Cheapjack DVDPs from Lidl.....
 

For the first time in my life I went into the local branch of Lidl (cheapo
German supermarket) this morning for a £38 DVDP for my son. (He's addicted
to them). None on display so I asked a girlie who was shelf-filling nearby -
she whisks me off to another little feller who says 'black or silver?' and 2
minutes later I've got a DVDP for chump change spec'd like a good 'un - see:

http://www.lidl.co.uk/gb/index.nsf/p...5.p.DVD_Player)

Smiling faces all round, much arch whispering about 'multiregion' - even the
checkout girl has bought 4 of 'em herself for Xmas prezzies apparently! A
thoroughly satisfying 'Retail Therapy' session - most pleasant!

(My son tells me that a store that had had 120 of these in opened at 8
o'clock and had sold them all in 20 minutes this morning, if you go in for
one and there's none on display - ASK!)

Why bother to post this? - Before I went over to the town, just to 'double
check', I phoned the local hifi/appliance store and spoke to my *own*
audiophile mate Shiny Nigel who quoted me full fekkin' retail on a Panasonic
player with no sign of any discount whatsoever offered - and I've spent a
few thou in that place in the last few years!

**** 'em! - From now on I will buy anywhere I can for the cheapest deals -
eBay, the Net, whatever (especially if it's digital)!

(They say the Japs killed the Brit motorcycle industry - they didn't! They
say the Net is killing high street stores - it ain't.......)

Now, I hear you ask 'is it any good?' - No idea yet, ain't even opened the
box. I'll report here later.

Cheapjack DVDPs from Lidl.....
 

LIDL here always do excellent deals on DVD Players, Tellys, VCR's and even
some stonking computers (fully specced - no cheapo oem crap) - although i
usually refer to them as 'super-gippo-mart' :D

Kai

"Keith G" wrote in message
...

For the first time in my life I went into the local branch of Lidl (cheapo
German supermarket) this morning for a £38 DVDP for my son. (He's addicted
to them). None on display so I asked a girlie who was shelf-filling
nearby -
she whisks me off to another little feller who says 'black or silver?' and
2
minutes later I've got a DVDP for chump change spec'd like a good 'un -
see:

http://www.lidl.co.uk/gb/index.nsf/p...5.p.DVD_Player)

Smiling faces all round, much arch whispering about 'multiregion' - even
the
checkout girl has bought 4 of 'em herself for Xmas prezzies apparently! A
thoroughly satisfying 'Retail Therapy' session - most pleasant!

(My son tells me that a store that had had 120 of these in opened at 8
o'clock and had sold them all in 20 minutes this morning, if you go in for
one and there's none on display - ASK!)

Why bother to post this? - Before I went over to the town, just to 'double
check', I phoned the local hifi/appliance store and spoke to my *own*
audiophile mate Shiny Nigel who quoted me full fekkin' retail on a
Panasonic
player with no sign of any discount whatsoever offered - and I've spent a
few thou in that place in the last few years!

**** 'em! - From now on I will buy anywhere I can for the cheapest deals -
eBay, the Net, whatever (especially if it's digital)!

(They say the Japs killed the Brit motorcycle industry - they didn't! They
say the Net is killing high street stores - it ain't.......)

Now, I hear you ask 'is it any good?' - No idea yet, ain't even opened the
box. I'll report here later.

Cheapjack DVDPs from Lidl.....
 

LIDL here always do excellent deals on DVD Players, Tellys, VCR's and even
some stonking computers (fully specced - no cheapo oem crap) - although i
usually refer to them as 'super-gippo-mart' :D

Kai

"Keith G" wrote in message
...

For the first time in my life I went into the local branch of Lidl (cheapo
German supermarket) this morning for a £38 DVDP for my son. (He's addicted
to them). None on display so I asked a girlie who was shelf-filling
nearby -
she whisks me off to another little feller who says 'black or silver?' and
2
minutes later I've got a DVDP for chump change spec'd like a good 'un -
see:

http://www.lidl.co.uk/gb/index.nsf/p...5.p.DVD_Player)

Smiling faces all round, much arch whispering about 'multiregion' - even
the
checkout girl has bought 4 of 'em herself for Xmas prezzies apparently! A
thoroughly satisfying 'Retail Therapy' session - most pleasant!

(My son tells me that a store that had had 120 of these in opened at 8
o'clock and had sold them all in 20 minutes this morning, if you go in for
one and there's none on display - ASK!)

Why bother to post this? - Before I went over to the town, just to 'double
check', I phoned the local hifi/appliance store and spoke to my *own*
audiophile mate Shiny Nigel who quoted me full fekkin' retail on a
Panasonic
player with no sign of any discount whatsoever offered - and I've spent a
few thou in that place in the last few years!

**** 'em! - From now on I will buy anywhere I can for the cheapest deals -
eBay, the Net, whatever (especially if it's digital)!

(They say the Japs killed the Brit motorcycle industry - they didn't! They
say the Net is killing high street stores - it ain't.......)

Now, I hear you ask 'is it any good?' - No idea yet, ain't even opened the
box. I'll report here later.

Cheapjack DVDPs from Lidl.....
 

"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
LIDL here always do excellent deals on DVD Players, Tellys, VCR's and even
some stonking computers (fully specced - no cheapo oem crap) - although i
usually refer to them as 'super-gippo-mart' :D


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!)

:-)


The player? eBench KH 6777 - got me 'backfooted' atm with a totally
unexpected and very pleasant sound, so I'm a little wary!

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!

It uses a Sanyo loader and the Zoran chipset is used by a wide variety of
manufacturers like MiCo, Samsung, Toshiba and Arcam - presumably different
versions of the current Vadis chipset. Fascia buttons are of the very
positive, 'clicky' type and pleasant to use. Build quality is entirely par
for the course - at about 3.5 kg it is not quite as 'flyaway' as one might
expect!

The specification is *ludicrous* at this price:

Onboard AC3 decoder for full DD 5.1
Onboard DTS decoder
Plays DVD-Video, DVD-R/-RW/+R/+RW**, CD/CDR/CDRW, MP3s, WMAs, JPEG picture
disks
One Scart socket
Coax and Toslink digital outputs
Video and S-Video outputs
Component video output with Progressive Scan
TWO separate headphone jacks with independent volume controls!
Will output to PAL and NTSC

**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??)

Technical data (photo extract from the manual):

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/keith_g/show/manual.jpg

Or the whole manual (1.5 Mb PDF) can be found he

http://www.kompernass.com/product_pd...2b7576bd_4.pdf

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

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/keith_g/show/ebench.jpg

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/keith_g/show/zapper.jpg


If you can get one, you may buy with confidence! (Stand on me.....)

Enjoy!

(Now, who do I see for my commission.......???)

;-)

Cheapjack DVDPs from Lidl.....
 

"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
LIDL here always do excellent deals on DVD Players, Tellys, VCR's and even
some stonking computers (fully specced - no cheapo oem crap) - although i
usually refer to them as 'super-gippo-mart' :D


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!)

:-)


The player? eBench KH 6777 - got me 'backfooted' atm with a totally
unexpected and very pleasant sound, so I'm a little wary!

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!

It uses a Sanyo loader and the Zoran chipset is used by a wide variety of
manufacturers like MiCo, Samsung, Toshiba and Arcam - presumably different
versions of the current Vadis chipset. Fascia buttons are of the very
positive, 'clicky' type and pleasant to use. Build quality is entirely par
for the course - at about 3.5 kg it is not quite as 'flyaway' as one might
expect!

The specification is *ludicrous* at this price:

Onboard AC3 decoder for full DD 5.1
Onboard DTS decoder
Plays DVD-Video, DVD-R/-RW/+R/+RW**, CD/CDR/CDRW, MP3s, WMAs, JPEG picture
disks
One Scart socket
Coax and Toslink digital outputs
Video and S-Video outputs
Component video output with Progressive Scan
TWO separate headphone jacks with independent volume controls!
Will output to PAL and NTSC

**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??)

Technical data (photo extract from the manual):

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/keith_g/show/manual.jpg

Or the whole manual (1.5 Mb PDF) can be found he

http://www.kompernass.com/product_pd...2b7576bd_4.pdf

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

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/keith_g/show/ebench.jpg

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/keith_g/show/zapper.jpg


If you can get one, you may buy with confidence! (Stand on me.....)

Enjoy!

(Now, who do I see for my commission.......???)

;-)

Cheapjack DVDPs from Lidl.....
 

"Keith G" wrote in message
...

"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
LIDL here always do excellent deals on DVD Players, Tellys, VCR's and
even
some stonking computers (fully specced - no cheapo oem crap) - although
i
usually refer to them as 'super-gippo-mart' :D


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!)

:-)


The player? eBench KH 6777 - got me 'backfooted' atm with a totally
unexpected and very pleasant sound, so I'm a little wary!

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!

It uses a Sanyo loader and the Zoran chipset is used by a wide variety of
manufacturers like MiCo, Samsung, Toshiba and Arcam - presumably different
versions of the current Vadis chipset. Fascia buttons are of the very
positive, 'clicky' type and pleasant to use. Build quality is entirely par
for the course - at about 3.5 kg it is not quite as 'flyaway' as one might
expect!

The specification is *ludicrous* at this price:

Onboard AC3 decoder for full DD 5.1
Onboard DTS decoder
Plays DVD-Video, DVD-R/-RW/+R/+RW**, CD/CDR/CDRW, MP3s, WMAs, JPEG picture
disks
One Scart socket
Coax and Toslink digital outputs
Video and S-Video outputs
Component video output with Progressive Scan
TWO separate headphone jacks with independent volume controls!
Will output to PAL and NTSC

**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??)

Technical data (photo extract from the manual):

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/keith_g/show/manual.jpg

Or the whole manual (1.5 Mb PDF) can be found he


http://www.kompernass.com/product_pd...2b7576bd_4.pdf

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

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/keith_g/show/ebench.jpg

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/keith_g/show/zapper.jpg


If you can get one, you may buy with confidence! (Stand on me.....)

Enjoy!

(Now, who do I see for my commission.......???)

;-)



********, I forgot to say the player also creamed through several 'standard'
tests for Seamless Branching on a small selection of disks without any
problems whatsoever and, due to using a DVD-ROM drive, all layer changes
were truly 'invisible'.....

Cheapjack DVDPs from Lidl.....
 

"Keith G" wrote in message
...

"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
LIDL here always do excellent deals on DVD Players, Tellys, VCR's and
even
some stonking computers (fully specced - no cheapo oem crap) - although
i
usually refer to them as 'super-gippo-mart' :D


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!)

:-)


The player? eBench KH 6777 - got me 'backfooted' atm with a totally
unexpected and very pleasant sound, so I'm a little wary!

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!

It uses a Sanyo loader and the Zoran chipset is used by a wide variety of
manufacturers like MiCo, Samsung, Toshiba and Arcam - presumably different
versions of the current Vadis chipset. Fascia buttons are of the very
positive, 'clicky' type and pleasant to use. Build quality is entirely par
for the course - at about 3.5 kg it is not quite as 'flyaway' as one might
expect!

The specification is *ludicrous* at this price:

Onboard AC3 decoder for full DD 5.1
Onboard DTS decoder
Plays DVD-Video, DVD-R/-RW/+R/+RW**, CD/CDR/CDRW, MP3s, WMAs, JPEG picture
disks
One Scart socket
Coax and Toslink digital outputs
Video and S-Video outputs
Component video output with Progressive Scan
TWO separate headphone jacks with independent volume controls!
Will output to PAL and NTSC

**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??)

Technical data (photo extract from the manual):

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/keith_g/show/manual.jpg

Or the whole manual (1.5 Mb PDF) can be found he


http://www.kompernass.com/product_pd...2b7576bd_4.pdf

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

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/keith_g/show/ebench.jpg

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/keith_g/show/zapper.jpg


If you can get one, you may buy with confidence! (Stand on me.....)

Enjoy!

(Now, who do I see for my commission.......???)

;-)



********, I forgot to say the player also creamed through several 'standard'
tests for Seamless Branching on a small selection of disks without any
problems whatsoever and, due to using a DVD-ROM drive, all layer changes
were truly 'invisible'.....

Cheapjack DVDPs from Lidl.....
 

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 :-)

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!

Progressive scan from this player is very solid. Unusually for a
cheapie, it doesn't transcode PAL to NTSC and then output 480p or 525p -
it's outputting true 576p. Picture is lush, smooth and has excellent
colour reproduction. Sound from the onboard decoder is very good.


It uses a Sanyo loader and the Zoran chipset is used by a wide variety of
manufacturers like MiCo, Samsung, Toshiba and Arcam - presumably different
versions of the current Vadis chipset. Fascia buttons are of the very
positive, 'clicky' type and pleasant to use. Build quality is entirely par
for the course - at about 3.5 kg it is not quite as 'flyaway' as one might
expect!

The specification is *ludicrous* at this price:
Spec snipped

For 38 quid it's a steal


**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??)

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


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!

If you can get one, you may buy with confidence! (Stand on me.....)


Seconded - a proper bargain.


--
Patrick

"I did the grabs via a Duomix61 grabber as used by 'security sources'"
"I never grabbed them on a PC mate -they went via IE56575 to a fancy
technical thingie grabber -or something" - un-named Video capture 'expert'

Cheapjack DVDPs from Lidl.....
 

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 :-)

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!

Progressive scan from this player is very solid. Unusually for a
cheapie, it doesn't transcode PAL to NTSC and then output 480p or 525p -
it's outputting true 576p. Picture is lush, smooth and has excellent
colour reproduction. Sound from the onboard decoder is very good.


It uses a Sanyo loader and the Zoran chipset is used by a wide variety of
manufacturers like MiCo, Samsung, Toshiba and Arcam - presumably different
versions of the current Vadis chipset. Fascia buttons are of the very
positive, 'clicky' type and pleasant to use. Build quality is entirely par
for the course - at about 3.5 kg it is not quite as 'flyaway' as one might
expect!

The specification is *ludicrous* at this price:
Spec snipped

For 38 quid it's a steal


**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??)

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


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!

If you can get one, you may buy with confidence! (Stand on me.....)


Seconded - a proper bargain.


--
Patrick

"I did the grabs via a Duomix61 grabber as used by 'security sources'"
"I never grabbed them on a PC mate -they went via IE56575 to a fancy
technical thingie grabber -or something" - un-named Video capture 'expert'

Cheapjack DVDPs from Lidl.....
 

"Patrick Navin" wrote in message
...
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....... :-(