Blu-ray & HD DVD Wesley Novack on 27 Jun 2007
Get your 5 free Blu-ray Disc movies
Get your 5 free Blu-ray Disc movies
This mail-in offer will be starting on July 1st and runs through September 30th. Rumor is that the offer can also be combined with other existing Blu-ray promos, such as the 5 free Blu-ray movies that are included in the Panasonic DMP-BD10A standalone player. The online home for this offer is bluraysavings.com and the site should be launching within the next few days.
This offer is limited to a select number of Blu-ray titles and you can only choose one title from each of 5 categories. The categories are divided by movie studio and contain the following options.
Category 1 (Buena Vista) includes The Guardian, Pearl Harbor, Invincible and Chicken Little.
Category 2 (Warner) includes Corpse Bride, Phantom of the Opera and Blazing Saddles.
Category 3 (Sony) includes Stealth, Resident Evil 2, Underworld Evolution and Stir of Echoes.
Category 4 (Paramount) includes The Italian Job, Black Rain, Babel and Devil’s Rejects.
Category 5 (Fox) includes Kiss of the Dragon, Omen 666, The Transporter 2, Species, Hart’s War and The Last Waltz.
A response to HD DVD’s 5 free movie offer
This latest Blu-ray promo is strikingly similar to the 5 free HD DVD’s with the purchase of an HD DVD player promo that is being offered by Toshiba. Toshiba first started offering 3 free HD DVD’s after mail-in and more recently increased the amount to 5. Whether or not this is a response to the HD DVD promo, the 5 free Blu-ray movies make it even more enticing for consumers to pick up a Blu-ray player this summer.
What about BD-J?
The Blu-ray Disc Association is requiring all Blu-ray players launched past October 31st to support the full BD-J specifications as well as include additional hardware that is not found in most of the current Blu-ray standalone players. Considering this mandate, this 5 free movies promotion could also be designed to help move the current Blu-ray standalone players that will soon become “out of spec”. With that said, the PS3 already has an extremely powerful set of hardware and is probably (still) the best Blu-ray player available. Due to this, I can only recommend the PS3 as a Blu-ray player at this time. More discussion of this offer can be found on HighDefDigest and CDRLabs.
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on 13 Feb 2008 at 11:16 pm 1.Vue Vang said …
Hi, my name is vue vang. I had send get your 5 free blu-ray on December last year. Now I haven’t receive or hear anything from them.
on 14 Feb 2008 at 8:01 am 2.Wesley Novack said …
Hello Vue. It’s not MY 5 free Blu-ray Discs offer. I was just reporting on it.
You can check on the status of your Blu-ray Disc offer by going to the following link or calling by calling 1-800-72-DISNEY (The offer is run by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, which is part of Disney).
https://portal.archway.com/run/Lookup?key=BVISTA
on 25 Mar 2008 at 1:07 pm 3.Joanne Provost said …
Recently we purchased a blu ray Sony player. We were told there was an offer for 5 free discs and even though the offer had expired the Disney corporation would honor the offer. Please let me know the details and get the rebate form. Thank you very much
Joanne Provost
on 03 Jul 2008 at 4:18 pm 4.Wesley Novack said …
Hi Joanne, the offer form can be found at the following links:
http://www.bluraysavings.com/bluraysavings_usa.pdf
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/pdf/rebates/13590.pdf
The 5 Free Blu-ray Disc Offer Fullfilment Center phone number is: 800-598-9671