Brown Goods

Brown Goods
Electrical goods such as TVs, videos, stereo systems etc, used for home entertainment. So called because they were originally cased in bakelite, a brown plastic.

Consumer durables have low volume but high unit value. Consumer durables are often further divided into White goods (e.g. fridge-freezers; cookers; dishwashers; microwaves) and Brown goods (e.g. DVD players; games consoles; personal computers) ...