Posts Tagged ‘Blu-Ray’

Gift Guide 2009

Writing on the Mall is presenting it’s first annual gift guide for Marietta College students.  Here are the things that WotM things you should want to bring back to campus for the spring. Read more…

Tuesday Drops: Mummy 3, Fall Out Boy

As Christmas approaches, less and less “Big Hits” come out.  They like to try to release them either two to three weeks before the 25th (like The Dark Night), or around Black Friday.

So, I present to you the releases for this week in music, movies, and video games.

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Black Friday Craziness

Evidently, Black Friday turns our great nation into a bunch of heartless idiots.  Let me cite this as an example.

A male employee at a Wal-Mart was trampled to death by the mob of shoppers waiting to try to scavenge a deal.  Evidently, he was the unfortunate one to open the doors, which were pushed open and over top of him by the crowd.  He was transported to a local hospital, where he died.

Now obviously, the importance of this story pales in comparison to the recent attacks on Mumbai.  However, what does this say about America?  That saving $70 on a Blu-Ray player or $100 off a TV is a reason to not stop and help him up?  Absolutely rediculous.  Now, I realize that some people may have been pushed along as well and couldn’t even fathom stopping to help, but still…they are material things.   And sadly, this man died because you needed to  save that extra bit.

Meh.

Black Friday Deals Now Available

To those of you about to embark on your annual journey to the local store on Friday, I salute you.  You are much more brave than I.

I will be spending the day recovering from my Turkey Coma (or what I can eat of it considering my braces were just tightened…meh).

I just wanted to alert those going shopping that many deals are actually being offered online before Black Friday.  While there will still be many many options that are in-store only deals, many (if not most) of the good deals can be had ahead of time on a merchant’s website.

My personal favorite Black Friday site, Black Friday Ads, has a list up of all the merchants that currently offer Pre-Black Friday savings.

Here’s my personal notes to this year’s Black Friday:

• If you’re looking for a Wii, they are out there.  Just not as many as were hoped.  Big retailers to check are Amazon.com (which has been rumored to have the biggest stockpile available), Wal-Mart, and Best Buy.
• There are some good deals on XBOX 360′s this year.  However, the Arcade edition just isn’t worth getting.  If you’re getting an XBOX, it needs to have a hard drive in it, especially after the New XBOX Experience came out.  The Arcade 360 is $200 and comes with a controller and two games.
• Wal-Mart does have an awesome deal if you’re looking to get a 360.  The 360 Pro (with hard drive) also comes with Guitar Hero 3: World Tour (the version that comes with a guitar) for $300.
• Playstation 3′s are coming down in price, but are still not quite wear they need to be to compete against the 360.  Only buy one if you plan on watching a lot of Blu-Ray movies, as that is its strongest feature in this round of the console wars.  I’ve seen nothing below $400.
• Speaking of Blu-Ray, you can get a Magnavox Blu-Ray player fr $200 at Wal-Mart
• Best Buy has a 50″ Plasma TV for $900.  If you have the cash for it as a college student, its a great buy, as it’s a Panasonic, which is normally a good brand.

If you are looking for a comparison of all digital cameras (or TV’s, or laptops, etc, etc) then check out Black Friday Ads comparison chart.  Buy smart…you don’t want to drop $500 on a paperweight Dynex brand.  Ech.

Best of luck to those of you that are going out and about.  You’ll likely need it .