DVDs started coming out in 1997 so I guess they could be considered somewhat retro. My family was a relatively late adopter in the DVD technolgy as we didn't get our first DVD player until 2003. The first movie my family bought was Daddy Day Care and I can't begin to tell you how many times we watched it. The first movie I bought for myself on DVD was Predator Full Screen edition (Ugh...full screen...how naive I was).

That was almost six years ago in May and since then I've collected about 100 of my own DVDs and combined with my family we have about 200 or so total. I've replaced every movie I had on VHS and then some and via friends and family I've discovered plenty of new and fun movies on DVD over the years. Some of my most prized DVDs are my Star Wars Trilogy box set, my Alien boxset, and my Sonic SatAM boxset. With the advent of Bluray and other Hi-Def formats, the DVD as a primary video format may be in trouble in the next five to ten years and then we'll have to buy everything all over again. It doesn't matter if DVDs are Bluray compatible, DVDs are inevitably going to be phased out and it will be a sad day as a movie buff. Even if that does happen, I will hold on to my collection as long as there is support for the DVD technology.



Pretty much how my copy looks except its region 1 and it says "Full Screen Collection" or something to that effect on the top of the front cover.

Oh Brother Where Art Thou.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. I got that movie in Christmas 2002 along with my first DVD player.

The first DVD I ever bought was "Groundhog's Day". It was in late 2001, and I had just gotten my PS2...which was my first DVD player.

The first movie I ever watched on DVD was "The Rock".

Men In Black. It came free with the DVD player. This was in 2003.

The first DVD I bought was "Earth Girls Are Easy", which I bought off eBay in 2000. I bought that before I even had a DVD player. I was hoping to get a DVD player that year, and I did. We set it up on Christmas morning, and I put in my copy of "Earth Girls Are Easy". I've been a DVD hound ever since, although I'm still purchasing VHS titles every so often.

The Doors Collector's Edition dvd. It has all three home video titles they released in the 80's and early 90's on one dvd with extras, Dance on Fire which was like a visual footage best of, Live at the Hollywood Bowl 1968 and The Soft Parade which was a rare footage collection, mostly centered around a live in the studio special shot for PBS in 1969.

I actually got two DVDs at the same time when I got my first DVD player for my birthday back in 1999. It was The Iron Giant and Bean.

Mine was Shrek, in 2002, I think.

Mine was Red Green Stuffed & Mounted Vol. 4, in 2002.

Mine was Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. I got it for Christmas when i recieved my first Dvd Player. Yeah, i know i was alittle late on getting a dvd player but i never wanted to grow out of the VHS era.

The fast and the furious was my first dvd lol i got it before i had a dvd player.

Like I said, my family got their first DVD player in 2003, but that didn't mean I could always use it. Technically my first DVD player was my computer (Got my machine in 2004; I lost the ability to play DVDs about a year ago because I fucked up my computer's hard drive really bad). I guess I could also say my first DVD player hooked up to a television was my PS2 (which I sold for Christmas money two years ago). My first real DVD player was a gift from my best friend in Toledo. I had it for about six months when I decided I wanted something nicer (It was a cheap $20 Coby DVD player, but I'll forgive my friend).

Then I put a little more money into it and bought myself a $40 Phillips/Magnavox DIVX DVD Player (The current one I have) which had quite a few more features (such as the ability to play AVI/DIVX movies downloaded online when I'm being a poor cheap bastard and I really want to watch something). Unfortunately, it only worked for about six months before is crapped out on me and I had to send it to the manufacturers for repairs. Then, Phillips Customer Care called me up and said they couldn't fix it but they could send me another unit of the same type free of charge...and that would be the current DVD player that I own.

Hey KISSKRAZY!! :D

I remember when my family bought our first DVD player (of which I don't recall the brand name but it wasn't cheap) from Costco, Shrek was the movie to buy. But we bought Daddy Day Care instead because it had just come out and my family and I really liked it in the movie theater.

Man when DVDs first came out they were too expensive, but then came the Christmas of 2000-something and my sister and her boyfriend picked us up a DVD player for my parents and I got my first DVD, Shrek.

Mine was 2001 which was Arnagedon. I still have it, but somehow I lost the case.

My first DVD was Muppets From Space.
We started buying DVDs 'coz the new computer we got had a DVD drive.
This was back in 2000.

The first DVD I ever watched was Toy Story 2, but it was at a friend's house; way back in 2000, her family were the only people I knew who had a DVD player.

The first DVD I owned was the Disney release of Castle in the Sky. It was a present from my brother, around 2003-ish. Wonderful movie.

My family got a very high end DVD player right when they came out, for a hefty price tag.

The first DVD I watched was 'The Fifth Element'.

I didn't buy my own movies for a few more years. I can't remember the first one I bought but I think it may have been 'Monty Python's Holy Grail', a Kevin Smith movie, or a Kids In The Hall DVD. I'm not sure.

I know what you mean same with me but the movie was the original Batman(1989)! I remember we had to call one of my cousins to hook it up because mom didnnt know how haha :lol: Though I got mine when the first came out-ish time :P