Your first DVD

[Vader]

My first DVD in 1999 was "Godzilla" (yea, there are a few of us on Earth that liked it.... I'm the other one), and my first player was the still-execllent Sony S7000 (which has since gone to a good home, but I still miss it). I had been living in LaserDisc land for the past decade, and decided to get my feet wet in the then-new DVD format. That led to me upgrading from a pro-logic amp (NEC PLA-710) to my first DD amp (Marantz SR-580), because many of the first DVDs had only 5.1 tracks (no 2.0 track for Pro-logic), and I found that all of the life was simply sucked out of the sound when a 5.1 track is downmixed. Now I get to start again with Blu Ray (or HD-DVD), and the new uncompressed sound formats (which will require a new AVR to take advantage of)...

my first dvd player was the pioneer 414...IIRC, retail was around $550...my first DVD was the first Blade movie

[MrPorterhouse]

First DVD was "Terminator 2" in 2000, and it was a very big deal. There was lots of buzz about it and the amazing surround sound. It was in demo rooms everywhere.

First DVD Player was a Sony PS2.

I can't think that far back.

I bought the first model Pioneer DVD player released in Australia (1995 I think). It cost me $1000 AUD. The model in question (I can't remember exactly) was brought into the country by Pioneer as a world zone, which Pioneer then converted to a region 4 machine. The store I purchased it from directed me to an electronics place across the road, who then converted it back to a world zone for me for $50. It was DD only, and there was a grand total of 14 DVD titles to choose from.

I still have the first 2 I purchased, one was The Mask and the other was Die Hard With a Vengeance. Interestingly they are not even DD one has MPEG Empowered on the back and the other MPEG Multichannel. I remember finding a company on the net (from the states) that had about 3000 titles listed, so I bought from them, still do to this day.

[adogand6kids]

I will answer this in stages. The first DVD I ever saw was The Majestic with Jim Carrey. This was on my first DVD system - a Sony Dreamsystem HTIB in 2002. I was a total newbie at the time. In fact, I had purchased a separate DVD player and receiver before getting the HTIB, but had to return it because I was unable to decipher the manuals and could not get it set up. (I think I was trying to use the "optical" cable to get video out of the DVD player). The first DVD I bought was The Incredibles.

[azjimmy]

First player was a Pioneer DVD333 in 2000. Still going strong in the bedroom setup, first disk was 5th Element, I believe.

Jim

Fogged up memory. But I do believe the first DVD we bought was
The Thin Red Line and our first DVD player was a Panasonic.
I don't remember how much we paid, but we still have it.

akitaboy

[Darren]

The Fifth Element

[mikeb]

It would have been in 98 when I purchased a Toshiba dvd player, I remember it was $700 something and Turbulence was my first movie purchase. I was pretty excited not to have to get up and turn the laser disc over in middle of the movie.