Early Black Friday Forecast-$149 Blu-ray Player, $499 40-inch Plasma TV

If you are in the market for a bargain HDTV or Blu-ray player, hang on for couple more months. Although holiday season is still a while away, technology expects have predicted a full forecast of the Black Friday sale. Analysts from Dealnews are speculating sale price to fall as low as $149 for a generic Blu-ray player, $499 for a 42-inch 720p Plasma and $799 for a 1080P 46/47-inch no-brand-name LCD HDTV.

Bargain hunters should know what they will get into queuing up for hours in a cold thanksgiving night, and make sure they are not being sold. The generic $149 Blu-ray is more likely a budget lineup from Funai NB500 or Memorex MVBD-2510. Dynex, Insignia, Westinghouse or Maxent flat screen TV are likely to be the candidate on Black Friday.

Shoppers look for Apple products are going to be disappointed with the speculation. Ipod, Iphone, Imac or I-What-ever would not be heavily discounted, about 5-10% sale with free shipping online.

As a matter of fact, I just returned from local Fry's electronics. A brand name 40-inch flatscreen is around $699-$799 depending on features set and sub $1,000 with full HD and capable to do 120hz. The information sounds correct to me but shop smart. We'll probably get to see more aggressive Black Friday sale with the continuing sluggish economy

Other prediction includes

• $99 HD camcorder
• $199 UMPC
• $299 15-inch dual core laptop
• $399 15.4-inch Loaded Intel Core 2 Duo laptop
• $99 22-inch LCD
• $699 50-inch plasma HDTV
• $1,199 52-inch 1080p HDTV
• $49 500GB external drives
• $99 1TB hard drive
• $25 7-inch digital picture frame