What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

and really apologize if this has been done, by me even, but i did search on "first" and "1st"...

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

I tried advanced search but it told me "first" was too common. :rolleyes:

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?

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

how come?

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

I dunno--it seemed more interesting than the other titles on the list at the time.

EDIT: Or if you mean how come I never watched it, I had already seen it (and probably owned it on DVD--remember these were the "build your collection" days), and for whatever reason I never had the urge to watch it again. Still haven't actually.

In that other thread, the first HD DVD I got was Serenity, and I've watched that movie umpteen times, including the BD I bought later.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

Pretty sure it was Casino Royale. That was one of the few Bd specific titles I had any interest in at that point.

Circuit City also gave me two free discs with the player so I grabbed The Departed and Black Snake Moan, which is still unopened.
Will probably finally get around to seeing that again in the next couple months.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

Casino Royale was my first as well.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

The Prestige.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

Across the Universe, I think.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

Not sure, I think it was one of:

Dark City
The Searchers
Forbidden Planet
Five Deadly Venoms

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

Fifth Element
Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)
Close Encounters (box)

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

Superman Returns? I can't quite remember.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

The John Adams miniseries

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

50 First Dates, only because that was one of the very first titles released (I put up the product info for it on the tower.com website) and I wanted to have at least one of them- I got it cheap during Tower's going out of business sale. I wish I'd gotten the first Fifth Element disc just because I never saw what was so bad about it. 50 First Dates uses MPEG2 format video but looks great to me (it's not a great movie), it also has analog closed captions and wonderfully obnoxious menu sounds. I didn't have an HDTV til about 3 years later!

I think South Park Season 12 and Screwballs were the first Blu-Rays I actually bought because I wanted them- not the greatest choices I know.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

The Descent on blu.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

Watchmen (The Director's Cut) on Blu

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

I'm fairly positive that it was The Shining. That along with Tropic Thunder and Foo Fighters: Live at Wembley Stadium were some of the first I bought.

Edit: I replied to the old thread too and said the same titles so guess I still do remember.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

No Country For Old Men.

No player at the time, but I had a disc.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

Best Buy's exclusive theatrical sneak peak of Hancock.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

I didn't buy just one. My first Blu-rays were

Coraline
Starship Troopers Box set
Splinter
Surveillance
My Bloody Valentine (Remake)
The Last House on the Left (Remake)
Friday the 13th (Remake)
Mutant Chronicles
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

Inception was my first Blu. I got it before I even had a Blu Ray player but I wanted it to be my first High Def experience.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

Jaws

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

42nd street forever

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)
http://wesleytech.com/wp-content/upl...reemovies3.JPG

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

300

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.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

I got my PS3 for Christmas 2008 and with it I got Iron Man and The Dark Knight.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

Same here.

I got it free with some promotion, can't even remember what it was now. It arrived before I even had a Blu-Ray player.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

I'm not sure of my answer, but I think it might be Hotel for Dogs.

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.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

After buying the PS3 I bought X-Men Trilogy and A Bug's Life.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

Also, if you look thru that old thread, it seems OldBoy has started this topic before, and it was previously merged into that thread :lol:

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

I was confused because this was your response in the previous thread:

But then you explained it later in the thread:

And based on this exchange, it looks like you did create another thread which was then merged into that original thread. :)

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.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

Fifth Element
300

And 8 others that were returned to WalMart after picking up a PS3 when they offered 10 free blurays with a PS3 purchase.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

TDK was my first BD. I didn't even own a player for it yet. Watchmen was my second.

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.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

2001 A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner. I've since sold 2001 for the massive Kubrick set WB put out a few years ago.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

I don't remember, it might have been something like the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

Spiderman 3

It was $40. I don't miss those days.

Re: What was your 1st Blu-ray?
 

wow. that's sad in a funny way.