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  • Two-Way Grill

    Love cooking outdoors but the weather drives you indoors? The Hamilton Beach Indoor Contact Grill is made for you. It grills most meals in 10 minutes or less, and offers unprecedented flexibility in cooking method. Either close the top for heavenly grilled cheese sandwiches or open flat for a scrumptious T-bone steak. [...]

  • Become a Pasta Making Pro

    Once you experience freshly-made pasta, store-bought pasta won’t taste the same. Fresh pasta is indisputably tastier, healthier and more delicious. Ron Popeil’s Pasta Maker by Ronco is the best-selling Pasta and Sausage Maker in the world. So, if you love pasta, this should be in your kitchen.
    It’s really not as hard [...]

  • Margaritas on the Veranda, Anyone?

    Springtime is fast approaching, and the time is drawing near for parties on the porch or in the backyard. Just in time, The El Paso Chile Company’s frozen drink station has come to J&R and it could be in your kitchen.
    Of course, a crushed iced drink is not just for warm weather. You [...]

  • OLED Flat TV Comes To J&R

    A new era of television is here. The Sony XLED-1 is the world’s first OLED TV. Currently, the XLED-1 is not available online and is in very few retail stores. But the future is now at J&R. You can experience the XLED-1 today at our video outlet, 31 Park Row in downtown Manhattan.
    OLED stands [...]

  • Trip Down J&R Memory Lane

    (scanned image by BadLuckCity)
    You don’t have to be an old-timer to remember when gasoline was cheap. The same is true with electronics. Remember when DVD players cost hundreds of dollars? Well, now you can buy a Coby DVD209 for $24.99!
    We were reminded of this by Philly-based blogger BadLuckCity, who recently published [...]

  • USB Turntable with Built-In iPod Dock

    If you saved those beloved LPs until the right recording technology came along, your wait is over. If those 45s are still gathering dust in the attic, wait no more. Numark’s new TTi is a USB turntable with a universal dock for iPod. Now you can rip directly to your computer via [...]

  • Do You Know Where Your Children Are?

    This provocative question is very familiar to late evening viewers of Fox 5 News. Every evening before the 10pm news, a celebrity face reminds parents to check on the well-being of their kids. J&R Music and Computer World, the brick and mortar partner of JR.com, has been the proud sponsor of this important [...]

  • J&R is Quietly Making Noise with Musical Instruments

    For the budding guitar soloist, try the Eterna ET112 by Yamaha (pictured above) or the classic-style electro-acoustic by Oscar Schmidt. And for the budget-conscious, Lola, Delia, and Sheena guitars by First-Act are now available at special prices. A step up in quality is the Oscar Schmidt OG6S dreadnought.

    Your kid might begin a [...]

  • Herbie Hancock and J&R


  • My9 News on Buying a Super Bowl TV at J&R

    The biggest sales week for large-screen TVs is not Christmas, it’s the week leading up to the Super Bowl.
    The week before Super Bowl XLII, New York’s local news channel, My9 News, came to the J&R Music World video outlet to do a feature entitled “Big Screen Deals”. Local newsperson Brenda Flanagan showed us “how [...]

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