Austin Powers in 1998 and I still have it.

Fight Club and Hal Hartley's The Book of Life in April of 2001.

Still have them both.

Reservoir Dogs, The Little Mermaid, The Jungle Book, and Austin Powers back in Nov.'99... Dont have Austin Powers anymore, but still have the other three.

The Right Stuff, a flipper in a snapper, bought sometime in 98 still have it. Bought Armageddon and Face/Off, soon after, also flippers. Have since upgraded Armageddon and Face/Off. Never did get around to getting TRS SE

The Punisher 1989, and Romeo Must Die - Yes

My first four were CutThroat Island, The Right Stuff, Amadeus and From Russia with Love. Except for The Right Stuff, which I upgraded when the 2-disc set came out, I still have them all.

my first dvd was "Go" which I still own but haven't watched in forever. I think I know what I'm going to do tonight.

I bought A Time To Kill, Space Jam and The Glimmer Man on 3/24/1997. I still have them all.

The Sixth Sense - Vista Collection

My first dvd was Jeremiah Johnson and I still have it

The Matrix. Back when it came out on DVD in 1999, DVD was not the juggernaut that it is today. I had just scored a new job making double what I had been, and I had my vacation pay from my previous job, so I decided to treat myself to a new DVD player. My only requirement was that whatever store I bought it from had to have The Matrix available on DVD also (it had just come out a few days before). Best Buy and Target were sold out of their 5 copies, but I got the last one at Circuit City.

Do I still have it? Not anymore. I had it up until last summer's Deep Discount 20% sale, where I finally broke down and bought the box set.

Somewhere around here I have a list of the first 25 or so DVD's I owned (out of my near 1300 now). It'd be interesting to find that and see how many are still in my collection. I'm betting 20, and the other 5 are gone because I upgraded.

The first dvd I ever bought was Rock & Roll High School. It was one of the first dvd's I ever seen and I bought it without even having a dvd player. It was housed in the standard cd case and YES I still have it!

The Buena Vista Social Club by Wim Wenders. Back in those days when I paid US$60 equivalent for an import DVD. Yes, it's still here.... somewhere.

First one I ever got was the original Seven Samurai as a gift. I still have it but because of the recent double dip it's on the donate list. IIRC I also got 7 or so free w/ my first player (ah... the deals back then ) and I'm pretty sure I still have some of those (Lost in Space I still have, Sphere I got rid of, Unknown Marx Brothers I still have, Ran was double dipped... don't recall the others). The first one I ever bought was one of Jackie Chan's lesser known titles (Shaolin Wooden Men or Fearless Hyena or something like that, at full price at Suncoast I think ) and that has since been double dipped as well w/ a better version.

Got my first DVD player in 1999, and bought

Heat
The Saint
and a third I can't recall. It might have been True Romance.

Heat and the third DVD were stolen in a break-in (along with the entirety of my collection at the time, except for... The Saint, which was in my backpack for some reason).

Replaced them with the SEs later on.

"Starship Troopers", "Out of Sight" and "Zero Effect". I sold that original "Troopers" release long ago to upgrade to both the SE and the Superbit. I still own the other two DVDs.

in december of '00 i got my first dvd player and purchased three amigos, chasing amy, mallrats, stand by me, and teenage mutant ninja turtles. i still own all of them.

My first was X-Men, later I got the X-Men 1.5 but I still keep my original because I liked the Fox special and the Spiderman appearance blooper.

November of '98, bought Can't Hardly Wait and The Wedding Singer on the same receipt w/ my Sony, also had the 5 free mail-in offer for: Lost in Space, U.S. Marshalls, A Perfect Murder, Sphere, and something that escapes me. I still have everything but A Perfect Murder and possibly the other movie.

My first DVD was A Charlie Brown Christmas, which I obtained by collecting cap points from a Pepsi promotion in 2000. I still have it, and watch it every year around Christmas.

My wife bought me my first player, a surround sound setup, and a DVD for Christmas 2001. The DVD was Driven, and after hooking up the HT that night we watched it, and still have it. Though we haven't watched it since, it was a good movie to have for a first exposure to 5.1 audio and (at the time s-video) higher quality video. It got me interested enough in the format to dive in full on after that.

Elvis: Thats The Way It Is - A full screener. Even though I upgraded to the awesome new widescreen transfer and redited disc a few years back, I still have the original

The Matrix
The Long Kiss Goodnight

Mine was the original Tron release, purchased in 1999, when the only DVD "player" I had was my Mac. I sold the disc to my brother when the 20th Anniversary Edition came out...not sure if he still has it in his collection or not.

Criterion's Brazil set was my first dvd purchase, in '99 - that was the release that made me buckle and get a dvd player.

I still have the Brazil box and it's 2 supplemental discs, but I replaced the movie disc with the new anamorphic version Criterion just put out.

It was 1998 and I bought 4 movies at the same time I bought my first player

This Is Spinal Tap (Criterion)
Fargo
True Romance
Pulp Fiction

I still have them all even though I've upgraded them (The 2nd Spinal Tap is more of a supplemental edition because of different extras)

The really weird one here is the original Fargo. It came in a bizarre sliding drawer type case that actually makes snappers preferable.

My major regret that day is that I had John Woo's The Killers (criterion) in my hands and didn't buy it!