"Patrick Navin" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:


Well, you can call me a 'gippo' then! - For a Monday morning, the total
absence of the usual 'tireditis' and 'cluelessness' that I have come to
expect from the local TV/hifi shops has made me an instant Lidl fan!
(Also,
I ain't too posh to get a 'bargain', if bargain it truly is!)

I'll join the 'gippo' club. I bought 3 of these yesterday. Initially I
bought one as a gift for a friend for Christmas but after a quick test
to check it was all working I bought another two, one to relace my
recently purchased DreamX108 Chinese cheapie and one, well, erm.. for
spare!


:-)



Incidentally, in my Lidl it all kicked off when a man grabbed the last 5
players and headed to the tills - several words were exchanged and it
looked like it'd come to blows. Seeing as it was Lidl the staff didn't
bat an eyelid :-)


SOP in any St Neots store..... :-)

(Clue: St Neots was originally called Butte****e in the Doomsday Book....)



Very best audio I've heard in a long while from a silver disk spinner
and
movies are *at least* as good as I've seen on quite a variety of DVDPs.
Colour and sharpness are superb and would not disappoint at several
times
the proce - make that 10 (or more) times the price!


Proce?


**Doesn't claim to play -R or +R disks but we've found that it will do
so
perfectly with the *exception* of JVC -Rs - it just don't like these!
(Not
sure what dye - JVC's own??)


Apparently the dye is by Maxell, but Maxell's own disks play perfectly OK in
it.


Handles unbranded +r and -R with ease too


Even the zapper is much more stylish than one would expect at this
price,

Hmm - the remote's horrid. Like a 1980's Bush portable remote


You shut yer face, I *like* 80s 'Bush' styling.....




as
is the generous and well-presented manual which runs to no less than 65
full-size A4 pages! The top half of the player is a 'dead chick' mirror
finish, so here's a couple of no-flash pix for anyone who's interested:

Mine's the black version - at last a black dvd player! I'm sick of the
silver trend!


I can't see the bloody buttons on black kit....... :-(