The “Break it Down” Blog

Looking For A Wii This Holiday Season? Try Walmart

So your nephew/daughter/significant other/best friend wants a Wii for Christmas, but every store is already sold out and probably will not have anymore in stock before you need it for that gift?  You might try Walmart.com.  Reuters is reporting that starting today Wamart.com will have thousands of Wiis in stock and available to be shipped [...]

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Wal-Mart Gives $100 Gift Card for Blu-ray Player Purchase

Jens Eckels sent in some badass news that for the week of June 8-14, Wal-Mart will be issuing $100 Gift Cards for anyone buying a Blu-ray Player. In addition to that announcement Wal-Mart is announcing super-low prices, some as low as $15, on Blu-ray titles to choose from if you decide to pickup some titles [...]

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Wal-Mart Going Blu-ray Exclusive by June

Ted Regulski, AKA Ted “The Ted Man” Regulski, sent in news that Susan Chronister from Wal-Mart has confirmed that the employee-raping giant will go Blu-ray exclusive by June with no plans to continue stocking HD-DVD media or players. So everyone that bought a $99 HD-DVD… yea… that freaking sucks

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Wal-Mart to Offer 80GB PS3 + 10 Blu-ray Movies (+5)

Laurence Hartje sends in a note that Boy Genius is reporting that starting November 24th, Wal-Mart will not be discounting the price of the 80GB PS3, but instead allowing you to pluck 10 Blu-ray movies off the shelve (under $30) to take with you when you buy one. They also mention this is in addition to [...]

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$99 HD-DVD Player at Walmart Friday

Laurence Hartje sends in the raid-worthy news that Walmart will be kicking off the holiday season with a $99 HD-DVD player, specifically the Toshiba HD-A2 (CNET Review, Amazon Reviews). Just a quick reminder, this is not the super-high-end 1080p HD-DVD player, this is the mainstream 1080i HD-DVD player. So if you are not an AV-phile, go [...]

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