Who Still Has Their Original 1997 Release DVDs? (1 Viewer)

[Paul Hillenbrand]

Fortunately, DVD Profiler can arrange my collection by the release date, and it shows I still have "42" 1997 releases. There are several DVD's that I have upgraded to a newer version, (those are no longer listed), but I'm sure my children would still have all of them somewhere.

Paul

Conspiracy Theory------------------Dec 30, 199742
Lethal Weapon 3--------------------Dec 23, 199741
Contact: Special Edition-----------Dec 16, 199740
Amadeus----------------------------Dec 16, 199739
My Best Friend's Wedding-----------Dec 09, 199738
Christmas Live: Mannheim SteamrolleDec 09, 199737
Scream-----------------------------Dec 02, 199736
Phenomenon-------------------------Dec 02, 199735
George of the Jungle---------------Dec 02, 199734
From Russia with Love--------------Dec 02, 199733
Neil Diamond : Greatest Hits Live--Nov 28, 199732
Cliffhanger------------------------Nov 25, 199731
The Bishop's Wife------------------Nov 18, 199730
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls-----Oct 30, 199729
Ladyhawke--------------------------Oct 28, 199728
Batman & Robin---------------------Oct 21, 199727
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery: Platinum Series-----------------------------Oct 21, 199726
Poltergeist------------------------Oct 11, 199725
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate FactorySep 30, 199724
The Adventures of Pinocchio--------Sep 24, 199723
Fathers' Day-----------------------Sep 09, 199722
Show Boat--------------------------Sep 03, 199721
Brigadoon--------------------------Sep 03, 199720
Woodstock, 3 Days of Peace & Music: Director's Cut -----------------------------------Aug 26, 199719
The Witches of Eastwick------------Aug 22, 199718
The Craft--------------------------Aug 05, 199717
Matilda----------------------------Aug 05, 199716
Forbidden Planet-------------------Jul 15, 199715
Absolute Power---------------------Jul 08, 199714
Mars Attacks!----------------------Jun 24, 199713
Beetlejuice------------------------Jun 24, 199712
Michael----------------------------Jun 10, 199711
Dumb and Dumber--------------------May 20, 199710
Jumanji----------------------------Apr 26, 19979
Unforgiven: Clint Eastwood CollectiApr 01, 19978
Singin' in the Rain----------------Apr 01, 19977
The Wizard of Oz-------------------Mar 25, 19976
The Fugitive-----------------------Mar 25, 19975
Lethal Weapon----------------------Mar 25, 19974
GoldenEye--------------------------Mar 25, 19973
Interview With The Vampire---------Mar 24, 19972
Eraser-----------------------------Mar 09, 19971

 

[Britton]

I have From Russia With Love and Austin Powers. However, I didn't hop on the DVD train until July 1998.

 

[Patrick McCart]

Yes and no...

My 1997 DVD's:

Blazing Saddles (sold, replaced with 2004 SE)
Amadeus (kept for '84 cut & music-only track, also have 2-disc SE)
Vegas Vacation (banned from library for being P&S, someday get LBX edition)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (kept for score, but will get Kino SE for image ONLY someday)
Pinocchio (sold in anticipation of '05 SE)
"Weird Al" Yankovic: The Videos (sold, replaced with 2003 Ultimate Video Collection)

 

[RyanAn]

I wish I had got to see them earlier, I got into DVDs in 1999... Any chance anyone as coverart and full size pictures of cases and such, jewel cases included? Merely for comparison of course.

Thanks,

Ryan

 

[m.cellophane]

Class of '97:

Contact (yep, still workin' ok)
George of the Jungle (free offer or somethin')
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (haven't upgraded)
First Knight
Rob Roy
The Witches of Eastwick
Mars Attacks!
Total Recall
Strangers on a Train (waiting to see if the new box set really has both versions or what)

 

[Craig Beam]

1997, huh? Let's see...

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (my very first DVD, God forgive me)
Blade Runner
Strangers on a Train

Hmmmm. My ex-wife still has her original edition of CHITTY-CHITTY BANG BANG. Does that count?

Now, 1998 is a whole different story. I've got LOTS of DVDs from that year!

 

[Glenn Overholt]

Ok, I confess that I had around 30 DVD's before I ever got my first player (March '98), and the only one I've dumped has been CCBB.

Goldfinger was why I signed up here in the first place. After a year of lurking someone couldn't play it on their PC, and I knew the correct settings.

Glenn

 

[Chris Rein]

I have 33 of them since day one in 1997.

Eraser was the first one out (and the demo disc in the stores that first carried DVD) and I still have that one! Here they are according to DVD Profiler:

Eraser 1
A Time to Kill 2
Batman 3
Batman Returns 4
The Long Kiss Goodnight 5
Batman Forever 6
Dumb and Dumber 7
Outbreak 8
Cutthroat Island 9
Mars Attacks! 10
Rumble in the Bronx 11
Turbulence 12
Absolute Power 13
Mortal Kombat 14
Executive Decision 15
Risky Business 16
Under Siege 17
Murder at 1600 18
Assassins 19
Demolition Man 20
Rocky II 21
Rocky IV 22
Tango & Cash 23
Video Essentials 24
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery: Platinum Series 25
Batman & Robin 26
Addicted To Love 27
Phenomenon 28
Backdraft 29
My Best Friend's Wedding 30
Contact: Special Edition 31
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory 32
Conspiracy Theory 33

 

[Harold Wazzu]

I have a few, didn't start collecting til around 2000:

Eraser
Blade Runner
Raging Bull
A Time to Kill
Roadwarrior
Dumb & Dumber
National Lampoons Vegas Vacation
National Lampoons Vacation
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
A League of the Own
Philadelphia
Ace Ventura Pet Detective
Demolition Man
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
The Net
Backdraft
The Lawnmower Man: Platinum Series

 

[Rolando]

WOW, I was going to say none. So far I have upgraded all my DVDs and even sold some I thought would get upgraded (Batman, Blade Runner) and sold anything non-anamorphic.

Man I bought like 40 DVDs in the first year alone. I remeber coming home with Lethal Weapon and Batman. IIRC among my first were:
Lethal Weapon
Batman
Star Trek: First Contact
Terminator 2

Going through peoples list I know realize I still have
Austin Power IMOM and Rumple in the Bronx

I also have Spawn which I lent to a friend who has had it for like 3 years now...

 

[Nils Luehrmann]

DVD Profiler is notorious for having inaccurate information including release dates because it is an open database and a lot of incorrect information gets submitted.

Eraser was not the first DVD even as demo material. Eraser was released to stores on 3/25/97 - the same day as all of the initial titles were released. The only DVDs to actual get an official release date prior to 3/25/97 were a few IMAX DVDs including the first printing of Tropical Rainforest and Africa: The Serengeti which were all released one week earlier.

Wizard of Oz was the first available film on DVD for demo back in 1996, but there were even earlier non feature length film demo DVDs. One of the very first demo DVDs that was available to the public was A&M's "Vision" DVD.

 

[TonyDale]

I still have the very first dvd I bought before I had a player, Warner's Special Edition of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. (But, seeing what they're going for on Ebay, I'd rather offer it to HTFers willing to make a reasonable offer ).
The first Criterion dvd that I bought was BRAZIL. (see above paranthetical statement ).

 

[Paul Sandhu]

Were the DVDs the same price they are now?

 

[Craig Sherman]

In August of 1997, in anticipation of my new PC arriving with a newfangled DVD-ROM drive, I bought The Player and Reservoir Dogs. I have since double-dipped on Reservoir Dogs, but my Player is still there, my #1 DVD. It's been exactly 7 years, and now 441* DVDs later, with no sign of stopping!

CDE,

CS

*This is counting by bar code, so for example, an 8-title box set only counts as one.

 

[Marvin Richardson]

I still have the following (all are 1997, at least according to DVD Profiler):

A Time To Kill
Batman
Blade Runner: Director's Cut
Beetlejuice
Blazing Saddles
Mars Attacks!
Rumble in the Bronx
Freeway
Species
The Pelican Brief
Assassins
Demolition Man
Poltergeist
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Contact: Special Edition
The Client
Conspiracy Theory

The only I haven't replaced that I could is Blazing Saddles, I just haven't gotten around to it. I don't know that I'd replace any of these though, except maybe Poltergeist and Batman.

 

[RyanAn]

Does anyone have any pictures of what they look like to show us?

Ryan

 

[Larry Sutliff]

I still have:
All 4 Batman films(yes, even BATMAN AND ROBIN!)
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI(looks and sounds just fine to me)
HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME(pretty nasty looking, but that's because the film only survives in 16mm dupes)
FORBIDDEN PLANET

Sold off most of the others(CUTTHROAT ISLAND, TOTAL RECALL, etc.).

 

[Steve Tannehill]

Warner and MGM titles were generally $24.98 retail. You could get them in-stores for $19.98. Other studios did not always comply with that pricing (slightly higher), but it was an early standard.

I still have a large number of DVD's from 1997.

- Steve

 

[Kwang Suh]

God no. The vast majority of catalog titles were sold at full MSRP, sometimes even more (and MSRP back then was very pricy, sometimes $45!). New releases were sometimes above the $25 range, consistently.

 

[Jeff Ulmer]

I still have 147 original titles from 1997, including a fairly complete set of Columbia titles in jewel cases. The first DVDs I bought were all Columbia titles (In the Line of Fire and Legends of the Fall at $40CAN each), since Warner was limited to its test cities until July (most of my Warner titles were $22-30CAN).

That early version of Africa: The Serengetti was attrocious from a compression standpoint, but was still one of the only demo discs available.

Menus on those early Columbia titles were as basic as could be. Things have come a long way since then.