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Tired of your using your regular, old DVD player? Especially if you have a nice HDTV mounted on your wall. You probably would like to put that bad boy to good use with a nice new Blu ray DVD player, wouldn’t you?

Sometimes those new players can run a bit steep, so here is a great deal on one at Smarter.

For only $287.95, you can pick up this Sony BDP-S300 Tabletop Blu-Ray player at RefurbDepot.com. An awesome pricing, seeing how the average price for this Blu-ray player from the other stores on Smarter hover close to $400. Although it may be refurbished, if you can save $400 from it’s actual list price of $699.99, it’s worth checking out.

It doesn’t hurt to peak.

To check out this Sony Blu-Ray player on Smarter.com, click here.

To go to RefurbDepot.com, click here.

So rumor has it, Apple is going to hike their movie prices up to $15 in their iTunes Store in order to lure in more movie options and titles. And after taking a peek into iTunes a few minutes ago and seeing some titles priced at just that, the rumors appear to be true.

Although this price jump would still save people a few bucks from buying a DVD, which usually vary around $18 to $20 for a new DVD, it is a price raise nonetheless that consumers I’m sure won’t take a liking to.

According to a report by Pali Research analyst Richard Greenfield, Apple is raising the average selling price of the movies in the iTunes Store in a bid to gain extra support for their service.

Also, stores such as Walmart have threatened to reduce or end support for studios who sell their movies on iTunes because they heavily undercut their business and studios have been reluctant to sell their movies on iTunes because of this as well. So in an effort to lure more movies from studios such as 20th Century Fox, Apple is said to be raising their prices up a bit to try to make everyone happy.

To read the full article at Electronista, click here.