Lidl 220404 - Satellite Dish!!

brendor

Does anyone know if these are any good?

http://www.lidl.ie/ie/index.nsf/pages/c.o.oow.20040422.p.System

Dr. Dre

Gotta be worth a shot for the sake of €100, it'll be better than a bin lid
Hope they have these in my nearest store.

eoinm1

I might get one myself

knifey_spoonie

Last time they were in lidl a guy suffered a heartattack trying to get one.

Smeagol

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cosgrove80

So what xhannels can be got with it? Is it just so you can get the usual terrestrial ones while outside?

Anyway if you picked it up along with this it'd be one hell of a camping trip!

byte

For list of available channels go here

Quite a good price for a DVB receiver, though you'll probably need to buy a seperate 12V transformer if you intend to plug it into mains. No RF loopthru either.

parasite

what do you mean by rf loopthru here (pardon my ignorance) ?

ozmo

I bought the Analogue one last year.
Worked well - but all the stations were all foreign language.

Only English channels I could find were Bloomingberg, CNN and BBC Worldwide.

So I gave the dish away.

Anyone know what Unencrypted English stations can this Digital one get?

EKRIUQ

All the bbc channels plus many more that are digital indepth thred on the satellite forum.

alan101

can this receiver be connected to your existing sky digital dish to pick up the free to air channels ?

Capt'n Midnight

Yes.

bender

has anyone bought this and tried it yet? can someone post the results on how it works and so forth. thanks

Capt'n Midnight

Originally posted by bender
has anyone bought this and tried it yet? can someone post the results on how it works and so forth. thanks

As the thread title says - 220404 it's not on sale until the 22nd/4/04 - not sure if it goes on sale earlier in other countries

See Also http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=153864

bender

oops .. sorry me mistake

sirlinux

Anyone have a list of store locations?

spongebob

all over the Midlands

M

violenza

LOL...did ya check out the portable jax!!deffo gettin one a them!!:D

mrbongo

Looks like the website lies. Went to buy one this morning and overheard someone talking about their daughter buying one either earlier in the week or last week. Picked up the brochure for the offers next Thursday and there's a lot more interesting stuff in the brochure than is advertised on the website for next Thursday.

I guess the lesson is to keep visiting Lidl to find out what offers are coming up when??

Mike

^whitey^

Originally posted by mrbongo
Picked up the brochure for the offers next Thursday and there's a lot more interesting stuff in the brochure than is advertised on the website for next Thursday.
Mike

What other stuffs they got that's interesting

ozmo

Originally posted by mrbongo
Looks like the website lies. Went to buy one this morning and overheard someone talking about their daughter buying one either earlier in the week or last week.

Mike

But did you get one or where they al gone. Was it mains as well as 12 volts?
Sometimes they make mistakes and put stuff out too early - or forget to put stuff out.

>Picked up the brochure for the offers next Thursday and there's a lot more >interesting stuff in the brochure than is advertised on the website for next >Thursday.

Any more info? ta.

sirlinux

Bit of a riot when i got there this morning, needless to say i didnt get one, some members of staff had been "sorting people out" in the queue before opening for the dishes, they were seen and heard and all the people queueing(since 8:30) were not to happy when they got in to be told all the dishes were gone and you needed a ticket. Bit of scam, the manager wouldnt come out to speak to people. Anyone get one fair and square, any hidden lidl's have any left?

ShevY

I arrived at the lidl in togher cork at 8:30, but ther was already a huge queue, and that was after a lot of people had left, as the tickets for the 14 dishes had already been given out

DMC

Went to Edenderry, as I knew it would be mayhem at any of the Dublin Stores. 7 systems on sale, 3rd in queue and got a ticket at the door. €99 later, one camping sat system.

mrbongo

Hmmm, strange. The Parnell St store did not have any dishes, and it wasn't advertised in their brochure for that day, and the dishes were definitely on sale
either earlier in the week or the previous week. Nobody in the queue was there for satellite dishes, except me, most were there for bbq's.

ozmo

Originally posted by mrbongo
Hmmm, strange. The Parnell St store did not have any dishes... Nobody in the queue was there for satellite dishes, except me.

You sure it was Lidl (not Aldi) you were at? - I know they were building one there - but I didnt know it was open yet.

cgarvey

LoL, that'd be funny alright.

mrbongo: Hi, what's the story with the satellite dishes?
staff: ye wha?

I am Spock

Buggah!
I always miss the good offers from Lidle. There are only ever a few in each store and 99.9% of the time they are snapped up before I even get to hear of the blooming thing. Anyone else offering cheap Sat systems (NON SKY) Have no home phone.

huh!

there was a guy on for sale board selling a nokia digital receiver last week

sceptre

Originally posted by I am Spock
Buggah!
I always miss the good offers from Lidle. There are only ever a few in each store and 99.9% of the time they are snapped up before I even get to hear of the blooming thing.

Worth checking the website once a week - they have the current offers and the coming offers from Monday and Thursday on the site. Gets updated every Monday and Thursday as far as I can tell.

EyesOnly

went to the longford store got up at 7am and arrived at 8am =(
but was first in queue got me 1 , it has mains power and gets Free To Air channels bbc's and so on

obewan

There were only 10 available in the Sligo store. A mate got one, but it was by ticket only and these were given to those who were there early and looking for the dishes. I suppose it's the only way as they had so few, first come first served.


Mick.

Agent Smith

Originally posted by I am Spock
Buggah!
I always miss the good offers from Lidle. There are only ever a few in each store and 99.9% of the time they are snapped up before I even get to hear of the blooming thing. Anyone else offering cheap Sat systems (NON SKY) Have no home phone.

i always find out after also....



their out to get us!

I am Spock

Hmmm, I tried the Nenagh and Shannon branches to no avail. Ok if Lidl can sell these items at this price there must be other places selling such systems for approx the same price. A quick scour of the web produced very little and nothing under 175 euro. That was not even a portable unit. Not that that matters much.

Have any of you out there found a good bargain on similar systems?
Is it possible to get FTV receiver that does not require a card?

Thanks for any suggestions and responses so far.
-=Nick.

bk

Originally posted by I am Spock
Hmmm, I tried the Nenagh and Shannon branches to no avail. Ok if Lidl can sell these items at this price there must be other places selling such systems for approx the same price. A quick scour of the web produced very little and nothing under 175 euro. That was not even a portable unit. Not that that matters much.

Have any of you out there found a good bargain on similar systems?
Is it possible to get FTV receiver that does not require a card?

Thanks for any suggestions and responses so far.
-=Nick.

Well Lidl can do this while others can't because Lidl have thousands of stores all over Europe and when they do a special like this they by hundreds of thousands from the manufacturer, thus getting big discounts that small stores would never get.

From what I was told by others, the dish that came with the satellite is only 40cm which wouldn't really be adequate, you would probably end up spending an extra e75 getting a good 70cm dish anyway, so you would end up paying 175 euro anyway.

Most receivers should be able to pick up the FTA channels without a sky card.

mrbongo

Damn, Aldi! Feck, that explains it .... (face slowly going red) ... doh!

DMC

Originally posted by bk
From what I was told by others, the dish that came with the satellite is only 40cm which wouldn't really be adequate, you would probably end up spending an extra e75 getting a good 70cm dish anyway, so you would end up paying 175 euro anyway.

There have been reports of success with this setup on this thread on the satellite board, works fine.

I'll try now tonight. Cant wait

cgarvey

Originally posted by mrbongo
Damn, Aldi! Feck, that explains it .... (face slowly going red) ... doh!

Excellent!
/me remembers an incident where I was on time, on O'Connell St., as arranged.. yet I still get a phone call to say I'm outside Pennys (so am I, I thought allowed), except the other guy was in Limerick.

Capt'n Midnight

On the topic of portable satellite receivers.

A car battery fully charged is about 14V
On a camping satelite site a good while ago someone oppened up an Amstrad ANALOG receiver , disconnected the PSU (voltages were marked on it) and wired it up to a battery - Of course this won't give you your 18V and not sure it would give .5 22KHz on the 13 volts

so could you just turn the LNB or dish through 90 degrees eg: desired channels on Hotbird require 18V eg: RAI

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Alternative would be a cheap inverter

mad m

can see an irish chainsaw massacre with the next thursday 29th special...

duridian

Yeah, but potential victims of the budding chainsaw massacrerer...er...er... would only have to run the length of the power cord to get away since it's an electric chainsaw.
Does Lidl also have a 220V extension reel long enough if you want to chase potential victims out in the woods or would I be better off joining a bunch of shorter reels together? This could be the new paintball.

Johnny_the_fox

Its on Offer in the North on Monday ... 75 english pounds..

Johnny_the_fox

just been told by a Lidl worker in the North that the Satellite doesnt apply to the Northern Ireland (yet)..