Warner Home Video has announced a new program that allows people who own HD-DVD releases of their product to upgrade selected titles to the Blu-ray Disc versions of the same product, with minimal fuss or cost. The full details of the program are available at
Red2Blu.com, but here is the "in-a-nutshell" version: the studio lists 128 titles that had been released by them on the discontinued HD-DVD format, and are now also available on the succeeding high-def format, Blu-ray Disc.
Each customer may trade in up to 25 of those titles, simply by mailing in the box art insert from their package (or an equivalent part of the packaging, for selected titles with alternate box styles), plus a small fee. The fee consists of $4.95 for all single-disc titles on the list, and either $9.95 or $14.95 for the eligible box sets listed (most are $9.95). The upgrading customer also pays a shipping and handling charge.
The majority of the 128 eligible HD-DVD titles are films, naturally, but Warner has included several television titles which we've covered here at TVShowsOnDVD. Among those are the BBC's
Planet Earth - The Complete Series and
Galapagos, Warner's own
Smallville - The Complete 6th Season and
Nip/Tuck - The Complete 4th Season, HBO's
The Sopranos - Season 6, Part 1 and
The Sopranos - Season 6, Part 2, and the DC Comics Direct-to-Video
Justice League: The New Frontier adaption. And, naturally, there are several films on the list with their roots in TV, such as
Scooby-Doo: The Movie and
Twilight Zone: The Movie.
The down side to this is that the program is ONLY available to residents of the United States. Head on over to Warner's Red2Blu.com website for complete details, rules and restrictions. Our thanks to my good friend, Joy Fritsch, for making sure I knew about this program (I had!) and that I was passing it along to our readers.
