Digital home entertainment designs are rapidly replacing the old television home entertainment centers that have been around now since the passing of consoles and record players. If you are still stocking home entertainment products for the fat analog televisions, you’re going to be left holding a lot of inventory. Mark it down now and move it out of your store.

Distributors of home theater equipment are finally catching up with the digital trend and are making household entertainment centers to hold slim, wide screen TV’s and lots of small speakers. Meanwhile, consumers are only buying new digital home entertainment designs for their new systems. Home theater installers are busy creating custom home entertainment shelving and refurbished home theater distributors are tweaking their inventory to make up for the lack of new product in retailers.

1. Look for home entertainment information to keep your stock updated

2. Find unique new digital home entertainment designs

3. Bring in at least a minimum amount of new home entertainment systems

Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done

Stay on top of the rapidly changing home entertainment centers industry

For once, consumers are ahead of the retailers - at least in the home entertainment industry. While the digital home entertainment products are abundant, the entertainment centers and furnishings to hold the electronics have not kept pace. Before you purchase inventory that has not been proven to sell, gather home entertainment information and stock up on proven products, while infusing your store with a few unique items.

I recommend: Subscribe to Home Theater Magazine to keep up with the trends and get news first about upcoming product releases. Visit sites such as Audioholics to regularly read reviews and see the newest home entertainment systems.

Beat your competitors with the most unusual home entertainment centers

Eventually, all furniture and electronics dealers will stock the newer units from a home entertainment manufacturer. Everyone will carry the wood wall units and Plexiglas digital home entertainment designs. Keep an eye out for unusual designs or find refurbished home theater distributors to get deals for your customers.

I recommend: SeatsandChairs.com carries a great line of refurbished home theater seating that you can add to your inventory. You can get some very contemporary home entertainment centers from home entertainment producer Italy Design.

Put the old home entertainment products on clearance

Move the old home entertainment centers out as fast as you can before you get stuck. Meanwhile, begin to fill your showroom or catalogs with a few pieces at a time so that you can accommodate your regular customers. If your old home entertainment distributor is not getting you new designs, step out and find a new one.

I recommend: Potter Distributing is a home entertainment producer staying on top of the digital movement with a line of home entertainment system centers and TV stands for the new tubes. Livin’ Large is an online distributor of media room seating and other game and media room furnishings.

Tips & Tactics

Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• •  Consider a multitude of uses for the new home entertainment system designs. You should offer larger wall units, smaller, single carts and entire media room furnishings for adults and children.