Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Main considerations for buying the consumer electronics items


The consumer electronics giants like LG, Samsung and others regularly keep bringing in newer products with more and better features and functions. This gives consumers a lot of options to choose from and this is not always easy. Some of the main considerations which guide the buying behaviour of a person for consumer electronics products are:

  1. Brand: Since these products are quite pricey and you would not like these of being substandard, you would prefer going for established brands over the less popular ones.
  2. Number of Features and functions: You might also be interested in knowing the type of output resolution that the HDTV will give you, how many channels can be viewed, whether it can be used with your blu-ray player or some other HD audio-video or storage device?
  3. Your requirement: There might be numerous products on offer but you must select the ones as per your requirements. If you are a professional photographer, you be requiring a digital SLR camera rather than a normal digital camera that only has zoom and mega-pixels as its main attributes.
  4. Quality of output: The output of the audio and video and other functionalities like the camera shoot and recording functions could also be important consideration for the buying decision. The quality is directly related to the technology being used. Therefore, you might enquire about the technology being used in the display screen of the TV or the computer monitor. Whether it is the LED lighting or the LCD one or even the latest SED technology.
  5. Durability: If you have to spend hundreds of dollars for a consumer electronics item, then you would like to know its life, the average time period till which the product will not have any problems. The durability could be in terms of the strength of the body material used or relevance of technology.
  6. Guaranties and Warranties: Would you be buying a product which does not come with any guarantee or warranty assurances? Certainly not. So, these are vital considerations for the buying of these products. The better the guarantees and warranties, the better are the chances of these consumer electronics products being sold.
  7. Practicality of usage: If you do not have sufficient space to keep the bulky bodied CRT TV, then you might prefer the LED lighting based HD TV which can be fixed on the wall. Similarly, your choice of these products could be affected by a number of other considerations, like the portability during the travel, children in household and others.
  8. After-sales service: If the product develops some glitch, then the same might be required to be sorted in the shortest possible time. You would certainly not like the company which has to be called again and again for product servicing. Therefore, the reputation of the company in providing the after sales service is also important factor in the buying decision.


As is quite evident, there are a number of considerations which affect the buying decisions. It is not just the many products of the top brands which are considered. Rather, their functions, features and a number of practical considerations weigh on the mind.

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