Um, I just got a DVD player this past Christmas. Yes, I’m a late adopter of certain technologies (she says as typing on a vintage 1997 computer). I got **Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ** with the player.
The first DVDs I bought were **Classic Albums: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ** and Night at the Opera. I also bought **Finding Neverland ** and my most recent acquisition has been the boxed set of Season 1 of Deadwood.
I work two jobs and don’t have a lot of recreational time, so I’ve been going to the library to check out DVDs when I have some relaxation time coming.
Thanks much, but I have it at the top of our Netflix queue, so I ought to be seeing it this next week. While I was there I put “Jazz for a Summer Day” in the queue as well.
I’m having a hard time remembering when I bought my first DVD player. I think it was summer of 99. It came with a “bonus pack” of five DVDs:
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[li]Lost in Space[/li][li]Stargate (with the fun feature of having to flip over the disk in the middle of the movie)[/li][li]Six Days and Seven Nights[/li][li]Stepmom (this and Six Days I ended up giving to my sister-in-law several years later, still in the shrinkwrap).[/li][li]Don’t remember the other one.[/li][/ul]
The first disk I bought was probably the Matrix. Prompted by others, I went back into the depths of my Amazon purchase history, and the first DVDs I got from them were Young Frankenstein, Clerks, South Park: BL&U, and Blazing Saddles in November '99.
I don’t remember the year, but the first two DVDs I bought were The Fifth Element and Fiddler on the Roof. I remember someone in the store recommending The Matrix as a must-have DVD, but I never did buy that one.
Hearing someone in the studio isolating certain parts from the multitrack tapes is one of the best features of those “Classic Albums” DVDs. I recently Netflixed the one on Lou Reed’s Transformer. Hearing David Bowie’s backing vocals by themselves was a revelation, especially compared to Reed’s own tuneless acoustic run-throughs of the songs. You realized how vital Bowie was to making that album sound as melodic as it does.
In a buy-one-get-one-free offer, I got Pulp Fiction (because I wanted to try out the DVD players ability to program the order of the chapters so I could watch the movie chronologically; something, six years later, I’ve yet to do) an Con Air; the loudest, noisiest thing they had, so I could try out the surround sound.
Local Hero. Obviously it wasn’t newly out when I bought it, but it’s still a movie that I’m very fond of. An excellent character movie with loads of charm.
I asked my dorm mate to buy me a dvd (I gave him money). He phoned me from the grocery store, and that was the only one I was even remotely interested in.
I didn’t have a car, and I was itching to get a DVD for my new Laptop, that had a DVD combo drive. No real reason for wanting SW1: TPM on DVD, I just wanted a DVD period.
I think the first DVD I actually watched (as opposed to owned) was Thunderball in the family’s new DVD drive. Dad isn’t a cutting-edge adopter, but we still had one before a lot of other people. He was convinced that software was going to start coming out on a single DVD a lot sooner than it has taken (I think his thinking was influenced by the switch from floppies to CDs.) We had a DVD-ROM drive long before we had a CD burner.
As soon as I got a computer with a DVD drive (long before we had a TV-connected DVD player), I bought the South Park movie and the first 6 DVDs of four South Park episodes apiece. This was before anyone was doing season sets. We had the first twenty-five (the Terrence and Phillip special was secretly included on one of the DVDs) episodes of South Park, and were looking forward to collecting the entire run…and then they went and started “themed” DVDs instead.
Now, I have the lot as season sets. I traded those single DVDs in to Blockbuster when they were offering $8 trade-in value for a little while.
