ADVISORY/Photo/Visual Opportunity: Best Buy Brings Fun Zone to Nashville River Stages; Fully-Equipped Vehicle Takes Technology, Fun on the Road.

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ADVISORY...for Saturday & Sunday (May 4 & 5)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

      What: The Best Buy Fun Zone, a mobile marketing and entertainment
        destination, is available for media tours. The traveling Fun
        Zone features:

      --  The latest technology offered at Best Buy stores, including
        products that create a state-of-the-art bedroom, kitchen and
        high-definition home theater.

      --  An interactive gaming area with video game pods featuring the
        latest video game systems, and egg chair digital music pods
        complete with interactive video screens

      --  An expandable stage for events.

      The Fun Zone creates the environment of a fully networked home
    within the interior of the 53-foot trailer. A series of 14
    monitors show the superior picture quality and clarity of
    flat-panel LCD and plasma TV, using video streamed through an
    advanced audio/video/Internet network. The Fun Zone also features
    a touch-panel remote system that controls all of the trailer's
    audio, video, Internet and lighting devices. Other product
    highlights include a prototype refrigerator from Whirlpool, a
    50-inch wide-screen plasma TV from Pioneer, an Alienware computer
    and a satellite radio system from XM Satellite Radio.

      People who visit Nashville River Stages can tour the Fun Zone to
    experience all of the technology first-hand and discover new ways
    to integrate the products into their lives, helping to make their
    time more fun and productive. In addition, the following artists
    will be making autograph appearances on the Fun Zone stage;
    country vocalist Carol Dawn Johnson and hard rock band, Injected.

      Where: Nashville River Stages

      When: Autograph Signings:
          Saturday, 6 p.m.  Carol Dawn Johnson
          Sunday, 3 p.m. Injected

      Interviews: Reporters and photographers welcome
                Call contact to arrange interviews

About Best Buy Co., Inc.

Minneapolis-based Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) is North America's number one specialty retailer of consumer electronics, personal computers, entertainment software and appliances. The Company operates retail stores and commercial web sites under the names: Best Buy (BestBuy.com), Future Shop (FutureShop.ca); Magnolia Hi-Fi (MagnoliaHiFi.com), Media Play (MediaPlay.com), On Cue (OnCue.com), Sam Goody (SamGoody.com), and Suncoast (Suncoast.com). The Company reaches consumers through more than 1,800 retail stores in the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.