lidl dvd player

eurotrotter

lovely n cheap, but does it play avi files off a usb stick?:



http://www.lidl.ie/IE/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20090309.p.SilvercrestHDMIDVDPlayer

fjon

I got one from there last time they had them and it does indeed play DivX movies from a USB stick.

eurotrotter

fjon wrote: »

I got one from there last time they had them and it does indeed play DivX movies from a USB stick.

what about avi's?

the_syco

eurotrotter wrote: »

what about avi's?

AVI is just the container, and may contain DivX, Xvid, amongst others. So yes, it should play AVI's, but aside from DivX as the other poster has said, it's unknown.

TM

Might be more info (e.g. manual/detailed tech spec) here if somebody can clarify the specific model number...

http://www.mysilvercrest.de/en/kategorie.php?k=1

Could be this one?

http://www.mysilvercrest.de/en/artikel.php?a=174

c montgomery

Have one of these already.

Played everything i have ever tried to watch. Divx, avi,the whole lot.

I normally download a movie, put it on my usb stick and then into the dvd player with it and watch it on the 37inch tv, Happy days:)

peckerhead

Manual here. It says "The DVD player recognizes the data formats JPEG, MP3, WMA and MPEG4"

delly

Not bad for €60, although you can get a Philips in Power City for €80 that does the same, or go for the WD HDTV for €100. I'm currently on the look out for similar and want to ensure that when new file types come out that a firmware update will go along with it.

suppafly

anyone seen a dvd recorder with the memory carder reader/usb on it? want the dvd recorder so i can take stuff off my sky plus box and heard thats the only way

The-Game

Hrmm this seems to be the same one they have in Lidl??

http://www.mysilvercrest.de/en/artikel.php?a=163

Note it says supports USB sticks up to 1GB, just wondering do any of the guys who have one of these have sticks over 1GB and do they work??

Also do the players play .mp4 files??

Johnny Storm

I got one in Lidl a year or two ago. (I'm not sure how different it is from this new model, my one does not have HDMI).
I've been very happy with it and it works fine. The keys on the remote glow in the dark. My one plays from an 8GB USB stick and a 2GB sd card. It could play any .avi file I ever tried it with EXCEPT for x264. Also FYI the tray the DVD goes into is quite flimsy-looking (but hasnt broken yet).

The-Game

Yeah wouldnt have thought it would do the X264, dont think theres any reasonably priced players that can support it!!

So is it just avi files? or mpg, mp4 etc etc??

RKQ

suppafly wrote: »

anyone seen a dvd recorder with the memory carder reader/usb on it? want the dvd recorder so i can take stuff off my sky plus box and heard thats the only way

Try philips DVD recorded - great quality costs €100 or €120 in Tesco etc.
USB and DivX and very simple to use. Fine for recording from Sky+ box.

Happy days!:D

Richard Dower

Can you buy this online?...are these in stock now?

Richard Dower

Richard Dower wrote: »

Can you buy this online?...are these in stock now?

link says Monday 9th.

Johnny Storm

The-Game wrote: »

Yeah wouldnt have thought it would do the X264, dont think theres any reasonably priced players that can support it!!

So is it just avi files? or mpg, mp4 etc etc??

I just meant that I only ever tried it with .avi (that * ahem * my cousin sent me)

Richard Dower

Johnny Storm wrote: »

I just meant that I only ever tried it with .avi (that * ahem * my cousin sent me)

LOL!

The-Game

Johnny Storm wrote: »

I just meant that I only ever tried it with .avi (that * ahem * my cousin sent me)

Any chance you could try it with an mpg and an mp4 file??

ImFeelingLucky

The-Game wrote: »

Any chance you could try it with an mpg and an mp4 file??

+1, need a player that plays avi etc because currently restricted to using xbox!

Rocky7

Lidl have good offers from time to time. I'm always slow to buy there because what happens when the offer is gone? Anybody have any experience of aftercare service with electrical problems? Maybe I'm totally mistaken?

bmaxi

Rocky7 wrote: »

Lidl have good offers from time to time. I'm always slow to buy there because what happens when the offer is gone? Anybody have any experience of aftercare service with electrical problems? Maybe I'm totally mistaken?

Aftercare service from Lidl is excellent, would put a lot of their competitors to shame.

dave_29

Have one myself, brilliant job does what it says in the tin & more. At one stage they were going for E35 as they couldnt get rid of them, but back to the usual price now.

RKQ wrote: »

Try philips DVD recorded - great quality costs €100 or €120 in Tesco etc.
USB and DivX and very simple to use. Fine for recording from Sky+ box.

Happy days!:D

They're about E129 in XtraVision, hopefully cheaper in Tesco's, must look the next time as i'm lookin for one myself.

Here's more details on the Phillips (DVDR 3480) Dvd Recorder for suppafly:
Link

ch750536

RKQ wrote: »

Try philips DVD recorded - great quality costs €100 or €120 in Tesco etc.
USB and DivX and very simple to use. Fine for recording from Sky+ box.

Happy days!:D

My inlaws got me one of these from Tesco, one for themselves too. Loads of trouble with them.
One time talking to an engineer a comment was made of 'thats what you get buying electricals from a supermarket'.

Read in to that what you like.

Great device, shabbily made.

dave_29

ch750536 wrote: »

My inlaws got me one of these from Tesco, one for themselves too. Loads of trouble with them.
One time talking to an engineer a comment was made of 'thats what you get buying electricals from a supermarket'.

Read in to that what you like.

Great device, shabbily made.

Was it that model mentioned above?

The-Game

dave_29 wrote: »

Have one myself, brilliant job does what it says in the tin & more. At one stage they were going for E35 as they couldnt get rid of them, but back to the usual price now.

And you have had no problems playing any DivX or XviD avi??

How about .mpg or .mp4 files??

Rebel021

delly wrote: »

or go for the WD HDTV for €100..

Are they only available online or do any shops stock them.

ImFeelingLucky

Well have we established does this play xvid/divx containers yet????

Bob Z

i know they play divx but do they play xvid?

And can they read subtitles?(the one i got from aldis cant)

steamboat

I got one of these the last time they were in Lidl a few months back. The model number then was KH6520 (silver) and KH6519 (black). It plays any Divx or XVid I have thrown at it, but doesn't recognize mp4 files.
Although the manual says it supports up to 1GB USB/memory cards, it works fine with higher capacity devices - although the larger the device is the longer it will take to load (can take a while for a movie to load from an external HDD for example)
They were much cheaper last time around... about 45 euro I think

Edit: Oh, and it does have subtittle support for xvid/divx.
Here's the discussion from last time lidl had these (November) http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055426669

Do-more

Tesco Mullingar have a Goodmans GDVDR320HDMIB DVD recorder reduced at present from €129.99 to €69.99.





Not sure what file types it supports.

ImFeelingLucky

Ok I bought this last week and for some reason it cant 'see' my 320GB hard drive, but it will 'see' my 32GB usb pen..Anybody else having the same issue??

RLJ

c montgomery wrote: »

Have one of these already.

Played everything i have ever tried to watch. Divx, avi,the whole lot.

I normally download a movie, put it on my usb stick and then into the dvd player with it and watch it on the 37inch tv, Happy days:)

can you tell me if the drawer for loading dvd will open fully. got one in tesco and it was difficult to put in dvd cos it would not open the full size of dvd hard to explain

yoshytoshy

ImFeelingLucky wrote: »

Ok I bought this last week and for some reason it cant 'see' my 320GB hard drive, but it will 'see' my 32GB usb pen..Anybody else having the same issue??

A lot of hard drives won't show up on devices ,if the drive is formatted in NTFS.
FAT32 formats can be read by most though.

Linky about how to format it

Richard Dower

Is this still on sale?...any FS at the Limerick store?

ImFeelingLucky

Returned mine this morning, to sluggish loading the avi files. Looking for an alternative now instead.:mad:

peckerhead

Richard Dower wrote: »

Is this still on sale?...any FS at the Limerick store?

Ennis Road (opp. Jetland) still had two of them on Sunday.

bennyc

ImFeelingLucky wrote: »

Returned mine this morning, to sluggish loading the avi files. Looking for an alternative now instead.:mad:

any trouble returning it for cash back , I am not very happy with mine, the loading takes toolong and audio goes out of sync then no scan function to fast forward.

Richard Dower

Glad i avoided buying this!

Bob Z

Richard Dower wrote: »

Glad i avoided buying this!

Actually i dont think its too bad

godtabh

Is it region free?

bennyc

bennyc wrote: »

any trouble returning it for cash back , I am not very happy with mine, the loading takes toolong and audio goes out of sync then no scan function to fast forward.

After reformattig my usb stick and trying it again , I had no problems with the audio but still unable to scan but I can live without that and as far as I know it is region free.

godtabh

bennyc wrote: »

far as I know it is region free.

Suppose I could buy it and try it out and if not return it

Bob Z

kearnsr wrote: »

Suppose I could buy it and try it out and if not return it

Just tried it there now with a region 1 disc(usa) and it didnt work so its not region free.

CourierCollie

Bob Z wrote: »

Just tried it there now with a region 1 disc(usa) and it didnt work so its not region free.

As far as I know it can be made region free.
Open disc tray, press 9999, wait 2 secs, and press 9 again.
Worked on previous silvercrests anyway.

The Guvnor

I was going to buy this but thought it would be on sale in Newry - none there. I then tried Dundalk - no luck there either.

What is the verdict on the machine - good or not great?

I'm assuming one could buy a similar silvercrest online if one wished to do so?

ImFeelingLucky

bennyc wrote: »

any trouble returning it for cash back , I am not very happy with mine, the loading takes toolong and audio goes out of sync then no scan function to fast forward.

No problem bringing it back for cash, although was a bit hard to explain to the girl that it was slow loading files off a usb stick. One thing that I have always liked about ALDI is their after sales service, none of this credit note shi*e.

LoLth

not sure if its the same model but I will not touch silvercrest again. yes, they are cheap and cheerful but when playing from USB any large amount of motion on the screen causes it to go very choppy.

I had one and gave it away and spent the small bit extra for a low end phillips player with USB. onyl goes choppy when viewing fake old newsreel (the grainy effect) and chain link fences. forests can be a bother as well when they do canopy shots but compared to the silvercrest players its well worth the extra few euro.

Fantastico

I got one of these in Lidl & have to say so far (touch wood) it's worked fine for me playing dvd's and avi's from my usb stick, no choppy pictures so far. They're not designed for use with an external hard drive, if that's what you want get something else.