ADVISORY/Photo/Visual Opportunity: Best Buy Brings Fun Zone to the Indianapolis 500; Fully-Equipped Vehicle Takes Technology, Fun on the Road.Entertainment Editors/News Editors/Assignment Desks ADVISORY...for Wednesday-Sunday (May 21-25) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
What: The Best Buy Fun Zone, a mobile marketing and entertainment
destination, is available for media tours.
The Fun Zone creates the environment of a fully networked home within
the interior of a 53-foot trailer. The truck showcases the latest
technology offered at Best Buy stores, including products for creating
a state-of-the- art gaming room, kitchen, and high definition home
theater. Products featured in the Fun Zone include high definition
plasma TVs and audio systems that can transform your living room into
a state-of-the-art home theater. Visitors can also experience the
latest in computers, gaming, mobile electronics, high-speed internet
and appliances that offer amazing features and benefits to the
homeowner.
The traveling Fun Zone features:
-- A series of 14 monitors that show the superior picture quality and
clarity of flat-panel LCD and high definition plasma TV, using
video streamed through an advanced audio/video/Internet network
-- A satellite 2-way high speed Internet connection for ultra-fast
Web surfing
-- An expandable stage for concerts and events
People who come to the Indianapolis 500 can tour the Fun Zone to
discover new ways to integrate technology into their lives and make
their time more fun and productive.
Where: Indianapolis 500
4790 West 26th Street
When: Wednesday, May 21, 11a.m. to 6 p.m.
Thursday, May 22, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Friday, May 23, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday, May 24, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, May 25, 5 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Interviews: Reporters and photographers welcome.
Call contact to arrange interviews.
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