Remember when DVD first came out?

[CptGreedle]

I remember my first DVD...

Cowboy bebop.

Actually my sister has it now.. i am planning to buy it remixed but now i just want it on BD .

[Jeff®]

Does anyone remember this great sale?

800.com's 3 DVDs for $1 (1998)

http://www.remotecentral.com/cgi-bin.../thread.cgi?16

[Horhay]

I hardly surfed the net back then as we were still at blazin speed of 56K. It was easier for me to have someone take me to a store plus I used to love looking at all the cool things out there at the time.

[Thomasbeau]

Doesn't anyone remember the very early days of DVD when some new titles came out for rental first and if you wished to buy it the DVD would cost about $80.00. Then about three months later it would get a consumer release? This was something that didn't last long but I remember being annoyed that I had to wait to get the "Wrath of Kahn" at a reasonable price.

[gandley]

my first DVD player was the Sony, then i bought the pioneer 717. then the pioneer 737 (i think) and a buch of others, had like 10 i think
my last dvd player was the Denon a1XV (5910 in usa)@ £1350 SH. new it would of cost £2500. ($3800 in the usa i think).

Toshiba went too low too soon.

[Jeff®]

Originally Posted by Thomasbeau

Doesn't anyone remember the very early days of DVD when some new titles came out for rental first and if you wished to buy it the DVD would cost about $80.00. Then about three months later it would get a consumer release? This was something that didn't last long but I remember being annoyed that I had to wait to get the "Wrath of Kahn" at a reasonable price.

I don't remember that. One of the great things about DVD, and something that I thought helped it succeed so quickly, was the fact that it bypassed the VHS rental windows.

Edit: here's an article that I found re: this:

http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summ...99-1823393_ITM

[BoogalooShrimp]

My parents bought a Toshiba dvd player back in 96/97 for like $599 (or in that price range) at Circuit City. We received between 5 and 10 free dvds I think. The ones that I remember were Terminator 2, Eraser, Twister, Demolition Man, and maybe Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. I remember think it was so cool that a movie was a small disc.

[Ukujiku]

I remember when DVD came out and alot of ppl saying that It'll never catch on, and most will just stick too their VCR's. Sounds a little familiar to me.

[MotionBlurr]

My 1st DVD player was a PS2. I still have it and it works great.

[eclectic taste]

My first DVD Player was a Panasonic A310, cost about $599. My first DVD was Apollo 13, bought it for $15, MSRP $35. The wife was PISSED, but the PQ brought her around really quickly.

Those were the best days to be an early adopter, the combination of a new format and tons of Venture Capital money being thrown at internet startups translated to fantastic deals on new releases. Does anyone here remember

• 800.com 3 dvds for $1.00 (Yes, ONE Dollar) sale?
• Numerous $15/$20$25 off coupons from reel.com (reusable with minor tweaks to your address)
• Amazon 50% off already 30% reduced prices?
• Stacking coupons with preorder discounts from bigstar.com?
• Many, many others

I built a library of hundreds of discs for an average of <$10, when MSRP averaged $30 or so.

It seemed most company's model was just to bring traffic to the site first, worry about profit second. They sold themselves on the idea that advertisers would pay for the number of visitors, regardless of whether they clicked through to the advertiser or not. Didn't hold up for too long.

[Banjo]

My father bought his first DVD player back in 1999. It was a RCA DVD player. It was on sale for $449.99. Keep in mind that we were on a budget so we had to try and pick a decent player for the lowest price we could possibly find. $450 wasn't exactly cheap back then and with 15% GST/PST on top of it too as well. I wouldn't really recommend RCA products, though the DVD player we had did play DTS audio tracks and it lasted for years.

The first movie I bought was "There's Something About Mary". I believe it was $23.97 plus taxes when I bought it.

[JasonR]

My first was a Pioneer, forget what model. It was 300 dollars, I still use it in my office. The only problem with it is when you open the tray, it opens then closes. (You have to be pretty fast) First DVD was Full Metal Jacket.

[WickyWoo]

Doesn't anyone remember the very early days of DVD when some new titles came out for rental first and if you wished to buy it the DVD would cost about $80.00. Then about three months later it would get a consumer release? This was something that didn't last long but I remember being annoyed that I had to wait to get the "Wrath of Kahn" at a reasonable price.

That never happened. That was VHS rental windows. A big factor in the fast adoption of DVD was the fact that like LD before it, it bypassed those windows. By the time they realized DVD had killed the rental period, it was too late to do anything about it.

Wrath of Khan was actually the first "consumer priced" VHS tape, at I believe $39.95

[JonD7]

Originally Posted by CptGreedle

For a cheap Region free player... you got to go with Cyberhome.
Yeah they suck usually.. but I can watch anything in the world now! That's better than nothing.
You just have to enter a code into their players and viola! Region free!
Check online (use google) to fine out what it is and which ones support it.

thanks dude! i'll look 'em up, I really want the IT Crowd boxsets but they don't sell them in the US so its PAL.

[cartman781]

My first DVD player was about $400 open boxed at Best Buy. I still use it in my bedroom today.

[broganreynik]

When I was in high school we were given planners with random facts in them. There was one that said paraphrased "on this day in 19?? the first VCR was sold for....something like $2,000" So blu-ray is cheap, especially when you think about inflation.

[quest88]

Originally Posted by SGRSBSKIER

Never actually bought a normal DVD player. My first was the PS2, then bought a VCR/DVD combo from Phillips VCR part broke after 5 months (wanted $90 to repair it which is $10 cheaper than what it cost) so replaced it with a Samsung VCR/DVD combo and thats currently what I use. I will be getting a Sony 5 disc DVD player upconvert 1080i getting the 5 disc for CD use. Also about that time I will be getting a PS3 as my first BD player and might use that for DVD's if its better than the DVD player.

My ps2 was my first dvd player. I waited until the GT3 pack when a friend of mine talked me into it. My favorite thing was going to brokebuster and picking up the new movies on dvd and laughing at all those people fighting over a vhs copy.

[cartman781]

Originally Posted by quest88

My ps2 was my first dvd player. I waited until the GT3 pack when a friend of mine talked me into it. My favorite thing was going to brokebuster and picking up the new movies on dvd and laughing at all those people fighting over a vhs copy.

Yeah it was great going to the video store on a Tuesday at 10:00pm and still being able to get the movies I wanted

[Banjo]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

That never happened. That was VHS rental windows. A big factor in the fast adoption of DVD was the fact that like LD before it, it bypassed those windows. By the time they realized DVD had killed the rental period, it was too late to do anything about it.

Wrath of Khan was actually the first "consumer priced" VHS tape, at I believe $39.95

It seems like the DVD format changed the way we rent and buy movies. Back then, you wouldn't be able to buy just any movies on VHS. Only some movies, usually "blockbusters" like Jurassic Park, Ace Ventura, Star Wars and such. I always had to wait for used VHS tapes to go onto sale. But when DVD came out, you could buy pretty much any movies. I remember if you really wanted to get a copy of a movie on VHS but isn't available for sale, it would cost you upward of $90 or more. At least that's how it was in Canada.

[broganreynik]

Originally Posted by Banjo

I remember if you really wanted to get a copy of a movie on VHS but isn't available for sale, it would cost you upward of $90 or more. At least that's how it was in Canada.

I remember when i was a kid looking through one of my mom's video store handouts and it listed the MSRP for Mallrats at $119. I about shit bricks, of course I was like 12 so that was a lot of money to me. For a movie though, it still is.