Zodiac is brilliant, it's on my purchase list for 4K. I'm also looking at the Studio Ghibli box on regular blu-ray.

Here is a small update of my movie & TV-show collection.

My Blu-ray-3D collection grows and thrives... from 150 to 420 titles within 3 months.

My 4K-UHD collection currently stagnates until I completed the 3D collection:

I finally sorted in a lot of Blu-rays into the (2D-) Blu-ray collection, which were laying around in different rooms:

No big changes for my DVD and HD-DVD collections anymore... only added some music DVDs:

Across the Spiderverse is indeed much, much better on Blue ray than on Streaming. The jump in quality is immense. I'll probably get Oppenhiemer and Gaurdians of the Galacy Vol. 3 next the latter which I loved on streaming but I wanna see it at it's best.

Anime shelf - have run out of space to have everything on there neatly. 

My big movieshelf - it's about 5' by 5'. Not the best pictures.  

Put it up last year, and running out of space now. 

Spoiler!

Been importing the Dragon Ball Z set from the UK. Still have 4 more coming in.  

Shrek 1-4 4k just came in. 

Looks pretty darn good. 

What were your first DVDs, Blu-rays, 4K-UHDs...?

I never collected VHS-tapes or LaserDiscs... just rented the VHS-movies and recorded movies from TV.

In June 1998 I started my DVD collection with these movies:

I bought the Xbox360 HD-DVD drive in November 2006 (day one) and started my HD-DVD collection with these movies (King Kong was the perfect showcase!) :

When I got my PlayStation 3 in June 2007, I started my Blu-ray collection with these movies:

In September 2012 I bought a 3D-TV (LG 47 LM615S) and started my Blu-ray-3D collection with these movies:

In October 2019 I bought my first 4K-display (LG OLED55C9PLA) and an Xbox One X. With compatible hardware I started my 4K-UHD collection with these movies:

I don't really recall first DVD, blu-rays. 

I know my first 4k was Avengers Endgame, because for some reason the 4k+blu-ray was cheaper than the blu-ray at a black friday sale - 2019. So I had that a year before I had a 4k player. 

I didn't really go all into 4k until 2023, which is sad. I'd wager that 80% of my shelves is from the past 2 years. 

I was mostly about buying my absolute favorites beforehand, past ~2 years I've really been having physical media as a replacement for streaming. 

I did collect Laserdiscs, can't remember which one I bought first though.

My old collection (half lost in a flood sadly, other half stored in a moving box)
All covers photographed with early digital camera.

And my early DVD collection (screen grabs from the title screen. I had one of the first DVD players in my PC which I bought to play Tex Murphy Overseer in 1998 and used as a DVD player for the first couple years. (PC connected to CRT projector at the time)

Early DVDs were worse in quality than Laserdisc so I kept both until DVD got better. Some early DVDs were straight up digital recordings from the VHS tape. My local rental store had DVDs with the dutch subtitles from VHS baked in, as well as VHS noise lol.

By the time I moved overseas DVD quality had surpassed LD and I left my PAL stuff behind (gave it away).

Anyway most of it, all the good ones, has been upgraded to Blu-Ray by now, although I also still have an extensive DVD collection.
(And a moving box full of old DVDs that have been replaced by Blu-Ray versions)

My 4K collection is still quite small, I don't buy that many movies anymore. They're harder to find or not available in 4K (still buy a DVD occasionally for what won't even come to blu-ray) They also cost more nowadays and my shelves are all full lol.

Anyway it still dwarfs my early collection, way too many to catalogue like I did with my early collection.

Yeah, many early DVDs weren't even anamophic widescreen, but 4:3-TV-versions or 4:3 "letterboxed" with black bars in the video material.

But some of my 1998 DVD releases with anamorphic widescreen look quite good even today.
I tried "Mercury Rising" (region code 1) and "Sphere" (region code 2) yesterday.