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I bought a PS3 for $450 from this site. I also bought a Bang & Olufsen BeoVision 9 50" Plasma HDTV and a BOSE 5.1 Lifestyle 48 Series from the same site. The combination is truly amazing. You can't imagine how is to play Resistance: Fall Of Man at your PS3 and see the action at the B&G television and hear the sounds at the Lifestyle.

Getting a good deal on consumer electronics these days often seems akin to trying to time the stock market-you may get lucky every once in a while, but more often than not, it's a fool's errand.

Plus other bizarre news in this week's Weird Tech

Commuters in New York's Grand Central Station received a shock yesterday when they were greeted by a 26-foot tall Christmas tree… made of 43 Aquos LCD televisions.

Surprised passengers stood back and admired the unusual decoration, which has been donated by Sharp.

We’ve received a couple of anonymous tips that DirectTV, a $24 billion satellite TV provider, may be entering the online TV wars with a new site called DirectTV Web On Demand. The site would compete with startups like Hulu, Joost, Fancast, Sling.com, etc.

We don’t know much about the service, or even if it’s real. One of the tipsters says they’ve worked on the project and supplied us with the mockup screen shot above, which could quite possibly be real. On the other hand, we’ve spoken with industry insiders and they say they’ve heard nothing about the project.