Remember that initial jump from VHS to DVD?

[jadillac]

You younger guys may not recall it as much, but the jump from VHS to DVD was a big deal.

I remember paying like $30 to get 'Saving Private Ryan' on DVD b/c it was supposed to be the pinnacle of picture quality at the time...I didnt even care for the movie that much. People would pause certain parts of movies just to admire the picture quality.

Seeing little details or colors than you couldn't notice on a VHS. Or renting a VHS movie that had been rented tons of times before so picture quality had faded, now was no longer an issue.

And the sound quality. Before you could only get Dolby Pro Logic sound, but now w/ DVD you had the exact same sound potential as the theater(if you had the surround system). Hearing those bullets ricochet around in your rear speakers in the comfort of ur own room was

The other early-on"must have" showoff DVD release was "Gladiator"

 

[Calmye]

Twister on dvd for the first time

Kept doing the part where the cow gets caught in the tornado frame by frame haha. . Was like then

 

[AnotherRoute]

Matrix on DVD blew my mind

 

[Scientific Playa]

the giant on demand movie libraries bout to throw the dvd market in the bushes

was going to buy a vhs to dvd converter for the old stuff but read bad quality reviews, costco has a service but it takes weeks

 

[MidwestD]

Twister on dvd for the first time

Kept doing the part where the cow gets caught in the tornado frame by frame haha. . Was like then

came in to post this. The scene at the end were they runnin from the tornado with huge debris flyin everywhere, seeing that in DVD quality was

Twister was also the first movie ever released on DVD if I remember correctly

 

[Lefty Gunz]

Very first DVD my pops bought was Terminator 2

I remember being when I found out DVD's has deleted scenes, directors cut and alternate endings etc. as a youngin

 

[FlyRy]

my first DVD i i bought was x-men and played it on my ps2

i bought hundreds in the early 00s..and then felt like a slap in the face when you would buy the special edition only to have the ultimate edition come out a year later ...and then having to cop everything again on bluray

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

remember how heavy nh dvd cases used to be????????
you could step on em and drop em and the cases would break

them shyts flimsy as fukk now lol


lmao or the dvd cases that were cardboard with the plastic clip

 

[Lord Scion]

ehh... first DVD I had was Amadeus....

 

[jadillac]

came in to post this. The scene at the end were they runnin from the tornado with huge debris flyin everywhere, seeing that in DVD quality was

Twister was also the first movie ever released on DVD if I remember correctly

yeah Twister was definitely the first one that people used to show off the 5.1 surround. lol

 

[GzUp]

Ya what tripped me out at first was the menu screen... Press play, select scene....

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Can't believe I bought so many DVDs...I dont even watch em. Special edition, ultimate edition. Smh..

I remember that Simpsons episode where they show a dump site and there's a bunch of VHS in a pile then there another spot reserved for dvds . I buy maybe one blu ray a year.

 

[patscorpio]

I went ham....I had too much disposable cash in my undergrad days...I have a shytload of dvds

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Yall are taking me back. I remember all those early DVD's we had, Twister, Matrix, Saving Private Ryan, Terminator 2...

My pops had just got a big screen and surround sound system, the rumble of the subwoofer on Saving Private Ryan was

 

[MartyMcFly]

my first DVD i i bought was x-men and played it on my ps2

i bought hundreds in the early 00s..and then felt like a slap in the face when you would buy the special edition only to have the ultimate edition come out a year later ...and then having to cop everything again on bluray

breh! same exact story. Verbatim