Aldi - Technosonic PVR £99.99 - Freeview

virgo17

buggu wrote:

ALDI offers start on fridays and stores open at 9.00, best to get there within the hour to be gauranteed one.

Is this a cunning ploy to be the only one in the que?

According to the Aldi email that I received a few days ago, this offer starts on Thursday 15th December :-)

Here is a quote from the flyer email "Thank you for enquiring about Aldi Special Buys and we are pleased to reveal the new range that will be in your local Aldi store on the 15th December."

gromituk

monty58 wrote:

this may have been posted elsewhere but does anyone know if this can be used with an NTL set top box?

As far as we know, no. NTL boxes only output an analogue signal, and the Aldi box only takes digital, compressed (MPEG) signals, in the form of Freeview transmissions. Even if your box re-modulates onto the aerial lead, the Aldi box won't receive it. You need to go for a more expensive PVR that records from the SCART socket.

rowantoad

monty58 wrote:

this may have been posted elsewhere but does anyone know if this can be used with an NTL set top box? I know the Technosound has a Freeview tuner built in but can it be bypassed? Freeview viewers have these boxes sky viewers have sky + but us NTL viewers don't have anything as yet!

No this can't be used with NTL but the lidl box probably can.

but Telewest have just launched their PVR and NTL will launch theirs next year, triple tuner :-

About it here and here

How much a month I wonder?

emujuice

oooo, i'm very tempted by this. an absolute bargain.
I got the inverto from boots a couple of weeks ago (£180 with anotehr 8 pounds in points). It's probably one of the best things i've bought. I'm not a massive tv watcher, i get hooked on some shows, but mostly it's background noise. however, with this, i get to watch what i want, when i want.
It means that whenever i want to sit down for half an hour with a cup of tea, there is somehting in the library ready for me to watch. i record all sorts of things i might not normally watch, then if it's rubbish, i can just delete it.
an of course you can fast forward through the ads. i feel like i'm 'speed watching' saving 10 mins per hour or watching, just by watching a recording rather than live.
the inverto is a nifty box, but the aldi one for almost half the price sounds grand. i think i'll try and get one, and return my inverto to boots...
or get the expensive one with usb out. it would be nice to archive my fave shows, such as a whole series of desperate house wives. could save a fortune in buying box sets! :xmastree:

mew

rowantoad wrote:

No this can't be used with NTL but the lidl box probably can.

but Telewest have just launched their PVR and NTL will launch theirs next year, triple tuner :-

About it here and here

How much a month I wonder?

RE Telewest, From Digital Spy "TV Drive, which allows 80 hours of storage, will cost £10 per month for customers taking the top tier package or £15 otherwise."

gromituk

emujuice: interesting that you say it's very useful even if you aren't a great telly watcher. Sometimes vegging in front of the TV just has to be done, and if you can watch useful stuff rather than just what happens to be on, then all the better.

Archiving stuff depends on your morals of course, because it is illegal.

LesD

Can someone help me understand why I should get one of these and consign my Betamax VCR to history? What can a PVR do that a VCR can't?

welshblob

mew wrote:

RE Telewest, From Digital Spy "TV Drive, which allows 80 hours of storage, will cost £10 per month for customers taking the top tier package or £15 otherwise."

Not that I'm going to pay more for this type of box but don't forget that the TV Drive will also have HDTV out. So you're paying for both the PVR and HDTV functionality.

Rob

a1i

boyohboy wrote:

Not sure Fogg is right about the Lidl one, It only has a Analogue tuner so would have thought you can put a sky or Ntl box in. People are talking about it here
http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=312329
with a link to its manual .

I have managed to purchase the Lidl DVD recorder + HDD, and connect my NTL to it last night. Did it via the AF lead, in order words connect the digital line to NTL, then the ariel plug out from MTL to DVD recorder then ariel out from DVD recorder to TV.

Looking to connect via scart tonight so I can record regular channel programmes (it is only showing up as BB1 - C5) and watch cable (as I would do with a VCR).

only downside I have seen with this is I can't get a TV channel for the DVD (as I did with the VCR) so only see through the 2nd Scart connection to TV.

tr3mor

LesD wrote:

Can someone help me understand why I should get one of these and consign my Betamax VCR to history? What can a PVR do that a VCR can't?

much better image quality. being able to look through the program guide and just clicking on what you want to record. not having to find a tape. being able to record two programs at once. having the extra channels on digital.

it will be miles and miles better than your vcr.