1996 Columbia TriStar DVD promo

Featuring the legendary "trailer voice guy" Don Lafontaine, this was included at the beginning of Sony/Columbia-Tristar's first DVD releases. This one is taken from a 4x3 movie transfer to appear properly here; widescreen 16x9 movies had this with a blue border on the sides. Their first few DVD releases were only 16x9 widescreen (as they should be), with a couple titles (Fly Away Home and Matilda) only in 4x3 pan & scan because those are just kids' movies and obviously nobody cares about those. Starting with Last Action Hero they made most titles 2-sided discs with widescreen on one side and pan & scan on the other, which was a good solution as it pleased everybody. Columbia TriStar was one of the best DVD labels for a few years, until 2003 when their quality began to slip. Several catalog titles were issued only in pan & scan format (making them just about useless on a widescreen TV), and if that wasn't enough they began reissuing many of their 2-sided titles as 1-sided discs with ONLY the pan and scan version! (These included Last Action Hero and The Cable Guy shown here.) For this reason, my new widescreen TV will NOT be a Sony.
Note that Ghostbusters and Close Encounters are shown here and were planned for release in 1997, but Ghostbusters was delayed until 1999 and Close Encounters several years after that.

[@doatboatgoat5158]

Back in the late 90s, if you owned a DVD player, you were considered rich.

[@zerorez4960]

Probably... if you lived in GUATEMALA , or if you had DOWN SINDROME !

[@GuyVelella]

My father had a DVD player in 1996. He was only 30.

[@The_Husband_of_Jane_Lane]

You have a good point. DVD Players were expensive until the release of PlayStation 2. My family didn't have a DVD player until Christmas 2001.

[@DavidMander-rs4uk]

My mate had a dvd player in 1999...i was sooo envious of him!! 😆

[@Christineog11]

This and the Universal Studios dvd promo are nostalgic!! Both are awesome.

[@arakubrick]

I'm watching Jumanji and it's unbelievable that most of the images I remembered from that movie came out of this promo. It brings back so many memories.

[@devinnytroysmediacorner]

The 1997 DVD of Jumanji that is. Jumanji has since been rereleased to DVD multiple times, specifically in 2000 and 2017

[@PixarMan2001]

​@@devinnytroysmediacornerThere was also a DVD release in 2005, which had a cool slipcover that doubled as a board game.

[@loulie1997]

This commercial meant I was about to watch a movie when I was a kid. Life was good.

[@AlexAceves1994]

I'm still collecting DVDs and Blu-Ray whenever the price is cheap now.

[@PJVids83]

Same.

[@jurassic_zilla_01]

Me too I prefer to get movies on physical media over than digital nowadays

[@Quaion_17]

Dat from the cable guy

[@BigGypsyCory]

Columbia and TriStar are one of the favorite studios along with 20th century fox Warner Brothers
Paramount
Universal
Disney

[@PCPopple]

Why does this music make you want to cry a bit?

[@theresawhitford9948]

This is on my A League Of Their Own DVD.

[@Sandlot1992]

R.I.P. Don Lafontaine :(

[@cmvogt5951]

This is the Earliest Sony DVD's ever made from 1997.

[@alextan1478]

Whenever I buy Columbia TriStar DVDs on either Amazon, eBay or Mercari, I always make sure that they're the double-sided DVDs with the widescreen version on one side and full screen on the other on many of their catalog titles that were originally released on DVD around 1997-2000. Warner Bros. also did double-sided DVDs, as well as Fox with most of their family movies as well.
Fly Away Home (1996) eventually got a Widescreen Special Edition DVD in 2001.

[@CartoonPhreak]

Correct. Material Girls (MGM) was also double sided and contain the 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment logo on both sides of the disc despite being a MGM movie that’s been released by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment in 2006 because the film has the 2003 MGM DVD logo intact.

[@jonathanfrancesco3305]

Had this on Jumanji, Matilda, and Fly Away Home. Have a few of the other titles in the list now, but later editions that don't have this. It's funny seeing some of these movies down the line years after seeing this. ha

[@devinnytroysmediacorner]

All 3 movies have since been rereleased on DVD in Special Edition form

[@patrickwilson1459]

Ever since DVDS became popular in 1997 people always wondered “When is my favorite movie gonna come out on DVD?”.

[@alabamafreak]

It's sort of funny, since the question now is "When will my favorite movie be released on my streaming service?"

[@patrickwilson1459]

@@alabamafreak Yep.

[@peachiii6853]

I get so much nostalgia 😢😢😢

[@ervinsmoviecorner8748]

This is shown on my 1997 DVD of Philadelphia (2000 reprint).

[@balthasarEF]

I first watched Legends of the Fall because of this promo.

[@alexanderfriel7160]

We saw the future and streaming services took it all 🎉

[@devinnytroysmediacorner]

From Here to Eternity wasn't released to DVD until 2001 and Sense and Sensibility was not on DVD until 1999

[@your_local_questerian]

I may have worded my comment differently, but I did mention the latter literally 9 months after you did, lmao.

[@alexisblake2634]

I have Jumanji on DVD but No previews shown it’s just the menu

[@sonicranger8481]

What music is this?

[@dantebertuzzi421]

Nostalgia pura, era criança e tinha ganhado o DVD de Jumanji em meados de 2001, e havia essa intro, se você reconhece pelo menos 80% dos filmes que aparecem nesse vídeo, você foi uma criança feliz nos anos 90/00

[@tdrewman]

I remember seeing this promo and thinking wow, look how great this is... DVD!! The fastest adopted format ever, now, because of Streaming, it is almost a dead format for me, I havent watched a DVD in over a year, maybe more! I get movies ripped and store them on a 4 TB HD..

[@TheMediaHoarder]

There's no joy in that. DVD looks like ass now though compared to Blu-Ray.

[@jonathanfrancesco3305]

I think DVD is hardly dead. Maybe in retail, but streaming is extremely limited. Honestly, even if I subscribed to all of the major ones, I'd still be missing most of my collection. Maybe I can pay to stream on demand, but who wants to pay the same price or MORE just to stream? Streaming has the potential, but it's biggest obstacle is that it's too scattered.
Blu-Ray might look better, but nobody will notice much unless they have a huge TV. And a lot of people just don't have one big enough to matter. But I considered Blu-Ray merely DVD evolved and not necessarily something that killed it.

[@your_local_questerian]

If I recall, Sense and Sensibility was mentioned here but did not get released until 1999, unless if I'm misremembering this.
Edit: Okay, so it turned out I did not misremember and it actually did get a mention, at 1:50.

[@Mariella-or4tj]

Mi alma está aquí

[@markoportuondo7375]

This promo actually came out in 1997

[@davidnicolas4307]

What music is playing during this Columbia TriStar DVD promo?

[@AlexAceves1994]

The first half reminded me of "Two Worlds"

[@PixarMan2001]

Legacy by Immediate Music

[@liamcam7047]

@@PixarMan2001 LOVE YOU! Thanks i wanted to hear the full score of this for like 100 years

[@wedothingsmessyhere]

@@PixarMan2001 Thanks mate. Been searching for this for like 14 years.

[@Ilovemovies917]

This is on my Cable Guy DVD!

[@joshuajohnson2216]

Mine too.

[@johnylitalo4163]

What was the name of that music?

[@TheMediaHoarder]

It's ID'd as "Legacy" by Immediate Music.

[@MelBrooksFan78]

I have this on my copy of "The Cable Guy."

[@ignaciorodriguez5040]

Recuerdo que fui a ver doctor cable yo solo 😢 al cine😢.tan solo tenía 13 años.😢

[@Sandlot1992]

Shrek: Two Words! Okay!
Shut Up!

[@ThePreviews842]

I have this on In the Line of Fire and First Knight.

[@JunkerDC]

I have this on Desperado

[@tyquanstanley22]

This was in Fly Away Home DVD

[@devinnytroysmediacorner]

The original 1997 Fly Away Home DVD to be exact

[@iduane286]

It Was on the DVD of Sleepless in Seattle as Well

[@devinnytroysmediacorner]

1997 DVD. The Sleepless in Seattle DVD rereleases do not use this

[@jeremybarton5577]

I have this promo on my DVD’s of the cable guy, Philadelphia, desperado, and fly away home.
Update: the DVD of Taxi Driver I got today also has it.

[@devinnytroysmediacorner]

This is on my DVDs of Desperado and A League of Their Own.
If possible, what DVD was this promo sourced from?

[@TheMediaHoarder]

This was from The Cable Guy, Foolscreen side. Will have to do the widescreen one with the blue side borders now that I can.

[@devinnytroysmediacorner]

@@TheMediaHoarder You spelt Fullscreen wrong

[@TheMediaHoarder]

@@devinnytroysmediacorner No I didn’t- it’s for FOOLS who don’t like dem black bars on their teevees.

[@drseusslover]

this is seen on my dvd of fly away home

[@devinnytroysmediacorner]

The 1997 DVD. There is a Special Edition DVD rerelease of Fly Away Home

[@angrybirdsfan2003]

I have this on The Cable Guy.

[@louisewilensky9273]

Same :)

[@JacobBlunden]

@ghostygirlita it sounds like a REALLY slowed down version of the Jurassic Park soundtrack

[@iduane286]

It Might Be on Jumanji on DVD as Well

[@crissrudd4554]

It is. I had the Jumanji DVD that had this promo.

[@devinnytroysmediacorner]

@@crissrudd4554 Only the 1997 DVD release TBE of Jumanji

[@ervinsmoviecorner8748]

I have a lot of Columbia TriStar Movies on DVD.

[@claudiabechini]

opening to sense and sensibility 1997 dvd

[@devinnytroysmediacorner]

Sense and Sensibility did not get released to DVD until 1999

[@trentsoutlet4109]

THE LITTLE MER-MOUSE VHS

[@madboy1able]

I swear that on my VHS jumanji have warning and closed caption logos and all that and you know the opening music for that film it was on in the background on the messages instead of the film studio logo TRISTAR! (true!!!)

[@iduane286]

It's On Other CTHV DVD's From 1997 and is Not on The Fifth Element on DVD in Region 1

[@alexscher1609]

Japan had DVDs in 1996

[@PCPopple]

Damned Music ID doesn't even reveal the name of the music!

[@drewa5645]

You are things going

[@joshuajohnson2216]

At 2:08, here comes a hand.

[@cb_2887]

The Craft DVD!!!!!!

[@devinnytroysmediacorner]

The 2000 DVD release does not have this

[@cb_2887]

​@@devinnytroysmediacorner Correct. The "Special Edition" version doesn't have this but the 1996 version does. My very first DVD

[@user-qv2xw9bv7i]

Columbia TriStar Home Video DVD:
1. Jumanji
2. Jerry Maguire
3. Philadelphia

[@devinnytroysmediacorner]

The 1997 Jerry Maguire DVD does not use this promo

[@DamienUSSR]

1996, and The World Trade Center is still remain!

[@PS3PS2fan]

Imagine this with anime clips.

[@edgamet8077]

#TAKEHOLLYWOODHOME

[@edgamet8077]

COLUMBIA TRISTAR HOME VIDEO TAKE HOLLYWOOD HOME 2:28

[@CartoonPhreak]

The CTHV background was reused by Movies & Logos during an upload of the Columbia Pictures, MGM Studios, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies logos (sourced from the 2005 remake, Yours, Mine and Ours).

[@meplusbieber12]

From Aladdin And The King Of Thieves & Super Mario Bros.

[@nyannerdluck7113]

R.I.P Don Lafontaine :(