How to Convert Your HD-DVD Discs to Blu-Ray

eldavojohn writes "Are you one of the few who boarded the HD-DVD Titanic ship headed to the bottom of ocean to join BetaMax? Fret no longer, friend, simply convert those and pretend like you never invested in the wrong technology! All you need is a Windows machine with a fast processor, an HD-DVD drive, a Blu-Ray burner, 30GB of free disk space, at least, though 40GB or more is recommended and an internet connection to download the software! Or you can sit and be the crazy guy who continues to argue that HD-DVD is the superior technology whether it's true or not."

Comments

Too expensive

[statemachine]

Several hundred dollars just to convert. Unless one has 30 or so HD-DVDs, I recommend just buying the Blu-Ray versions and saving money.

Or one could just rip them to a hard drive and store them that way, but even then that costs money for the HD-DVD disk drive and the software (if one purchases it) -- around $200.

And what's your time worth?

Did I miss something?

[koblek]

If said user has all these HD-DVD's they need to convert to Bluray, I would assume that some time in the past they purchased an HD-DVD player to play said HD-DVD's. Why not just go on using the HD-DVD player?

Re:Get a pen

[Ucklak]

That $1793 of pure power, romex to device.

At least it's made of silver and at $17.91/oz, that should be a 6lb. cable.