Best Buy

Best Buy just announced that they are now offering Black Friday pricing on several models of flat panel televisions as well as home theater products. The company also lowered the price of entry level Dynex LCD HDTVs – the 32-inch Dynex LCD HDTV is now $299.99 and the 40-inch Dynex 1080p is $499.99.

Black Friday pricing will be available on several Samsung models, including a 32-inch 720p LCD HDTV for $397.99, as well as a 50-inch plasma 720p HDTV for $697.99 starting Sunday, November 22, 2009.

"Best Buy is committed to continuing to offer a superior shopping experience this holiday season," says Josh Will, vice president of Home Theater, Best Buy. "Customers can be confident that they are getting some of the best prices in the industry, as well as the convenience of being able to shop when and where they want either in store or online."

To learn more about more special offers visit www.bestbuy.com.

Best Buy Mobile announced this week that they are cutting the prices on two Sprint smartphones, the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment . Both devices run on Google's Android operating system and sell for $99.99 (with instant rebates and new two-year activation). Both phones were $179.

The $99.99 price will run through December.

"Best Buy Mobile is committed to offering a great shopping experience and helping holiday consumers get the most out of mobile technology, whether it's for them or as a gift," said Shawn Score, president of Best Buy Mobile. "This fall has brought an unprecedented amount of highly-anticipated mobile devices to the market. We are excited to offer customers great selection, value and support to help them make sense of it all."

Visit www.BestBuyMobile.com for more information.

TiVo today announced that they are lowering the price on both the TiVo HD and TiVo HD XL DVRs. The TiVo HD is now $249.99 (reg. $299.99) and TiVo HD XL is now offered at $499.99 (reg. $599.99).

Need an HDTV to go with the TiVo? In addition to the lower price, you can get an additional $100 off the cost of an HD TiVo DVR when you purchase an HDTV from Best Buy, bringing the price of a TiVo HD DVR to only $149.99. A subscription to the TiVo service is required and sold separately.

"This holiday season consumers are focused on giving great gifts at a great value. It's not how much you spend, but how much you get for what you pay," said Tony Lee vice president of marketing for TiVo. "The TiVo service offers the world's largest on demand video library, giving you and your family countless hours of in-home entertainment. So rather than giving a gift that will be shoved into a junk drawer or forgotten days later, give the gift that your family will use all year long, a TiVo HD DVR."

Get more information on TiVo products and service at tivo.com.

Best Buy just announced their lowest priced laptop computer ever, the $249.99 Acer Extensa EX5230E-2177. Available starting today (November 11), this laptop features an Intel Celeron 900 processor, 2GB memory and a 160GB hard drive. It will be available both in-store and online.

If the $250 Acer laptop isn't your thing, with more than 30 laptops, 6 netbooks, 17 desktops and 4 all-in-ones available from brands such as Acer, Apple, Asus, Dell, Gateway, HP, Sony, Toshiba, and Lenovo, you are sure to find a computer to meet your needs.

Also, throughout the holiday season, six months of anti-virus protection will be free with the purchase of any laptop/desktop/netbook from Best Buy, and one year of Napster will be included free with any Dell computer purchase. Read more

We knew the Nokia Booklet 3G would be available at Best Buy around November 15. What we didn't know was that Best Buy is giving Reward Zone members the first shot at obtaining the product, per a circular Engadget obtained over the weekend.

Between November 6th and the 14th, Reward Zone members can visit their local Best Buy store to place a pre-order of the Nokia Booklet, with others having to wait until November 15th to order the device.

To recap, the Booklet 3G is Nokia's first Atom-powered netbook. Weighing in at 2.76-pounds, the device features a 10.1 inch HD display, 120GB HDD, 1GB of RAM, Intel Atom processor, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, webcam, Bluetooth, built-in SD card reader, and an HDMI port. It will be sold for $299 with a two-year contract on AT&T, or for $599.99 without a contract.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is hitting store shelves on Tuesday, November 10. Be one of the first to get this highly anticipated video game by visiting your local Best Buy retail store. The company will be hosting a series of special events at several locations nationwide, and the game will be available starting at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, November 10 at Best Buy stores.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is the sequel to the best-selling first-person action game of all time, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 continues the heart-racing action that has come to be the hallmark of the franchise, as players face off against a new threat dedicated to bringing the world to the brink of collapse.

The game is rated "M" (Mature) by the ESRB and will be available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC on November 10, 2009. Best Buy will be offering an instant $10 Best Buy gift card for Reward Zone Gamer's Club members with additional giveaways taking place throughout the events.

Visit www.bestbuy.com/modernwarfare2 for Best Buy locations.

Best Buy announced yesterday an agreement with Sonic Solutions to offer on-demand movies in some of their digital entertainment products. Powered by Sonic's Roxio CinemaNow, it will allow customers to buy or rent movies directly from the device.

The Roxio CinemaNow technology will be a standard feature on devices such as web-connected TVs, PCs, Blu-ray players, portable media players and mobile phones, bought at Best Buy stores or online. Specific models will be announced at a later date.

With the new Best Buy service, consumers will have access to buy or rent premium content including new movies, TV shows, independent films, and older catalog movies, which they will be able to access on devices. Best Buy says that new titles will often be available on the same day they become available on DVDs in retail stores.

Best Buy Mobile announced on Thursday that they are now offering the Verizon Motorola DROID smartphone for presale. The DROID is the first Verizon device running on the Android operating system. The phone will be available in stores on November 6th.

Best Buy is giving customers an incentive to purchase the phone through them by applying the rebate instantly, rather than deal with the hassle of mail-in rebates. The DROID is available at Best Buy for $199.99 with two-year activation.

"We're excited to feature this new device for our consumers, as it represents the latest and greatest in mobile technology," said Best Buy Mobile President Shawn Score. "Bringing the DROID to Best Buy Mobile expands our already unmatched assortment of smartphones allowing customers to compare high-end devices like the iPhone 3GS, HTC Hero and DROID all under one roof. The fact that customers can purchase the phone first at Best Buy through the pre-sell is an added bonus."

Best Buy has released the Rocketfish wireless whole home audio system. Available only at Best Buy, the system sends audio wirelessly throughout your home, and at an affordable price. The product line consists of a Wireless Amplified Audio Receiver, a Wireless Sender/Receiver, a Wireless Outdoor Speaker and a Wireless HD Audio Starter Kit, which includes both a sender and receiver.

The products use the new Rocketboost wireless technology which uses standard connections for speaker line and line level inputs, so it can work with almost any brand of equipment you already have at home. Read more

The release of Windows 7 is on everyone's minds this week. Because of this, Best Buy and HP have teamed up to offer a new "PC Home Makeover" package.

Quite a deal, the package consists of a HP Slimline desktop, an LCD monitor, an HP laptop, HP mini netbook, and a Netgear Wireless-G router. In-home setup by Geek Squad is included as well…all for just $1199.

The HP Slimline s5212y features a dual-core 2.5GHz Intel Pentium E5200 CPU, GMA 3100 graphics, 3GB DDR2 800MHz RAM, 320GB 7200RPM HDD, DVD burner, six-in-one card reader, and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. A keyboard and mouse, as well as an 18.5" 1366x768 display with integrated 2W speakers are also included. Read more