The other day, I was talking to my neighbor about the amount of HD DVDs  movies that I had in my collection and how I wasn’t ready to go out and buy these titles on Blu-Ray as of yet. He then mentioned something about how WB was doing a trade in for the old HD DVDs to Blue Ray. This naturally peaked my curiosity as I have quite a few of the HD DVDs left in my collection.

Red2Blu is a simple program that only works with Warner Brothers HD DVDs. All the user needs to do is send an HD DVD copy of a film, and he or she will soon receive a Blu-ray copy of that same film in 4 to 5 weeks.

This service isn’t free, as it cost about $4.95 per disc, and it looks like the user has to pay for the shipping and handling of a flat $6.95. So are you getting a good deal out of this? Well, you will just have to do the math.

See why it’s called Red2Blu? The HD DVD copies were red, and the Blu-Ray is packaged in blue. Get it? Pretty clever, actually. For more details visit WB’s site: http://www.red2blu.com/

Now, if only other studios were offering this deal. It would appear that the big WB has the copyright on the name Red2Blu, but surely Universal and Paramount can set up a similar program and get in on the action?