TVs, Digital Cameras Among Best Buy’s Hot Black Friday Deals, Site Shows

With 16 days until Black Friday, Best Buy released its Black Friday promotions Wednesday, according to TGI Black Friday, an e-commerce app sponsored by Dealcatcher and Transmogrify that sent the deals to shoppers Wednesday afternoon. Like last year, Best Buy will open at midnight Nov. 23, the day following Thanksgiving. The retailer’s deal list includes 293 items led by 53 DVDs, 51 videogames, 19 digital cameras, 17 phones, 17 TVs, 17 home AV products, 14 tablets, 13 appliances, 13 laptops, 11 products in the “hardware” category and 10 MP3 players, according to TGI Black Friday. Other bargains will be found in memory cards, software, hard drives, flash drives, memory, monitors, GPS handhelds, networking products, printers, camcorders and car audio, according to the app.

In TVs, deals include an LG 24-inch 720p LED-lit TV for $159, down from $229; a Panasonic TC-L55ET5 55-inch 1080p LED-lit LCD TV chopped from $1,799 to $899 and a Panasonic 55-inch TC-L55ETS LED 3D TV halved from $2,099 to $1,049; a Samsung 32-inch 720p LED-lit LCD TV shaved $130 to $247 and a 55-inch Samsung LED 240Hz 1080p LED TV shown for $799. The “early bird” deal on the 55-inch Samsung TV was $799 and tagged a “Best Buy exclusive.” No model number or suggested retail prices were given, making it difficult for shoppers to compare prices.

A Toshiba 40E220U LED-lit LCD TV was slashed from $419 to $179, and a Toshiba 50-inch LED TV took a cut from $799 to $399, according to the app. Entry-level honors went to the Best Buy Insignia store brand for a 26-inch LED-lit 1080p TV, which dipped into the double digits at $99, down from $199, it said.

The four Blu-ray players listed in the ad were all marked below $100, starting with the Toshiba BDX2300 Wi-Fi ready model for $39, down from $79, according to the TGI Black Friday. No price was available for an LG smart Blu-ray player with Wi-Fi built in that was captioned “hot price,” but the player was selling at PC Richard & Son for $129, according to the app.

Tablets are on the Black Friday price chopping block at Best Buy, too, with the Asus 16GB TF300T-B1 sliced by $100 to $279, compared with those at Office Max ($349) and Target ($399), the app noted. The Acer Iconia 16GB tablet took a $100 dive to $249, it said. A 16GB iPad with retina display was shown as a $499 deal at Best Buy, but B&H Photo and JR.com listed it for $50 less at $449. The iPad 2 was discounted $40 to $359 for a 16GB Wi-Fi model, according to the app. An 8GB first-gen Kindle Fire with a $30 gift card was listed for $159, the same price Amazon showed Wednesday without a bonus card.

Three double-digit cameras from top-tier manufacturers appeared on the list including a 14-megapixel JX520 from Fujifilm for $49, a bundled version of the same camera with an 8GB memory card and camera case for $59 and a Canon PowerShot 16-megapixel A2300 with free case and unspecified memory card for $79.

In laptops, Lenovo took doorbuster-grade honors with a 15.6-inch AMD-powered unit offering 2GB RAM and 320GB memory for $187, down from $399, TGI Black Friday showed. An Asus 11.6-inch Windows 8 laptop with 4GB memory and a 500GB hard drive was discounted $100 to $449, the app said.

A 4GB SanDisk Clip Zip MP3 player approached stocking stuffer territory at $27, down from $39. Among memory cards, a SanDisk Ultra 32GB SD card was whittled down to $17 from $69, and 16GB SD and MicroSD cards slashed $30 each to $9.99, the app said.