First ever home video (any format)

[Colorado Rockie]

I can't remember my first VHS. It was probably a Disney movie though. I do remember my first other formats though.

DVD - The Patriot
UMD - House of Flying Daggers
HD-DVD - King Kong
Blu-ray - Invincible

[steel_breeze]

1983: Bought RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK on VHS the day it came out, for $39.99. Had a brief teaser for TEMPLE OF DOOM on it, but without any actual footage; just a clip of Indy from RAIDERS saying "trust me".

Didn't even have a VCR yet, when I bought RAIDERS! I was in the midst of saving up for it myself (at age 12), since my family didn't see the value in owning movies. Saved all my hard-earned lawn-mowing/leaf-raking/snow-shoveling money from August 'til Christmas '83, and finally bought a Sharp VCR on Christmas day. RAIDERS was my all-time favorite flick (and still is!), and the day it came out in November, I siphoned off a little of my VCR savings and snapped it up. That cassette worked well as a further incentive to keep on goin', lol. A really magical time; the idea of actually owning my favorite movie was such a huge novelty.

[shinobipopcorn]

Now that I think about it, my first DVD was the original Spider-Man and my first blu-ray was the first release of Ghostbusters. I bought GB myself, but Spider-Man was a gift. I didn't have a DVD player until the PS2, so I was still buying VHS concurrently with DVD for a long time.

I was always behind the times a little, consequence of being poor. I had those record storybooks as a kid, cassette players when everyone had CD walkmans, didn't have an ipod until 2007, etc...

[Visionist]

My first "video nasty" was Robocop 2! I remember it was a turquoise VHS tape. I was perhaps 7 years old.

Absolutely loved it of course.

[Wing Wang17]

VHS - Don't remember
DVD - Don't Remember
HD-DVD - King Kong
Blu-ray - Planet Earth & Transformers
UHD - The Revenant

Man, how can you guys remember you're first vhs? I'm here struggling to remember on what was my first dvd. lol

[dcfan88]

The first VHS I ever owned was Independence Day
Given my age I never bought them because I was a kid
The first DVD I ever owned was Men In Black II (It was a Christmas gift to watch on my brand new PS2)
The first DVD I ever bought was Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake (I still have the metal plate cover)
The first Blu-ray I ever bought was I am Legend (I traded it, I don't remember liking it that much)
The first 4K I bought was Suicide Squad but it was a preorder, the first one that I could "officially" add was Labyrinth

Oddly enough, even though my firsts for everything featured Will Smith, he's not one of my favorite actors

[shinobipopcorn]

Originally Posted by Wing Wang17

VHS - Don't remember
DVD - Don't Remember
HD-DVD - King Kong
Blu-ray - Planet Earth & Transformers
UHD - The Revenant

Man, how can you guys remember you're first vhs? I'm here struggling to remember on what was my first dvd. lol

I actually can remember the first movie I saw in a theater, which was Aladdin. I was born in Oct 88, that came out in Nov 92. But I believe part of the reason I remember that is because the theater burned down three weeks after it came out in the middle of Dec.

[notops]

VHS: Pee Wee's Big Adventure
LD: Die Hard
DVD: Blade
HDDVD: Casino
BLU: Casino Royale
3D BLU: How To Train Your Dragon

[MJD64]

My first Super 8 silent films (sometime in the 70's) were a 50' 3-pack consisting of Dracula, Frankenstein Meets The Wolf man and House of Frankenstein.

Super 8 200' sound/color (snatched these up at a K-Mart opening as they were mispriced): One Million Years B.C. and At The Earth's Core ( a blind buy).

VHS (end of 1980) - The Fog

Laserdisc (1982) - Star Wars

DVD (1998) - Boogie Nights and Blade

Blu-Ray(2009) - Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

4K-? (we'll see, still haven't bought a player yet, though my Sony Bravia is a 4K set)

[UltraMario9]

VHS (2002) - A Bug's Life, Jurassic Park and The Lost World

DVD (2004) - The Matrix and Monster's Inc

Blu-Ray (2012) - Jaws and The Evil Dead

UHD - Blade Runner 2049 or Blade Runner (whichever is released first)

[esteban²]

The one that started it all...

"You will collect movies!"


First VHS owned :

The Care Bears Movie

First VHS bought by myself :

The Cable Guy (remember paying 18,5 dollar)

First DVD bought by myself :

Me, Myself & Irene and The Grinch (remember paying both of them almost 47 dollar each !!!)

First BLU RAY bought by myself :

Toy Story & Toy Story II

First 3D BLU RAY bought by myself :

Prometheus

[stvn1974]

VHS: Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Return Of The Jedi
DVD: Blade Runner The Director's Cut
BD: Avatar

[PenguinMaster]

VHS (from parents) : The Empire Strikes Back

VHS (bought myself) : Tomorrow Never Dies

DVD : Mission: Impossible 2

HD-DVD : The Matrix Trilogy

Blu-ray: Smallville Season 7

Blu-ray 3D: Cars 2

Ultra HD Blu-ray: Hitman: Agent 47

[blufellas]

First rental: The Terminator (VHS)
First recorded: Coming To America (VHS)
First owned: Scarface (1983) (VHS)
First owned: Goodfellas (DVD)
First owned: Goodfellas (Blu-ray)

[Roonan]

VHS: Pinocchio (owned) / Jurassic Park (bought, 1994)
DVD: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
BD: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

[GDHickey]

VHS....Star Wars or Beatles Anthology.
DVD......X-men
BLU .....T2
UHD......soon.....

[UFAlien]

I definitely cannot remember my first VHS because I'm sure my family bought it for me when I was a toddler.

It might not have actually been the first, but the first DVD I remember watching was... Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. I had recently learned the family PC had a DVD-ROM drive and could play DVD movies, so I watched it on our tiny computer monitor. We didn't have an actual DVD player to hook up to a TV for a while after that (I only got a DVD player - a VHS/DVD combo - when my VCR broke).

The first Blu-ray I saw was One Missed Call (it was a rental) and the first I bought was The Eye.

My first Blu-ray 3D was Piranha, which I bought before I had a compatible player or TV. For a couple years, in an odd rehash of my DVD origins, I had an Nvidia 3D Vision laptop that played BD3D but no 3DTV.

Haven't gone 4K yet.

[castor]

My first was Koyaanisqatsi on VHS.

[Troll2fan]

First VHS I can remember owning was Predator, but I'm not 100% sure it was my first VHS.

First DVD: Rounders

First Blu: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (what a waste of money)

First UHD: BvS

[Monterey Jack]

First VHS: Tim Burton's Batman (Christmas, '89)

First laserdisc: An American Tail (spring, '96, I sprung for the CAV format so I could freeze-frame and slo-mo that bad boy )

First DVDs: Bound and Dante's Peak (spring '98)

First Blu-Ray: The Wild Bunch and/or Dark City...? (fall '09, bought before I had a player just to goad myself into upgrading )