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Wal-Mart is famous for their instore Black Friday doorbusters, but you may not realize that they have a large online operation which has Black Friday specials as well. This year both online and instore had a calendar of special sales starting on Monday Nov. 19 and continuing through the end of the month. They will have Cyber Monday and Beyond Online Specials starting Monday the 26th and lasting through Nov. 30, but right now following the link takes you to the two day post Black Friday sale and here are some of the online bargains.

Plasma TV - Philips 50″ Plasma HDTV with Digital Tuner, 50PFP5332D for $1397.00 which is at least $100 less than anywhere else I have seen.  You can get free shipping by having them send it to a local Wal-Mart store and picking it up yourself.

Digital Camera - Kodak 7.1 MP EasyShare ZD710 Digital Camera w/ 10x Optical Zoom & Image Stabilization for $149.00.

There are a variety of LCD TVs as well. I’ll be interested to see what they come up with for Cyber Monday.

Toshiba is running a holiday sale on their laptops that runs through November 30.  First, you can save $150 when you customize a Toshiba Satellite notebook PC by using coupon code CRNBRY150 at the Toshiba online store. Then when you get to the website you will find that they are already offering the following on customizable Satellite and Qosimo notebooks:

• Free printer, carrying case, and mouse (after mail-in rebates)
• Free sales tax (i.e. they pay it)
• Free shipping
• Savings of up to 20% on the price. (All but the newest models seem to be 20% off.)

Since Toshiba makes solid laptops, these seem to be good deals and if you select your model carefully the savings is about what you would see on Cyber Monday specials elsewhere.

Eric A. Taub reports that Samsung is going for thin on a new line of rear projection TVs:

Samsung, the world’s largest seller of televisions, will introduce at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show a new line of rear-projection D.L.P. televisions that will not be much thicker than flat-panel TVs but will cost about 30 percent less.

The new sets, aimed at those who want a bigger set but cannot afford a plasma TV, will come in 50- to 60-inch sizes. At 10 inches deep, they can be hung on a wall.

10 inches is not exactly thin, but I’ll be interested to see the full specs.