This year's Lidl offering...

[2cvbloke]

Doesn't state the model, but there's another SilverCrest box for sale come Thurs. 1st December, £29.99 a piece...

I'd post a link, but it's so damned long it's just easier to recommend going to _www.lidl.co.uk and looking at Thursday's Specials... O-Ha

 

[mariust5]

• Taken from the website

• Description
• Increase your television viewing choice with a wide range of digital freeto- air satellite channels
• Features include:
  - HDMI connection
  - 5000 programme memory
  - 1800 pages of teletext memory
  - Electronic Programme Guide with multifunction timer
  - Child safety function
  - Sleep timer
  - Remote control with batteries
• Input: SAT-ZF, 1 x VCR-SCART
• Output: 1 x HDMI with HDCP, 2 x SCART, S/PDIF (optical/coaxial), Audio (R/L), Video, S-Video
• Size approx. (cm): 5 x 28 x 23
• 3 year manufacturer’s warranty

 

[PaulR]

• Features include:
  - Electronic Programme Guide with multifunction timer

It's not Freesat certified so that will only work, for example, on German channels on Astra 19E, and then only if the channel is broadcasting the EPG data as part of the channel itself.

 

[2cvbloke]

The specs seem to be very much the same as last year's offering, the SL-45, just with a slightly larger storage capacity for channels and teletext (or Video text as they called it last year), but like last year, I'm sticking with my SL-65, works fine, does what I want, and is nice and small...

Last year's Special:
http://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/...-receiver-lidl-uk-thursday-2nd-september.html

 

[fergyc]

Plenty of people will take these back thinking it's an HD receiver

 

[PaulR]

We had somewhat the same discussion last year on that matter!

 

[2cvbloke]

I think we have the same conversation every year, people go out and buy free to air boxes expecting to get $ky for free (and more recently, $kyHD for free!!), and then finding out they're not made for that, and then either return them or sell them on claiming them as faulty or something...

It's a shame they don't do their dish & receiver kits any more, they were always fun to play with...

 

[fergyc]

To be fair when I was about 10 or so, my Aunty moved house and left her old Sky Analogue dish and her box and let me and my Dad take it down. Had no idea where the satellites were, which channels and just thought we could put it up, swing it round and get free Premier League football, and maybe a bit of Cartoon Network. Had it all wired into my room and kept getting flashes of what was definately Astra 1 and probably Hotbird. By the time I shouted stop it was too late and we lost the signal. Never got Hotbird locked fully but had Astra and all the German channels for the day, which I was happy to watch but my Dad wasn't. We never found any sports channels either, might have if we'd retuned the box, as it was still set up for Sky. We found out through a newspaper article the next day that Sky had switched off their analogue service the year before and we never noticed! So, despite spending all day and me enjoying these new channels the dish was took down. Luckily, a few years later, when the Lidls boxes started coming in, I knew we had no chance of getting any kind of free Sky or football so stopped my Dad going out and buying one. Almost 10 years later, and I basically have the same system in my room! Still see people going into Lidls talking about free Sky mind!

 

[2cvbloke]

I guess nobody has been out to buy one then? O-Ha