First DVD you watched?
 

In response to the always banal question, "What was the last DVD you watched?" I'm proposing this question instead.

The first one I watched was The Little Mermaid and I remember the blinders being lifted from my eyes and I realized I would never watch another VHS tape (except when a film wasn't available on DVD) again.

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I can remember the first CD I ever listened to but cannot remember the first DVD I watched.

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The first DVD I ever watched was There's Something About Mary, which was also the very first DVD I ever owned.

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Daylight, since that was one of about 10 movies the store I bought my first player at had. Soundtrack kicks ass. Have it on HD-DVD now but have never had time to watch that.

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I'm pretty sure it was 2002's Insomnia.

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Terminator (1984)

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10th Anniversary Director's Cut of Highlander. And I still have it.

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Can't remember the actual first DVD I watched (of a friend who essentially got me into collecting back in the day) but it was back in 97. Although once I began collecting in 99 the first one I watched was Ghost in the Shell on my PC (which was also a first for me).

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The first DVD I watched was Evita with Madonna. My parents gave me my player and a handful of (outrageously expensive) DVDs for Christmas, and I insisted that we watch it.

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Good question, I love me some nostalgia porn. The first DVD I watched was A Bugs Life the second was Clerks. I also watched those dozens of times, because after buying a new computer with a DVD drive my wallet was light for quite a while. I remember I had to use up my savings AND get a Circuit City charge card.

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Erin Brokovich at my mother in laws and father in laws house. My father in law always gets the latest gadgets. Man I was totally blown away with the picture quality. I was about a month later that I got a DVD player and some DVDs.

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The First Movie DVDs I watched were Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and Spiderman II, the First TV DVD I watched was Thunderbirds which back in 1965 was the my first introduction to Science Fiction. All in 2002.

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Can't recall the first DVD I watched, but the first DVD I owned was the original Classic Media Terror of Mechagodzilla, bought with my first DVD Player.

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My first watch DVD in Gremlins (1984) when I purchase in DVD player.

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The Dark Crystal, which was a Chistmas gift from my grandmother in 1999. I didn't even have a player at that point, but I asked for it anyway because I loved the movie so much.

When my parents did buy our first player a week later (a "Y2K Compatible" Oritron :rolleyes:), they were unable to hook it up to our old floor model televison. The AV cables had to be routed through the VCR whenever we wanted to watch a movie. :lol:

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No idea how people remember stuff like this. But if I had to guess, I'd say Star Trek First Contact. Pretty sure that was in the first batch of titles I bought, but I probably had at least a dozen before I bought my first player.

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For me it was "The World is Not Enough" and "End of Days" - both were new releases when I bought my first DVD player and costco had a promotion where if you bought a DVD player you could pick out three titles under $25 for free. I forget what the third one was because I returned it a few days later.

I'll never forget afterwards my Dad (I was 13 when I bought my first player) thought that there was something wrong with the TV after we switched from DVD back to regular broadcast TV.

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It was either a Doctor Who ("The Five Doctors") or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, both of which I had bought before getting a DVD player.

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DVD was also my first encounter with that intertesting S-Video cable. I would lecture people on how it helped deliver a superior image compared to VHS. However I believe (?) that it was also used with S-VHS.

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I bought several movies with my first player. So it was either Vertigo, Singin' in the Rain, or Bull Durham. I'm thinking it was probably Singin' in the Rain.

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At a friend's house, he showed me TRON, the Disney barebones edition in a white case. I was amazed by the sharpness of it. I loved the look of the film transfer with the dust and scratches, it made it more theatrical. I was impressed how clear the picture was, even when it was paused. The ability to randomly access anywhere in the movie, was revolutionary. I was dumbfounded how an entire movie could fit onto one little disc. I knew DVD was something special and I had to purchase one soon, even though most players were around $400 and movies in the $30-$40 range.

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I want to say Good Will Hunting, but I could be completely wrong.

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Mine was A Beautiful Mind. I was blown away by the extras. Holy Shit, I can watch this movie with Ron Howard explaining the scenes.

Wish I could go back to that initial excitement. Now I rarely bother with commentaries.

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In the 'First DVD you ever purchased' thread, I guessed it was Legend (the 2-disc Ultimate Edition), so I would have to say that it was also the first DVD I ever watched...;) -kd5-

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Office Space.

Later, when I started buying DVDs that was also one of the first I bought.