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Best Buy Awards Over $10 Million in gift Cards to HD DVD buyers

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The end of the format wars between HD DVD and Blu-ray was good for most people, but for the early adopters out there who had backed HD DVD the failure of the format was not good news. To help appease customers that purchased HD DVD gear at Best Buy gift cards are coming.

Best Buy announced today that it will be giving out over $10 million in $50 gift cards to customers who purchased HD DVD hardware in its stores. The offer covers stand alone HD DVD players as well as HD DVD attachments, presumably for the Xbox 360. Read more

Posted on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:08:28 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Best Buy to recommend Blu-ray Format

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Best Buy Co Inc , the largest U.S. consumer electronics chain, said on Monday it will recommend that consumers choose Sony Corp's Blu-ray high-definition video format. Read more

Posted on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:58:48 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Best Buy Insignia Converter Box Available Soon

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Best Buy announced that it now has its store brand Insignia Digital convertor Boxes available for the analog to digital transition in 2009. The Insignia convertor box is coupon eligible and will go on sale on February 17, 2008.

Best Buy is launching a dedicated hotline that consumers can call to ask questions about the transition and speak with home theater specialists for help with the conversion. Best Buy also says it has trained staff across the country to be able to assist customers with the digital transition. Read more

Posted on Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:12:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Dell to sell PCs at Best Buy

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dell Inc said on Thursday it plans to sell its personal computers at gadget outlet Best Buy Inc , its latest push into retail stores after decades selling only via the telephone or Internet. Read more

Posted on Fri, 7 Dec 2007 05:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

ClearPlay DVD Content-Filtering DVD Player Available at Best Buy

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ClearPlay announced today that its content filtering DVD player is now available in Best Buy stores. The ClearPlay player allows parents and others the ability to edit out content they find objectionable such as sex or violence.

The movies are filtered on a movie-by-movie basis by loading filters to a USB drive and then onto the ClearPlay DVD player. Read more

Posted on Thu, 6 Dec 2007 12:45:16 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Best Buy Makes Holiday Shopping Easier

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Best Buy is trying to make holiday shopping easier and more enjoyable for shoppers this year. Best Buy is trying to do this by making changes to their store and online. The new in-store and online initiatives for the 2007 holiday season include new customer assistance. Best Buy says it has cross-trained about 30% of its floor sales staff to the new Customer Assistant position. These assistants are trained in all areas of the store.

The returns policy has also been extended with the product return deadline extended to January 31. That means gifts purchased as early as November 4th can be returned until January 31. This even includes items with a traditional 14-day return period like computers. Read more

Posted on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:11:21 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Cyber Monday Sale starts Today on Best Buy

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Tomorrow is Cyber Monday, which is supposed to be the biggest sales day for online shops. As Black Friday started on Thanksgivings Day you may have some time today to eat some of the left over turkey, or not?

Best Buy has already started their Cyber Monday sale and is making it a 2 day sales event on their online store. So the same thing that happened with Black Friday is happening with Cyber Monday as well. Read more

Posted on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:50:21 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Best Buy Black Friday Doorbusters Deals

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We already reported that there is no time for eating Turkey on Thanksgiving Day if you are serious about hunting deals online and in stores. Best Buy makes you also forget about sleep on Thanksgiving night and sees you lining up during the night at their stores.

Best Buy stores open at 5am on Black Friday and the retailer published special Doorbusters deals and Bonus Doorbusters deals for those who are first to get into the stores. Read more

Posted on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:43:58 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Best Buy Black Friday Deal: Toshiba A135-S7403 Notebook plus Printer $229

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Best Buy announced their in-store Black Friday deals. Amongst them is the Toshiba Satellite A135-S7403 Notebook plus Canon PIXMA 3-in-1 Printer for an ultra low $229.

Of course for that price you cannot expect to much from this notebook. The Toshiba Satellite A135-S7403 features the Intel Celeron M processor 530, 512MB DDR2 SDRAM, 80GB hard drive and Wi-Fi. Read more

Posted on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:28:52 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Best Buy teams with Mydeo on Video Service

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Electronics retailer Best Buy Co launched an online service in partnership with video hosting site Mydeo on Tuesday, through which its customers can store and share home movies and videos via the Internet. Read more

Posted on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:28:58 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Liz Claiborne Designs Electronics Accessories for Best Buy

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Liz Claiborne and Best Buy have teamed up to bring a line of consumer electronic accessories to Best Buy exclusively. The full line will be available in 250 Best buy stores across the country in October as well as being available online.

The line will include bags and cases for laptops, phones, cameras and MP3 players. A business tote will also be part of the collection. The bags will be in leather with different finishes like jacquard and patent. Read more

Posted on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:59:51 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Japanese Market UMPCs at Best Buy

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Best Buy is offering under their Escape online shop a couple of UMPCs and notebooks which are Japanese market only. They offer these through a partnership with the pioneering Japanese notebook exporter Dynamism.

Dynamism is in the business since 1997, and we worked with them in the past on a couple of product reviews. They are a great company to work with. Looking at the current limited offering in the Best Buy Escape shop, you also can just go directly to Dynamism and order there. Pricing is the same. The partnership is good marketing for Dynamism and should help them spread the word.

Dynamism says that there will be more products in the Escape shop in the near future.
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Posted on Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG Super Multi Blue Player BH100 already listed on Best Buy, but...

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The best gadget at CES 2007 (we think so, and CNET awarded the BH100 Best in Show), the LG BH100 might be in jeopardy.

First the good news: Electronics retailer Best Buy already listed the LG BH100 Super Multi Blue Player BH100. You cannot pre-order it yet though, but still this is a good sign.

Now for the bad news: BetaNews (via Gizmodo) reports that the DVD Forum might not certify the player as HD DVD player due to the lack of HDi/iHD support.

LG said the BH100 supports BD-J, the Blu-ray interactive menu solution and not the HDi system used for interactive menues on HD DVD disc. If LG does not get certification from the HD DVD backers, they cannot call it a HD DVD player. Read more

Posted on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

SanDisk Sansa e280R MP3 Player for Best Buy Digital Music Store Review

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The SanDisk Sansa e280 has been around for a while now. However, recently Best Buy launched a new digital music store surprisingly called, Best Buy Digital Music Store.

To coincide with the launch of Best Buy’s music store, SanDisk produced a custom version of the Sansa called the e280R that is customized to work with Rhapsody and the Best Buy Digital Music Store. Read more

Posted on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:30:48 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Diddy to Press Play on New Best Buy Digital Music Store

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Best Buy teams with RealNetworks' Rhapsody and SanDisk to launch the Best Buy Digital Music Store.

The artist known these days as just Diddy provides an exclusive track from his upcoming new album Press Play exclusively for the launch of the Best Buy digital music store.

This, yet another online music store, is powered by the RealNetworks Rhapsody 4.0 music service, and features both a permanent download store and a subscription download service.

Best Buy will carry and promote the SanDisk Sansa e200R Rhapsody MP3 players, which have been optimized to work seamlessly with the Best Buy Digital Music Store. Read more

Posted on Fri, 6 Oct 2006 06:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Panasonic TH-65PX600 on the Way to Best Buy and Circuit City

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We got word that 350 Panasonic TH-65PX600 Full HD 65 inch Plasma TVs are on the way to Best Buy and Circuit City.

Europe already got a release date for the Panasonic TH-65PX600E a couple days ago. The 1080p HDTV will ship there on November 1st.
The 350 TH-65PX600 are actually on the way from a Mexican Panasonic plant. Circuit City and Best Buy are not listing the new 65 inch Panasonic Plasma yet. Read more

Posted on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

3rd Shipment of Xbox 360 available at Best Buy this Week

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Best Buy is supposed to get Xbox 360 shipments this week. Some stores already might have got them by now.

Best Buy wants to avoid lines this time around. In an internal memo (which conveniently appeared on a Teamxbox forum) details how the Xbox 360 are supposed to be sold to avoid lines.
The Xbox 360 consoles will not be placed at the sales floor. No signs will be announcing that the Xbox 360 is in stock. You are supposed to be greeted at the door with the question: "What brings you in today?" Right answer is Xbox 360. Then they will tell you that the have inventory.
So good luck. I guess this means you have to go twice a day to your local Best Buy store to check if you get greeted.

Update:
I4U Reader Michael K. emailed us that he has been greeted at the Best Buy at Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh, NC today and he answered correctly. He was given a golden ticket (Xbox 360 Voucher). He says that this Best Buy got more Xbox 360 Premiums in stock today than at the '2nd launch'. Read more

Posted on Thu, 22 Dec 2005 01:39:20 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

I4U Gadget Flyer: Xbox 360 at Best Buy : Asimo Runs : iPod Chair

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Posted on Sun, 18 Dec 2005 04:42:37 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

The '2nd Launch' of The Xbox 360 in the US is Tomorrow at Best Buy

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Tomorrow Sunday the 18th of December marks apparently the second major wave of Xbox 360 consoles becoming available.

Best Buy is supposed to have Xbox 360 premium and Xbox 360 core consoles in stock tomorrow (in stores only I guess) for those who still did not score a Xbox 360 before the Holidays. This opportunity is also for those who did or do not want to spend $1,000 on a Xbox 360 bundle.
Chris Lambert's Xbox 360 tracking site has a cool Google map powered Best Buy Xbox 360 inventory locator. I checked the Best Buy stores in the San Francisco Bay area. The Best Buy store in San Carlos is supposed to have 48 Xbox 360s in stock. The store in Sunnyvale only has 24 consoles in stock. The San Francisco Best Buy store on Harrison has 50 apparently.
So get your blanky and thermos ready for another camping out on a Best Buy parking lot near you. Read more

Posted on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 01:56:37 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Digitalway signs Deal with Best Buy for MP3 Players

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Korean Electronics Manufacturer Digitalway signed a deal to supply US$35 million worth of MP3 players to Best Buy and US$15 million to supply its products to Amazon.com, CompUSA and Good Guys.
Digitalway said it is currently the biggest MP3 supplier to Best Buy, beating out Apple Computer Inc's iPOD in terms of volume.
Full Story at NE Asia.

Digitalway MP3 Players at Amazon.com.

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