No idea. It was at a friends some time back in 97.
Though, the first title of my own that I watched was Ghost in the Shell on my PC some time in late 98 I believe. Still have the same PC running strong as ever though I've since upgraded and own three copies of GITs .. with one more to get. Shit, maybe I should stop with the DVDs and upgrade my PC ...
Though, the first title of my own that I watched was Ghost in the Shell on my PC some time in late 98 I believe. Still have the same PC running strong as ever though I've since upgraded and own three copies of GITs .. with one more to get. Shit, maybe I should stop with the DVDs and upgrade my PC ...
03-21-06, 09:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr. Cinema
The first title I ever bought....Rush Hour.
03-21-06, 10:18 PM
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Blade Runner, on my PC through a Creative DVD decoder card (no software players back then) outputing to some shitty 44" tv from like a zillion foot s-video cable running from upstairs to downstairs in my parents house.
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03-21-06, 10:47 PM
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"Pink Floyd - The Wall" on my brother's laptop that he got from work. I remember wondering why it looked so much better on the computer than it did on the TV I hooked up to the computer. haha. Sadly, I haven't watched that DVD since getting my HDTV last year... maybe I'll pop that in this weekend.
03-21-06, 10:57 PM
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Originally Posted by onabudget
"Jerry Maguire" which came free with my then newly bought DVD/LD combi player.
It's been almost 10 years
It's been almost 10 years
Same here. I bought my first DVD Player from the Home Shopping NEtwork and it was an RCA and came with "Jerry Maguire" and "In the Line of Fire".