19" LCD TV - Aldi - Thursday 25th

danjo-xx

€169


19'' HD Ready LCD TV with USB Record

• HD Ready
• HDMI input
• Built-in USB PVR allowing you to:
  • Pause live digital TV at the touch of a button
  • Set future recordings from the 7 day TV guide
  • Instant record function
  • 4GB USB memory stick included for approximately 2 hours of recording
  • Media player function to allow you to view your photos, listen to your MP3 files or watch your video files on the TV screen
• Extra features:
  • Widescreen LCD panel
  • Nicam stereo sound (2 x 3W RMS)
  • Contrast ratio: 1000:1
  • Brightness: 300cd/m2
  • Resolution: 1400 (H) x 900 (V)
  • Headphone socket
  • PC/VGA connection
  • Remote control

Any chance it might me MPEG4 enabled, I doubt it at that price:(

ballsymchugh

erm.. what is the price?

Diarmuid

€169

GerardKeating

danjo-xx wrote: »

€169


19'' HD Ready LCD TV with USB Record

• HD Ready
• HDMI input
• Built-in USB PVR allowing you to:
  • Pause live digital TV at the touch of a button
  • Set future recordings from the 7 day TV guide
  • Instant record function
  • 4GB USB memory stick included for approximately 2 hours of recording
  • Media player function to allow you to view your photos, listen to your MP3 files or watch your video files on the TV screen
• Extra features:
  • Widescreen LCD panel
  • Nicam stereo sound (2 x 3W RMS)
  • Contrast ratio: 1000:1
  • Brightness: 300cd/m2
  • Resolution: 1400 (H) x 900 (V)
  • Headphone socket
  • PC/VGA connection
  • Remote control

Any chance it might me MPEG4 enabled, I doubt it at that price:(

The UK version of the site is slight different, it states "Integrated digital tuner for Freeview reception" and the graphic also states "freeview" which is does not on the irish site.

sesswhat

danjo-xx wrote: »

Any chance it might me MPEG4 enabled, I doubt it at that price:(

Probably no way to find out beforehand. For anyone who can get Freeview it seems a good enough price considering the USB PVR functions.

FredH3ad

GerardKeating wrote: »

The UK version of the site is slight different, it states "Integrated digital tuner for Freeview reception" and the graphic also states "freeview" which is does not on the irish site.

Good spot. Thanks.

Klingon Hamlet

It plays audio,video and photos, has a 4gb mem stick and a Samsung panel? BARGAIN!!!

subway

thats a good price,
if you miss out on it, theres another option - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/154970
£149 with a built in dvd drive insead of USB

GoneShootin

And idea if this is wall mountable?

TheBoob

I suppose this will come with at least one scart socket...won't it? I can use my external hard drive instead of a memory stick for increased recording time too?

Zonda999

TheBoob wrote: »

I suppose this will come with at least one scart socket...won't it? I can use my external hard drive instead of a memory stick for increased recording time too?

Yeah there'd definitely be a scart socket

No guarantee that it would also record to a hard drive though, it may be too big and not be in the right format or whatever, it may well be able tho though, its just far from a certainty

subway

GoneShootin wrote: »

And idea if this is wall mountable?

id say it would be, vesa 100 most likely.
if it is, this wallmount on ebuyer is exaclty what you need http://www.ebuyer.com/product/159604
i got one a few weeks back and it does exaclty what it says on the tin.
postage is about £5 so buy it with some other stuff for better value.

GerardKeating

Klingon Hamlet wrote: »

It plays audio,video and photos, has a 4gb mem stick and a Samsung panel? BARGAIN!!!

For the last couple of TV offers, they put up a sticker over the poster at the last minute apologizing for the non-availability of the TV due to "circumstances beyond their control", or at least they did in Galway.

I always took this as a last minute realisation that "freeview" don't work "down south"..

danjo-xx

I rang aldi who put me through to UK who in turn put me through to ROI
but they couldn't say if its MPEG4 or either capable of receiving the oirish channels. So you can take it........it can't.:(

IrishHomer

danjo-xx wrote: »

I rang aldi who put me through to UK who in turn put me through to ROI
but they couldn't say if its MPEG4 or either capable of receiving the oirish channels. So you can take it........it can't.:(

If it is MPEG 2 as for UK its not the end of the world as you can probaly put a card in the back of the tv that converts the signal this worked in my Sony 40inch lcd bought from Currys but the card is expensive i paid over €50 :eek:

sesswhat

IrishHomer wrote: »

If it is MPEG 2 as for UK its not the end of the world as you can probaly put a card in the back of the tv that converts the signal this worked in my Sony 40inch lcd bought from Currys but the card is expensive i paid over €50 :eek:

Most smaller TVs won't have a slot for such a card, although larger TV are required to have them. Even when they do there is no guarantee the card will work. Nobody should be buying on this basis.

IrishHomer

yes i agree.

My mother recently bought a Toshiba 22inch and it had the slot and worked with the card.

I feel we are so hard done by in this country in relation to the thousands who bought UK spec "Freeview" tv's over the past years and then only to find that they are not compatible in this country. :mad:

Wish someone complained to consumer affairs its totally crazy. (sorry for drifting but just had to say that)

bagels

does the tv not have to be fit for purpose, ie compatable with irish tv transmissions?
if it can't transmit irish tv transmissions then isn't it supposed to state so on the advert/packaging?
i was planning to drive 20 miles to my nearest store in the hope of securing one of these tv's but i'm in two minds now

Zonda999

They are fit for purpose though fully, because we dont actually have DTT in this country yet, not really, just the Trials which are not a full service. The freeview inclusion is not applicable in this country so its inclusion is irrelevant, to be "fit for purpose" as you see it, at the moment, it just needs to have UHF/VHF analogue tuners which it does have

stevire

TheBoob wrote: »

I suppose this will come with at least one scart socket...won't it? I can use my external hard drive instead of a memory stick for increased recording time too?

I'd say with the right settings on the hard drive there should be no reason why it wouldn't work.

If I was to use an external HDD for recording I wouldn't have any valuable information on it!

IrishHomer

Zonda999 wrote: »

They are fit for purpose though fully, because we dont actually have DTT in this country yet, not really, just the Trials which are not a full service. The freeview inclusion is not applicable in this country so its inclusion is irrelevant, to be "fit for purpose" as you see it, at the moment, it just needs to have UHF/VHF analogue tuners which it does have

The current uhf/vhf is to be switched off by 2012 i think.

Its being switched off in other EU countries right now, Spain is switched off this month.

Raiser

Assume it has legacy co-ax in?

- Thinking of Sky-eye type setup in Kitchen.

P.S. Have we reason to believe they'll scrap this at the last minute?

What is demand likely to be like?

bagels

Raiser wrote: »

Assume it has legacy co-ax in?

- Thinking of Sky-eye type setup in Kitchen.

P.S. Have we reason to believe they'll scrap this at the last minute?

What is demand likely to be like?

Firstly, thanks Zonda999 and IrishHomer for the helpful information.

Raiser, any reliable information you can offer regarding the availability of this TV would be gratefully received.
If I decide to buy, I don't want to undertake a journey only to discover the TV isn't available in the first place.
Fingers crossed.

Bob Z

GerardKeating wrote: »

The UK version of the site is slight different, it states "Integrated digital tuner for Freeview reception" and the graphic also states "freeview" which is does not on the irish site.

But will it accept the irish digital stations?

The Sparrow

I picked up the last one of these in Aldi Nutgrove at about 9.30 this morning. I haven't had a chance to test it as I'm in work but I'll check it out tonight.

Did anyone else pick one up and have time to test it out?

GerardKeating

The Sparrow wrote: »

I picked up the last one of these in Aldi Nutgrove at about 9.30 this morning. I haven't had a chance to test it as I'm in work but I'll check it out tonight.

Did anyone else pick one up and have time to test it out?

So what kind of tuner did it have ?

GerardKeating

Diarmuid wrote: »

€169

This TV is back again, but €189.99 this time...

Also the same as last time, the UK site mention freeview, but the text and image on the IE site has any referecne to freeview removed, anyone who got it the last time care to comment on the tuner?

Abelloid

GerardKeating wrote: »

This TV is back again, but €189.99 this time...

Also the same as last time, the UK site mention freeview, but the text and image on the IE site has any referecne to freeview removed, anyone who got it the last time care to comment on the tuner?

Not the same. The latest one is a TV/DVD combo.

peckerhead

Cough...

GerardKeating

JustinOval wrote: »

Not the same. The latest one is a TV/DVD combo.

Opps, missed that.

From the medion site, it is divx compatible, but seems not to have a suitable tuner.