DVB-T Receiver Bargain

taung

Lidl will sell a DVB-T receiver next Thursday for €40. This will be the first DVB-T receiver to be marketed to the general public in Ireland, I believe. This should stimulate demand for the DTT trial further.

Cas2007

thats up the north only

byte

And that price is sterling, doesn't seem that good value. I think there was a UK supermarket (Asda maybe) who were selling DTT receivers for £10.

Cas2007

yeah i have a asda one it was real cheap at the time

Ulsterman 1690

I think there was a UK supermarket (Asda maybe) who were selling DTT receivers for £10.

blast it after me paying £20 for one in Argos :mad:

Mind you if they can be produced that cheap its time it was made compulsary for every TV to have one built in

Sponge Bob

but they would leave the analogue tuner out then ...and where would that leave most of us ??

Ulsterman 1690

If they can manufacture a STB for £10 they can do an internal DTT tuner for less than half that (no need for seperate power supply, plastics, packaging, remore control etc etc)

So they could easily have both analouge and DTT tuners and noone would even notice the additional cost (which mass production would reduce even further)

byte

I'm not sure if it was Asda. The price may have been a loss leader for a while, to entice customers.

When Maplin opened in Derry a few weeks ago, they were selling Freeview boxes for £10 too, though this was just a opening special offer.

taung

Sorry lads, I got that one wrong.....somehow I ended up on the Lidl Northern Ireland site when I thought I was on the Lidl Republic or Ireland site.....still, they will work for the ROI DTT trial if ye get ye're hands on one.....

flogen

Yeah, I think the £10 freeview boxes were loss leaders and were in very limited supply - they (Asda) did the same for a range of DVD players, didn't they?

£20-25 is the normal bottom-range price from what I've seen, which is pretty decent (and the argument for building DTT tuners into new TV sets still holds up at that price too)

musa

taung wrote:

Lidl will sell a DVB-T receiver next Thursday for €40. This will be the first DVB-T receiver to be marketed to the general public in Ireland, I believe. This should stimulate demand for the DTT trial further.

Lidl Newcastle Co.Down has lots of receivers ,as there is no reception of DTT in this area,They are also selling an active aerial for DTT which , requires 5volts DC,this is supplied by the receiver ,so you have to buy both.

musa

musa wrote:

Lidl Newcastle Co.Down has lots of receivers ,as there is no reception of DTT in this area,They are also selling an active aerial for DTT which , requires 5volts DC,this is supplied by the receiver ,so you have to buy both.

Just as a PS really .

I had a quick look at the Lidl receiver,it has a 5.1 optical sound output,but as far as I know Sky are the only Broadcasters transmitting 5.1 at present in the British Isles?And even then
only on Sky +.

Krusty_Clown

musa wrote:

Just as a PS really .

I had a quick look at the Lidl receiver,it has a 5.1 optical sound output,but as far as I know Sky are the only Broadcasters transmitting 5.1 at present in the British Isles?And even then
only on Sky +.

You mean 'only Sky+ boxes have an optical output'. Optical (digital) is still a decent way to transport sound to your receiver or stereo, even if the broadcasted material is not DD5.1.

watty

Unless you have a hum loop, no value over RCA wired digital connector, and unless you have Sky Movies/Box office and watching a film that actually has 5.1 transmitted, no advantage to digital connections at all. Analogue L+R can be the same quality for Stereo (Dolby Surround damaged or not).

musa

I was simply trying to point out that folk perhaps should not rush out to buy sub-woofer and surround equipment on the strength of seeing a 5.1 o/p socket at the rear of the Lidl box.
To the best of my knowledge they would not get any o/p from the receiver re 5.1 as the broadcasters in these islands do not transmit it!

Krusty_Clown

You'll still get a 2-channel stereo output from the optical, but as Watty points out (I think!) there's no real advantage (or disadvantage, mind!).