Your first R1 and R2 DVD's ?

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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 ! :D
 
Region 2 = Reservoir Dogs(the one with the whole red cover, think it came out in 1999/2000)
Region 1 = I can't remember... it might have been Tobe Hooper's The Funhouse though.
 
R2 - Cruel Intentions
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.
 
My first R1 discs were early 1998 - the original US release of Moonraker long before the Special Editions appeared in the UK, and Anchor Bays awful 2 sided disc of the extended version of Dawn of the Dead when it was incorrectly known as the Directors Cut.

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 = Outbreak, think it was one of the first to be released in this country.

R1 = Can't really remember, but Air Force One was one of the first I bought, from the original play.com :)
 
When I bought my first dvd player I splashed out on a few of my favourite films, I can't remember all the ones I bought that day (think I bought about 5) but I know they included The Thing & Manhunter.
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.
 
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.
 
R2 (NTSC): The Wanderer From Tokyo (Toukyou nagaremono), but couldn't play it because it had a scratch. TD was already and unsurprisingly out of stock so they gave me Black Lizard (Kuro Tokage) as a replacement. I finally bought the UKR2 edition of Tokyo Drifter when it was released years later. :D
R2 (PAL): Metropolis
R1: never bought one.
 
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
 
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