ADVISORY/Photo/Visual Opportunity: Best Buy Brings Fun Zone to Thanksgiving Day Parade in Houston; Fully-Equipped Vehicle Takes Technology, Fun on the Road.

News/Assignment Editors

ADVISORY...for Thursday (Nov. 28)

--(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.

            The Fun Zone currently features James Bond memorabilia in
            support of the new film Die Another Day. Items include
            Bond villain business cards, movie posters and Oddjob's
            bowler.

            People who visit the Thanksgiving Day Parade 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: Downtown Houston
           On Walker St. between Fannin and San Jacinto

    When: Thursday, Nov. 28 - 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.

    Interviews: Reporters and photographers welcome
                Call contact to arrange interviews

About Best Buy stores

Best Buy stores, owned and operated by Minneapolis-based Best Buy Co., Inc., is one of the nation's leading retailers of technology and entertainment products and services. Best Buy was founded in St. Paul, Minn. in 1966. Best Buy stores reach an estimated 300 million consumers per year through more than 500 retail stores in 48 states and online at BestBuy.com. For more information about Best Buy, visit the virtual pressroom at http://onlinepressroom.net/bestbuy.