Black Fridays 2010 - Most Popular Products

Black Friday (sometimes Green Friday) is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. The term dates back to at least 1966, although its usage was primarily on the East coast. The term has become more common in other parts of the country since 2000. Because Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States, Black Friday occurs between the 23rd and the 29th of November. According to Reuters, in 2007 135 million people participated in the Black Friday shopping rush.
Black Friday is not an official holiday, but as many workers have the day off as part of the Thanksgiving holiday, this increases the number of potential shoppers. Retailers often decorate for the Christmas and holiday season weeks beforehand. Many retailers open extremely early, with most of the retailers typically opening at 5AM or even earlier. Some of the larger retailers (depending on the location) such as Sears, Best Buy, Macy's, Toys "R" Us, Walmart, and Target have been reported to open as early as midnight on the start of Black Friday in localized areas and remain open for 24 hours throughout the day until midnight the following Saturday. Upon opening, retailers offer doorbuster deals and loss leaders to draw people to their stores. Although Black Friday, as the first shopping day after Thanksgiving, has served as the unofficial beginning of the Christmas season at least since the start of the modern Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1924, the term "Black Friday" has been traced back only to the 1960s.
The term "Black Friday" may have originated in Philadelphia, where it was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on the day after Thanksgiving (see Origin of the name "Black Friday" below). More recently, merchants and the media have used it instead to refer to the beginning of the period in which retailers go from being in the red (i.e., posting a loss on the books) to being in the black (i.e., turning a profit). (wikipedia)

Black Fridays Most Popular Products

Samsung 46" 1080p 120Hz LED HDTV For $1599.99

Best Buy has the Samsung 46-inch 1080p 120Hz LED HDTV (Model # UN4686000VF) on sale for $1599.99 on Black Friday. This 1080p HDTV features Auto Motion Plus 120Hz processing and a 4 ms response time to greatly reduce blur when viewing fast motion video sequences, so you can enjoy watching your favorite movies, TV shows or the big game.

Westinghouse 32" LCD HDTV For $246.00

Target has the Westinghouse 32-inch LCD HDTV on sale for $246.00 on Black Friday. The tech specs of this HDTV include a # Maximum Resolution: 1366 x 768 # Vertical Resolution: 1080i # Screen Refresh Rate: 60 Hz # Electronic Display Features: High Resolution Panel, Channel Display, English Language On-Screen Display, Spanish Language On-Screen Display, HD Display, Closed Caption, Diagonal LCD Widescreen, On-Screen Display # Aspect Ratio: 16:9 # Tuner Type: ATSC/NTSC/QAM # Contrast Ratio: 3000:1 # Brightness(cd/m2): 480 # Response Time: 6.5ms Response Time

Magnavox Blu-Ray DVD Player For $78.00

Walmart has the Magnavox Blu-Ray DVD Player on sale for $78.00 on Black Friday. Enjoy full HD 1080p video output with 24fps (frames per second) for cinema-like picture quality. This blu-ray disc player has a HDMI output and is Profile 1.1.

Samsung 40" 1080p LCD HDTV For $599.99

Sears has the Samsung 40" 1080p LCD Television on sale for $599.99 on Black Friday. Give the gift of HD excitement and stunning picture quality with the Samsung LN40B500. A large 40" LCD screen lets you enjoy big, bold image detail with Full HD 1080p resolution. An amazing 40,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio offers the purest whites and deepest black tones. Every sound comes alive with SRS TruSurround HD audio. And two HDMI inputs make it easy to hook up all your peripherals such as Blu-ray Disc players and Home Theater systems.