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Animation Magazine is reporting that Warner Bros has a new trade up program that lets owners of HD-DVDs to upgrade to a Blu-Ray disc of the same content (for a small shipping and handling fee of $4.95). This is a pretty nice thing to do, considering the big HD-DVD Blu-Ray competition when the technology first appeared. You can get more information about this program by visiting the Warner Bros site, Red2Blu.They have also announced a customer loyalty program, called the Warnerblu Buy 5 Get 1 Program. The promotion (which runs until April 6, 2010) allows people to buy five participating Blu-Ray films, and they will receive a sixth film free (plus shipping and handling). The only animated film included in the program so far is “Batman:Gotham Knight”. You can learn more about Warnerblu Buy 5 Get 1 by visiting their site.It would be nice to see other studios (I’m looking at [Read more…]

Disney has announced their 2009 release slate of films. These include Pinocchio: 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition (March 10) and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Platinum Edition in October. Pixar will be releasing Monsters Inc. and A Bug’s Life.

Hopefully these Blu-Ray releases will be a better release than that of Sleeping Beauty last year, which received mixed reviews, mostly due to picture quality issues such as DVNR, oversaturated colors, and color timing. There was a post about these issues and the release back in November on Cartoon Brew.

I don’t know if Walt Disney Home Entertainment has learned anything (or changed anything) since their last classic on BluRay release, but I hope they did. The issues listed here are what kept me from buying the Blu Ray release of Sleeping Beauty.

-Floyd Bishop