My first DVD player was for the PC when Tex Murphy: Overseer came out, end Februari 1998. I bought one of the first DVD drives for that (players weren't available yet in the Netherlands) which cost about $400 at the time for the drive. I had my PC hooked up to my surround system and CRT projector, so also used it to watch movies until I could import a standalone region free DVD player. Laserdisc was still better quality though in the early days so I mainly stuck with that until DVD matured a bit. Early DVD releases in PAL were often literally the VHS version (with baked in subtitles) copied to DVD. VHS noise plus mpeg compression artifacts.
DVD is much more friendly to use than Blu-ray but it's hard to go back to 480p and mpeg-2. Some of the superbit collection are not too bad but still very low resolution. Hence I only buy DVD now when there is no Blu-ray version.
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