Flying Scot,
Yes in dodgy terestial areas satalite is better. However satalite has its limitations in Europe as well as the footprint for the satalite showing most of the english stations, BBC ITV etc does not cover a large area of Europe,
Cannot remember the deatails but as you head south through Germany and to teh west you lose it, also as you head south in France. Using other transponders (satalites) you can get other staions like Eurosport, CNN and loads of others.
One hastle is the transponder used for the English stations has a weakish signal in Scotland and you need to aim right at it and can be difficult to locate.
The main Astra transponder is easy found and then you can rotate easily onto the other.
I need to search out exact details and post detailed and simple information on pointing the dish - it is actually quite easy once you have done it a few times.
The lidl sytem appears to be good value and you can pay more just for a reciever. If in Europe there are lots of places selling camping satalite sytems and is easy to pick up a much better dish. The lidl one is plastic and a bitt so so but does the job well enough. The rubber sucker is good and can attach to any smppth surface but do not recommend using on fibre glass panels, roof is ok, as it can stain the fibreglass. I tend to use the clamp on the roof rails or rear ladder or just attach to a stake in the ground. I use the suckers now only on the cab side windows.
Right I am blethering on now, but hopefully this gives a little more info.
Personally I think the lidl sytem is good and I have had no problem with mine or overheating and had it a year now and use it as my home satalite reciever between travels.