More brands, more products. Here’s Part III of our coverage of the Electronics Show from Chennai.

Whirlpool

This is yet another giant in the consumer electronics segment in India. Featured products included Microwave Owens, Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Air Conditioners and Water Purifiers.

Some Pictures from the stall:

The ‘Energy star’ and the ‘Stabiliser free operation’:

Some details about Whirlpool Products:

Refrigerators:

In the refrigerators line-up, they have Direct cool (Under which we have Genius and Genius XL), Frost Control (Fusion),Frost Free (Master Mind, Iceberg and Professional). Storage space starts from 180 litres and comes in 200 , 220, 230 , 250, 260 , 280,  310, 340, 405, 445 litres. They are also available in  variety of colors including white, blue, red, grey, steel, silver and gold.

Washing Machines:

Under Washing Machines, they have Front Loading models, Fully Automatic Models and Semi Automatic models. 5 , 6 , 6.5, 7kg. They even had a Dryer.

Sansui:

Sansui is a Japanese brand that mainly deals with Televisions and Audio equipment in India. They had a generously spaced stall, but had only televisions (CRT and LCD) and music systems on display. Their LCD TV range goes by the name Kyuten.

Also on display was a DVD Recorder. Now this is worth mentioning because none of the other giants sported this in their stalls even if they do manufacture it. You can record onto DVD’s directly from your TV.  

DVR 515 R - Rs. 9,490/- (Offer price was Rs.7,490/-)

Sansui actually has a good range of products. To know more, you can visit their Indian website.

Onida:

Onida’s stall was pretty crowded at-least in perspective of the size of their stall. Featured products included LCD TV’s, Microwave Ovens, CRT televisions, Air-Conditioners, Washing Machines, Speaker Systems.

Onida’s LCD TV range goes by the name Xaria. Candy range of DVD players was on display too.

Some pictures of their TV’s , Washing Machines, Air Conditioners and Ovens:

You may also visit Onida’s website.

Godrej:

A player in the Indian consumer market for a long long time, Godrej is still keeping up with growing foreign presence. Featured products included Ovens, Washing Machines, Refrigerators, Air-Conditioners and even Safe’s.

Pictures from the stall:

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We spoke about the original blue Harpic in the following article on 26th December ‘07.

http://aavaas.com/2007/12/26/harpic-the-toilet-cleaner-from-reckitt-benckiser/

Karthik had left a comment behind mentioning the launch of “White Harpic”. Here are some details about it.

Click on the Image to enlarge.

• A Liquid Toilet cleaner
• Comes with Child resistant cap (press and twist open type)
• To be applied and left for 20 minutes before flushing
• Toilet to be brushed and flushed again for better results
• Recommended to be used everyday by the manufacturer

The bottle also says that if the toilet is being cleaned for the first time, it is advisable to leave the liquid applied on for atleast 2 hours overnight.

Can be used for both Indian and Western commodes.

Main content : Sodium hypochloride.

Other contents : Sodium Hydroxide, Lauryl Amine Oxide, Sodium Lauryl ether sulphate, water & perfume.

Cost : 48 Rupees for 500ml bottle. (MRP inclusive all taxes)

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This post is subsequent to posts Retail Plus AV Electronic Show-2008 - Coverage and ‘Retail Plus AV Electronic Show-2008-Coverage-Part I ‘.

Here we talk about the big brands and the products they had on display.

1) Sony

Sony is one of the most popular consumer electronics brand both in India and worldwide. Appliances on display included CRT televisions, LCD televisions , Home theatre and stereo systems. They also had laptops, walkmans  and other electronic accessories like cameras and storage devices. We will not delve into that in much detail.

Also featured was Playstation 3for Rs.24,990/- Playstation 2 was also available.

Here are some pictures of the LCD TV’s on display:

(If you look closely, you should be able to see both model numbers and the price of some of the televisions. The same is typed out here for easy reading.)

KLV 40V 300 A             - Rs. 99,990/-  *  (Bravia V Series,40″ LCD screen)

KLV 32D 300A              - Rs. 69,990/-  *  (Bravia D Series,32″ LCD screen)

KLV 32V 300A              - Rs. 54,990/-  * (Bravia V Series,32″ LCD screen) 

KLV 40X 350A              - Rs.1,79,900/-* (Bravia X Series,40″ LCD screen)

KLV 40W 300A             - Rs.1,29,900/-*(Bravia W Series,40″ LCD screen)

KLV 40S 310A              - Rs. 79,990/-   * (Bravia S Series,40″ LCD screen)

Pictures of Home theatres/Stereo systems:

DAV-DZ151K/DAV-DZ150K          -Rs. 12,990/- * (5.1 Channel,850W )

DAV-DZ750K                                    -Rs. 26,990/- * (5.1 Channel,1000W)

Picture of CRT televisions:

2) Samsung

The Samsung stall had most of the home appliance products. Samsung enjoys a big presence in the Indian market. Among the products on display were, Televisions (LCD, Plasma,CRT), Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Air Conditioners, Microwave Owens, Home theatre systems and optical players.

Presented below are some pictures.

Televisions:

In the LCD television segment, Samsung seems to have a wide range. The four ranges on display were  Sonoma Trenz, Bordeaux Art, Mosel Blaque and HD Plasma. (In increasing order of price; Sonoma Trenz being the cheapest.)

Typical Price Range:

Sonoma Trenz - Rs. 52,000/- (32″) , Rs. 85,000/- (40″) , Rs. 1,40,000/- (46″)

Bordeaux Art  - Rs. 21,000/- (19″) , Rs. 35,000/- (26″) , Rs. 57,000/- (32″) , Rs. 75,000/- (37″) , Rs. 95,000/- (40″) 

Mosel Blaque  - Rs. 1,20,000/- (40″) , Rs. 1,70,000/- (46″) , Rs. 3,00,000/- (52″)

Plasma TV      - Rs. 80,000/- (42″) , Rs. 90,000/- (42″) , Rs. 1,70,000/- (50″) , Rs. 4,50,000/- (63″) 

DVD Players/Home Theatres:

Refrigerators:

We found a couple of interesting things on refrigerators. The first of these is the ‘Energy Star’. ( which was covered earlier - Tips for lower emissions from homes - II ) The second of these is the ‘Stabiliser Free Operation’ (also earlier covered -  Appliances with built in voltage stabilizers )

Images of the two are shown below:

Washing Machines:

Featured washing machines included both front loading and top loading models.

Pictures of Air-Conditioners and Microwave Owens:

People interested in knowing model numbers and prices of Samsung products may put up queries on the forum. The number of models is too many to be covered as a part of this particular post.

* -Might have been the offer price. You may want to check the local prices yourself.

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These are the results for the poll which we had started after having “aavaas” migrate to a new server with some extra features.

We would like to thank all for participating in the polls.

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A tip from our reader Kathy, leads us to post a small piece on “indoor cloth drying”

“I bought today a clothes drying rack from the company Leifheit. The model is called Pegasus V. It can be put on the edges of the bath tub, so that the water from the wet clothes drips into the bath tub and not onto the floor…”

Click on Image to enlarge. Image courtesy : leifheitusa.com

More details can be found here :

http://www.leifheitusa.com/products/indoor_outdoor_drying/index.htm

Our earlier article is here:

http://aavaas.com/2007/11/20/how-to-dry-clothes-inside-your-home/

Hope these are useful for you all.

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