A few months ago, we reported that Warner Bros. Home Video put together a new initiative where consumers could send in certain HD DVD’s and get a shiny new Blu-Ray copy in the mail. The service only cost about $5 per trade, which was a bonus considering the price of Blu-Ray discs at the time.

Well, it looks like that plan worked so well that the studio is doing it again, this time with your standard DVD collection in The DVD2Blu project. With Black Friday and the holiday season just around the corner, it is projected that Blu-Ray players and discs will jump in sales from now until the end of the year. This, of course, would render your regular DVD collection obsolete.

Though it was only $5 for the Red2Blu service, it looks like this time the price is now $7.95, which is still a huge difference in going out and spending $30-$40 on a new Blu Ray collection. The offered discs on the site is pretty extensive, considering that it is only through Warner’s Home Video releases.

Check out the DVD2Blu site, see how you an upgrade your DVD collection, and get ready for the HD Quality revolution!

Now that the dust has settled and the epic “format war” is finally over, the world has accepted Blu-Ray as the official High Def DVD World Champion. The only problem? All of us who picked the other format are now left standing with our stacks of useless HD-DVD’s dangling in the wind. Well, fear not because Warner Bros. is here to help! (could you ever imagine?)

The company has started a new project, simply titled Red2Blu, in which you can mail them your old Warner Home Entertainment HD-DVD’s and for a few dollars ($4.95 for shipping and handling to be exact), they will replace your old high-def with a shiny new Blu-Ray version. Just think, now you can finally enjoy such Warner Bros. classics as Inkheart and Firewall in all of their 1080p glory. What could be better than that?

This may not mean much for people like myself who still have their HD-DVD player sitting on top of their Blu-Ray player and can watch the movies. But some of the Blu-Ray versions do have newer, nicer features, so that’s a bonus and may cause more pople to make the switch.

No longer do you have to try and peddle HD-DVD discs on eBay or paint the cases blue so your friends don’t make fun of you when they come over. Long Live Blu-Ray!

Now if only we can do this with our Laser Discs. . .