Lidl 2/2/12

t c

Some of you might be interested in this. Seems good value and an 80cm dish.
All you need for a start in freesat tv.
http://www.lidl.ie/cps/rde/xchg/lidl_ri_ie/hs.xsl/index_17538.htm


Cheers.

TC

Cantona's Collars

Oh no,here we go again,buy it,throw dish in the bin and use the box.

Or save your money and buy a half decent set up for the same money.

homer911

With an increasing number of FTA HD Channels, you really shouldnt be buying a SD box. When combined with the poor quality dish bracket (the dish itself is actually ok), I just wouldnt recommend it

- from someone who tried it themselves and ended up spending again on better kit..

t c

I have no first hand experience as homer911 has, but as he says dish is ok, so I feel it is still good value if you got it for a second room and a decent HD receiver for main room. Above kit €80 and a decent Freesat receiver for €250ish.

Sorted for €330, not bad for multi-room set-up and a High D receiver http://www.amazon.co.uk/Humax-500GB-Satellite-Receiver-Recorder/dp/B0039J42LM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327684161&sr=8-1 with recorder in one room...........

This is better value also if anyone can get up North ..http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5321832/Trail/searchtext%3EFREESAT.htm

watty

Waste of money.

"Freesat HD"is the entry level unless you want mainland European TV.

Also it won't EVER do Saorsat, which will have its start date announced maybe in Feb/March. The service is going ahead.

The mounts on those dishes are too flimsy (needs sheltered aspect).
The coax is poor.
The box is 10 year old type of technology,

software update via satellite Astra 19.2° east,

Not much good if you are not watching only German TV etc.
Only SD and DVB-S
Increasingly new channels are likely to use DVB-S2 which is only on HD boxes (HDTV not needed).

If you are in a sheltered situation, have no dish already and want UK Radio stations, then get this, use an adaptor for 3.5mm jack and one of the legal €6 FM transmitters and have UK Radio on all the FM Radios in the house (only one channel at a time).

Waste of money for TV.

Stinicker

As watty said, I got one of these a few years ago and it was absolute rubbish. The dish and mount are quite light and flimsy and the EPG and Interface of these Silvercrest/Comag boxes are not very user friendly.

Peter Rhea

homer911 wrote: »

With an increasing number of FTA HD Channels, you really shouldnt be buying a SD box.

Does it say which receiver is supplied (do Lidl not do HD)?

watty

They did occasionally have fake HD suggestion gear. DVD players and Sat receivers with HDMI. But only actually an SD player or Receiver.

The only HD was the Saorview DTT box and some of their recent TVs (which have not been bargains).

Ronnie Raygun

The worst feature of their boxes is the composite-only on scart; even the cheapest Freeview terrestrial box does RGB & looks far better.

dowtchaboy

I'm surprised LIDL keep offering these - and the price never really drops. They must be managing to sell them all - but who is buying? All the East/Central Europeans must surely by now have their own systems by now, and probably something better like the Ariva 120. Just puzzled as to who LIDL's market is.

Gerry Wicklow

dowtchaboy wrote: »

I'm surprised LIDL keep offering these - and the price never really drops. They must be managing to sell them all - but who is buying? All the East/Central Europeans must surely by now have their own systems by now, and probably something better like the Ariva 120. Just puzzled as to who LIDL's market is.

You just need to look through some of the threads here to see there are enough baffled people out there who are suckered into buying them.

bmaxi

watty wrote: »

If you are in a sheltered situation, have no dish already and want UK Radio stations, then get this, use an adaptor for 3.5mm jack and one of the legal €6 FM transmitters and have UK Radio on all the FM Radios in the house (only one channel at a time).

Waste of money for TV.

How do you do that?

slapper2

these boxes are just bad
i hate these things theyre not user friendly

jonnygee

I have an early one, the one with the signal meter built in, i find it very useful for realining friends dishes after a storm. Also i use it as a feed to a hard drive recorder and it serves that purpose very well. Rgb quality is very good, will be sorry when it dies. The dishes are poor but with a bit of work can be strenghtened.
Anything less than hd now is pointless.

Peter Rhea

jonnygee wrote: »

Rgb quality is very good

Which model has RGB output?

jonnygee

Im not going to bother looking now as i am in a different room but if i remember corrrectly it a silvercrest sl 65

jonnygee

right , just checked, silvercrest 65.
Menu
System configuration
system setup
tv
video output
select rgb or YCbCr or CVBS
Then press OK.

Peter Rhea

Mine's just an SL45 (CVBS only) but I got it for next to nothing, along with a Sky dish & some other bits & pieces, so can't really complain.

lawhec

watty wrote: »

They did occasionally have fake HD suggestion gear. DVD players and Sat receivers with HDMI. But only actually an SD player or Receiver.

The only HD was the Saorview DTT box and some of their recent TVs (which have not been bargains).

They did have a HD FTA Satellite receiver on offer back in the autumn, or at least they did up north.