Today is DVD's 10th Anniversary!

[bembol]

Okay, it's past midnight so it was yesterday. LOL It's been TEN YEARS since DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) launched here in North America!

Did you jump right in or wait it out for prices to drop?

I rented it first at Jumbo Video (missed them), Toshiba with The Fugitive and was amazed with the Technology.

After a fews months, sometime in July/August I spent almost $1k on my first DVD players, Sony DVP-3000 (I still have it, LOL)! Picked it up at the Sony Store, was $850 ($899.99 retail price) and got free Austin Powers DVD! :cheesygri It's funny thinking back when 20th Century Fox and Disney refused to support it because of DiVX. LOL They never learn do they. ;) :cheesygri

This is when I got into the whole HomeTheater...I upgraded my Components back then and again after ten years, today with the launch HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc.

All but 50 of my 600 DVD's I collected for that time are gone. 50+ have been replaced with High-Def.

Can't wait to do it all over again in 10 years! LOL

[rabbit]

Bought my first player around June or July 2001. $329. I bought it mostly for the feature that it could play MP3s, but rarely ever used it for that purpose :).

[Hanniganite]

First player was Pioneer and cost around $500 I think......then I bought my first DVD: Romeo Must Die :cheesygri (probably 2000/2001)

[squall458]

I held onto CDs for a long time and refused to go the dvd path until 2003 actually! LOL. I got my first dvd burner then and in 2006 I bought my divx dvd player. I never needed to buy dvds all those years as CDs were still the norm, well for the stuff I did at least.

[UrbanPoet]

i remember my brother buying a Sony DVD when i just got into high school which was back in 1999...
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-DVPS330-DVP-S330-DVD-Player/dp/B00000JSEQ
its this model! I still have it till this day. Its big and chunky.
I think he paid around $300 for it... not sure! BUt we were amazed @ the technology.

[maebach]

We paid around $300 for an RCA DVD player. Worked great, and we were amazed by the menu and chapters. It died on us last year (RIP) and our first movie that we bought was Star Wars 1. SO Im thinking we must have bought ours like 2000 because we rented ALOT of movies. Almost 2 per weekend. Now that I can burn movies I realize how much money was wasted on renting.

[GunnerX]

I jumped into the DVD scene right away. I'm always an early adopter. :D I also bought my HDTV the same year. That was 1999. I first bought the RCA DVD player which sucked and ended up buying the Toshiba progressive DVD player for $1200 CAD. They only had 3 progressive players at that time, the Pioneer, SONY and the Toshiba. I still have over 400 DVDs in my collection and don't think I'll be getting rid of any of them. I now have about 20 HD DVDs and 10 BRs in my collection. I have stopped buying DVDs in favour of the Hi Def versions. :D

[Corizzle]

XBOX during Christmas 2001 was my first DVD player, not the greatest but it works

[goldenegg]

I bought a player the week of release. Hard to believe it's been 10 years.

[CHINAdeals]

i think my ps2 was my first dvd player.

didn't jump in til much later.

now i have way too many dvds.

and i don't see switching over to blueray/hd til they become one format/ more stable of a market.

long live dvds.

and vhs...

jk

[kevin01]

we got our dvd player when we moved into our new house. It was an RCA one for around $800. I never new what it was until my dad brought it home.

[Talamasca]

I actually bought my first DVD (Elizabeth) before I bought my first DVD player (I was young and dumb, go figure!). I bought my first player (a Panasonic that I had until very recently and still worked perfectly) in Jan./Feb. 2002. It was about $300, IIRC.

Fast forward to today where my house has seven DVD players. Technology, gotta love it!

[DavidY]

Still have my very first DVD player from Dec 1998....a Toshiba 2108. Paid like $700 plus taxes back then.

Today, I just bought an Xbox 360 add-on, a HD-DVD plus several HD-DVDs. 10% off at FS Friends and Family sale. Was sitting on the fence waiting for the winner of HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray...but got tired of waiting. Can't wait until the Matrix collection is released on HD-DVD.

Dave

[GTI]

I had a Laser Disc player and I remember the Laser Disc people were trashing the DVD format :cheesygri. Then people started to dump their LD collections for 'cheap'. I finally bought a Toshiba for about $400 and got The Matrix for my first DVD.

[DVST8]

My very first DVD player(s) were my Pentium 3 computer & my PS2 :cheesygri. Got my first stand alone DVD player just last year @ Costco...lol.

[tkl]

If I recall correctly, I got mine around 7 years ago.

The Apex 600-a from FS for $ 399.99

The big thing with that unit was it macrovision free and it played MP3s at the time which was fairly rare.

It's still kicking around with the Malata that was purchased around 3-4 years ago.

[GunnerX]

If I recall correctly, I got mine around 7 years ago.

The Apex 600-a from FS for $ 399.99

The big thing with that unit was it macrovision free and it played MP3s at the time which was fairly rare.

It's still kicking around with the Malata that was purchased around 3-4 years ago.

Oh yeah, the Apex 600a. I also have that. However, I was late into the game and they already removed the hack from the menu. :(

[warpdrive]

My first DVD player was the Panasonic 310. $900.
My first movie was Dark City. Must have watched that 20 times since it was the only disk I had for a few weeks.

Now that I have a PS3, I won't really be buying any more DVD's (especially since I've joined zip, I've bought far fewer disks). Only BluRay disks from now on.

[The Digital Dolphin]

My first DVD player was my Lite-On LDW-401S for my PC. Later I bought a PS2, followed by a Samsung DVD player, then an RJtech DivX/DVD player, and finally a Panasonic DVD Recorder. I also have ~17 other DVD burners for my PC now.

I plan to buy a Blu-Ray player this year, either a PS3 or a LiteON Blu-Ray burner (or both).

[teknoluv]

I had a Laser Disc player and I remember the Laser Disc people were trashing the DVD format :cheesygri. Then people started to dump their LD collections for 'cheap'.
Oh my ... the LaserDisc (LD)! It was SO popular in Hong Kong back then. And I was almost the only person there to NOT go along: I KNEW it couldn't outlive VHS, and ... it couldn't.