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We’ve rounded up the best Black Friday deals of 2011, from TVs to laptops and tablets, with our comprehensive guide to Black Friday.

Starting Oct. 31, U-verse customers can order the new wireless receiver, which can be placed anywhere throughout the home or even outside, as long as it's within WiFi range.

By hooking up the wireless receiver, users will no longer have to connect the TV's set-top box to a coax connection, meaning that they have the flexibility to move TVs around the house or to switch out the wireless receiver to rooms that aren't used as much.

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Best Buy is ready to launch a Buy Back program that should help reduce the wallet strain for constant early adopters.

The plan will, for a fee paid at the time of purchase, allow consumers to sell back their computers, tablets, smartphones, and TVs (under $5,000) for a percentage of its original price.

The percentage will vary based on time of ownership (and naturally, condition).

Apple-branded TVs, PSP games on the iPhone and a flaming pile of wreckage where Blu-ray used to stand could all be in the future, for a hypothetical Sony under the command of Steve Jobs.

Live penny auctions, in which people paid a small fee to place bids, were popular decades ago. Now they’ve joined the world wide web, with sites like Bidhere.com, BidSauce.com, and QuiBids.com, attracting customers using expensive items like TVs and iPods and bids starting at less than a dollar.

Depending on the site, each bid can cost between ten cents and $1.

Apple unveiled a new version of Apple TV on Wednesday. As opposed to many such initiatives, including Google's upcoming Google TVs, Apple has their own view of what consumers want in the living room, and whether or not they or Google will come out the big winner is the question.

Sharp is trying to play catch-up in 3-D TVs with powerful rivals Samsung and Panasonic with displays the Japanese electronics maker says are brighter and clearer.

Nintendo jumped into 3D on Tuesday, not in TVs, but in portable gaming. The company has announced the Nintendo 3DS, which will be a 3D version of their popular two-screen Nintendo DS and DSi.

America's retailers are ushering in the traditional start of the holiday shopping season with expanded hours and deep discounts on everything fr