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April 26, 2009
Red 2 Blue - Do you own any HD-DVDs?
Last year Toshiba quit marketing HD-DVD players - Blu-ray won the war for the next generation of DVDs.
I have an HD-DVD player and about 40 HD-DVD titles. The player still works and the movies look great, but this is a dead format.
Warner Bros., a producer of many HD-DVDs, recently launched a program where you can get Blu-ray copies of the HD-DVD titles that you own. Here is how it works:
- go to red2blu.com,
- select the HD-DVD titles that you own and you want a Blu-ray copy,
- mail in the cover art of the HD-DVD title (you keep the original HD-DVD movie),
- pay $4.95 per title plus $6.95 shipping and handling,
- receive you Blu-ray movies in about a month.
The fine print:
- the $6.95 shipping and handling charge ($8.95 for Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico) is for all of your movies, not per movie,
- there is a limit of 25 titles per household,
- and if you own multiple copies of the same title you can only redeem one.
I can't think of any other maker of a canceled format offering to let you get copies of the your titles in another format. Did Sony offer to let you get discounted VHS copies of your Beta movies when Beta died? Nope. I would like to see the other makers of HD-DVD movies follow Warner Bros. lead. I am mailing in eleven HD-DVD movies today.
Posted by Bob Gatton at April 26, 2009 6:35 PM
Comments
Of course Sony wouldn't. Look what they did to the purchasers of their Rear-projection TVs with the defectively-designed light engines.
Posted by: Larry at September 6, 2009 1:17 AM
