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Displaying articles for: November 2009
In the market for a new TV, but don’t want to brave the crowds this Thanksgiving weekend? Well, you may just be in luck! BestBuy.com is currently featuring a number of unadvertised specials for select Panasonic TV models:
www.bestbuy.com/PanasonicBFPricing
These “Black Friday” prices are only valid between 11/25/2009 and 11/30/2009, so make sure to check them out before they’re gone!
Hey you! Yes, you there in that shirt, looking at your screen right now. I’m writing at you this very second because you need to know something awesome. I know you like getting super deals on stuff that you buy and everyone appreciates a deal around the holidays. So Best Buy® has a solution for our savvy holiday shoppers, the Deal of the Day!
Every day the Deals website, twitter feed and text message options will tell you the featured product for the day. Then you can avoid fighting through the lines on Black Friday or our holiday rushes in our stores and just order online for easy convenience. We put the power in your hands to get the best price from Best Buy®!
For more info check out the sweet deals we’re laying down on our site: Best Buy® Deals as well as our Best Buy® Deals Twitter OR you can just have the daily deal sent right to your portable texting device, (i.e. your cell phone) by texting DAILY to 332211. Standard message and data rates by your provider still apply. Just remember that these offers are only valid the day they are announced and are only available on BestBuy.com!
Planning on buying the collector’s edition of a video game or movie for a loved one this year? Well, if you are you may want to make sure that they’re not only opening but also using those gifts in a timely fashion. Why you ask? The answer’s simple: in place of tangible bonuses, some collectors’ editions now include time-sensitive promotional codes that are intended to be used within a few months of the product’s release date.
Although this is by no means a new practice, it’s definitely something to keep in mind before letting that copy of Dragon Age: Origins or Watchmen sit in your closet for two months. After all, who wants to lose out on some extra in-game swag or access to a digital copy? Just keep in mind that this doesn’t only apply to in-box promotional materials! Many video game preorder codes also come with expiration dates, including the Sgt. Johnson character code for Halo 3: ODST.
Yesterday Best Buy announced a special limited time offer for its lowest-priced advertised laptop ever, but if you woke up late this morning you probably missed your chance to place an order for it on BestBuy.com. There is good news though! The Acer EX5230E-2177 is still available for $249.99 at many of our retail stores, albeit in limited quantities.
Here are some of the unit’s features:
• 2.2GHz Intel Celeron Processor
• 2GB Memory
• 160GB Hard Drive
• 15.4” Display
• 6-Cell Lithium-Ion Battery
• Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
Want more information? Make sure to speak with a sales associate at your local Best Buy store about this offer and other computing specials available now through Saturday, 11/14/2009!
Yesterday evening while browsing the Gadgets & eReaders section of BestBuy.com I came across an odd little device that probably would have been handy when I was a freshman in college: a pen that records audio while you write. Sure, either a tape recorder or laptop would pretty much serve the same purpose, but when you’re a student and don’t have the budget for a new computer – and you’ve never even seen a fully-functional tape recorder – it seems like it would be a feasible alternative.
I think what intrigued me the most though was the pen’s ability to link audio to individual notes. Having the ability to do that certainly would have helped me understand why my lecture notes from History of the British Isles were filled with so many seemingly random comments about Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone the day after the class.
Does anyone have any experience with one of these smartpens?
With the recent addition of the PlayStation 3 to the growing list of Netflix-ready devices it was only a matter of time before rumors of the service coming to the Nintendo Wii started to abound. The ability to stream video on demand is, after all, one of the largest growing trends in consumer electronics, with support being integrated into everything from Blu-ray players to TVs to home theater systems.
So, what does this mean for the average consumer? Well, apart from having yet another entry to compare on product specification pages, it also means that consumers may soon be able to do away with their computer entirely when it comes to watching their favorite movies on demand through web-based services. Want to watch that latest zombie flick on your big screen TV instead of your computer monitor? No problem! Just queue the movie up on your PS3 or DVD player. Want a second peek at that clip you saw at a friend’s house? Why not sign into your Netflix account using their home theater system, reserve the title, and then watch it later using your Xbox 360?
What other kind of services would you want to see incorporated into home theater equipment? For that matter, where else would you want to see Netflix compatibility?




