Can you remember the first VHS/DVD/CD You bought?

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 01 May 2009, 22:04

Can't remember the first cd but my first ever vhs was Enter The Dragon,full-screen,uncut and a snip at £39.99

First dvd was this at around £20

one of my first laserdiscs was this,wasn't the first though

Police Story 3..Criterion

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 01 May 2009, 22:12

First VHS - I don't remember - but likely something Disney
First DVD - Enter the Dragon (R1) and Lethal Weapon 4 (R1)
First CD - Might've been Bon Jovi- Cross Roads?

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 01 May 2009, 22:14

i still have Enter The Dragon vhs...for nostalgia purposes

i also had the widescreen laserdisc of the theatrical cut..wish i'd made a copy as that version seems to have disappeared sadly

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 02 May 2009, 01:42

First VHS: The Lost Boys
First DVD: The Big Lebowski/Dark City (same order, but I recieved Fight Club before both, which was a later order).

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 02 May 2009, 05:54

First VHS: Some episodes of the Transformers TV series and Transformers: The Movie. My family rented those and dubbed them onto blank cassettes.

Premium VHSes? 6 or 7 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tapes.

First DVDs: My brother bought Scream and Starship Troopers in 1997.
(The first DVD that I actually owned was Pokemon: The First Movie.)

First CD: Elton John - a greatest hits compilation. I was big into Lion King at the time (ages 7/8).

First BD: Kung Fu Hustle

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 02 May 2009, 08:19

First dvd: Bullit

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 02 May 2009, 09:42

First DVD: Project A 2
Same day from a different store: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 02 May 2009, 13:09

First DVD: Gladiator 2 disc
First DVD I actually bought was Police Story HKL in late 2001.

Can't remember my first VHS though

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 02 May 2009, 18:52

Those old big box Warner cases make me nostalgic for a childhood misspent in video stores.

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 02 May 2009, 19:39

Yeah me too, I miss those dusty old video stores you'd find tucked away somewhere in town, I remember one by me was built on top of a petrol station and it had a boatload of 70s and early 80s DTV horror films!

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 02 May 2009, 19:54

Police Story 3 Criterion?!

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 02 May 2009, 20:15

grim_tales wrote:Police Story 3 Criterion?!

why the smiley Grim

why shouldn't it have gotten the Criterion treatment?pity they didn't own the dvd rights as well.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 02 May 2009, 21:29

It's a great movie, just not the sort of thing I'd expect Criterion to put out

diceman · Post by **diceman** » 03 May 2009, 09:24

First VHS: "Jurassic Park", I think
First DVD: "Pink Floyd: The Wall"
First Blu-Ray: probably "Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children - Complete", but I'm not sure yet.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 03 May 2009, 11:30

I'm surprised your very first video was a martial arts movie Salty. I'd have thought it would be something Hollywood.

I've no idea what my first video was. I'd have been a kid but my first DVD was probably Tomorrow Never Dies too, £18.99 from Play.com. I bought Crouching Tiger (for £28 from London, China town) and The Matrix shortly after.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 03 May 2009, 11:35

bradavon wrote:I'm surprised your very first video was a martial arts movie Salty. I'd have thought it would be something Hollywood.

Well back in 1979-1980 when VHS came out they released about 7-8 titles at £39.99 each,they were about the only titles available to buy. i'd already seen ETD twice at the cinema and loved it so it was an easy choice for me.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 03 May 2009, 11:37

Back in 1979 £40 must have been a fortune.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 03 May 2009, 11:54

bradavon wrote:Back in 1979 £40 must have been a fortune.

it was but i didn't pay it-i was barely 16 and not working-my parents bought me it

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 03 May 2009, 15:20

Did you have to send away for it in the post? It doesn't look like a UK Video, uncut too.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 03 May 2009, 21:35

That's how UK videos used to look.

Obviously the uncut pre-cert released circa 1981.

Videos didn't require BBFC certificates until the VRA in 1984 so you could buy anything you liked upto that point as long as some distributor was willing to put it out.

I really miss those old dusty moth-eaten rental stores.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 03 May 2009, 22:34

ETD pre-cert lists an incorrect running time of 86 minutes on the back.mine was brand new complete with inlay card.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 03 May 2009, 23:21

- My first music-casette was Wham The Final or something. Their last album. Great album as well. I got it from my dad and my stepmom with my new radio when I was 8-9 or whatever. I remember liking the music, but I complained that I rather would have wanted M.A.S.K. toys, as that's what I had asked for. I never even was interested in a radio to begin with. I also got a great sweet stuffed dog btw(not a real one, Grim. Hold your tears).

- My first VHS: I have absolutely no clue. I'm GUESSING it must have been either Akira, A Better Tomorrow, or Hard-Boiled or something. It also could have been some dutch Bruce Lee tapes or Jackie Chan ones. I don't remember. I just know that suddenly I became very interested in movies, especially asian cinema, and bought some nice ones in Amsterdam.

- My first DVD: In the Mood for Love. My girlfriend bought this DVD for me. The movie has a special meaning for me, because of a girl with pretty bad timing.
My girlfriend paid about 100 guilders for it, which is about 45 euros. Way too much obviously for a DVD, but at that time DVD's were still relatively new and thus expensive here in Holland, and I guess I hadn't discovered Inet shopping yet (got a credit card pretty soon after though).

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 04 May 2009, 17:28

Would that be a port of the French SE of ITMFL Yi-Long? I paid over the odds for the French SE (in it's limited digi-pack) and still have it. The Criterion is possibly better but there's nowt wrong with the French SE either.

It was a complete blind buy. I'd never seen a WKW film before.

Markgway wrote:That's how UK videos used to look. Obviously the uncut pre-cert released circa 1981.

The latter is was I really meant about it not looking like a UK video. I didn't know it was ever uncut here (up until recently again of course).

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 04 May 2009, 21:26

From 1981-1984 you could legally buy or rent ENTER uncut.

Once the VRA came into effect retailers were given a two year state of grace to remove all uncertified titles from their shelves.