Page 1 of Took the Thomson back..got a Medion from Aldi (£129) BIG thumbs up :)

I went ahead and bought the thomson 4200 like I said in earlier thread but it ended up skipping and random faults during playback so I got a refund today.
Made my way down to Aldi and bought their Medion player for £129 and.........
Its absolutely FANTASTIC for the price and I arent kidding.The picture is superbly clear with excellent colour and no artifacts or grain.the buildquality is really really good and its a solid built machine with plenty of weight to it (6kg) and it also looks rather nice.The remote is functional and not too bad at all compaired to a lot of so called mid-range machines.
No problems with playback whatsoever and it hacks as easily as the old wharfedale 750,region 1 stuff is perfect with NO lip sync problems at all.
It plays ANYTHING you put in it including mp3s ( it doesnt tell u it plays anything apart from region2 DVDs) which play perfectly and never miss a beat even on nasty 30pence disks burned at 4x.

All in all I cant find fault with this player whatsoever and would happily have payed £200 for it if I had known what its like.Dont know about RCE disks because I havent got any? but its spot on with everything else.Good looks/build and multiregion/Cd-r/RW/Mp3 for £129 :-)

Anyone after an Aiwa 370 and cant get hold of one anywhere get down to your local Aldi NOW and buy a Medion with yer 5pence beans you WONT regret it I promise :-)

Sounds good.

What about Macrovision disable? Is it a clone of another player?
What are the outputs? RGB/Digital?

Any more info and any picture links if you can

Im looking for a friend who does not like buying off the net

dont know about macro disable (I doubt it but u never know )
its got connectors on the back for literally EVERYTHING
DD5.1,full 6 speaker set up,s-video port,optical out,co-axial,tons of analog sound outputs
http://www.aldi-stores.co.uk/products.asp?id=938
piccy here (not a bad looker)

Yoshi where is it made!

Hmm as far as I know its made by medion (obscure german company) but the chipset is a hong kong one.Feels well made and heavy though like german stuff so maybe its a clone of something else rebadged by medion.I dont really know im just guessing???
Forgot to say as well its got volume control on the handset for your pro-logic or home theatre set up,and 3 levels of zoom which is nice :-)

Good stuff ,THANKS

Careful with the ALDI stuff lads.

A couple of us here got suckered into Aldi`s great offer last week (see discussion on general forum).
A Bush widescreen telly (28") for £229. Bought first one Friday night (nearly sold out), faulty so it went back on Saturday. Then had to drive miles to get another from another store. The telly is very poor and very basic - I think Bush made a cock-up with the spec. (won`t display letterbox picures across the screen) and off-loaded them through Aldi. Bush `Helpline` didn`t want to know!!
Hoping to get my money back tomorrow.

Bernie

Well, I`ve got hold of one of these Medions. I paid a ton for mine, which is basically why i got it - Dolby decoding for less than a ton? I thought I`d try it out and let everyone know what I think....it does sound pretty sweet although I haven`t had time to sample it yet...my surround setup is foaming at the mouth in anticipation though...heh :o)

take it easy....

What`s the hack for it then?

As the Encore I`ve ordered isn`t coming, I`m looking for an alternative - and this is CHEAP!!!

Should I chance it or play safe with a Pioneer 535?

1 put the player in standby
2 press standby to turn it on from the handset
3 press open/close to open the drawer
4 key in the code 89269 (9 at the end is the region i.e 9= region free or u can put 1 or 2 etc to set a region )
5 put a region1 disk in the tray (not necessary but useful to test its region free)
6 press play

simple :-)

dunno about RCE titles as I havent got any yet but pls let us know anyone thats tried them in this player