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Lidl Satallite Dish

  • 25-05-2011 10:58am
    #1
    forzacalcio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭


    http://www.aldi.ie/ie/html/offers/special_buys3_16850.htm

    Is this any good or just something to be used as a back up?
    Is it plug and play?
    Worth the puchase for getting foreign TV such as German TV?
    Sorry for the vague questions!


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  • #2
    tmcw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 396 ✭✭tmcw


    Only useful for it's designed purpose, if you need a temp solution while camping/caravaning.

    I've played with one in Dublin, and the dish isn't quite big enough to get all the transponders at 28.2E/28.5E reliably, especially given the temporary nature of the fittings, and moreso when it rains.

    Receiver is ok, but not as good (IMO) as the Lidl mainstay, SL65. The sat finder is junk. As I remember, there were some 19E and 13E channels already tuned in, some of the stronger TPs were coming in, but I didn't spend too much time trying to get them all, as the person I was showing how to use it was only interested in 28E. We had to scan to get the channels for 28E.

    OK if you need something for camping, though personally if I wanted something for camping, I'd choose the SL65 instead, but on the flipside, I wouldn't be wanting TV if I was going camping, so I would only get one if it was going for free. If you're installing for a permanent solution, better to go with a bigger dish with permanent fittings, and a HD receiver.


  • #3
    Digital Satellite TV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 233 ✭✭Digital Satellite TV


    think the dish in that kit is around 40cm, 60cm is the recommended size. Can't speak to the quality of the rest of kit but prev poster seems to have experience of it.


  • #4
    forzacalcio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭forzacalcio


    Sound lads! Just in an apartment with UPC and want to try new ideas after my contract runs out so just saw it as a cheap option. I understand you get what you pay for!


  • #5
    Digital Satellite TV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 233 ✭✭Digital Satellite TV


    forzacalcio wrote: »
    Sound lads! Just in an apartment with UPC and want to try new ideas after my contract runs out so just saw it as a cheap option. I understand you get what you pay for!



    you might get away with it, can always take it back to them if you end up watching a load of peanuts and monkeys on your TV.


  • #6
    Peter Sweeney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭Peter Sweeney


    Spend an extra few euro's and get a tv channels that you may actually watch


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  • #7
    tmcw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 396 ✭✭tmcw


    Digital Satellite TV wrote: »
    you might get away with it, can always take it back to them if you end up watching a load of peanuts and monkeys on your TV.

    That's a good point, if you're just experimenting, it might be a good thing to play with, and get introduced to how sat equipment works; easy to adjust a dish of that size too, and it's actually easier to find strong satellites with a small dish, than with a large dish.

    Keep the receipt, if you find it's not going to suit you, take it back and get your money back.

    I would try to get the Lidl camping one though, because like I said, the sat finder I used in the Aldi kit was junk. It wasn't that it wasn't working, it was, it's just that the tone coming out of it didn't seem to respond linearly to changes in signal quality, and the LEDs on it behaved similarly. It frustrated me enough at the time to give up, and wait until the following day when I could bring my own.


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