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   Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 30-Aug-2025 10:35:57 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

   People who had a DVD player early on 1997-2000 era.

   What movies did it come with? Mine came with Pi, Fallen Down and Armageddon, whereas my wife only had Pi and Armageddon with hers.

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     Adam Katz (adamhotep@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 30-Aug-2025 11:38:27 JST Adam Katz

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     @mattl your DVD player came with Pi? Wow, that's an obscure one (that every mathy/nerdy person should watch) and I'm jealous

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     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 30-Aug-2025 11:38:27 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

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     • 2600 Magazine
     • Adam Katz

     @adamhotep The lead actor also appears in @2600's "Freedom Downtime" being interviewed about the terrible Kevin Mitnick movie that thankfully never got much of a release.

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     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 04:17:58 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

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     @TerryHancock November 1996 in Japan, April 1997 in the US but DVD-ROM was around the same time in Europe first. Around summer 1997 was when I started seeing the discs and maybe a few years later before I got one. Pi wasn’t out until 1998 for example.

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     Space Catitude 🚀 (terryhancock@realsocial.life)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 04:17:59 JST Space Catitude 🚀

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     @mattl

     Also, was 1997 REALLY when DVD players first came out? It feels like it's been longer! 😅

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     Space Catitude 🚀 (terryhancock@realsocial.life)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 04:18:00 JST Space Catitude 🚀

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     @mattl

     It's become kind of a tradition in my family that the first movie we get in any new format is "Forbidden Planet".

     I think I have had that on CED disk, VHS, and DVD. I don't think I ever got the Blu-Ray, though.

     My parents LOVED "Forbidden Planet", and I guess I'm pretty fond of it, too.

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     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 04:18:56 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

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     • Space Catitude 🚀

     @TerryHancock Oh wow. CED.

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     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 04:19:26 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

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     • XANTRONIX

     @xan really was.

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     XANTRONIX (xan@xantronix.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 04:19:28 JST XANTRONIX

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     @mattl fucking Pi??? as their introduction to a new media format??? incredible

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     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 05:57:17 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

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     • Space Catitude 🚀

     @TerryHancock I know about it mostly from my late 1990s obsession with the Colecovision.

     https://www.colecoboxart.com/faq/FAQ02.htm#c33

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     Space Catitude 🚀 (terryhancock@realsocial.life)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 05:57:18 JST Space Catitude 🚀

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     @mattl
     Yeah. It was a thing. For awhile. In the 80s. 🤷♂️

     Cheaper than laserdiscs. But also kind of crappier.

     I have CED disc skips embedded in my consciousness. I rewatch movies from that era, and brace for the skip, even when it's not going to happen, because it's a different medium.

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     Nathan A. Stine (stinerman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 06:26:02 JST Nathan A. Stine

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     @mattl I don't recall mine coming with any movies. I didn't know this was a thing.

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     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 06:26:02 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

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     • Nathan A. Stine

     @stinerman In the UK a lot of people I knew bought this.

     https://web.archive.org/web/20021129103145/http://www.50box.com/

     50 movies with a player, promoted by TV host Jeremy Beadle (who had a few TV shows about camcorders and filmmaking)