Warner Brothers is running a promo where you can send in your existing DVD copy of a Warner Brothers movie and “upgrade” it to a Blu-Ray version for $7.95. The official Warner Brothers trade in site is here.
But it’s not all Warner Brothers titles. Just 55 select ones. So far, the list is limited to…
| 10,000 BC 2001: A Space Odyssey Alexander Revisited: (Unrated) Final Cut, The American History X American in Paris, An Any Given Sunday Aviator, The (2004) Beetlejuice Blazing Saddles Body of Lies Bucket List, The Christmas Story, A Clockwork Orange, A Collateral Damage Constantine Dark City: Director’s Cut Deliverance Dirty Dozen, The Dumb and Dumber Elf Eraser Final Destination Fugitive, The Full Metal Jacket Gods and Generals Golden Compass, The Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (Unrated) History of Violence, A |
Journey to the Center of Earth Last Samurai Lost Boys, The Michael Clayton National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation Ocean’s Thirteen Orphanage, The Pan’s Labyrinth Perfect Storm, The Pride and Glory Rio Bravo Risky Business Rumor Has It Rush Hour 3 Scanner Darkly, A Searchers, The Shining, The Speed Racer Superman II: Richard Donner Cut, The Superman Returns Swordfish Taking Lives Training Day We Are Marshall Wedding Crashers Wedding Singer, The Wyatt Earp |
Is it a good deal? Somewhat. If you go to Amazon.com, quite a few of these titles that Warner Brothers are currently offering on Blu-Ray are around $9.99 brand new anyway.
For example : 2001 is $9.49. Blazing Saddles is $8.99. Wedding Crashers is $9.99. A History of Violence is $9.49.
A few titles hover around the $10 to $15 range, though. Lost Boys is $14.99. Dumb and Dumber is $15.49. Full Metal Jacket is $11.99.
This trade in is a really good deal for Warner Brothers. They get a used DVD they can sell to Netflix or Redbox, and also get to sell a Blu-Ray for little under what it retails for on Amazon brand new. (And you know they’re still making a profit on it.)
If you want to jump on this offer, I strongly suggest you check Amazon‘s pricing first. To me, saving $2 isn’t worth the upgrade. But saving $10 and up might make it worthwhile.
And don’t forget there are no truly portable blu-ray players yet. DVDs are still great for road trips and for watching on older systems.
