ADVISORY/Photo/Visual Opportunity: Best Buy Brings Fun Zone to Chicago Blues Festival; Fully-Equipped Vehicle Takes Technology, Fun on the Road.News/Assignment Editors ADVISORY...for Thursday-Sunday (May 30-June 2) --(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,
Alienware computers and a satellite radio system from XM
Satellite Radio.
People who visit the Chicago Blues Festival 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.
Where: Chicago Blues Fest
Grant Park
When: Thursday, May 30 - Sunday, June 2
Open noon to 9 p.m.
(closed during performances from stage)
Interviews: Reporters and photographers welcome
Call contact to arrange interviews
About Best Buy Co., Inc. Minneapolis-based Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BBY BBY Best Buy (stock symbol) BBY Before Battle of Yavin (Star Wars) BBY BeBeyond (Chinese online community) ) is North America's number one specialty A contract under seal. A specialty is a written document that has been sealed and delivered and is given as security for the payment of a specifically indicated debt. 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 Magnolia, city, United States Magnolia (măgnō`lyə), city (1990 pop. 11,151), seat of Columbia co., SW Ark.; inc. 1855. Its oil industry has been important since 1938. Hi-Fi (MagnoliaHiFi.com), Media Play (MediaPlay.com), On Cue (OnCue.com), Sam Goody Sam Goody is a music and entertainment retailer in the United States and formerly in the United Kingdom. It is owned and operated by Musicland, which itself is owned by former rival Trans World Entertainment which also runs Suncoast Motion Picture Company and, until January 2006, (SamGoody.com), and Suncoast
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