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Trying to lure in customers to replace their DVDs or HD DVDs with Blu-rays, Paramount is offering ten bucks per title to do just that. Although Paramount and Dreamwork titles are involved in the offer, it isn’t good for just any Paramount movie.

According to HighDefDigest, the promotion will start with the release of Transformers on Blu-ray coming in just a few days on September 2nd. Hopefully you won’t mind messing up those boxes a bit though, since you need to include the proof-of-purchase tabs from both the DVD and the Blu-ray disk, along with the promotional certificate from inside eligible Blu-ray movies.  You also have to buy your Blu-rays before December 31, 2009 and have your rebate envelope postmarked before January 31, 2010.

Other titles included in the promotion include The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration (the complete trilogy which is due out September 23rd), Johnny Depp’s Sweeney Todd, Zodiac, Stardust, and Old School. They do kind of hit all different genres in their picks at least…although hopefully even more will be added to this list.

I think now that Paramount is out there offering the bucks to get you to flip your viewing library to Blu-ray, we just may see other studios hopping on the bandwagon as well. Well, it would be nice at least. That way, if you are spending the money investing in a player, at least you get to save a little on the disks themselves, considering they run anywhere from $29 for catalog titles to $39 for a new release.  How about it? Is it worth it to you to trade up a title you already own if you’re getting ten bucks back? Or do you just stick with the original?

Read [Yahoo! Tech]