According to a Best Buy’s chief marketing officer Barry Judge, many stores in Dallas and Austin started selling used games via automated kiosks that can accept used titles and t issue vouchers that can be immediately redeemed for Best Buy gift cards.

Vizio anounced a September availability of its 55-inch 1080p/240Hz full-area LED backlit TV, model VF551XVT ($2,200 suggested retail).

Unlike competitors’ LED offerings, Vizio said this model uses 960 LEDs arranged in 80 cells to illuminate the full back area of the LCD screen. Vizio claims this technology will to reduce power consumption over traditional CCFL backlighting systems and will allow Vizio to incorporate Smart Dimming technology for better color saturation and improved contrast and black levels.

The Audio Authority 1366 Advanced Scaler is one of copperbox.com’s hottest selling products. At $314, this scaler packs in features such as overscan control and scaling making it the perfect PC to HD available.

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MediaFLO, a division of Qualcomm, announced nationwide plans last Friday after the DTV transition. It will expand its FLO TV live mobile TV service into 39 new markets to additionally reach 60 million customers.

SanDisk announced the self-proclaimed “world’s fastest” 32GB SDHC card using the new Class 10 specification, which reportedly exceeds requirement for today’s high-definition (AVCHD) video recording with read and write speeds said to be 30MBps. Pricing has not yet been confirmed.

According to Orbitcast, Sirius XM’s new iPhone App has been downloaded 500,000 in its first four days on the iTunes App Store.

Major appliance sales continue to nosedive dropping 17% in May for the six consecutive months of double-digit declines.

Recent developments in LED backlighting and 120Hz and 240Hz displays will mean lower average selling prices for LCD TVs while wowing consumers on 240Hz performance.

Using LED backlighting instead of cold cathode lighting means higher (better) contrast ratios and a more fluid images.

Philips unveiled its plans to rollout its wireless HDMI transmitter/receiver system based on Amimon’s 5GHz-band technology from the Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) standard. Its technology transmits uncompressed 1080p HD video approximately 100ft to a fixed or mobile receiver. The 5GHz band is the same band used for the now ubiquitous wifi IEEE standards 802.11a/n.

Rex, the troubled electronics retailer, reports more grim financial news: sales down by $10 million for the second quarter 2009.

And as previously reported, Rex plans to exit their retail operations at the close of their 2009 fiscal year.