I was 4 years old when my parents bought Jurassic Park on VHS for our family to watch completely forgetting how intense it was. I was glued to the TV. I was super scared that night but the next morning I asked my Mom if I could watch it again. It's been one of my all time favorite movies ever since and I've owned it on VHS, DVD, Laserdisc, Blu Ray, and I'll probably cave and get the 4k just because. This was an awesome video Jeff!

@AkAkAkNeil

2 жыл бұрын

I just bought the double-disc Laserdisc this week :-)

@JohnnyBRad

2 жыл бұрын

@@AkAkAkNeil nice! I’ve got mine displayed on my office wall. It’s a pretty cool piece at this point

@craigwhitcher9629

2 жыл бұрын

You’re making me feel old. I was a college student when this premiered in theaters. I owned the original CAV laserdisc box and was there day one when this and Lost World released on dts DVD. Lost count on how many times I have repurchased these titles.

@stephen8612

2 жыл бұрын

It was my first cinema experience as a 5 year old. I thought we were going to an actual park to look at some dinos!

@AkAkAkNeil

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephen8612 that's a brilliant memory to have!

I still remember how I felt when I was watching it in the theater, I was blown away by the special effects, I couldn’t take my eyes off the screen for the whole movie, and that’s all I could talk about for the next few weeks after I saw it! And I still love that movie as much as I did when I first watched it, in fact I watched it again just 2 days ago and even after all these years, I’m still amazed by the special effects, nothing can beat the T-Rex reveal scene!!

@chrissheldrick4073

2 жыл бұрын

Amen to that

@xenomorphlover

2 жыл бұрын

Still the most realistic and visually impressive looking T-Rex to this day...nothing will beat the original thing and this came out in 1993...

@adamsteinbacher2629

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more. I LIVED Jurassic Park that whole summer. Read the book several times, listen to the soundtrack CD on repeat. It just blew my young mind.

@newt6639

2 жыл бұрын

We were lucky to grow up with these movies. Your comments were exactly how I felt when seeing this movie in the theater. It was movies like this that you would talk about the experience for weeks. I will plan on watching this movie again this week!

The DTS Laserdisc supposedly has the best audio transfer out of all the Jurassic Park releases as it is taken from the theatrical DTS 6-Track and has the best dynamic range which is not seen in any future release.

@jefffan171

2 жыл бұрын

I still have the DTS Laserdisc THX mastered and to the 2013 3D and 2018 Blu Ray the laser disc I'd far more open natural sounding

@craigwhitcher9629

2 жыл бұрын

The Laserdisc was incorrectly mastered for the home market though many prefer it due to overcooked bass and the surrounds being boosted 3 dB. Apparently this is the far field mix for cinemas where the home versions should be near field due to the closer proximity of the speakers.

The Making of Jurassic Park was also released on VHS in May of 1995. I still have mine! JP still holds the record of how many times I've seen a movie in theaters. 11 times during initial release (not bad for a 10 year old), one time for the 3D release, and three times during the pandemic.

@Mikey-ym6ok

8 ай бұрын

Wait wait wait. JP was released in theaters recently??

Saw it at the Theater when was 12, this one and Terminator 2 were the best experiences I had at the movie theater.

Remember I was in a hospital for a week, and the first thing I did when I came out was to watch this in the theater with DTS. First time DTS was even a thing. Not gonna forget that, ever.

When I was 4 my brothers gave me all there power rangers and toho Godzilla vhs. At the top of the box was Jurassic Park. I watch that film probably more then any film and it deserves all the praise

One little nitpick: the original VHS was available in Letterboxed in the states on the same day as the original October release. I was able to reserve a copy at Suncoast.

@kascnef

2 жыл бұрын

I got the full screen version at Suncoast. I also have it on digital HD. hope the 30th anniversary 4k next year has the original dts track

I still have the DTS LASERDISC

The CGI/practical FX holds up remarkably well over the decades and still one of the best sound designs ever. I was 24 when I saw it in the theaters I remember everyone gasping in awe when the brachiosaurus first appeared on screen. It is no surprise Disney dominated the VHS sales in the 90's

@haltsmaul.

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I found the shark in "Jaws" a bit jarring, but the Trex in "Jurassic Park" still holds up nowadays.

@HNedel

2 жыл бұрын

Wait, Disney? But this is Universal

@axnyslie

2 жыл бұрын

@@HNedel Meaning the top VHS sales of all time. Disney has 13 movies in the top 20 with The Lion King #1

I have almost every single one of these releases including the laser disc. You should definitely keep doing these home video history lessons, very cool 👍

I know this movie inside and out. It's my number 1 favorite movie of all time. I'm only 21, but I've been watching this movie since I was 2. Thank you for talking about it. Can't wait for Dominion!

Just bought the 4k this week at target. Man I remember watching it in the theaters. Playing the Super Nintendo game which introduced Dolby Surround sound for the first time in a video game. This movie had an amazing soundtrack. One for the ages for sure. One thing you didn't mention Jeff was that the DVD did come with DTS sound. At least depending which copy you purchased. I still own to this day the DTS version. Thanks again for an awesome video.

@zelko0768

2 жыл бұрын

True. I believe it was also was uncompressed

Great video! I made some chapter timestamps, feel free to paste them into the description if you want: 0:00 Intro 0:44 Theatrical Release (1993) 1:34 VHS and Laserdisc (1994) 2:28 NBC TV Broadcast (1995) 3:21 The Making of Jurassic Park Laserdisc (1995) 3:49 Widescreen VHS and Laserdisc (1997) 4:45 VHS and DVD (2000) 5:37 Collector's Edition DVD Box Set (2000) 5:53 Jurassic Park DVD Trilogy (2001) 6:09 15th Anniversary / Adventure Pack DVD (2004) 6:29 Ultimate Trilogy Blu-ray (2011) 6:57 Universal Anniversary Set / Blu-ray (2012) 7:23 20th Anniversary 3D Theatrical Release (2013) 7:50 20th Anniversary 3D Blu-ray (2013) 8:11 25th Anniversary 4K Box Set (2018) 9:20 Standalone 4K Editions (2022)

Jurassic Park is one of those movies I purchased brand new at a drugstore on VHS, and eventually I bought it on DVD widescreen, and also bought it on Blu Ray!

When a new independent theater opens up a few years ago, they had a launch party with a free screening of Jurassic Park. It was my first time swing in theaters after being relegated to vhs and dvd (I seem to recall it was one of my first dvds). I remember specifically look for the DTS version even tho I had no way of playing a DTS audio track or a had anything remotely close to a home theater system.

I found the DTS version of Jurassic park 1 and 2 last year for a couple dollars. They sound amazing

Awesome! Thanks Jeff! 🙏🏻

Loving these deep dives into individual home video movie releases over the years - keep it up!!

These deep dives are so cool! Would love to see more of these from you and the channel!

Fantastic video, as usual. This series is fantastic. Can't wait to see the next one!

I saw this film around the age of 4-5. It has stuck with me ever since. I still have my VHS copy. Jurassic Park is the reason that I'm a filmmaker. My favorite film. Thank you for doing this!

I purchased my first laserdisc player in 1995. This was one of the first LD's I bought. I believe that it cost around $40. I still have it.

I remember seeing this on its release date in 93, and have collected the VHS, DVD, bluray and the 3D blu-ray, which is an incredible conversion. I am one of the few diehard 3D bluray collectors left standing, but Jurassic Park is a jewel among any 3D collection.

Thanks for this!! I remember seeing Jurassic Park in theaters, upon original release. An absolute masterpiece that still holds up!! I saw all the other films you had listed, & I would love to see future home video history episodes, on all of those.

I don't think I've seen a more impressive movie in the theaters than watching Jurassic Park when it first came out. It probably helps that I was 15 at the time, so it left a huge impression. So much so that I immediately bought the book and speed read it in a day. That's crazy about the number of people that watched a network broadcast of it 2 years later. That will certainly never happen again.

This movie is and always will be a classic. A gem in visuals, sound, and story telling. A movie that really does belong in everyone’s collection. This was a great watch, had fun watching this and the history of home media.

really enjoyed this, thx!

This is the best video I've ever watched on this channel. Astounded at the amount of marketing promo footage you managed to unearth. Awesome.

I love this series of videos. Keep them going!!!

Love this series! Please keep them coming.

I was a 12-year-old kid and watched it in the theater on opening day and the two nights thereafter. What a memory. I will hold off on getting this on 4K blu-ray, based on your information. Thanks!

Hell yeah, this series is a great idea, and nice coverage man! It's really cool to hear about things like Laser disc having superior audio to the first DVD, and the cable TV broadcast numbers. I can't tell you how many time I watched Jurassic Park on VHS. Whenever I was home sick from school, it was either Star Wars Trilogy or Jurassic Park/Lost World marathon.

These home video histories were a great idea. Good job!

The sound mix for JP on the DTS Laserdisc is beast. That and the 3d blu-ray are my favourite way to watch, other than at a cinema on 35mm. Love this movie.

You missed one. There actually was a DTS DVD release of Jurassic Park. I had it. Apparently, after digging on the web, there were two releases of this DVD. One in which the bass wasn’t up to par, and Universal quietly corrected it. Great work as always!

@MidnightsEdgeAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

This is correct, didn't it drop one or two of the special features though to accomadate? Otherwise I'm thinking of Jaws.

@SunshineLoLypops

2 жыл бұрын

@@MidnightsEdgeAfterDark The Jaws was an intential screw-up. The shortend the Documentary to an hour so they could fit it all on one disc. Then released a 2-disc version with the full doc a few years later. When it came to dvd Universal was basically the 3 stooges.

This is THE best video you have done. Takes me back to memory lane.

Great video, worth the wait

jeff, great job on the video i liked the part where you mentioned that jurassic park premiered on nbc i believe the first time i saw this film was on vhs but given the jurassic world films are popular, its good to revisit the earlier installments there are moments in the first movie that are humorous and ones that seem like it came out of a sitcom, which im refering to Nedry i was wondering if the next one could be a Home video history of Star wars, apparently that film and its sequels has a deeper history and sometimes a rather confusing one

Amazing video. I love this series, please keep this going. Very informative.

I remember when Jurassic Park released at the theaters back in 1993 it played for over 6 months, now movies are rushed so fast to cinema then to home media, if studios let movies playout more in theaters maybe they would do better at the Box Office. Jurassic Park was one of my first video cassette tapes and is what really got me started in physical media collecting back when it first released in the early 90's to which now I own 7,000 movies spread across Blu-ray, 4K UHD disc and DVD.

This is my favorite movie all time. Thank you, good to know the history.

Love this format of movie reviews

I still have my suitcase from the opening of the movie from 1993. From when I was 7 years old

Great video love this series!

i love this series. very interesting and well made!

Love this!

Love these review videos on classic films

Great vid! Subbed. Keep up the quality work!

this series of vids is great!

I really enjoy these little vignettes, keep up the good work.

My mom rented this when I was 6 or 7 when it was new and I LOVED it. I have the vhs, dvd, bluray, and 4k. I literally tear up everytime I see the trailer for the new one.

When my stepfather was alive he likes Jurassic Park and he used to have the special edition on VHS 📼.

Thank you!

There was a same day VHS release of Jurassic Park in Letterbox format as well, I bought two of them. Also, once Jurassic Park III hit DVD I remember having to send away for the silver and red box to put all three films into, I remember that because my box arrived badly crushed lol.

Great stuff!

2:42 *network television* NBC is a television network, not a cable channel. Keep up the otherwise excellent work, dude!!

I appreciate your channel, Jeff, which I just discovered. Great detail, very well put together videos and informative. Subscribing right now. All the best! 👍

There was a widescreen VHS of the movie released on the same day as the first pan-and-scan VHS. I preordered it and bought it, and the guy at Suncoast asked which version I'd prefer.

I saw the 3-D conversion of Jurassic Park in theaters and was very impressed. The tech and techniques were quite mature at the time so many tricks were used (comparison videos are out there on KZread where you can see changes made to specific assets to solve 3D problems). I picked up the 3-D Blu-ray and it is a favorite with my kids.

I still have my Jurassic Park vhs from when I was a little kid. Whew the nostalgia

Very cool stuff. Great to go back in time and see the old format releases to see how we've progressed. 100%, through the restoration works at the original👍😁

Awesome video buddy

Nice stuff! Your presentation is getting really good!

This brings back so many memories. My mom pre-ordered the movie at Blockbuster in 1994. I watched the movie on NBC on my tiny handheld TV I’d just bought shortly before and was so excited about. It was a great time to be a kid.

love this 😌

Jurassic Park is by far my best movie theatre experience. We owned it on VHS first. Later I bought the DVD, then the Bluray. I found the bluray very grainy, to the point were it got distracting in the darker scenes. So much grain that I started looking for a better alternative. I found that on iTunes. Now I own the 4K disc and it's the best version I ever had.

@craigwhitcher9629

2 жыл бұрын

Jurassic Park has never looked overly sharp on digital video formats. I suspect it’s master is intentionally softened so some of the digital effects of the early days are hidden.

I'm pretty certain when the trilogy got that DVD release after JP3 came out there was also a VHS release of the trilogy. Great video either way, I remember when my family got their first DVD player second hand in the early 2000's someone had left the disc for The Lost World in the player, so for years the disc just rattled around loose in the Jurassic Park box.

Awesome!!!

Absolutely amazing video

My family had the first 3 movies on VHS and they were all on heavy rotation in our VCR during my childhood.

Anyone remember the scene when the T-rex ate that dude in the toilet? Man, did that the scare me. Great in-depth video, Jeff.

My brothers and I watched it every single day after school for a couple weeks when we got it on VHS.

This video just makes me wanna go and rewatch Jurassic Park.

There was also a white box set in 2014 and it had a slot for Jurassic world when it was released

The VHS & DVD releases of Jurassic Park in full screen was actually open matte, although the CGI shots were pan and scan. There was also a letterboxed edition back when it first came out on VHS in 1994.

Excellent history video! Can't wait for your hour and a half history of Star Wars. 😉

Another awesome video history, Jeff. I have both the DTS THX 2-disc widescreen extended play CLV release and the 1994 THX release in Standard Play CAV, digital sound, widescreen. Since I have the Pioneer CLD-919 player which can play both sides, I only have to get up to change discs twice (sides 3/4 and side 5).

Thank you ☺️

Great video, really enjoyed seeing the numerous versions of JP that have come out. It would be interesting to explore the numerous releases of T2 over the years. I’m sure I own that film about 5 times just on disc alone, including 2 region 1 DVD special editions that were brilliant back in the day (I live in the UK which is region 2)

A good thing that Universal Pictures canceled their copy right dispute. They should actually pay you for making this mini history documentary about the Jurassic serie. I enjoyed watching it 👍

Thank you for this. Lets do back to the future next!!

hope to get the new box set soon in 4K and one of my favourite classic sci fi horror adventure movies by Steven Spielberg and I was 6 years old the first time I saw it as a kid in 1995 on vhs and on tv

Saw it in theater as a kid, and I remember the wait for the home video release seemed like FOREVER. I swear it seemed like it took over a year for the VHS to come out, which is interminable for a kid

They actually did make DTS Collector’s Edition DVD’s of both Jurassic Park and The Lost World in 2000. Both their DTS tracks sound awesome!

I previously owned Jurassic Park on Laser Disc. It was a great demo disc back in the day especially for surround sound.

For me the Pal Widescreen Laser Disc was outstanding at the time, wonderful picture and audio. Today, its the 4K disc all the way.

Crazy that I Still have the DTS ,THX sound laserdisc of Jurassic Park and yes the movie still holds up very very well and of course DVD, Bluray sets and 4k box sets .everything but the VHS..Great video Jeff thanks.

Love these types of reviews you do Love to see Good Bad Ugly home video history

Grant “How did you do this?” Hammond “I’ll show you” Goosebumps everytime

the VHS release of Jurassic Park was an event for me, it was released days after my 10th birthday and i had my mom buy the vhs from Target in the morning so i could watch it with Pizza Hut that night, I watched that copy maybe 10 times first year i had it loved Jurassic Park

Ģŕeat video thanks for sharing it with us

Just had the pleasure of watching this at the Alamo and seeing it on film was just an incredible experience cuz my GF had never seen it before. can’t wait to pop in the 4k

God I LOVED that 15th Anniversary DVD set, watched all the movies on there for the first time and they were amazing as a kid, I was obsessed with the packaging. Got a chance to see the original in theaters in 3D, and let me tell you, that was an amazing experience that I encourage anybody to go see.

Awesome video man! I have Jurassic Park on vhs, DVD and Blu Ray. Keep these types of videos coming! Try Disney Aladdin or Lion King next.. there are many releases of those too!

I had a bit of luck when I moved to Glendale, Ca.in the year 2000 because I worked doing special effects make-up in films, and one day I walked into the Tower Record on Broadway St. and who did I meet? I looked up and to my surprise it was Dennis Muren standing there looking at the CD's. I instantly recognized him, and couldn't resist to approach and talk to him. He was very pleasant and even knew of an effects make-up guy from Chicago, which is where I am from, that we both knew. He also told me he was there because he came in for a meeting for a film he was going to be working on (he didn't mention the name of the film however) I also saw Stan Winston at a Make-up Trade show and talked to him. Sure miss his contributions to film since his passing. Also Jeff, you mentioned how expensive Laser Disc were in the 90's, well when Studio's first released films on to Betamax in the early 80's they cost close to $100.00 if not.

Great video Jeff, thanks for this one. In my opinion, this movie was, by some margin, the very best of all the legacy post-conversion 3D releases and, as such, the 3D version is the only one I ever watch these days (even though I have the 4k disc too...). It's an excellent 3D conversion, looking like it was shot with 3D in mind, which it obviously wasn't. Cheers.

The first widescreen release of the film was not the widescreen VHS or the DTS laserdisc. The very first laserdisc releases of the film were available in widescreen. I owned the CAV 3-disc edition box set, and later the DTS laserdisc version. Laserdisc enthusiasts enjoyed widescreen releases long before those who only watched VHS. Also, Criterion has been issuing films in that format since their founding in 1984.

@PiperSparkles

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm pretty sure letterbox was the standard for laserdisc by that point in the 90's. Most P&S Laserdisc titles came out in the 80s.

@batman.darthmaul

Жыл бұрын

@@PiperSparkles You know, James Cameron said he actually preferred the Pan & Scan laserdisc of The Abyss over the widescreen version because he felt the pan & scan was just "more involving." I totally disagree with him on that. That movie was shot on a film format called Super 35 and, ironically, some of the picture is chopped off no matter which version you choose, widescreen or pan & scan. Same for Terminator 2.

@PiperSparkles

Жыл бұрын

@@batman.darthmaul I am highy aware of that quote, but he also said it during an era before 80"+ 4K UHD screens when a 40" CRT was considered a "big screen" and non anamorphic laserdiscs were the best option to watch widescreen films on home video. Stanley Kubrick also preferred full screen versions of his films but I'm sure if he had lived long enough to see the advancements in technology and the wide availability of large screen sizes for home viewing since he made that statement, he may very well have had a different opinion.

@batman.darthmaul

Жыл бұрын

@@PiperSparkles Yes, that's exactly right. I'd be interested to know how each of them feel now that 16:9 is the common format. I think Kubrick in particular would prefer 16:9 today.

I saw the 3d theatrical screening of JP and it is still the best 3d movie ive ever seen. Very well done!!!

I remember getting that 1st DVD release for Christmas of 2001 from my Uncle, watched it to death and had most of my earliest memories with that movie on DVD. I did see the 3D rerelease in theaters and had an amazing experience seeing it on the big screen. I got it on Blu-ray years later some time around 2014ish in one of those comic steelbooks. Then in 2019 I got the first 4K box set on sale from Best Buy on Black Friday, I’m someone who is a bit unsatisfied with the transfer but I think it’s serviceable, I’m also hoping for a remaster. I did grab the OG VHS from a thrift store a couple months ago to put in my tape collection, I need to track down that wide screen tape. Great video!