Remember the old Red2Blu offer from Warner Brothers allowing HD DVD users to trade in their defunct media for the surviving format? Now they are offering DVD owners a similar deal- albeit at a slightly higher price ($8 - $10 per disc):
Surprisingly, most of the Blu-Ray’s offered are from the catalog of movies that sell for $10 - $15 at BestBuy/Fry’s/Amazon. (i.e. You won’t be getting the Harry Potter discs for less than $25/each).
I did a few choice comparisons to see the price savings:
| Title | DVD2Blu | Amazon |
| Dark City | $7.95 | $9.99 |
| Final Destination | $7.95 | $9.99 |
| Oceans Thirteen | $9.95 | $14.49 |
| Pan’s Labyrinth | $9.95 | $17.99 |
| Wedding Crashers | $7.95 | $9.99 |
The Warner DVD2Blu upgrade can save $2-$8 per disc. On the $2/disc side, I would probably rather keep the old DVD copy (for this trade-in offer you must mail in the DVD disc) and buy a Blu-Ray copy from Amazon (although I have given up collecting physical discs).
I think this is just another sign of the end of physical media; it will soon be on the endangered list with newspapers.
Ironic that Sony finally ‘wins’ a media format war and everyone is rapidly moving to digital distribution (even Sony with their new PSP games).
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