What is the most DVDish DVD. - The Bear and Badger

mistercrayon

Haha yes.

Cartridges (Console) - Super Streetfighter II: Turbo Edition (US Import)

Bonus points if it comes in The Tin.

mistercrayon

b0r1s wrote:

Right let’s do this properly.

CD - Nirvana - Nevermind
Vinyl LP - Prince - Purple Rain
VHS - Return of The Jedi
DVD - Blade
PC CD-Rom - X-Wing vs Tie Fighter
Blu-Ray - Never really cared about Blu-Ray - I’d already started to buy digital content at this time.
HD-DVD - Ha ha ha - I came very close to buying one.
mp3 - I’d bought about a hundred singles but first album was To The Five Burroughs - The Beastie Boys
Streaming Video - ~~Pornhub~~ - I honestly can’t think of my main Netflix experience. Before that I’d bought Band of Brothers on Apple and streamed it nearly every year.
Cartridges (Console) - Super Streetfighter II: Turbo Edition (US Import)
Cartridges (Handheld) - Advance Wars
Disc console - Tekken
Tapes - The Top 40 on a Sunday

b0r1s

mistercrayon wrote:

Haha yes. Cartridges (Console) - Super Streetfighter II: Turbo Edition (US Import) Bonus points if it comes in The Tin.

No it was actually from Curry’s (Comet maybe?) who were selling them, I kid you not, under the counter. He literally went into a cupboard under the counter and it was mine for the princely sum of £60.

davyK

CD - Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
Vinyl LP - Dark Side of the Moon - Pink FLoyd
VHS - copy of still banned Clockwork Orange I bought while on holiday in Cyprus '92. + recording NFL on Ch.4 when I was out.
DVD - Exorcist
BluRay - 2001
Game Cartridge - Asteroids - Atari 2600
Game Disc - Sega Rally - Sega Saturn
Cassette - Gracelands - Paul Simon
Game Cassette - Jet Set Willy

mistercrayon

VHS - copy of still banned Clockwork Orange I bought while on holiday in Cyprus.

There’s something about VHS that has a slight tinge of seediness - maybe it was the combination of the idea of Pirate video or the way you could sneak a look at boob in the dirty Blockbuster equivalent. I feel like buying from foreign markets sort of falls into that - this idea you need to circumvent our law to get it.

davyK

mistercrayon wrote:

VHS - copy of still banned Clockwork Orange I bought while on holiday in Cyprus.

There’s something about VHS that has a slight tinge of seediness - maybe it was the combination of the idea of Pirate video or the way you could sneak a look at boob in the dirty Blockbuster equivalent. I feel like buying from foreign markets sort of falls into that - this idea you need to circumvent our law to get it.

heh. yeah. Indie video libraries had a seedy feel to them. One I went to was a room out the back of a newsagent with no windows. The availability of porn was one reason but it wasn't all down to that. The battered cases on the shelves - the plain box you got to take it home in. The amount of ropey old crap you would get if you weren't careful - you only had the box cover to go by or word of mouth if a film hadn't been in the cinema.

It being an analogue medium the state of the tape, the build quality of the player and your CRT TV's tuner mattered too. I remember fucking about with the tracking and the tuner on the TV to get the best picture I could. That grainy, blurry look adds to the sense of grimyness.

Pirate videos in the early days were a waste of time - the quality was really low. I remember a mate boasting about a pirate of ET he had - I came around to see it and it was unwatchable so I passed. Once organised crime got involved (IRA,UVF et al over here) the quality improved.....

Questor

DVD for me probably isn't the 'definitive' example of the format, but it's the one that I remember the most. 'Fight Club' R1 version from 2000. It was one of the first DVDs I ever bought, from a long defunct US site thanks to vouchers I got doing the reel.com quiz every day (getting the answers I didn't have from the 709Online forum (which was itself a fansite for one of the first easily region hackable DVD players))

Great 2 DVD release with a special packaging, and I think there were 4 commentaries on the main movie. Unlike a lot of people I have always enjoyed listening to a commentary - a lot are absolute pap of course, but you get some real gems.

halfgone

Some excellent ones here. Makes me feel painfully old though.

Yossarian

Don’t worry, I’m sure that G will be by any time now to tell us what the definitive wax cylinder was.

Questor

I'm told there were some fucking excellent stone carvings that this bloke called Moses had

davyK

Surprised no-one had mentioned laserdisc.

cosmicjellybean

‘The One’ was the most UMDiest UMD.

davyK

45rpm single. My Boomerang Won't Come Back - Charlie Drake.

cosmicjellybean

I grew up around so so much music I can’t say there’s ‘one’ that sticks to mind. I remember the only tape in my mums car was the white album so we sang to that a lot at school drop-offs/pick-ups.

davyK

Anyone into Big Box PC games? That was quite a format at one time.

hylian_elf

Minnesänger wrote:

mistercrayon wrote:

Infernal Affairs is also a great shout - that era of importing videos is huge. Things like ringu and what not.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

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Yup. Has loads of those. Battle Royale, Ichi the Killer, Audition…

Battle Royale in a tin. Oh my!

I still have my R1 Criterion DVDs even though they’ll look dogshit on current setup.

hylian_elf

Dunno about most DVDish DVD for me, but among my very first purchases were Scream and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. So maybe those?

Digipack stuff also comes to mind. Warner Bros used to do great ones. Such as Amadeus and One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. Fight Club was one of my favourites, so was Memento. Lots of Easter eggs and shit. Once Upon a Time in the West was great.

hylian_elf

Re importing, I did loads too. A lot of R1 Criterions which I still have. Mostly Kurosawa.

Plus fond memories of hunting down Ghibli boxset from China and also Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (aka Spirited Away). I still have the Ghibli boxset with handwritten note on which disk is which film in English.

davyK

I have the Bladerunner DVD special release in a tin. Has a flying car key ring, art cards (of concept art - actually rather nice for once) and one of those animated cell thingummies. There's a letter from Ridley Scott, printed on transparent space-agey plasticy "page". One of the few special editions that appeared to be worthwhile.

hylian_elf

I need more space and to sort these out a bit more…

davyK

Nice. Have one of those Chaplin sets.

That Criterion shelf....drool.

hylian_elf

Yeah that's an entire Criterion shelf bar the Apocalypse Now which I took delivery of two days ago. Godzilla and Bergman sets are oversized and separate.

davyK

Oh...that Godzilla set for the packaging alone.

I have several different copies of Apocalypse Now on DVD......have a BluRay of it too. Not as nice as that one you have though.

Hodge360

Ooh, La Haine. Love that.

Did early DVDs come with special features for PC drives or am I thinking of CDs?

davyK

Some DVDs had press kits that were a PC/Mac browsable folder with various "multimedia" artifacts like scripts, poster artwork and the like.

Some just had a weblink embedded in them..

Yossarian

Pretty sure that some CDs had that too.

GurtTractor

Oh yeah that first Gorillaz album CD was also a CDROM, which had like a basic point and click thing with extra animations and weird stuff.

There was more besides that too.

davyK

Heh... Didn't know that about the Gorillaz album. Nice.

CD singles (remember those?) often had the video of the song on it.

Yossarian

Just remembered 1977 by Ash, quality CDage for the reasons of excellent hidden track usage. There were three hidden tracks on the album, one after a period of silence at the end (although it’s just a recording of the band throwing up), two more if you skip backwards from the first track.

afgavinstan

Late entry for dvd - Clerks has to be up there.

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