Hi Benny!
The first DVD I bought was Message in a Bottle
at Astrovision Galleria, around december 1998 for around PHP1,100 if I remember right.
My wife really loved the movie and since we had just gotten our player, I wanted to give her the best one available. I even remember the night we were going to watch it, our player spitted the disc out because it was a region 3 (I had no idea at the time that our player read only region 1 discs). So, I had to return it the following day and exchange it; people in Astrovision were nice enough though to replace it. Too bad Astrovision doesn't sell R1 discs anymore.
Believe me...if I had my way, I would've gotten another title...heheh!