Happy new year everybody. After a brief hiatus over the Christmas period its time to get back down to business and post a few more bargains. And what better way to start the year than with Gavin & Stacy. I’d only been dimly aware of this series over the last 18 months, although it has had a big cult following on BBC3. I caught up with the entire story in the run up to Christmas and liked it so much I thought it was worth a mention.
If you didn’t know already Amazon recently launched its own MP3 Download service, with a huge PR campaign highlighting the advantages of its service over Apples iTunes by virtue of having all of its tracks DRM free.
Well , no doubt hoping to capitalise on all those who unwrap a shiny new ipod on the big day, they are offering a £3 discount voucher for use in their MP3 Store. Yup that’s right, just visit Amazon on December 25 or 26, then just add your chosen MP3s to your Shopping Basket (you need to use the Shopping Basket rather than 1-Click) and enter code FREEMP3S at the checkout–£3 will be deducted from the total.
Ok so you don’t have time time to shop around or you are shopping for the man/woman who has everything? An amazon Gift Certificate could be the ideal solution. You dont need the hassle of buying clothes the wrong size or colour, DVDs they’ve already got or video games for the wrong console. Buy them a gift certificate and let them chose their own present. Genius.
Amazon let you have the Cerificate emailed directly to the recipient or, for the more personal touch you can opt to print one off and deliver it by hand.
2008 is set to be the biggest Christmas yet for the landmark Blu-ray Disc format, with sales of titles such as the Dark Knight shifting 600,000 units of day of release in the US and Canada, also breaking records when it was released in the UK. On the back of this it seems Blu-ray players are starting to come down in price, none moreso than the award winning Sony BDPS350 which is currently available at Amazon for an impressive £160, and on top of that you can qualify for 3 Brand New Release Blu-ray titles to go with it including Hancock, Wall:e and Mamma Mia!
You may have seen the news today that Amazon are taking on Apple iTunes buy launching their own online music download service. The store will sell tracks from as little as 59p and albums from only £3. From launch the store offers more than 3 million tracks to download that you can use on any digital music player, including Apple’s own iPod, meaning that the tracks Amazon are selling are free of DRM (Digital Rights Management). Thats right, no DRM = No resitrctions. The tracks you download can be copied to as many different portable devices as you need, including PCs, laptops, Mobile Phones and Mp3 players.
Amazon have also beaten iTunes with the quality of the files they are offering, encoding them at 256kbs rather than iTunes 128kbs, in theory this should mean better sounding music, although probably not that much better if you are listening through your headphones
Every year in the US, the day after thanksgiving is known as Black Friday and is thought to mark the official start of the Christmas shopping season over there. In order to get the ball rolling stores both on the high street and of course on the web launch their annual Black Friday sales, with some incredible prices to be had.
This years Black Friday Sale starts today at Amazon.com with some extra bargains for those that can get in early.
Headline offers include:
New release DVDs under $10
New Release Blu-ray Discs Under $15
DVDs from $1.99
The kids love a good Christmas movie in our house, especially on Christmas Eve, when its become a kind of tradition for us all to sit around with the TV with some home cooked festive fair courtesy of my wife. This year I thought I’d look early and and found this boxset to keep the tradition going. Containing all 3 Santa Clause movies, and a definite favourite with the kids for only £9.98.
The Santa Clause: It’s the night before Christmas when toy salesman Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) finds himself in an awkward predicament. The real Santa Claus has fallen off his roof and his “emergency card” instructs Scott to take his place. But by putting on the Santa suit, Scott unknowingly accepts all the responsibilities of the rosy-cheeked legend. With his young son by his side, Scott starts a comical new life of weight gain, beard growth, narrow chimneys and elves with attitude!
The Santa Clause 2: Santa’s got problems and things quickly go south when he finds out that his son, Charlie, has landed on this year’s “naughty” list. Desperate to help his son, Scott heads back home, leaving a substitute Claus to watch over things at the Pole. But when the substitute redefines naughty and nice, putting Christmas at risk, it’s up to Scott to return with a new bag of magic to try to save Christmas!
The Santa Clause 3: Tim Allen reprises his role of Scott Calvin-aka Santa as he juggles a full house of family and the mischievous Jack Frost (Martin Short), whose chilling Santa envy has him trying to take over the “big guy’s” holiday. At the risk of giving away its secret location, Scott invites his in-laws, Sylvia and Bud Newman (Ann-Margret and Alan Arkin) to the North Pole to share in the holiday festivities and be near their daughter, Carol (Elizabeth Mitchell)-aka Mrs. Claus- as she prepares for the eagerly anticipated birth of baby Claus.
Whats this a new Shrek Movie in time for Christmas? Well not quite, Shrek the Halls is a Half hour animated made for TV Special featuring all the characters we know and love from the Original Shrek Trilogy. Obviously cashing in on the festive season, but hey at £5.98 you cant really go wrong. If it keeps the kids happy while I’m preparing the Xmas dinner then so be it.
Shrek wants the perfect Christmas for him and his family but he has no clue how to do it. He buys a book on how to do Christmas perfectly and everything is going well, Until donkey and gang decide to intrude that is….
Its that time of year again. The Annual Disney BOGOF offer starts today and a lot of the usual suspects are running with offer, while at the same time upping their prices to £15 for one DVD. I guess this is to be expected, after all that still works out at around £7.50 per dvd doesn’t it - still a bargain.
Surprisingly though, Amazon aren’t following this trend and are currently offering the likes of
Enchanted - £11.98
Cars - £10.97
Nemo - £8.97
Ratatouille - £12.97
Meet The Robinsons - £4.98
Toy Story - £9.97
Toy Story 2 - £9.97
Chicken Little - £4.48
Some very good prices there when you consider yu are getting 2 for the price of 1.
The Complete First Series of this quirky comedy (drama?) about a Pie Maker called Ned with the ability to be bring dead people back to life has been reduced to only £12.47 at Amazon.co.uk. Starring Anna Friel as the Pie Makers dead girlfriend, resurrected by the Pie Maker after she meets a sticky end on board a cruise ship, the pair team up with fast-talking private investigator Emerson and set about solving murders the easy way. By waking up the victims and asking them who did it.
And as an extra bonus, the DVD contains one extra episode. When the series was aired on ITV they missed 1 episode for reasons best known to themselves.
Happy new year everybody. After a brief hiatus over the Christmas period its time to get back down to business and post a few more bargains. And what better way to start the year than with Gavin & Stacy. I’d only been dimly aware of this series over the last 18 months, although it has had a big cult following on BBC3. I caught up with the entire story in the run up to Christmas and liked it so much I thought it was worth a mention.
You may have seen the news today that Amazon are taking on Apple iTunes buy launching their own online music download service. The store will sell tracks from as little as 59p and albums from only £3. From launch the store offers more than 3 million tracks to download that you can use on any digital music player, including Apple’s own iPod, meaning that the tracks Amazon are selling are free of DRM (Digital Rights Management). Thats right, no DRM = No resitrctions. The tracks you download can be copied to as many different portable devices as you need, including PCs, laptops, Mobile Phones and Mp3 players. 
Whats this a new Shrek Movie in time for Christmas? Well not quite, Shrek the Halls is a Half hour animated made for TV Special featuring all the characters we know and love from the Original Shrek Trilogy. Obviously cashing in on the festive season, but hey at £5.98 you cant really go wrong. If it keeps the kids happy while I’m preparing the Xmas dinner then so be it.
The Complete First Series of this quirky comedy (drama?) about a Pie Maker called Ned with the ability to be bring dead people back to life has been reduced to only £12.47 at Amazon.co.uk. Starring Anna Friel as the Pie Makers dead girlfriend, resurrected by the Pie Maker after she meets a sticky end on board a cruise ship, the pair team up with fast-talking private investigator Emerson and set about solving murders the easy way. By waking up the victims and asking them who did it.