Page 1 of Aldi Bargains from 26th Feb

Gericom Laptop

Fully loaded 3.06 GHz laptop £999.99
Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor
supporting Hyper-Threading Technology
533MHz FSB, with APC & Smart Power
• Multi Format DVD Burner
• DVD R/RW**
• WIRELESS LAN 11MBit/s
• NVIDIA GeForce 128MB FX5600
• 60 GB Hard Disk
• 24 month manufacturer warranty
• Carry Bag
• Huge software package

3 in 1 Digital Camera £59.99
2 mega pixel 3 in 1 digital camera. Mobile digital camera, PC camera and camcorder in one unit. This compact and slimline 3 in 1 camera is packed full of features. As a digital camera it captures images with 2 mega pixel quality. Comes with 4x zoom, 1.5" colour LCD display to view your pictures, built in flash, auto white balance, snapshot button, self-timer, delete function and an internal memory of 32Mb. Simply increase your memory by inserting a SD/MMC memory card up to 256Mb (SD/MMC card not included). As a digital camcorder this 3 in 1 camera allows you to capture moving images up to 20 pictures per second, playback or even view on your computer. As a PC camera you can chat online, with the onboard microphone, videophone or simply send video or photos by email. This package comes complete with a comprehensive software solution to help you get started: video live mail, photo explorer and photo express. Product comes complete with two batteries, USB cable, carry strap and pouch, smart tripod, operating instructions and manufacturers three year warranty and customer helpline number.

Lastly...

TV Tuner PCI Card £29.99
Watch TV on your PC with this internal PCI card. Simple to install and easy to use, this card will allow you to capture TV and video images in Mpeg 4, 2 and 1 format. Preset times to record your favourite TV programme whilst you are out, or even record and playback TV programmes at the same time using the time-shift function. Burn DVD, VCD and SVCD for future use, or copy still pictures in BMP and Jpeg file format, complete with Picture in Picture technology. Can also be used to tune into FM radio and record when permitted, or simply view Teletext. Complete with multi functional remote control, CD Rom, users manual, 36 month manufacturer's warranty and customer helpline number.

All taken from the aldis website.

I am so intrested in the TV card, been looking for a decent one anybody know if it`s any good?

A link for the people. :)

http://www.aldi-stores.co.uk/specials_01_11/offers_nav.htm

Oscar.

This item was edited on Friday, 20th February 2004, 10:06

How can that Laptop be so cheap?

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How can that Laptop be so cheap?

Magic! Really.

There`s a review in the latest issue of computeractive, for all interested.

If I get the TV Card I can do away with my GF4 Mx 440(VIVO) and get a Radeon 9600 Pro. It doesn`t look like stereo but I don`t have a stereo TV anyway. I was waiting for freeview cards to come down in price but this looks good.

Dabs has some TV cards here for around the same price here

This item was edited on Friday, 20th February 2004, 12:39

feel free to call me thick...but hey..if ya dont ask ya dont find out eh... ;)

these tv card thingies I take it they allow you to watch tv on the monitor by connecting the `normal` tv aerial to the card? are they straighforward to fit? Ive upgraded my memory myself so I have been inside the case..but not done any major upgrades as such...is fitting something like this a fairly easy job? and do you need a high spec machine for it to work...? theres not much info on the Aldi site regarding the minimum specs...and you can record tv like a video, and then burn it to cd? could you for example connect a video to it and transfer VHS tapes onto a cd?..not so much for copying bought tapes..more for transfering home movies onto a disk...althought with the help of a dvd burner I could have the origional Star Wars trilogy on disk afterall.... oooh.... :D

again sorry if Im asking obvious questions.... :p

cheers!

Hi,

I have a Pinnacle rave TV PCI card.

It has 2 inputs, RF Tv aerial lead, and composite. So on mine you can just plug a TV lead in the back as you would into a TV set. To watch TV on my PC I then just run the app that came with it, and 1st time, had to tune it in.

Fitting is probably easy, i.e. just plug it into a spare PCI slot. So 1st thing you want to do is make sure you have a spare slot.

You`re obviously comfortable taking your case apart, so have a look and see if you have spare slots, they are the ones at the back, existing ones may have a graphics card (although if your PC is fairly new that will prob be in AGP at the top), sound card, and network card.

So you just push the card in fairly firmly (as you did with memory) so the aerial socket is sticking out the back.

Now for your next question about recording, you`ll have to read the back of box :(

PC is old (P2 450) which is fine for watching TV. the manual lists 900Mhz as min for encoding. The better your processor the better quality you can encode it.

I found I can encode about 5 mins of footage, any more than that and it starts to go out of sync :(

You`ll need a big hard drive to store stuff on, and then convert for VCD/DVD.

That`s my experiences with my card/PC, which is similar price to this Aldi one

Alan

This item was edited on Sunday, 22nd February 2004, 18:14

Anyone tempted to buy the camera ?

Been thinking of going digital for while now and wanted an little starter camera as i own 4 SLRs and can`t be arsed to chop then all in and get a top spec one !



Coops

Cheers for the info Alan,
I think I have a spare slot..I`ll double check before I get one...the memory stuff might be an issue what with my pc not being the greatest machine in the world (256mb RAM, 20gb HD, 1ghz processor) even if I can only watch tv it will be a bonus with not having a tv in the room where the pc is... :)

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256mb RAM, 20gb HD, 1ghz processor

The processor and ram should be fine I think, but your hard drive isn`t going to give you a lot of recording space. It seems a bit pointless to buy it only for watching TV considering the quality is going to be so poor(interference will be a big problem with a plain aerial).

If thats all you are going to use it for you might be better off getting an external USB one because the aerial won`t need to be so close to the computer so the picture will be more acceptable.

The Laptop... sold out in most Aldi`s I went to.
You can still order it from Aldi with a 4-5 week lead time.
Here`s more of a spec, from Gericom, the manufacturers
(who seem to be running their site on a 56k modem)

? Pentium® 4 3.06GHz
? Microsoft® Windows® XP Home
? 512MB DDR-RAM
? 60GB Hard Drive
? DVD-Writer (+/-RW, 2x, 2.4x)
? XGA 1024 x 768
? NV GeForce FX5600, 128 MB
? PCMCIA WLAN Card
? Microsoft® Works 7
Priced at 1359 euros = £908

It`s the top, left model at
http://www.gericom.com/Abverkauf/abverkauf.html