Lidl Satellite

Cloud

Anyone have any details on the satellite system available in Lidl next week?

John.
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LegacyUser

lidl as in the ****ty german shop?

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The kids violated my honey

LegacyUser

Is it the same system as the one they sell in Britain ? From what I've read it's a cheap free-to-air receiver. As far as I remember it's sold without a dish but I could be wrong.

No use for Sky Digital, but great for anyone who still has their old dish. There's lots of free channels on Astra, mostly German but with BBC World Service and a few more English language channels it could certainly broaden your viewing choice.

Has a price been announced ?

Cloud

This one does have a dish, it's priced at 49.99 plus 3.99 for a mounting bracket.

Twin Philips digital LNB for digital and analog reception.

• Complete with 1 receiver and dish
• 20 m sat-connection cable with 2 f-plugs
• all channels from main european satellites are present (MTV, Sky News, CNN Int., Eurosport etc.)
• Currently programmed to Astra and Eutelsat and Turksat
• IF Frequency 910-2150 MHz
• 22khz signal switching for eutelsat
• ir remote
• audio freq 5 to 9.5 MHz
• 3 scarts
• DiSeQC 1.0

LegacyUser

Sounds like a great bargain. What day do they go on sale ?

LegacyUser

They go on sale on Thursday 26th July.

They will probably sell out straight away, I'm told that they sold out very quickly in England.

Does anyone know if I could put a bracket + Universal LNB on this dish and use it with a digibox?

(The fact that there are hardly any foreign channels on 28.2E is a disadvantage to Sky Digital.....)

Cloud

Some Google threads on the subject.

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=lidl+satellite&hl=en&safe=off&rnum=1&selm=3b56c81d%240%2414048%24e4fe514c%40newszilla.xs4all.nl

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=lidl+satellite&hl=en&safe=off&rnum=2&selm=995261520snz%40ellson.demon.co.uk

Cloud

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LegacyUser

Hmm... Having read those links it appears that the receiver is actually analogue only, in which case it's less than useless. Analogue channels are switching to digital like the bejaysus (so to speak) and in a very short time you'd be left with a whole load of blank screens.

It might still be worth it for the dish and fixings and you could buy a free to air digital receiver later, but who needs the hassle.

Anyone know for sure that it's analogue only ?

LegacyUser

The LNb is universal (ie) Analogue/digital, whatever the decoder tells it to do, but the decoder in analogue.
Good for the price,lots of stuff is still analogue, specially the "good stuff" on Hotbird, but otherwise its all digital.

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Ashley Lyn Cafagna

LegacyUser

"Good Stuff"? Hmmm. Please explain ...

Blade

I wouldn't waste my time and money on that lads. There is NO 'good stuff' on analog for 1 and second theres NO 'good stuff' thats free to air, cept the odd few news channels and some very soft core German slapstick movies.

Get yourselves a proper digital decoder like a Humax either without an embedded CAM (and buy a SECA CAM) or with a built in SECA if possible. Talk to Tony who posts regularly to these boards about hardware and dish installations, I know him years he's dead sound.

LegacyUser

Charles-Ive heard German channels wont close for at least 4-5 yrs.And as for Turkish,Arab channels etc,apparently these could take ages as the ppl in their main reception areas are mostly too poor to buy a digital system.
And Lidl was advertising these a few mths ago i think.

LegacyUser

will i need a metre to tune it in or can i move it like a tv ariel.

LegacyUser

you damn right you will need an LNb meter if its your first go.
but if you wanna do it alone and see how easy it is, you will need some sort of reference point for dish allignment.
like a neighbours dish.
........ if the neighbours dish is not the mini dish(about an 80cm dish which were really popular for analogue sky) then you will have to go left about 2 inches and down 1/2 an inch for sky digi.

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Ashley Lyn Cafagna

LegacyUser

Is it big enough for the French/German/Spanish/Italian channels broadcast on Hotbird (13 Degrees E).

It looks to me that if they supply the same
size dish as in England (80cm) then you won't get all these channels (I've seen
footprints showing that a 90cm dish is required.....)

LegacyUser

80cm works fine for me with Hotbird. i can get all the free channels no problem.i am on the south coast

LegacyUser

OK. Maybe this is a question some of you could answer, Chernobyl maybe?

If the satellite reciever being offered by Lidl isn't that good, as Blade points out, is the dish any use, is it worth £50. Could it be used for internet access via satellite?
Could it be used with a Digital reciever?

LegacyUser

Why pay 60quid for an anologue dish when you might find one for cheap in the buyand sell.

LegacyUser

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Rebel18:
Why pay 60quid for an anologue dish when you might find one for cheap in the buyand sell.

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Because its supposedly an analogue/digital LNB and at £50

LegacyUser

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Rebel18:
Why pay 60quid for an anologue dish when you might find one for cheap in the buyand sell.

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cus there is no such thing as an *analogue dish* , there are analogue/digital LNb's, and i know that this may be 8itchy but im tired hearing ppl say analogue/digital dish.

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Ashley Lyn Cafagna

LegacyUser

Seems to be a crafty way of selling an analog decoder by blabbing about the dish and "digital LNB" being to receive analog and digital signals. It wouldn't sound as good if they just said "Universal LNB" which is all it is.

I also noticed a very misleading banner saying "Philips digital and analog receiver" which made me look twice! Obviously, it is only referring to the universal LNB but some punters may think it is the box that is both digital and analog.

Still, at £50 (+ £4 for bracket) it's not bad if just for the dish and cable alone. Plus there are a few things on Astra (or Hotbird) that might be worth watching like Eurosport, CNN, MTV2POP, MTVGermany, Viva, Viva2, etc.

Could someone correct me if I'm wrong but is there a Videocrypt decoder on this box? I ask coz I believe that C5 is softcrypted and relies on there being a Videocrypt decoder.

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WILL D

LegacyUser

Wil there be porn on this?A friend of mine is considering getting 1 of these systems.My dad wouldnt think of getting 1[he thinks skydigital is more than enough]and im jealous hel be seeing stuff i cant

LegacyUser

My only hope of getting 1 of these recievers is if they show very new hollywood films in English.I could possibly say something like"For £50 we can have all the films and sport we want for free"or something.Doubt itd work though

LegacyUser

Whats up with this?I keep trying to post frowns but they come up as smiles!!??!

LegacyUser

How about "Hey Dad I'm doing German in school and I think it would be really good if we had some German stations to watch, I could really improve my German". thats of course if you are doing German otherwise "Hey lets get some porn!!"

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LegacyUser

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by The Gopher:
Wil there be porn on this?A friend of mine is considering getting 1 of these systems.My dad wouldnt think of getting 1[he thinks skydigital is more than enough]and im jealous hel be seeing stuff i cant </font>

there is no cam acess so no porn, this is an FTA system.(i think, i have not looked at the specs)

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Ashley Lyn Cafagna

Cloud

I decided to go into Lidl to have a look at the system, to see if it was worth getting the dish.

They had 15 systems, all sold by 9.20. People had been queueing since 7.30.

As Blade says, I think a Humax FTA would be a better bet.

J.
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