Best Buy Gives Analog the Boot
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The retailer becomes the first to pull the plug on analog TVs.
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Hard drive-based audio player will get a new look and a lower price.
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Company is expanding its agreement to sell notebooks through Best Buy.
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TV's big switch from analog to digital broadcasts will be complete in just one year, on Feb. 17, 2009, and many consumers are puzzling over how the shift will affect them: Do they need a new converter box, a new TV, a better antenna?
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Sure, electronics retailing is more competitive, but Best Buy has the means to roll with the changes.
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Shares of Best Buy (BBY:NYSE - news - research) caught a bid Wednesday after the electronics retailer&#39;s third-quarter results beat estimates.
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Best Buy Co. Inc. on Thursday said it  will introduce a new music service with digital music player  maker SanDisk Corp.  and music software company  RealNetworks Inc.  to create the latest competing  service to Apple's iPod and iTunes combination.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- The nation's largest consumer electronics chain says it has pulled all analog televisions off store shelves. Flat panel and high-definition screens have taken their place.
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Malware hitches a ride on digital photo frames Big box retailer Best Buy has admitted that it sold digital picture frames over the festive period containing malicious software that targets Windows-based PCs.â¦
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Why is the government paying for our consumer electronics? A contrary opinion on the voucher program for mandatory analog TV conversion. In Gadget Lab.
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Tycho: This thing is pretty huge. I don't mean in terms of kilobytes - I mean it's packed tight with powerful features. Upscaling of content has been in demand, and it's been delivered. Like the 360 Elite, you need to be hooked up via a managed connection (i.e., HDMI) to upscale a DVD. Past that, it will knock up your old PS/PS2 games to 1080p, but the results we've gotten here haven't been supernatural - still appreciated, though.The real flavor is elsewhere: specifically, the ability to stream video, pictures, and music from "a DLNA compliant device," which you'll find just about every computer already is. That's only half of it. The Remote Play option of the PSP (the one that lets you enjoy certain types of content stored on your PS3 via your PSP) is deeply enriched by this capacity. You can do this much already. But with the next update for the Playstation Portable - 3.50, to be released before the end of the month - you'll be able to access your PS3 remotely via any wireless connection. I must say, starting a download at home while I'm still at the office sounds pretty Goddamn good. Also, while we are loving the PSP, am I the only person enthralled by the idea of R-Type Tactics? (CW)TB
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Best Buy beat analyst estimates with a 21 per cent rise in quarterly profit, sending its shares 5 per cent higher yesterday. The number one US consumer electronics retailer said
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All American households can begin applying for up to two $40 coupons to be used toward a converter box that will keep analog TVs going after the digital switch.
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The electronics giant belatedly decides to support the popular digital music format on its hard-drive players. Watch out, Apple. Ah, remember the &#39;80s.
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Best Buy Inc.'s chief executive said Tuesday that he is "very nervous" about being able to supply customers with the millions of digital TV converter boxes needed ahead of the shutdown of most analog TV transmissions in 13 months
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Imagine buying a CD at Best Buy (BBY ) only to discover that it won&#39;t work on the CD player you bought at Circuit City (CC ). Absurd as it sounds, this sort of situation is the rule rather than the exception in the world of legally downloaded music.
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PC giant also wants to be your supplier of high-end home electronics. Also: How your desktop gets bolted together.