Lidl hdmi divx dvd player - oct 16th

monkeyfudge · 16-10-2006 08:39PM

cubix wrote:

Anyone have any luck getting a region free hack yet

Cubix

The 'open tray and press 9,9,9,9 and then 9' code worked just fine for me.

chilli_pepper · 16-10-2006 08:45PM

Irish GrumPy wrote:

Are you sure of this? I was gonna freephone lidl Ireland tomoro and ask the same question.....

Yeah thats what the manager said , it was probably one of their most popular "specials" in a long time...fingers crossed...I would like to hear from someone who has managed to connect a USB HD though ?

GrumPy · 16-10-2006 08:50PM

chilli_pepper wrote:

Yeah thats what the manager said , it was probably one of their most popular "specials" in a long time...fingers crossed...I would like to hear from someone who has managed to connect a USB HD though ?

Hopefully then they wil have some more in this side of xmas

Gonna ring them tomorrow and see what the craic is, and if they know if there's any branches that still have stock....
Does anyone know if Coolock sold out?

monkeyfudge · 16-10-2006 08:53PM

Irish GrumPy wrote:

Gonna ring them tomorrow and see what the craic is, and if they know if there's any branches that still have stock....
Does anyone know if Coolock sold out?

I'd say they could be worth trying. There was about 10 left when I got mine at around 9.15 this morning...

Arciphel · 16-10-2006 08:58PM

with regards to the person who mentioned that the manual says it only accepts usb and compact flash cards up to 512MB; yes it does say this in the manual but it is bollocks, i have had a 4GB compact flash card and a 2GB USB stick in the thing already with no problems.

i would recommend going for the S-VHS input if you have a normal SD television, makes a world of difference. Also SCART lead that comes with the unit is crap, invest in a decnet one if you don't have a S-VHS input on your telly.

very happy with the unit, know a few people today who left it too late and were disappointed. at the leixlip branch this morning when i got mine @ 8:15am, there were people buying four and six units at a time :eek:

mobby · 16-10-2006 09:06PM

Does the drive not need to be formatted as FAT32 ?

Page 15 of the manual states "The DVD player supports USB memory sticks 1.1 and 2.00 up to a capacity of 512mb" Tried it with a USB hard drive formatted with Fat32, no joy, bit of a bummer. As i thought i had a great little media player for €60.

GrumPy · 16-10-2006 09:16PM

monkeyfudge wrote:

I'd say they could be worth trying. There was about 10 left when I got mine at around 9.15 this morning...

Thanks for letting me know monkeyfudge, but it would be a bit of a walk for me tomorrow without vehicle

Dont wanna spend my lunch hour off college making my way there, to be only told theres none left, then walk back...

monkeyfudge · 16-10-2006 09:24PM

Irish GrumPy wrote:

Dont wanna spend my lunch hour off college making my way there, to be only told theres none left, then walk back...

Give them a call in the morning and see.

Is there a memory capacity on the SD cards it takes?

GrumPy · 16-10-2006 09:30PM

Arciphel wrote:

with regards to the person who mentioned that the manual says it only accepts usb and compact flash cards up to 512MB; yes it does say this in the manual but it is bollocks, i have had a 4GB compact flash card and a 2GB USB stick in the thing already with no problems.

good

Man, I really wanted one of these

mobby · 16-10-2006 09:33PM

monkeyfudge wrote:

Give them a call in the morning and see.

Is there a memory capacity on the SD cards it takes?

Again it does say 512mb SD cards only, but it will now read my 1gb and 2gb Memory sticks so it seems a bit of hit and miss.

thefinalstage · 16-10-2006 09:38PM

The remote I got with this dvd player says that the make is a silvercrest KH6058
not KH6057 and I had a 1 gb usb stick working with it. No problems at all.

Just so you all know

Timans · 16-10-2006 09:42PM

I want one..

People who bought 5/6 at a time isn't fair. It was the same with the 360's.

Anyone got one for sale? Put me first in line..

monkeyfudge · 16-10-2006 10:14PM

My 1GIG Corsair memory stick doesn't work with it... what brands are you using?

GrumPy · 16-10-2006 10:17PM

monkeyfudge wrote:

My 1GIG Corsair memory stick doesn't work with it... what brands are you using?

Try formatting to fat32?

Timans · 16-10-2006 10:28PM

no advice giving. They're the enemy..

greeta · 16-10-2006 10:45PM

I bought one from Lidl today and it does not support external usb hard drives I quote the manual 'The DVD player supports USB memory sticks 1.1 and 2.0 up to a capacity of 512 MB'. I am disappointed as I posted and asked if it could be used with an external hard drive and the answer I got was yes

Smoggy · 16-10-2006 10:53PM

You have to take all info given with a pitch of salt, as its more of an educated guess than concreate fact; often.

Having said that, if it can read data from a USB Key , you would have thought that it can read from a USB HDD.

Ghost Train · 16-10-2006 10:54PM

greeta wrote:

I bought one from Lidl today and it does not support external usb hard drives I quote the manual 'The DVD player supports USB memory sticks 1.1 and 2.0 up to a capacity of 512 MB'. I am disappointed as I posted and asked if it could be used with an external hard drive and the answer I got was yes

The lidl web site advertisment says it will play from an external hard drive, so maybe thats why someone said it would work

Ronan|Raven · 16-10-2006 11:22PM

Tested it with MKV files and no go. Will try out a hard drive tomorrow. Tried a 20gig notebook drive I had spare but my caddy cant get enough juice from the usb port so will go look for an external psu for it.

EDIT~!

Just found an old 60gig 3.5inch hdd and put it into a caddy, formatted it in fat32 and transferred over 10 odd gigs of files to it. Plugged it into the unit and it read it perfectly.

c - 13 · 17-10-2006 07:56AM

I've got a 250gig maxtor and tried that on it last night, it started reading it in but theres too much crap on it for it to handle i'd say (about 150gig of mixed media).
Monkeyfudge I tried the 99999 code and it threw up a message saying "9" on screen but I couldnt find any other region DVD's to try on it. Does this mean its multi region now ?

Timans · 17-10-2006 08:30AM

greeta wrote:

I bought one from Lidl today and it does not support external usb hard drives I quote the manual 'The DVD player supports USB memory sticks 1.1 and 2.0 up to a capacity of 512 MB'. I am disappointed as I posted and asked if it could be used with an external hard drive and the answer I got was yes

I'll buy it

Ronan|Raven · 17-10-2006 08:50AM

C-13, Are the files all in one folder or numerous folders?

c - 13 · 17-10-2006 08:52AM

Multi folders and nested folders Ronan. That could be the problem actually ...

thenobody · 17-10-2006 08:56AM

I made mine multi-region.
Not sure how was just pressing loadsa buttons.
But i think the way i did was to press the number 9 multiply times with the tray open until the number 9 appears on the screen.
Could have been 4 times, not sure.

Anyway, was multi region after that. Watched me some my name is earl region dvd right after.

Also, cant see much of a difference between the hdmi output at 720p and the component output of my tevion dvd recorder (lidl had last christmas). Seems both to be the same.

Ronan|Raven · 17-10-2006 09:28AM

Intersting inded C-13. I will try later on with just leaving say 20gigs of video files in one directory and see what happens. Have to go do other not so interesting stuff now and will report back

GrumPy · 17-10-2006 09:46AM

If anyone is in coolock branch today plez let me know if theres any left! I am near enough that area.. I tried ringing the lidl hotline, but I couldn't get through!!

Fabritzo · 17-10-2006 10:40AM

Lidl advertised it saying it would take USB hard drives, they should be formatted FAT 32, I tried a 1 gig Databar and it worked.

monkeyfudge · 17-10-2006 12:47PM

c - 13 wrote:

Monkeyfudge I tried the 99999 code and it threw up a message saying "9" on screen but I couldnt find any other region DVD's to try on it. Does this mean its multi region now ?

Yep. That's it done. I've only tested it with region 1, but I'd assume that every region should work.

BadCharlie · 17-10-2006 03:53PM

My brother pluged his Ipod in it last night 20gig. And it worked fine, going to try my 200gig HDD later might have to format it to fat32 like other posters have pointed out. If it works ill be very happy.

greeta · 17-10-2006 04:57PM

I know I bitched a bit about the DVD player the good news is I formatted a 250GB hard drive to the FAT32 file system and it worked I thank you all

greeta

Lidl hdmi divx dvd player - oct 16th

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