Sony Overkill at CES 2012

Seems odd that the CES runs early in the year, when having it before the holidays might help electronics companies get potential buyers and journalists/bloggers all fired up. Although this may be the last year for some of them to party in Vegas, many of them came out full guns products blazing.

Sony brought out a gazillion new devices, well, almost that many, including its new line of Bravia HDTVs, some with 3D, Blu-ray players, two with built-in Google TV, and home theaters with Blu-ray as well.

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NAV Holiday Gift Pick - Sony Home Theater

Life is pretty sweet when you can get an entire home theater at a price of less than $200.00. The Sony BRAVIA DAV-DZ170 Home Theater System provides everything you need for those holiday sights and sounds. With 1000W 5.1 channel surround sound, it has DVD upscaling via HDMI and sync controls so that only one remote is needed. Included in the set-up is a built-in DVD player and hookup for iPod or MP3 player with front USB port.

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Freakin' Friday! LG Blu-ray/3D Home Theater

Look, it's an entire Blu-ray Home Theater system for a decent price. LG's LHB336 includes 3D, Smart TV, a 1100W amp, upscaling of video and Dolby Digital Plus. In addition to being Internet ready, the system works with iPhone/iPod, USB 2.0 playback and Simplink Connectivity. All for a Freakin' Friday price of less than $300.00.

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Freakin' Friday! Panasonic Home Theater

Time was when a home theater seemed only for the Steven Spielbergs of the world, but prices are dropping, allowing almost anyone to get a decent one for less than $500.00. Case in point, Panasonic's SC-BTT370. The home entertainment system has 5.1 Channel audio, 3D and Blu-ray video. Other features include 2-way tabletop speakers, VIERA Cast for Netflix and Skype, built-in Wifi and a 3D effects controller that lets you adjust the depth.

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Star Wars Home Theater

Look, it's the Millennium Falcon! Not quite, it is a Star Wars themed 10,000 square ft. home theater in a Honolulu mansion built by Custom Home Systems. The room has hidden electronics and speakers, so all that is visible is a 107" screen. The company used Crestron 6" Touch Panels to coordinate everything, including cueing up a film, adjusting the temperature, controlling surveillance cams, dimming the lights and playing tunes from a docked iPod.

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Best Buy Black Week

Best Buy is covering all electronic bases this holiday season. They are offering an Insignia Internet Connectable Blu-ray Disc Player for $99.99 that comes with remote and $5 CinemaNow Gift Card. Add to that a Dynex 32" Class / 720p / 60Hz / LCD HDTV for $279.99 and the Collector's Edition Avatar Blu-ray Disc for $34.99. We call that bonding family fun for less than $400.00. Free shipping is included.

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Kmart Black Week

Kmart is offering 5 - 10% discount on online shopping this week. Most of their electronics are marked down to begin with and they are offering such deals as 10% off any Home Theatre System with the purchase of a TV, 15% off any TV Wall Mount with the TV purchase, discounts on cell phone carriers and activation, and all HP computers and printers are on sale. You get free shipping on purchases over $60.00 and another 5% off their prices, including sale items.

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Target Black Friday Week

Target's deals this week include free shipping with purchases over $50.00. We found super deals on Flip Cameras, several models of Garmin GPS and Panasonic Viera HDTVs.

If movies are your thing, they have a Samsung Blu-ray Player , a Bose Companion 2 Series II Multimedia Speaker System and a very unique airblown inflatable 12 ft. widescreen deluxe Outdoor Movie Screen.

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SRS 5.1 To Share the Wealth

Those who recently bought or have plans to soon buy a Windows PC may have noticed that SRS 5.1 now comes with Microsoft Silverlight. This surround sound format acts as a managed code add-on for creators and developers who want to incorporate HDTVs, A/V receivers mobile phones and of course your trusty PC or laptop.

With "surround everywhere" as its slogan, it has multi-channeled and front rendered sound steering, full bandwidth, backwards compatibility with legacy matrix decoders and stereo, including over bit rates as low as 96kbps. Yeah, we were kind of blown away the first couple of times we used our new VAIO laptop and heard great sounds out of those itty bitty speakers. Look for it to expand to other devices in the future.

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Inkel Blu-Ray Player W/ Built-in Receiver

South Korea continues to manufacture new electronics, this time in the form of a Blu-ray player that also supports DVDs. Inkel's VR-654BD has a built-in 7.1 channel A/V receiver to make it easy to hook up with your home theater system. Also featured are USB 2.0 connectivity, DB Live 2.0, an FM tuner and DivX and XviD file compatibility. The player should arrive sometime this month in So. Korea at a price of ~$600.00.

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Back to The Future Celebrates 25th Anniversary

In honor of its 25th anniversary, the "Back to the Future" trilogy will be released in Blu-ray on October 26. Included in the pack are BD-Live and U-control features. Can't wait that long? A wide screen trilogy is already available at a super price with outtakes, bloopers, deleted scenes and interviews with its stars.

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Freakin' Friday! Panasonic Audio System for HD 3D

Panasonic has recently released a wireless home theater audio system designed for HD 3D. The virtual 7.1-channel SCZT2 Speaker System includes two ultra-slim poles speakers with a 1" tweeter and 5" woofer. The system is compatible with their DMP-BDT350 Blu-ray 3D player and ARC, which allows it to receive TV audio signals via HDMI.

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IOGear Wireless HD Kit

Look what IOGear just released. This wireless HD Kit can connect DVD/Blu-ray/VHS players, Home Theater Pcs, media servers and set-top boxes to your HDTV or projector. The device doesn't need a router and can stream full HD 1080p 60Hz video and audio from up to 100 ft. away.The GWAV8141K is available for $899.95.

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Samsung Blu-ray Home Theater Up-converts

Samsung's Blu-ray Home Theater System also up-converts regular DVDs. In addition, the HT-BD1250 plays music via iPod dock and streams Netflix and Pandora. WiFi ready, you can view pictures or listen to tunes from any connected PC.

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