Page 1 of LIDL £99 DVD,CD,MP3,CDR+RW,VCD,should i buy ??

Lidl are offering a DVD player for £99 on 1st November. Its made by SM Electronics(???), this is the spec from the leaflet.........
DVD,CD,MP3,CD/R, CD/RW,VCD player,Pal/NTSC compatible,Digital Theatre System, Supports DTS audio output, On-Screen display, Parental lock, Freeze frame, single-frame playback, slow motion, time lapse, Direct scene by title, chapter or time, Image section zoom, 4:3 / 16:9 selectable screen format, Headphone socket with volume control, 1.5m scart lead, Remote contol and batteries, Black or Silver, size(cm) 43x31x8. 2 YEAR GUARANTEE !, 5.1 Dolby digital decoder.

Doesent say if its multiregion though, I think i will go and get one this will be my first DVD player anyone think this would be a good buy ?, or the Cyberhome for £99 at Richer Sounds ?????

Let me know, thanks Deano

How can u go wrong?
A bargain price and every function u need.
MP3 playing could be very handy if u hook it up to a hifi.

Ive seen these player in Lidi. What a spec for the price, Only reason I didnt buy 1 is I dont think there are any region hacks, Or whether this player can play RCE coded disks, Found nothing on the net about this player..... Shame really.



Dusty.

Like Deanos75, I too have seen the Lidl`s flyer offering this £99.00 Player from Thursday, 1Nov.
Have noted the comments from others, especially the absence of m/r hack.
Surely some genius mustknow if there is one, but please hurry, Thursday is approaching damn quickly.
Thanks Gerry.

This sounds like a good deal. But also take a look at the Dansai 852 thread. This is from Tesco £99.49 and is all of the above (VCD/MP3 etc) Macrovision is confirmed as OFF (Steve from DVDCHIPS actually took the lid off the thing I think) Someone has also now given an RCE/Multiregion hack. So it`s all that and a bag o` chips. It only comes in silver, looks good. So if Lidl don`t come up with the goods it`s definitely something to bear in mind. Only available from Tesco EXTRA stores.

Mmmmmmm, Interesting Macro Off sounds good but we need to know about Region hacks and whether the player will play RCE coded disks?


Someone out there must know something about this machine!


Help is needed!

Was bored this afternoon and a friend is on the look out for a cheap dvd player so I thought I`d do a little research.

I`ve not seen the leaflet so I`m only going on what`s been posted here.

I started searching the web, then remembered I`d seen stuff about it on the newsgroup uk.media.dvd

Try a groups.google search to see the discussions, but I`ll summarise ;-)

From contact people have had with Lidl it seems that it will be the Supervision 2100, although there may be supply problems (if you read the thread`s you`ll know why ;-))

Someone has found a hack posted on a German bulletin board

http://www.dvd-palace.de/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?board=player&action=display&num=6685

Use one of the translation engines if you can`t read German (and I can`t).

It`s all speculation at the moment until someone actually buys one of the things and tries it

This item was edited on Monday, 29th October 2001, 16:59

If anyone wants a hack for this machine goto


www.dvdregionhacks.com



You will find it there.



Dusty.

This item was edited on Monday, 29th October 2001, 23:12

Quote from a thread i found,,,,

If it is from SM Electronic then they have four possible players - the
Supervision 1000, 1100, 2000 and 2100.
http://www.sm-electronic.de/ (but its all German)

Still not sure if to get one or go to Richer Sounds or Tesco

Dam went to Lidl at 9.30 and they had sold out, spoke to the manager and they only had 12 delivered, they wre queing at the door
(note to self do not have Dentists that early in the morning)