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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.

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For most of us, having a widescreen LCD monitor is nice. But for the more discerning users – art professionals, animation experts, graphic artists and video editors – the LCD’s color inaccuracy can be a critical flaw.

Together with DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., HP has recently released its answer to this color problem – the HP DreamColor Display. Featuring an LCD that provides more than 1 billion colors, the DreamColor’s accurate color rendition would abolish redesigns and repetitive proofing across various displays.

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Dreamworks, who had been standing strong with their contract to Toshiba and their commitment to HD DVD have announced their exit plan. Their HD DVD movie shipments will end next week, but the exact release of upcoming titles on Blu-ray has not yet been announced.

A few titles that were set for release such as the Bee Movie, Sweeney Todd and There Will Be Blood have all been canceled, and will be released only as standard DVD’s. The last and final HD DVD titles will include next weeks release of Things We Lost in Fire and Into the Wild, somehow I cannot imagine either of them selling that well.

Via [EngadgetHD]

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Toshiba may have officially killed off HD DVD and we have seen just about everyone else make their announcement to switch to Blu-ray, but one is remaining. Dreamworks, who is currently is under contract with Toshiba to exclusively support HD DVD have stated they “have an obligation to see this through.“ With a new title, the Bee Movie set to be released next month, it may have to hit the stores on just regular old DVD. In the meantime Dreamworks is waiting to hear back from Toshiba on just what they should do.

Dreamworks expects to have this resolved by the 2008 holiday season, hopefully for their sake this will be resolved sooner. It seems like by Toshiba killing off the format that almost would cancel out their deal with Dreamworks, but it is refreshing to see a company, in this case Dreamworks actually honor the agreement to the end.

Read [Reuters]

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• Blu-ray manages to not fail as badly as we thought
• Gamertell Review: Dead Space Downfall on DVD, Blu-ray