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Amazon's Gold Box High-Def week brings deals on movies, games and more
You should probably be familiar with Amazon's Gold Box deals by now, combining daily specials and shorter lightning specials that run for only a few hours or until they sell out. This week it's all about HD, with today's daily deal going to L.A. Noire for a nifty $15 off of the MSRP, and lightning deals that have already included the Lost boxed set (magnets) and a Harmony 900 remote. Check the official page for a full list of items to be offered this week, we'll keep an eye out to see what that "name brand 3D Blu-ray player" is that goes on sale tomorrow morning (Pacific Time) and the price tag for the Star Trek movie collection on Blu-ray. P.S. - Remember the 30 for 30 Complete Set Blu-ray boxed set we mentioned last month? It's on sale at Best Buy this week for $59, while Blu-ray.com forum posters point out a coupon that will take another $5 off -- don't say we never did anything for you.
High-Def week in Amazon's Gold Box keeps the deals coming until June 11
If you've been waiting for the right time to make that next home theater upgrade Amazon should be in your bookmarks, as it's kicked off High-Def Week in the Gold Box running from now until June 11. There's plenty of Blu-ray movies & players, displays, projectors, and speakers that will be on sale over the next few day so we'd hit the read link and check the schedule just to make sure you don't miss a sweet deal. The Spiderman trilogy on Blu-ray is up at the moment with The Sopranos S1 on deck later tonight, but we'll wait and see for a price on tomorrow's deal of the day -- a Denon home theater receiver -- before pulling the trigger on any HTIB purchases.
Amazon shopping app for iPad launches
If your actual iPad purchase hasn't drained your debit card down to the red-alert level, Amazon has your back: the web retail giant has announced that the Amazon Mobile app is now fully updated for iPad, and it's available now on the App Store. The free app gives you all your favorite functions: browse the store, add to your Wish Lists, track packages and orders, watch movie trailers and listen to song samples -- even One-Click purchasing is included, otherwise known as "The Danger Room of Online Shopping." Point of aggravation, though: searching for music in the app only displays CDs, which seems somewhat backward. The mobile site for iPhone lets you search digital downloads, although you can't buy them (you have to add them to your wish list for later purchase); browsing in Safari on iPad is both better and worse, as it lets you get all the way to the point of buying an MP3 track before failing to download the helper app that in turn would download the track. Memo to Amazon: You probably want to fix that as soon as you can. Update: If you decline the helper app, you can actually download the MP3 track in the browser on the iPad -- but then what? Goodreader will open it, which is nice and all, but it's a bit awkward to do anything at that point except email it to yourself. Would it be so difficult to include the option for MP3 purchase and simply email the user a download URL? Granted, there might be some hiccups for those iPad users who rarely/never sync their devices, but c'mon, it's 2010 already. Even though you can access the MP3 store via Mobile Safari, there's obviously no way to get music downloads into iTunes except through the iTunes Store or via tethered sync. Amazon also delivers the Kindle and IMDB apps for iPad, just in case you felt like doing some reading or movie searching along with your shopping trip. All three apps are free.
Band of Brothers Blu-ray set for $34.99 on Amazon, today only
For the few who didn't pick up this highly anticipated boxed set as soon as it came out (or imported it on HD DVD long ago), you're officially out of reasons not to own Band of Brothers on Blu-ray. Featured as an Amazon Gold box deal of the day, you can save 65% from the $99.98 MSRP, but you'll have to move fast. That's a mere $5.83 per disc, you owe the boys of Easy Company at least that, don't you?[Via Gizmo Lovers]
Amazon busts out the Nintendo deals this Friday
Thrifty gamers, take note: Friday will see Amazon unleash a plethora of Nintendo-related sales. Starting at 12:01am PST, one deal will be revealed at a time, with a total of nine deals available over the course of the day.As for what exactly will be on sale, we're forced to wait until Friday. That doesn't mean we can't do some snooping, though! Check out previous sales to get an idea for what Amazon will have to offer later this week.[Thanks, sn1per!]
