Warner starts trade-in program for DVD to Blu-ray

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Warner starts trade-in program for DVD to Blu-ray

Posted: 07 May 2010 12:44 PM PDT

Warner Bros., which pioneered the Red2Blu program last year, has started a new DVD2Blu program, making it cheap for DVD owners to upgrade or start their Blu-ray collections.

If you own one of the 91 Warner DVDs available, you can send in your DVD along with $5-7 and the company will send you back the Blu-ray version.

The pros of the deal are you get to upgrade to Blu for cheap, but the cons are Warner says turnaround can be up to 8 weeks, and there are shipping charges if you don't send in over 7 movies.

A few of the most popular movies are expected to be Dark City: Director's Cut, the Ocean's trilogy, The Departed, V for Vendetta and a few others although the selection is not by any means "great."

The Red2Blu program allowed users to trade in their HD-DVD movies for Blu-rays at a discounted price.

You can check the full selection here: http://www.dvd2blu.com/products.html

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Nokia dominates Finland's handset population

Posted: 07 May 2010 05:52 AM PDT

Nothing new under the sun one might say. Nokia dominates its homeland with a huge margin to its nearest competitor. However, the most popular handset in Finland was not the Nokia N95 or Nokia 6300 -- both of which did fairly well though -- but a Nokia 2760 (pictured) clamshell dumbphone.

Aalto University (School of Science and Technology) in Finland did a study (pdf) on handset population in Finland. The data was collected from the reporting systems of the largest mobile operators in Finland. Therefore the results indicate not how many units are sold but the percentage of handsets in use.

According to the study, nearly 90 percent of all mobile phones in use are Nokia, Samsung comes second with a mere 5 percent share. Nearly half of the handsets sport S40, which is used in Nokia's feature phones. For the first time ever Symbian surpassed the old Nokia OS in 2009 with a 22 percent share.

The top 15 handsets had a total of five 3G phones, two Eseries and two Nseries phones, and four handsets that do not support packet data at all. The top 15 handsets accounted for nearly 40 percent of all handsets in use. Now, here's the full chart.

The exclusive distributor of Apple iPhone in Finland, Sonera, did not disclose the number of iPhones in their network.