Warner Bros has an interesting program that they’ve recently expanded a bit – mail in an old DVD movie along with $US5 to swap it for the newer, Blu-ray version. After mulling it over, I think I like the idea.
It’s $US5 to upgrade most titles (some run a few bucks more) – titles I really would rather rewatch in HD because, to be honest, all of my SD DVDs have looked a lot less appealing since upgrading the old home theatre system. There are shipping charges and up to a two-month turnaround, but if you exchange seven or more movies, at least the shipping is free.
Only 90 titles are offered at the moment, which, to be fair, surely has at least a touch of correlation with the fact that Warner Bros still doesn’t have their entire catalogue released in BD. But premium titles, like the Batman films, are off the table.
I mean, I think the deal is OK. Warner Bros isn’t doing charity work here, but they’re not completely insulting us, either.
But where I think the deal could be very appealing is if you were to pick up used WB DVDs for a buck or two, then mail them in, scoring yourself a $US7 BD movie rather than spending double that or more.
Now, I’m too lazy to enact such a plan. But maybe you’re not.
Either way, how do you feel about the offer? [WB]
Grant Burton
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 11:12 AMthey must be desperate, trying to increase sales figures me thinks. I’d rather have a legal drm free download in HD than another disc that you can loose or get scratched, have region locked, and DRM, and hard to backup.Blu Ray sucks!
matt
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 2:49 PMlol, so piracy then?
where the hell do you get a completely DRM and management free HD video through Digital Distro?? and don’t get me started on quality. just watch Avatar on bluray.
Paul
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 11:26 AMI would be all for it. But does not apply outside the US of course
moloko
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 12:13 PMThey must have to clear out the warehouses of overpriced Blurays
Cameron
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 12:46 PMI probably would. But as they’re not doing it outside of the US it just annoys me and makes me think they’re a pack of a-holes
ash
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 1:40 PMI agree completely.
This is a great idea, there are probably a fair few in my collection I’d love in HD, but only being a US offer sort of makes it mute.
Oh well back to works
Chris Guerin
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 1:13 PMI would, but what if you don’t have a Blu-Ray player or Blu-Ray PC Drive?
Jason Hill
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 4:02 PMthen you’d keep your dvd’s… obviously
dzc12
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 4:11 PMThen you’d ignore this and go about your life?
Steve M.
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 11:32 PMThen you either buy a player or ignore the offer because you have no use for BDs.
David Anderton
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 1:59 PMsweet but sucks not outside US
Salmonpie
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 2:02 PMyep would be all over this one!
Caesar Wong
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 5:14 PMConsidering that you have to pay to ship the DVD to them, the overall cost > $5. However, if the blu-ray contains more special features than the DVD version it *might* be worth it.
Paul
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 5:26 PMI’d do it in AU. $5 AUD and I would do 100 – 150 of them. I hate my DVD collection now that I have Bluray and my HD home cinema etc.
I think I would easily dump another $500 or so to upgrade it all.
Alternatively, I’d probably just take $500 for my whole DVD collection lol.