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Black Friday Deals

myDeaconmyhand said:
:squint: Why would you wait 6-12 months for something you could go out and buy in 20 minutes? You can go to Wal-Mart any time (not on Black Friday) and get a Samsung or Western Digital 500gb+ pocket HD for like 50 bucks.
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Because the price has nearly tripled on most hard drives.
 
Is Black Friday a good way to get desktop computers? I need to get 4 or 5, nothing fancy, but decent workstations. I am absolutely not going to a store on Black Friday but if there are good deals on these online, I'd be interested in that.
 
I heard Wal-mart is starting Black Friday at 10 PM on Thursday night this year, and most places are starting at Midnight instead of the crazy early morning hours - I might actually go, if I am not asleep from all the turkey.
 
vtwhat etc said:
I need an external hard-drive... would prefer something >500GB and usb powered...

rather than posting a new thread; what's going to be my best value? Anything Black-Friday related that should make me consider waiting?
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Here is an 80 dollar Western Digital 750GB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive with free shipping from Best Buy.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Western+Digital+-+My+Passport+Essential+SE+750GB+External+USB+3.0/2.0+Portable+Hard+Drive+-+Black/1250646.p?id=1218242905222&skuId=1250646
 
DaDeacs said:
I heard Wal-mart is starting Black Friday at 10 PM on Thursday night this year, and most places are starting at Midnight instead of the crazy early morning hours - I might actually go, if I am not asleep from all the turkey.
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This is genius.
 
I use my Xbox downstairs for watching movies and downloaded tv shows but almost never for gaming. I was thinking about grabbing a 2nd one for upstairs and Amazon is running a cool deal:

$199 xbox 360 4gb
$50 credit
Buy one game get 2nd for 50% off

So I got a new 360, arkham asylum, and mw3 for < $230 shipped.

Hard to beat if you're thinking about Christmas presents...
 
DCDeac said:
I use my Xbox downstairs for watching movies and downloaded tv shows but almost never for gaming. I was thinking about grabbing a 2nd one for upstairs and Amazon is running a cool deal:

$199 xbox 360 4gb
$50 credit
Buy one game get 2nd for 50% off

So I got a new 360, arkham asylum, and mw3 for < $230 shipped.

Hard to beat if you're thinking about Christmas presents...
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You could buy a <125$ Blu-ray player with the same online capabilities as your 360, and then just move your Xbox upstairs. Otherwise you've just got a really expensive dvd player downstairs.
 
myDeaconmyhand said:
You could buy a <125$ Blu-ray player with the same online capabilities as your 360, and then just move your Xbox upstairs. Otherwise you've just got a really expensive dvd player downstairs.
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I'm guessing he streams media through his Xbox.... not many Blu Ray's are capable of doing that well.
 
myDeaconmyhand said:
You could buy a <125$ Blu-ray player with the same online capabilities as your 360, and then just move your Xbox upstairs. Otherwise you've just got a really expensive dvd player downstairs.
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Uh, trust me, I've got it covered. There is no Blu Ray player at any price that can do what my Xbox is currently doing, minus a PS3.

Not looking for advice, just noting a pretty good deal.
 
DCDeac said:
I use my Xbox downstairs for watching movies and downloaded tv shows but almost never for gaming. I was thinking about grabbing a 2nd one for upstairs and Amazon is running a cool deal:

$199 xbox 360 4gb
$50 credit
Buy one game get 2nd for 50% off
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Now I just need to find a cheap kinect. I want to replace my media server/machine in the living room with an Xbox and move the server to the back of the house where it's not in the way. As a plus and to help justify the decision, my kids can play kinect games. :)
 
DCDeac said:
Uh, trust me, I've got it covered. There is no Blu Ray player at any price that can do what my Xbox is currently doing, minus a PS3.

Not looking for advice, just noting a pretty good deal.
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I'm not sure exactly what you're doing with your XBox, but most recent Blu-ray players are capable of streaming media from local devices. LG's are the easiest.
 
The xbox deal sounds ok, but the small HD might be a problem if you plan on downloading extra content.
 
myDeaconmyhand said:
I'm not sure exactly what you're doing with your XBox, but most recent Blu-ray players are capable of streaming media from local devices. LG's are the easiest.
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Eh, there's capable and there's capable. I'm running a htpc based on Media Center that streams 1080p pulled from OTA and clear-QAM which the Xbox can play directly as a media center extender. I've seen the cifs implementations on the LG side for streaming but I prefer NAS to transcoding in general, and I don't want to be fighting the codec battle with blu-ray firmware on a cheap player that will stop being updated in 6 months. The one LG I tried connecting to a samba share was less than impressive as far as pq is concerned, and ff/rw was brutal. The CPU's in those things are garbage compared to a gaming system.

The xbox is just far more flexible, has far more power, and has far better support than any cheap blu ray player - or any expensive one for that matter. A ps3 prob even more so since it has networking/media/blu ray all included - but it can't extend a WMC. Plus I barely have enough time to play video games at all, let alone own multiple gaming systems.
 
myDeaconmyhand said:
The xbox deal sounds ok, but the small HD might be a problem if you plan on downloading extra content.
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Very true. I checked that out and they have generic 60gb drives on ebay for like $20. Figured I'll just go that route since I don't use the local drive for media storage. If you did, it might be worth getting the huge OEM version.
 
DCDeac said:
I use my Xbox downstairs for watching movies and downloaded tv shows but almost never for gaming. I was thinking about grabbing a 2nd one for upstairs and Amazon is running a cool deal:

$199 xbox 360 4gb
$50 credit
Buy one game get 2nd for 50% off

So I got a new 360, arkham asylum, and mw3 for < $230 shipped.

Hard to beat if you're thinking about Christmas presents...
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Sorry if I'm repeating anyone... but gamertags can only be linked to one xbox and it takes about 5-10 minutes to 'recover' your account each time.

I had an original 360 that started getting very finicky (disc tray sticking, etc) so i bought an Elite with the same plan you had... it is more trouble than its worth because of the xbox live thing.
 
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