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Has anyone bought one of these cd players? if so are they worth the £49.99, is the radio reception good? as well as cd play back? The make is TEVION, I think there made by MEDION who make computers.
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Splash out, and make sure it's got TA.
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According to the Aldi web site they aren't on sale until tomorrow. The player has RDS but there's nothing to say whether it does traffic announcements.
I suspect Tevion is similar to Medion in that it's just a brand stuck on products made by a variety of manufacturers.
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I suspect Tevion is similar to Medion in that it's just a brand stuck on products made by a variety of manufacturers.
Medion a certainly a real company rather than than a brand; German based (like Aldi) FWIW I bought one of their PCs in Aldi the other week; and it's very nicely put together, 3 tear warranty etc. Not sure about Tevion though.
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Medion is certainly a real company, but it is NOT a manufacturer. It rebadges OEM products from various manufacturers and has a distribution system involving retail outlets such as Aldi.
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Medion and Tevion are brands used by German based retailing company Medion and sold all over Europe and the States.
One of their retailing agreements is with Aldi (PC World has also sold some Medion computer systems) and it has proved enormously successful for both Medion/Tevion and Aldi.
The reason is that only very high quality products are offered in conjunction with exceptionally keen prices - Medion computer systems, for instance, are usually sold out within an hour or so on the first day of sale at most Aldi stores.
Details of some Medion products at:
www.medion.co.uk/
The details of its retailing ideals are outlined at the same website under Company. However the gist is:
"The Company supports retailers and manufacturers in one-off sales campaigns involving products from the fields of PC/multimedia, entertainment/household electronics and communications technology."
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>>The reason is that only very high quality products are offered in conjunction with exceptionally keen prices - Medion computer systems, for instance, are usually sold out within an hour or so on the first day of sale at most Aldi stores.
I'll second that : the PC I bought the other week was the last one available from the Bournemouth (near Poole) store; and that was only a couple of hours after opening:-))
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I think another PC World/Medion brand name is Cybermax or something on those lines.
Re the Aldi car unit. Full details under Special Buys at:
uk.aldi.com/
By the way, Halfords do similar units at £99.99 and I think they are fitted free if required.
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The player has RDS but there's nothing to say whether it does traffic announcements.
I thought all RDS systems had TA ?
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I thought all RDS systems had TA ?
I agree that RDS in a car player wouldn't be terribly useful without it. On the other hand, plenty of domestic radios now have RDS. Do they do traffic announcements.
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Just found the Aldi flyer I picked up the other day about the Tevion CD Car Radio.
The illustration reveals a TA logo on the right hand side, so that should clear up any mystery about Traffic Announcements.
To be quite frank, at the price, it looks a bit of a bargain, although no doubt not up to the quality of my VW Gamma based system...:-)
The Gamma even has the facility to allow separate tone control settings for radio tuner, CD player and audio cassettes playback.
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To be quite frank, at the price, it looks a bit of a bargain, although no doubt not up to the quality of my VW Gamma based system...:-) The Gamma even has the facility to allow separate tone control settings for radio tuner, CD player and audio cassettes playback.
Thats common today, even the cheapest Citroen C2 does that!
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AldI were selling same cd radio some months ago.good radio cd
My brother bought one has TA RDS and sounds nice
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So what is RDS? Isn't that when a radio automatically moves from a weak transmitter to a stronger one?
If it is, is it possible to force a radio to make this change?
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RDS is a system of transmitting data along with the sound signal. It lets the radio do a number of things.
At the trivial level, it tells you the name of the station you are listening to.
It also detects when another station is transmitting a traffic announcement and switches to that.
It also switches to other frequencies that have the same station but stronger, although that can be irritating if you don't have "radio diversity", i.e. two tuners in one radio so it switches immediately.
It's one of the few modern technological toys that I could happily lose. Nice to have it, but I can cope without it.
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It's one of the few modern technological toys that I could happily lose. Nice to have it, but I can cope without it.
Can you imagine how annoying it would be to have to keep re-tuning your radio to a stronger FM signal?
I know people had to do this in the olden days but there was less need to do it with AM or LW stations.
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TA is the best invention ever, imho! Saved me from disaster more than once.
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TA is the best invention ever, imho!
Nah. I'd vote for sliced bread every time.
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TA is the best invention ever imho!
It is, but it's spoiled somewhat by radio stations who don't transmit an end signal at the end of traffic broadcasts, meaning you have to manually press the TA button to go back to your chosen station or CD.
There's one in my area that's notorious for it
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Off message a little but I bought one of their Tevion DVD players for £33 the other week. An absolute bargain. It does not have the sound decoders such as DTS that you can find on higher end stuff but picture and sound quality are superb. In fact it has breathed new life in to the portable that it is attached to.
The only trouble is that when watching a "widescreen presentation" on a "14" portable, letterbox format becomes all to literal.
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Off message a little but I bought one of their Tevion DVD players for £33 the other week. An absolute bargain. It does not have the sound decoders such as DTS that you can find on higher end stuff...
£33 is 'higher end stuff' for a DVD player - you can get them for less than £20!
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RDS as you mentioned.TA is seperate ie traffic ann.you can buy radios with either or both.The last ALDI add didnt mention it has TA but it did.
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3 different things as I understand it;
RDS is the Radio Data System displaying the channel you are listening to, or pretty much any other message they choose to send.
TA for the traffic announcement stuff
EON which is the extended other networks stuff preventing the need for you to keep retuning.
They normally come together, but not always.
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This may help.? www.radio-now.co.uk/faq1.htm
will explain better than me!
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RDS is radio data system. This is the function that provides you with TA TP PTY PS RT and EON. You cant have TA TP PTY EON or station identification (PS) without RDS. its up to the manufacturer of RDS radios to decide if they decode the added functions or not.
For car radios - most do as they are of most use for cars. For a home radio there is no need for EON - you are not moving around, so its not implemented, same with TA and PS.
RT is not broadcast in the UK but is used in holland and belgium.
So summary RDS is ALL the functions above, the equipment maker decides which functions to implement.
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With reference to Medion, they manufacture nothing, they are "badge" engineers and have no manufacturing capability. I have a Medion DVD player which suprsingly is manufactured in the mexico plant of a US manufacturer, and have upgraded and taken apart several Medion PC's, Most I would describe as "good average"
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I've stated this fact almost at the beginning of the thread.
However, I disagree with your view that Medion PCs are "good average".
The systems use top class components and hardware, yet are very competitively priced. Certainly it's good enough to clear out most Aldi stores in double quick time when they go on sale about every four to six months or so.
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The speed of leaving aldi shelves is not an indicator of its quality.
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I would recommend the Tevion make of products. I have a portable CD and TV, both Tevion. The sound is excellent on the CD and TV, much better quality than more famous makes that I've paid three times as much for.
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Actually it is.
If the Medion/Tevion products were not up to scratch, the news would soon spread around the numerous magazine and computer related forums in double-quick time.
A vast number of computer related products such as digital cameras, CD-R/CD-RW, DVD-R/DVD-RW media and rewriters, monitors, hardware components and peripherals are made by a comparatively small number of companies - these are rebranded by other major manufacturers under their own name.
No one brand name can produce everything it sells. It's neither feasible or economically viable for most companies.
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Actualy its not. The buyer profile of Aldi customers are not those seen on any computer forums or computer magazine buyers. Aldi customer profile is very simple - Price driven.
But we are in fact arguing over nothing. Given that Medion sources from the far east manufacturers that make every computer we buy*, that makes the average. Given that I said Good average, means that they take the better systems than average, and at the price sold makes them very good value for money.
*to include those not assembled in the far east but made from far east components
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I'm a PC Advisor forum member, amongst other similar outlets.
The minute the news that a new Medion system is coming out brings a rash of threads on the subject..........
As you say, Aldi philosophy is based on price and, given the extent to which the larger supermarkets rip us off in many instances, it's one that works, as it also does with Aldi's brother, Lidl.
But you don't elect to sell computer systems ranging from around £699 to £999 in grocery and household goods stores normally selling every day essentials at very keen prices, unless you know that they will be snapped up.
Not everyone has that kind of money handy and, remember, until quite recently, Aldi wouldn't even take debit cards, never mind the credit card alternative.....:-)
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hello all
Ive got one and its fab. For those of you who havnt seen it goto
cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5795765993&ssPageName=STRK:MEUS:IT
I was going to sell it on but thourght sod it when it didnt sell I fitted it into my van and its well sound ( excuse the pun )
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I've gone off eBay now the feedback system from sellers is so messed up. If they give you a raw deal, you can't leave negative feedback because they simply respond with a negative to your feedback.
It should be that the seller has to leave feedback before the buyer.
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Do you know where i could get a wiring diagram for the aldi car cd player? there was one fitted in my previous car which was written off i still have the player and would like to fit it in my caravan
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got one of these, works fine has everything you need and more including traffic news.
Plays mp3 cd and has sd card slot for mp3 as well. Only problem found is my ond unit had a male areal socket, this one is femail and had to make up an adapter.
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Dont want to get caught up into the "its better than x brand stuff @ etc but .....
Badges on most stuff doesnt really mean much imo. Eve top name pcs use "unknown" brands stuff inside the pc.
Never had any problems with aldi quality; and if you travel around europe; germany especially, they are one of the better sources of all sorts of items including grocery.
As for tuning into new radio stations when on the move; isnt that what the cd part is best used for?
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>>Even top name pcs use "unknown" brands stuff inside the pc.>>
Even top name brands rebadge other specialist companies' products under their own name...:-)
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if you have a 100 components made for your product and only 80 of them come up to your exact specification then that leaves 20 that dont,what would you do with them? they work fine and perform perfectly but are not just so
put them in another product with the same ish circuitboard and stick a different name badge on?
that is what i would do but no way would i let it be known it was the same as my premium badge product because it isnt some might be up there but a lot wont
I used to respect ### equipment as first class in the 70"s a little bit gaudy but good hifi gear i understand they trade under the name ###### these days at a well known supermarket not the same thing in my book
unless anyone knows different?
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>>stick a different name badge on?>>
Surely you are aware that car manufacturers, electronics equipment specialists such as Sony and many other companies have raised the bar to such an extent that their suppliers now deliver components with a failure rate of just one in more than a million parts?
Rebadging is mainly done for the simple reason that no company can manufacture absolutely everything that it offers and the computing world, for instance, is a classic example of such products.
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took the back off a philips telly and a bush telly the pc boards were exactly the same the components were different makes scattered around the philips telly is still working the bush is in one
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When the demise of the VCR was becoming apparent about 18 months to two years ago, the few remaining VCRs still being manufactured by various top name brands all began to use the same specialist supplier's video tape transport and heads module.
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here's some other 'classic' examples of badge engineering:
Wolsley
Austin
Morris
Riley
just to throw a motoring slant back in.... :)
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Rebadging is mainly done for the simple reason that no company can manufacture absolutely everything that it offers and the computing world for instance is a classic example of such products.
Agreed Computer (& car manufcturers) buy components and assemblies from a wide variety of suppliers.
However, there is a world of difference between "manufacturers" buying "Bits & Pieces" on the spot market and plugging them together and hoping they work (common in PCs)
and Quality Manufacturers who design, test component parts & buy bits under contract THEN build their equipment to a standard that does not vary from day-to-day. When a change is needed (i.e. component/assembly changes level /make/spec) this is done only after engineering testing to ensure that nothing else needs tweaking/modification.
Joe Bloggs just off the High St building PCs from sub-assemblies is a bit like a "home build kit car" - it may work one day but no guarantees when you get it home or the day after tomorrow..
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Guys I have bought Medion Md 81460 car cd player - I am fully satistied with it, but there's one thing i want to make clear... Have some probs connectin the usb mp3 player to it :) As I got it secondhand I have no user guide, I cant find it on the web, so has anyone any suggestions how to get it playin? As I connect the USB player it only shows USB on the screen - dont know how to make it working... Has anyone got any suggestions? Would be very thankful. :)
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thanks a lot man.... I looked over this page before, but didnt noticed it was there. Thanks once more! Medion rules :P
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