How many times have you "dipped" on the same titles? (1 Viewer)

[Alanna]

The only triple I can think of is:
Terminator 2: VHS, Ultimate Ed, EXtreme Ed.

Alot of stuff I have bought twice on DVD:
The Breakfast Club -- The Breakfast Club HS Reunion Ed
Weird Science -- Weird Science HS Reunion Ed
Groundhog Day (not anamorphic) -- Groundhog Day SE
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation foolscreen -- NL's Christmas Vacation SE WS
A Christmas Story -- A Christmas Story 2disc SE
Reservoir Dogs -- Reservoir Dogs SE

Oh and let it be known: I hate buying the same thing twice, but a bigger, badder, better version will usually lure me back in. Alot of titles I waited on until better releases came out (Stargate, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Pulp Fiction - to name a few) and some I'm still waiting (Braveheart, Top Gun, Commando, Blade Runner).

On the plus side, my parents always end up with my unwanted 'castoffs'. For some reason they won't buy DVDs themselves and my father prefers foolscreen anyway. Weirdo.

There are far too many VHS tapes that I have upgraded to DVD to give a complete listing here but the couple I was the happiest with are:

Iron Eagle (just because), Beastmaster (just because x2), Sleeping Beauty (finally WS!), The Lion King: SE (amazing video/audio).

 

[Tim_Prasuhn]

THE BLACK HOLE. I've double dipped on other things, but this takes the cake for sheer quantity.

Original Disney VHS- P&S

Widescreen VHS- Regular

Limited Edition Tin - Widescreen VHS

DVD

And i'll dip in a fifth time if Anchor Bay or SOMEBODY (Blue Underground maybe) does a Special Edition, or at least an anamorphic, remastered edition.

 

[Alanna]

oh no another triple dip:

Highlander
VHS, THX certified crap DVD, and the SE... this was the first movie I bought twice on DVD.

 

[Dan Rudolph]

I've double-dipped on the following:

"Weird Al" Yankovic videos: I had most of these on VHS and then bought the new DVD.

The Mask: VHS and DVD

The Evil Dead: Anchor Bay VHS, Image SE DVD, Book of the Dead

Metropolis: Madacy DVD and the Kino

Army of Darkness: Theatrical and Director's cut

Lord of the Rings (Fellowship and Two Towers): Theatrical and Extended Editions

Wayne's World: bought the individual release, then the two-pack when I found it for $10.

The Toxic Avenger: Bought the Individual release, then the Tox Box.

X-Men: original and 1.5

Sleuth: original flipper and SE

A Bug's Life: original came with my computer. Recently bought the SE.

 

[Brett_B]

The most I've dipped into a single title is Terminator 2: Judgement Day

VHS Standard release
VHS Extended Edition (2-tape set)
DVD First Edition
DVD Ultimate Edition
DVD Extreme Edition

I am fairly certain that there won't be any more versions any time soon.

 

[David Stone]

"The Nightmare Before Christmas": VHS (Di$ney delayed the LD release a year), CLV LD, CAV LD Box Set, DVD and DVD SE.

I'm looking forward to the day I'll get to 6th-dip this one when Di$ney finally releases a corrected 16:9 anamorphic edition with ALL of the extras that were included in the CAV LD box set.

 

[Ravi K]

My only double dip was replacing the Bruce Lee Master Collection with the Bruce Lee Ultimate Collection.

 

[MatthewA]

Titles on which I have dipped twice:

101 Dalmatians (original)
1776
The Absent-Minded Professor
Airplane!
An Affair to Remember
All About Eve
Amazon Women on the Moon
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables, The Sequel (aka Anne of Avonlea)
The Apple Dumpling Gang
Auntie Mame
Babe
The Bridge on the River Kwai
A Bug's Life (the first one came with my computer)
Candleshoe
Carousel
A Christmas Story
Cinderella
Doctor Zhivago
Dumbo
Eating Raoul
Ed Wood
Fame
A Fish Called Wanda
Flight of the Navigator
Forrest Gump
Freaky Friday (original)
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Dictator
The Great Muppet Caper
Groundhog Day
Hello, Dolly!
High Anxiety
Honey I Blew Up the Kid
Honey I Shrunk the Kids
How to Steal a Million
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
The Jungle Book
Lady and the Tramp (soon to be 3)
The Little Mermaid
The Manchurian Candidate
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (only twice in feature form)
The Miracle Worker
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Mrs. Doubtfire
The Muppet Movie
The Muppets Take Manhattan
The Naked Gun (all 3 films)
Never Cry Wolf
Noises Off...
Oklahoma!
Old Yeller
The Parent Trap (original)
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Pollyanna
Polyester
Psycho
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rebel Without a Cause
The Rescuers
Ruthless People
S.O.B.
Serial Mom
Silent Movie
Singin' in the Rain
South Pacific
Spaceballs
Splash
Steel Magnolias
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Sword in the Stone
Taxi Driver
The Three Caballeros
The Three Lives of Thomasina
To Kill a Mockingbird
Top Secret
UHF
Victor/Victoria
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Three times:
Aladdin
All That Jazz
Bambi
Blazing Saddles
Bye Bye Birdie
Casablanca
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Citizen Kane
E.T.
Fantasia
Fiddler on the Roof
Ghostbusters
Grease
Hairspray
The Lion King
Miracle on 34th Street (original)
The Music Man (original)
Network
Pete's Dragon
Peter Pan
Pinocchio
The Producers
Robin Hood (1973)
Roxanne
Saturday Night Fever
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
State Fair (1945)
Toy Story
West Side Story
What About Bob?
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Four times:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Beauty and the Beast (if you include the "Work in Progress" edition)
The King and I
My Fair Lady
Oliver!
The Sound of Music
The Ten Commandments
The Wizard of Oz

Five Times:
Alice in Wonderland
Annie (original)
Gone With the Wind
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

and the all-time champion with six dips:
Bedknobs and Broomsticks

 

[StephenA]

Only a few times. I double dipped for:

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest(updated to SE)
Friday The 13th Part 6(updated to Friday set)
The Shawshank Redemption(updated to SE)
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory(replaced fullscreen)
Jurassic Park(replaced fullscreen)
Halloween(bought both the regular and extended editions)
Lord Of The Rings Trilogy(bought both the regular and extended editions)
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas(updated to the Criterion)
A Bug's Life(updated to SE)
Trainspotting(updated to SE)
Gladiator(bought the extended set and kept old 2 disc set)
The Usual Suspects(updated to SE)
Alien and Aliens(kept the old discs and bought Alien Quadrilogy)
Young Guns(updated to SE)

Not exactly double dipping, but similar:

Akira(I bought the 2 disc set, my sister gave me the 1 disc DTs, so I kept both)
Hellboy(bought 2 disc set myself, got the extended set from mom)

Maybe it was more times than I thought. Still not that mch considering I have somewhere between 500 and 600 DVDs and DVD sets.

 

[Geoff_D]

I've double/triple dipped on many, many other movies, so I'll think I'll just highlight the biggest amount of 'dips' on certain movies. Some dupes are replacements for worn out/broken/sold versions, and I no longer own certain copies of certain films, but below are the total number of purchases for some of my favourites.

I think Star Wars wins out with some 14 separate purchases, and Die Hard (my all time favourite movie) is close behind with 11. It's nuts I know, but I dig some movies so much that I HAVE to have the best version available, which is why I'm dreading the upcoming HD-DVD/Blu-ray onslaught. I just hope I can hold out!

Die Hard: P/S VHS x2, W/S VHS, THX W/S VHS x2, PAL LD, dts NTSC LD, original R1 DVD, remastered R1 DVD, DVHS x2

The Terminator: P/S VHS, W/S THX NTSC LD x2, R2 DVD, R1 DVD

Terminator 2: P/S VHS, W/S VHS, PAL LD, original R1 DVD, Ultimate Edition R1 DVD, Extreme Edition R1 DVD, DVHS

Star Wars Trilogy: W/S VHS boxset, P/S remastered VHS, W/S remastered VHS, Executor W/S VHS boxset, THX W/S VHS boxset, SE W/S VHS boxset x3, Faces NTSC LD set, Definitive Collection NTSC LD boxset, PAL SE LD boxset, NTSC SE LD boxset, Japanese SE LD boxset, and of course the R1 DVD boxset

Alien: W/S VHS, THX W/S VHS, Facehugger box set W/S VHS, NTSC AC3 LD x2, original R1 DVD, quadrilogy version R1 DVD, DVHS

Aliens: P/S VHS, THX W/S VHS, Facehugger box set W/S VHS, PAL LD, AC3 NTSC LD x2, original R1 DVD x2, quadrilogy version R1 DVD

Phantom Menace: P/S VHS x2, W/S VHS, W/S VHS boxset, R2 DVD, R1 DVD, Japanese AC3 NTSC LD

Independence Day: PAL LD, dts NTSC LD, special edition NTSC LD, R2 DVD, remastered R2 DVD, DVHS

Halloween: Anchor Bay (AB) THX R1 DVD x2, AB 2-disc R2 DVD, AB 'Divimax' edition R1 DVD

Army of Darkness: AB theatrical edition R1 DVD, AB 'Bootleg' Director's Cut R1 DVD, AB 2-disc R2 DVD, MGM Director's Cut R3 DVD

Manhunter: AB 2-disc limited edition R1 DVD, UK theatrical version R2 DVD, AB Director's Cut 'Divimax' edition, MGM Japanese theatrical version R2 DVD

Dawn Of The Dead: Elite CAV NTSC LD boxset, AB original 'Theatrical' edition R1 DVD, Dutch 2-disc R2 DVD, UK 'Director's Cut' R2 DVD, French Argento's cut 2-disc R2 DVD, AB's 'Divimax' theatrical edition R1 DVD, AB's 4-disc Ultimate R1 DVD set.

 

[Jake Yenor]

Star Wars Trilogy: THX VHS, SE VHS, SE LD, DVD
That is easily the most. I have gone through 3 on some others such as:

Batman Series: VHS, DVD, SE DVD
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home: VHS, DVD, SE DVD

 

[Arnie G]

I wonder which movie has been released on DVD the most times, Halloween?

 

[Steve Christou]

Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind is top multi-dipper in my collection, 14 times since 1979, first bought on 8mm, last bought on SD-DVD. Next... HD-DVD?

 

[Ed St. Clair]

Quadruple dipped DVD titles;
T2
Desperado

Triple dipped DVD titles;
Predator

 

[Ed St. Clair]

I wonder which movie has been released on DVD the most times

My guess;
Night of the Living Dead

 

[Jordan_E]

I don't multi-dip as much as I used to, but the one title that I will continue to multi-dip, probably until I kick the bucket, is JAWS. Why stop after VHS, WS VHS, LD, boxed set LD, DD DVD, DTS DVD, and the recent release?

 

[Paul McElligott]

Star Wars Trilogy: VHS, WS CLV LD, LD CAV Box set, 1st DVD Box set

2001: VHS, Criterion CLV LD, MGM CAV LD, MGM Non-Amamorphic DVD, WHV DVD

Silverado: Criterion LD, First incorrectly-framed DVD, Second correctly-framed DVD, Collector's Edition DVD

Das Boot: Director's Cut DVD, Director's Cut Superbit DVD, Mini-series DVD

Lawrence of Arabia: WS VHS, Special Edition DVD, Superbit DVD

Jaws: Laserdisc, 25th Anv. DVD, 30th Anv. DVD.

Apollo 13: Laserdisc, DVD, Anv. Ed. DVD

Star Trek II: VHS, Laserdisc, DVD, Director's Cut DVD.

Probably every one of these is a candidate for another dip if and when they are released on BluRay.