Page 1 of Argos. Freeview box £29.99 (Goodmans) interactive

OFFER ENDS SATURDAY

Probably would have been nice to include some info on it too ;p

Link Here

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[*] Model number GDB4G.
[*] Silver.
[*] Digitally interactive.
[*] Digital text.
[*] RF loop.
[*] DVB subtitles available.
[*] DVB subtitles can be manually switched off.
[*] Auto setup.
[*] Manual scan for new channels.
[*] Full access to all Freeview channels.
[*] Now and next electronic programme guide.
[*] 2 SCART sockets.
[*] 1 SCART lead supplied.
[*] Full function remote control, requires 2 x AAA (supplied).
[*] Size (H)4.5, (W)23.5, (D)14cm.
[*] Weight 1.8kg.
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Thanks to OP

This item was edited on Thursday, 16th December 2004, 09:29

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Helpline - Should you require any assistance before purchasing this Goodmans product or assistance once your product arrives please call the Goodmans helpline on 0870 873 0080

Thanks to op ordered one of these for my aunty and my colleague at work ordered one to, so much appreciated

Bought one last year, very happy with it. :)

Sounds like a good deal - does it work well with weak aerial signals (I have the Echostar T101 that is excellent with my very average aerial)? Also, does it have timer events? A Freeview box without them is 100% useless of course, so I`m guessing it does. One final question - can you control the volume from the remote control (otherwise you`ve got to juggle 2 remotes of course) ?

Update: I managed to reserve one at the Liverpool St. John`s store after many tries tonight (Argos` reservation system seems to be saying "too busy" most of the time...grrr...) - a recheck afterwards showed it out of stock, so what a fluke that was to reserve the very last one. With this offer being advertised on the home page of argos.co.uk, the stock is running out *extremely* quickly across the country it looks like.

This item was edited on Thursday, 16th December 2004, 21:18

Cool, under £30, not bad. Rude not to. Nice one.

J.

Richard if it`s the same one in the link then the answer is yes to all your questions, there are no buttons on the unit so if you lose the remote you are stuck, good instruction book but may be hard to read for some because the writing is small and light grey........Had mine over six months and only problem I have had is it trys to update the firmware in the early hours of the morning and blanks out the screen,not good when you are doing a timer recording,just set firmware update to manual in the menu and do it yourself every month.

Oh yes the picture is very good as well, and my ariel is in the loft. :)

This item was edited on Thursday, 16th December 2004, 17:02

I bought one today and they had stuck the sticker for the cat number on a GDB3. As it is supposedly tha same as the GDB4 with the power built in, reasonably happy but who cares as it is a Xmas present.

We got the Echostar one earlier in the year. It has auto tuning, nice looking interface, and a good picture. We got ours when we were going to bin NTL, but the Mrs changed her mind, so it was just stuck there not getting used.

I decided to try sticking it in the kids room to see if it would work with their portable (they only have the loop aerial the portable comes with). It works great, the pitcture breaks up on a couple of channels, but most are crystal clear. Channel Five is one of them that breaks up, but that can be dodgy to get for some people with a normal aerial. They just switch back to analogue for Channel Five.

This item was edited on Thursday, 16th December 2004, 22:48

Thanks for the link. Off to collect 2 for Xmas pressies

This item was edited on Thursday, 16th December 2004, 23:27