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Your first R1 and R2 DVD's ?
Andy Birkenhead
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Which were the first DVD's you bought ?
My first R2 DVD was "Enter The Dragon"
My first R1 DVD was "Deep Blue Sea", bought as an experiment to see whether my DVD player could actually play R1's !
My first R2 DVD was "Enter The Dragon"
My first R1 DVD was "Deep Blue Sea", bought as an experiment to see whether my DVD player could actually play R1's !
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Region 1 = I can't remember... it might have been Tobe Hooper's The Funhouse though.
R1 - I honestly can't remember. I bought a lot of the Kurosawa Criterion's quite early but can't remember if they were first, doubt it.
I can't remember what my first region 1 was, could of been X Men.
Then got a R1 player Feb 98.
3 months late got a multiregion one.
First R2 was a Japanese disc of Gremlins to check my player could play both regions.
First UK disc may well have been Matilda
R2 = Resident Evil
R1 = Can't really remember, but Air Force One was one of the first I bought, from the original play.com
My first R1's were shipped from the US because as usual everything there is much cheaper than here. I bought The Fly/Fly II double pack, the 60s Batman film, Christine, Salem's Lot & Overboard for a tenner.
All for a tenner ?? Wow !
Or a tenner EACH ?
I got the R1 of Air Force One the day I got my first player and the menus would not play on the Toshiba player properly.
Soon became clear that Columbia R1 discs all had this problem on the Tosh .
Only compatibility problem I ever had with dvd.
R1 - The Beastmaster
R1 Blade Runner: The Director's Cut
R1 - Twister
My first R1 DVD was Beverly Hills Ninja:o
R2 mission impossable 2 on a shiny new 300:eek: quid dvd player back in the day!
R2 (PAL): Metropolis
R1: never bought one.
R1: Saving Private Ryan
My favourite DVD is still the Queen Greatest Flix I+II I got with my Panasonic A100 (£650!!!!) in 1998. The dvd player died 2 and a half years later but I bought a £35 warranty from Currys and they replaced it with the newest model and refunded the price difference which at that point was about £400!!
I nearly bought an A100 as it was the first model in the UK and they hacked region coding quickly by disabling it completely.
However , just before I went to get one some of the US companies changed their dvd authoring so that the disc had to read a region code before playback would start .
Buena Vista and MGM did this so their discs would not play on an A100.
Of course this messed everything up and it took another 3 months before region coding was properly hacked and those early machines were switchable between regions unlike the ones today that are all regions without changing anything.
Bluray region coding at the same stage now and is switchable
Tenner for the lot. Dvd's are ridiculously cheap in the states. Older films anyway, not sure about new releases.
Region 2: The perfect storm (i think)
R1: Hellraiser 4 and 5 double pack
R3: Hellboy
R4: Sin City (extended)
R1 Enterprise And Lois And Clark Superman.
First DVD was the PS2.
R1 Shaft
It was £12.99 last week on their website. So a little bargain 9 years ago.