# What was the first DVD you bought? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 15, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328 "2010-08-15T14:49:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328/21 "2010-08-15T18:30:12Z")
It’s been so long that I can’t remember the first DVD but the first Blu-Ray is more recent. That was definitely the Coppola restoration of the Godfather trilogy. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328/22 "2010-08-15T18:32:06Z")
Blazing Saddles. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328/23 "2010-08-15T18:33:45Z")
**Pi** ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328/24 "2010-08-15T18:36:48Z")
I don’t remember the first one I bought for myself but the first one I saw was copy of Star Trek Generations my friend got free when he bought his. The picture quality impressed me so, I literally went out the next day and bought one of my own. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328/25 "2010-08-15T19:20:03Z")
I bought a player along with Fight Club, The Matrix, and the Southpark movie all in one day. The day I got a Blu-Ray player, I bought The Dark Knight. ---
**Author:** ![Gil-Martin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Gil-Martin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gil-Martin)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328/26 "2010-08-15T19:22:38Z")
I’m not sure which I actually purchased. My wife and I got a DVD player for ourselves on Christmas Eve, and my wife bought me _The Exorcist_. We still watch this almost every Christmas. Yes, it’s a weird family. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328/27 "2010-08-15T19:30:13Z")
[Black Book](http://www.amazon.com/Black-Book-Carice-van-Houten/dp/B000TGCR38/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1281900405&sr=8-1). I got my first DVD player in 2004, but I was content with renting until then. I don’t really rewatch many movies; I buy more as my way of hopefully ensuring more movies like the ones I buy get made. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328/28 "2010-08-15T19:31:23Z")
I stopped by some large box appliance store like 10-15 years ago and they had some off brand DVD players for like $12.00 (Apex or something). I figured at that price, why not? They didn’t have too many DVDs so I wound up buying Jumanji, which was actually pretty cool as a first DVD. On a side note, the $12.00 DVD player still works just fine. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328/29 "2010-08-15T19:32:58Z")
> [@interface2x](#): > > The day I got a Blu-Ray player, I bought The Dark Knight. The Dark Knight was my first Blu-Ray purchase as well. ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328/30 "2010-08-15T19:44:06Z")
[Ghost in the Shell](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113568/) ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328/31 "2010-08-15T21:06:08Z")
The first DVD I ever owned was a campaign DVD from the John Kerry campaign! The first DVD I bought was a Genesis concert from 1987 at Wembley. I didn’t buy DVDs for a long time since I had the library and Netflix. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328/32 "2010-08-15T21:36:13Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > The first DVD I ever bought was _Fellowship of the Ring_. Same here! I didn’t remember, so I looked back at my Amazon account, and there it is, in 2002. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328/33 "2010-08-15T21:38:42Z")
_Monsters Inc._ ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328/34 "2010-08-15T22:23:36Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [_Three Kings_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Kings_(film)). I actually bought it before I bought a DVD player. I bought mine before I had a TV or DVD player, to use with my PC. Men in Black, the special/collector’s edition. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328/35 "2010-08-15T22:49:06Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > > [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > > > The first DVD I ever bought was _Fellowship of the Ring_. > > Same here! > > I didn’t remember, so I looked back at my Amazon account, and there it is, in 2002. Wow. Has it really been that long?!? ---
**Author:** ![Waffle\_Decider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/77aa72/32.png) [@Waffle\_Decider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waffle_Decider)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328/36 "2010-08-15T23:01:15Z")
_American Beauty_. I love that movie. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328/37 "2010-08-15T23:42:42Z")
First **DVDs** I ever bought were the box set of ‘Sportsnight’ The first singular _DVD_ I bought was ‘The Princess Bride’, the 25th anniversary edition. Both purchases I can look back at through the years and smile. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328/38 "2010-08-15T23:48:00Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > The Matrix. Isn’t that the DVD that kicked players to mainstream? Definitely. It had this thing called “special features” that showed how they did the bullet time stuff. It was pretty cool at the time. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328/39 "2010-08-16T00:02:57Z")
The first one I bought was Clerks. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328/40 "2010-08-16T00:16:41Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > [Clue](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clue_%28film%29) Me too! I love that movie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-dvd-you-bought/550328.md?page=3)