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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,374 |
| | Posted: | | | | I bought Forbidden Planet R1 release late '97 (no DVDP) from a local video importer who went onto found Madman Entertaiment. Also got my first DVD player cost me A$1500 a Panasonic. Which would make you  today. I have never looked back.  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,279 |
| | Posted: | | | | Anaconda from EB, plus a DVD Rom and on a return trip the next day a hardware decoder card, having discovered my processor really wasn't powerful enough on it's own. | | | | IVS Registered: January 2, 2002 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 670 |
| | Posted: | | | | Mine was Scary Movie - bought on release day 12. december 2000. The next day I went out and bought myself a new TV (the tuner blew out in the old one) and my first DVD-player with no down payment!  The player was/is a Sanyo - I still have it - works perfectly! If/when it starts to act up, I'll probably get a Pioneer or Panasonic player... It just won't be this one! The page is in danish, but basically, the price is DKK 54,900 - which is about USD 10,200... Talk about having too much money...  | | | | The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. (William Gibson) |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | Mine was Spawn back in mid 1997 | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 28th August 2001 (a couple of months before I actually had a player) from Play.com for £13.99 ... and I still haven't watched it on DVD By the time I had a player I already had a few more which took priority and then I kept buying faster than watching  | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong | | | | Last edited: by Voltaire53 |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Can't remember how long ago, but mine was Armageddon. Took it back the next day cos it was 2 sided! (remember them?) The shop refused to give me a refund, so was not a happy introduction to the new format. Thankfully, a few months later the studio did a disc swap!  |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 223 |
| | Posted: | | | | Austin Powers and Deep Impact
...something with lots of features (at the time) and something to show off 5.1 audio.
That was 1999 I believe. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,242 |
| | Posted: | | | | I believe mine too have been the Bond Special Editions around May 2000, I purchased three the first week
Dr. No
From Russia with Love
Goldfinger
then went out and brought my first DVD player a few days later, haven't looked back since...didn't find DVDP until around 2005 though...Oh what fun keeping and maintaining similar records in Excel.
Steve |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 87 |
| | Posted: | | | | Blade Runner - bought October '99. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 467 |
| | Posted: | | | | My first was "Cruel Intensions" in July 2000. | | | Regards
Cyrille |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | "Saving Private Ryan" -- we had just ordered a new Mac with a DVD-ROM and wanted a DVD to try it out. Costco had just put out this DVD a day or two before the Mac was to be delivered... so early November 1999 (my "purchase date" reflects the first two days I entered my collection into DVD Profiler). | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
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| Registered: May 25, 2007 | | Posts: 263 |
| | Posted: | | | | My first dvd was Twister which I bought from Electronics Boutique. It was before I had a real dvd player, but had just bought a PS2 about a week earlier. The PS2 had just been released.
It wasnt until quite while later that I got my first real dvd player which was this cheap one that I got free from Harvey Norman when we got a new airconditioner. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 940 |
| | Posted: | | | | Godzilla, Nov 4, 1998 for $24.98 from from Musicland | | | | Kevin |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 88 |
| | Posted: | | | | On the 1st of July 2000 I bought my first DVD player and widescreen TV. On the same day I bought four movies:
The Matrix
Contact
Rukajärven tie (Finnish war movie)
Mask of Zorro (this is the only one that I don't have anymore). |
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| Registered: May 25, 2007 | | Posts: 32 |
| | Posted: | | | | Back in May 1998, I bought "The Wedding Singer" |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 489 |
| | Posted: | | | | My first DVD came with the DVD/Laser Disk player and home theatre I bought from Pioneer around what I think was 12 years ago. Same month my wife and I moved into our first, (and only) house. It was Jerry Maguire, and as I hate Tom Cruise with a passion it was never watched. I think I gave it to my Aunt a couple years ago.
Bobb | | | | Do Cheshire Cats drink evaporated milk? |
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