Do you remember the first DVD you bought? VHS?
I remember the first DVDs that my parents bought for our family collection were Monty Python and the Holy Trail and The Sixth Sense. I had purchased our family DVD player because they never would have. I was like 14 maybe.
The first one I personally bought was X-Men.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
shareScary Movie 2, I think.
shareI do not remember my first DVD, nor do I remember my first VHS (but if truth be told, it was probably a porno movie).
What I do remember however was my first Laser Disc -- it was The Terminator.
I also remember how annoying it was to have to turn the disc over half way through the movie.
Pretty sure it was Gladiator, for VHS maybe The Howling or a Friday the 13th.
shareThe first movie (VHS, not DVD) I bought was "The Unsinkable Molly Brown." I like musicals; I grew up on musicals, so when the time came that I could control what I watched and when, I chose this. Yeah, I'm old - oops, I mean vintage. Yes, vintage - that's it - I'm vintage.
shareI bought Psycho. No features. Just film.
shareSo many early DVDs were bare bones. I remember a lot of them would list interactive menus and subtitles as special features. True bonus features like making of documentaries and commentaries make some of the best sets, but that first one is always special.
shareI prefer the bare bones ones. I don't mind watching previews the first time, but after that, I'm done and I get cranky when the dvd won't allow me to skip them. I've been known to make a copy omitting all that stuff just so I don't have to sit through it every time. Then I store the original dvd just in case I screw up my copy somehow.
shareMy first DVD was Predator (2 Disc Special Edition).
First Blu-ray was Inception.