WB is offering owners of SOME of it's HD-DVD movies the opportunity to "upgrade" to Blu-Ray for $4.95 plus the HD-DVD cover art. You can keep the box and disc!

I've bought a lot of $2-5 HD-DVDs since the format was dropped. This is a great opportunity to get Blu-Ray copies for not a lot of cash just to make yourself a bit more "future proofed," though that is a really impossible concept. Maybe my PS3 will get some movie action now.

The only downside is that not all WB movies are available... Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which was one of the HD-DVD giveaway titles, for example. Also there are a lot of crappy titles not worth the $5 upgrade.

Anyway here is the link to WB's Red2Blu site

Very cool deal, thanks for the post!!

WTF....they sold those HD-DVD's at same prices as Blu-Ray and now pay another $5.

FrugalDutchman said:To those $5 HD-DVD disk thread crappers: 0wn3d ?

I am not so sure how 0wn3d those HD-DVD disk thread crappers are since 99% of these WB coversion titles being offered are $14.99 or less on Blu-Ray anyway? Many sell for under $10ea with the frequent B1G1 on Amazon. By the time you pay the $4.95 per title + $6.95+ S&H you might as well just have purchased the Blu-Ray titles without the trade-in offer. Perhaps WB just realized an excellent opportunity to take advantage of a group of naive comsumers with an already proven track record of making poor purchasing decisions.

evilkoala said:ya, great deal. now do I upgrade my Harry Potter box set or keep it for the nostalgia.

According to the site, all you'd have to send them is case for the first movie in the boxset, not the movies or the cases for any others.

I'm wondering how Letters from Iwo Jima is on there but Flags of Our Fathers is not?

cnIsfg said:FrugalDutchman said:To those $5 HD-DVD disk thread crappers: 0wn3d ?

I am not so sure how 0wn3d those HD-DVD disk thread crappers are since 99% of these WB coversion titles being offered are $14.99 or less on Blu-Ray anyway? Many sell for under $10ea with the frequent B1G1 on Amazon. By the time you pay the $4.95 per title + $6.95+ S&H you might as well just have purchased the Blu-Ray titles without the trade-in offer. Perhaps WB just realized an excellent opportunity to take advantage of a group of naive comsumers with an already proven track record of making poor purchasing decisions.

I only see $6.95 per order not disk, so if you have several of these it may end up being another $1 to the price per disk. That's reasonable.

Ooooh Planet Earth for 10.

Wineaux said:Is the $6.95 S&H per movie, or for the entire order? If it's for the entire order then this really is a pretty hot deal. You are getting a back-up high-def movie in Blu-Ray for a very low cost.
From the FAQ on the site:
Q: How much is shipping and handling?
A: Flat fee shipping and handling is $6.95 on your entire order shipped within the Continental US. The fee is $8.95 in Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico.

Planet Earth is on the list, $9.95.

Might well be worth while to buy some of the cheap HD-DVDs now at Inetvideo (as low as $1.99) and get the BD version for the extra $4.95. If there's enough that interests you, you could really build a quick collection on the cheap.