Toshiba 40" Full HD LCD €324.99!!!!

Hello there 8888

Best of luck! Enjoy

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/5299012/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CHome+entertainment+and+sat+nav%7C14419512/c_2/3%7C19805484%7CClearance+home+entertainment%7C14520847/c_3/4%7Ccat_14520847%7CTelevisions%7C25096549.htm

btb

not on SAORVIEW approved list????

paddy147

btb wrote: »

not on SAORVIEW approved list????

Neither is my Lidl/Silvercrest or my Techwood...but guess what??


I get Saorview on them.

jonnygee

This tv will NOT get Saorview.

g0g

Reserved one in Swords just in case but then had a scan at reviews on Amazon and it doesn't seem to rate incredibly well with a fair few problems. If anyone wants my code just PM me it's until tomorrow evening.

paddy147

jonnygee wrote: »

This tv will NOT get Saorview.

You know this for a fact then??

Kristopherus

paddy147 wrote: »

You know this for a fact then??

It is not Freeview HD so will not pick up the Saorview signal.

CR 7

This one shows up as one of the Alternatives on that page:

Samsung 40", Saorview Approved, €355

Kristopherus

CR 7 wrote: »

This one shows up as one of the Alternatives on that page:

Samsung 40", Saorview Approved, €355

Far better value.

TerrorFirmer

Why do people always act like a non-Saorview TV isn't worth buying? Surely the majority of people use a box anyway? We've 3 saorview TV's in the house and none are actually used for it....same in most other peoples houses I know. I'm not saying there aren't people who use it of course, but generally I would have thought the type of people buying 40" TVs are not doing so just to watch the saorview channels.

epopnomis

No stock of the samsung though... :mad:

paddy147

Kristopherus wrote: »

It is not Freeview HD so will not pick up the Saorview signal.

But my old 32 inch LG (Tesco clearence-249 euro),my 19 inch Silvercrest (Lidl clearence-70 euro) and my 16 inch Techwood (Harvey Normans-70 euro) TVs all directly pick up Saorview with just an ariel with no problems at all.

MPEG 4 will get you Saorview

Kristopherus

paddy147 wrote: »

But my old 32 inch LG (Tesco clearence-249 euro),my 19 inch Silvercrest (Lidl clearence-70 euro) and my 16 inch Techwood (Harvey Normans-70 euro) TVs all directly pick up Saorview with just an ariel with no problems at all.

MPEG 4 will get you Saorview

And MPEG 2 wont. And thats what the Toshie has;).

paddyp

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Why do people always act like a non-Saorview TV isn't worth buying? Surely the majority of people use a box anyway? We've 3 saorview TV's in the house and none are actually used for it....same in most other peoples houses I know. I'm not saying there aren't people who use it of course, but generally I would have thought the type of people buying 40" TVs are not doing so just to watch the saorview channels.

Not that I watch saorview myself but if you're going to buy a tv you might as well get one with a hd tuner if they're a similar price:

Number of households in ireland ~ 1.65 million
Sky subscribers ~ .65 millon
UPC subscribers ~ .4 million
Magnet etc. ~ .1 max?

Leaving .5 million household.

Then you take into account secondary tv only a fraction of people have multiroom.

Regarding it not being freeview hd - freeview hd is over DVB-T2, saorview is over DVB-T some of those toshiba tellys do support mpeg4 hd over dvb-t but good luck finding a manual as its a rebadged vestel.

jonnygee

boards thread,
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056614499

Kristopherus

paddy147 wrote: »

I rekon that Toshiba will give you Saorview.

Of couse it will. In fact all tvs will give you Saorview - when you hook a Saorview box up to it.;)

But a HD tv with a Freeview tuner will not give you Saorview on its own. You will get sound but no picture.

paddy147

Kristopherus wrote: »

Of couse it will. In fact all tvs will give you Saorview - when you hook a Saorview box up to it.;)

But a HD tv with a Freeview tuner will not give you Saorview on its own. You will get sound but no picture.

Fair enough so.

This whole Saorview is a load on shyte though.

8 useless chanels isnt exaclty great in this day and age.

If anything,I think its a bit of a con,to dupe people out of more money

Yamanoto

Kristopherus wrote: »

It is not Freeview HD so will not pick up the Saorview signal.

That's not a hard and fast rule. The Saorview site lists numerous LG's, Panny's and Samsung which are standard DVB-T Freeview only, my LG LK450 among them.