For me:

1st HD DVD was Sleepy Hollow in August 2006
1st Blu-Ray was The Devil's Rejects in February 2007


I remember that feeling when I bought that first HD DVD, very fun. :)

memento on bd

Mission Impossible Trilogy on HD-DVD.

Apollo 13 HD DVD :)

Pursuit of Happyness on BR

Planet Earth on Blu-Ray.

They were GoodFellas, Jarhead, and Cinderella Man in HD DVD.

HD nostalgia already, can this be possible?

Very well, The Adventures of Robin Hood (HD DVD).

The Matrix Trilogy (but amazon threw in Serenity for free).

Serenity

and still a favorite.

First movie was Aeon Flux because it seemed to have some of the best PQ reviews at the time I bought my player. I was ready to return my HD-A1 if HD didn't wow me enough. Needless to say I'm now addicted :D

HD-DVD: Last Samurai, Million Dollar Baby, Phantom of the Opera and Serenity right when they (and HD-DVD as a format for that matter) came out.

Blu-Ray: Black Hawk Down, Kingdom of Heavens November 2006

Batman Begins.

First HD DVD purchase for me:

Matrix Trilogy, Happy Feet, & Corpse Bride :D

Someday BD purchase for me:

Blackhawk Down will be my first 2 years from now. :)

Serenity was the first HD DVD I ordered.
King Kong was the first HD DVD I owned.
Jarhead was the first HD DVD I bought in a store.

X-Men 3 was the first Blu-Ray I owned.
Rocky was the first Blu-Ray I bought in a store.

:D

The Last Samurai and Phantom of the Opera (both bought on HD DVD i April 2006).

First Blu-ray was Eight Below in March.

Jarhead, Bourne Supremacy, Full Metal Jacket, Cinderella Man & Goodfellas on HD DVD: May 16th 2006

Underworld Evolution, Terminator, Fifth Element on Blu-Ray: June 17th 2006

Serenity was the first HD DVD I ordered.
King Kong was the first HD DVD I owned.
Jarhead was the first HD DVD I bought in a store.

X-Men 3 was the first Blu-Ray I owned.
Rocky was the first Blu-Ray I bought in a store.

:D


Wow, how does one person have so many firsts. :p
I'm presumably jealous at the amount of other firsts you've had. :eek: :D

the departed hd dvd combo.

Kingdom of Heaven on Blu-ray.

Matrix Trilogy w/ Amazon deal (Batman Begins and King Kong were my freebies).

King Kong was the 1st HD-DVD I got (free with drive), still the only one I own at the moment and not watched it yet!
The 1st Blu-ray I bought was MI:III, I'll only buy region free Blu-ray films so I can import from the US as they are far to expensive in the UK

The first one I got was King Kong since it came bundled with the add on, but the first one I actually bought was World Trade Center for personal reasons.

Before I got my HD-DVD add-on and HDTV I bought Slither on HD-DVD combo since I figured I was going to eventually get it on HD-DVD. Since all the B&M stores were selling it for $35-40 this also became my first online purchase ever outside of eBay (got it for $27.99 at Target + $2.50 shipping).

No Blu-ray for me, yet. Call me when the players sell for HD-DVD's entry-level price and have fully-implemented 1.1 OS and onboard memory specs. :cool:

Ice Age the Meltdown on BD

Identity Blu-ray

Stealth & Terminator 2 BD

HD DVD: Serenity

BD: Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Batman Begins HD DVD (besides the free copy of King Kong with the add-on)...

King Kong
Casino Royale

Babel on Blu ray.
It was free due to a website error. Only had to pay for shipping.

First HD-DVD purchase was MI:3 (Kong came with my drive)

First Blu-Ray purchase was Saw III

July 2006 - Three: Perfect Storm, Unforgiven, Goodfellas

Underworld: Evolution (Blu-ray) - purchased June, 2006.

Planet Earth - HD-DVD

Technically it was Talladega nights that came with my ps3 but separate purchase my first was The Last Samurai. Love that movie :)

Batman Begins - HD DVD
Casino Royale - Blu-Ray

from my Amazon order history page...IIRC, I got both for $32 shipped...

Order Date: June 21, 2006

Items:
1 of: The Fifth Element [Blu-ray]
Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC
1 of: The Terminator [Blu-ray]
Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC

I got a launch day PS3 about 5 months later...:)

I have already mailed my 5thE copy for the remastered version...hopefully it gets here soon...

I ordered Serenity, Batman Begins, Troy, Training Day, and Lucky # Slevin from amazon, so technically there was no first purchased.

With that said, the reason I bought an HD-DVD player in the first place was so that I could finally own Serenity (wouldn't get the SD, because I knew eventually I was getting it in HD)

Grand Prix (HD-DVD)

First BD: Unforgiven
First HD DVD: Batman Begins

One Last Thing - BD

HD-DVD: Serenity (Browncoats represent!) and Phantom of the Opera
Blu-Ray: Talladega Nights (PS3 pack-in) and House of Flying Daggers...yeah, you know I was disappointed with those.

1st HD DVD was Batman Begins in December 2006 *
1st Blu-Ray was Casino Royale in March 2007 **

* Not including the copy of King Kong included with the 360 addon

** Technically, I ordered Transporter 1 & 2, Fantastic Four, The Big Hit, XXX, Alien vs Predator, Planet of the Apes & X-Men 3 before buying CR in-store, but physically had CR in my hands first.

Batman Begins

First?

King Kong came with my 360 add-on and I bought MI3, as well.

A couple months later, I purchased XMen3, Black Hawk Down, and Kingdom of Heaven with my PS3.

Casino Royale BD

Constantine. Got it the day I got my HD-A1 back sometime in 2006, I think November.

Ah that God awful 5th Element disk. That and the Sammy were more then enough to make the switch to HD-DVD. First HD-DVD.... I dont know got about 7 that first time

Serenity. Still one of the best discs I own, both in terms of sound/picture and also movie rewatchablity.

Stranger than Fiction

The Last Samurai (HD)
Black Hawk Down (Blu-ray)

Planet Earth on Blu-ray, and to be honest it was so amazing that everything since has been a bit of a letdown. I remember saying "wow" at least every ten minutes.

HD DVD -- Lucky # Slevin. I couldn't wait to see Lucy Liu in high def! :)

Got the add-on first, so I got King Kong with that, still the only disc out of approx. 100 hi def that I haven't watched. First real purchase was Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas soon after. First blu ray was Prestige, actually picked up the PS3 just to have that movie.

Serenity, and it's a good thing. My wife had looked at me askance about spending so much on a movie player, until she walked in on me watching it and actually exclaimed, "Wow."

Planet Earth on Blu-Ray.


Same here.

Phantom of the opera and The Last Samurai on 4-16-06

HD-DVD: Bourne Supremacy and Serenity

Blu-Ray: Casino Royale, The Prestige and PoTC: Curse of the Black Pearl

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire from xploited.

It actually arrived a couple days before my A2 did last December.

Serenity and Chronicles of Riddick

I bought Blackhawk Down on BD

and King Kong on HD DVD.



To be quite honest, BHD simply made my jaw drop, and King Kong made my eyelids drop lol...

KK is a great looking movie, but my God it was boring.

Technically it would have been King Kong, with the purchase of my add-on, but the ones I directly purchased were Superman Returns and Batman Begins. On BluRay it would have been Terminator 2 and boy was I disappointed.

The Last Samurai and Phantom of the Opera - the only disks on the shelf when the first three players came off the Saturday delivery FedEx truck back in April, 2006. I bought the first of the three and those two disks.

Troy. While the movie wasn't the best war flick, it was one of the first action titles with a TrueHD track.

The Last Samurai and Phantom of the Opera - the only disks on the shelf when the first three players came off the Saturday delivery FedEx truck back in April, 2006. I bought the first of the three and those two disks.


Around that time of year last year, I can remember seeing The Last Samurai on the shelf in a funny sized red box and wondering what it even was...

Now over a year later, I'm gung ho on both formats. Good times.. :cool:

The PUNISHER on BD, I still watch weekly..

F&F Tokyo Drift on HDDVD

Ice Age 2 on Blu-ray.

I wanted a family-friendly flick that could show some off what HD could do on a 1080p set to placate family members who thought I had completely lost my mind for investing in a new HDTV and a PS3.

U-571

There is probably a thread somewhere from last summer that discusses which should be the first.

Adam

House of Flying Compression Artifacts (Daggers)...

I watched this and thought that HD was a complete and total waste until I came here to verify... :)

The audio was sure nice though! I then rented "Goodnight, and Good Luck" which was certainly sharp, but not much in the way of color. It was a painful first week.

Underworld Evolution on Blu-ray
Chronicles of Riddick on HD-DVD

Both bought for use as demo/audition discs before I even owned a player. When I got these, most home theater shops in Japan still had few movie discs on either format. The ones they did have weren't movies that told me what I needed to know anyway. Most vendors used special demo material provided by manufacturers, but I wanted to test the players using real world software so I brought my own.

I still do this now when checking out 1080p projectors, which freaks some people out. Especially when they're great-looking discs like The Prestige, Rocky Balboa or Apocalypto which weren't even in Japanese theaters yet when the U.S. Blu-ray versions came out.

HD- Bourne Supremecy
BD- Casino Royale

Most suprised- lucky number slevin. LOVED that movie!

HD DVD I don't remember but I think it was Serenity

BD I am pretty sure it was a used copy of Fifth Element (that I still need to send in to get a watchable disc)

HD DVD: Serenity and Phantom of the Opera along with my HD-D1 in April 2006. All three purchased from Wal-mart B&M.

Blu-ray: Terminator sometime in June 2006. I was buying two HD DVDs and needed a third high definition disc to join the 10% discount promotion they had started. Terminator was less than $11 after discount as I recall.

SCD

Serinity, riddick and pitch black all the same recipt as the A1.

First import was La haine and rambo

Serenity seems to be the most popular starter title for those of us who jumped in early. I knew I posted my responses to this thread before, but I just wanted to write about that simply AWESOME feeling I got when I popped in that disk the very first time and the Universal logo and fanfare came on...PUPUPUUUM PUUUM, PUPUPUPUPUUUUUUM...and then the logo turns into the shot of Earth...man. I guess that while I'm a big Firefly fan, part of the reason that Serenity's my most rewatched HD-DVD is because it brings back that feeling again.

In fact, maybe I'll pop it in again right now...

KK is a great looking movie, but my God it was boring.

I thought that also. I seemed to drag on certain parts more than it should have. But for the eye candy, I stomached it.

Land of the Dead Combo HD, before I had a player (a way to get the wife on board).

Mine was Serenity. It is such a bad movie but it looked nice. It was a blind buy for me. I sold it already.

Unforgiven (EASTWOOD) on BD. The difference between HD and SD is readily apparent in a movie with so many night and dark interior scenes, and the outdoor scenes in daylight are really breathtaking. Kudos to WB for an outstanding transfer.

Bhd

Serenity. The whole reason I chose HD-DVD.

First HD DVD: Goodfellas
First Blu-ray: Tears of the Sun

First import: Children of Men UK HD DVD (I don't buy combos and the UK version is a non-combo).

I'm gonna have to say Constantine. My wife surprised me with Fear and Loathing.

300 (Blu-ray) ...today?

1st - King Kong HD-DVD (including with the 360 AO).

2nd - 300 on HD-DVD

I am a "renter." :)

MI3 and Kingkong...

Forbidden Planet.

HD: Thing
BLU: 300

My first HD DVD I purchased was going to be Batman Begins, but my friend bought it for me as a present, so instead I got Smokin' Aces

HD-DVD The Last Samurai
BD -None purchased (or will be)

HD-DVD: Batman Begins, Serenity & Corpse Bride (returned the player 1 month later and still have these on my shelf)

Blu-Ray: Xmen 3 & Blackhawk Down

Serenity on HD-DVD

Batman Begins and Serenity - Dec. 2006

Awesome HD DVDs.

First was Behind Enemy Lines and Black Hawk Down. Then the next day I bought Casino Royale.


just recently got 300.

The Last Samurai, Forbidden Planet, The Searchers and Batman Begins.

300. Purchased it with my PS3. Just hooked up the PS3 yesterday and projected my first BD image!

HD DVD - Chronicles of Riddick
Blu-Ray - Silent Hill

For HD DVD, my first purchase was Planet Earth (pre-order), but The Departed was the disc I played.

For Blu-Ray, I think I put in Layer Cake first. Bought that and the two POTC movies at the same time.

300 Bd

We Were Soldiers on HD DVD

Batman Begins, before I had even bought a player actually.

As for Blu-Ray, well I haven't seen the need.....yet........................

"Planet Earth" -- the BBC version on HD-DVD

No Blu until profile 1.1 player prices come down below $300.