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5 Reviews for Goodmans GHDD1782DVBT 80GB hard drive recorder with digital free to view tuner
Never Buy This! - 23 Apr 2007
16 out of 16 found this review helpful.
Bad Points:
1) Right out of the box it booted so many times every day I lost count and hasn't stopped since.
2) It randomly loses sound or signal on all channels and must be turned off by the button on the machine then on again before it will work.
3) Sometimes it will suddenly give out a very loud static hiss that won't stop until you turn it off at the button on the machine then on again.
4) Our Matsui tv remote is also able to interfere with it so we must carefully aim the tv remote above the digital recorder or it will mess up recording/playback etc.
5) When pressing buttons on the digital recorder remote it will do the action of the button pressed previously a few times before it will do the action it's supposed to be doing. For example, if I try to raise the volume then lower it, the button to lower it will continue to raise the volume for a few presses.
6) Timed recordings often don't work on playback, they're just black through the entire duration with no sound.
7) Sometimes programmes set to record are not recorded at all (probably because we turned the TV off with the TV remote while the digital recorder is recording another show and it's brought up a message asking if you want to stop recording. If this is up, timers don't record like they should).
8) Its electronic programme guide is slow to load and often doesn't load up completely
9) Sometimes it will get stuck in a loop of trying to record something on a timer, then booting, then starting to record, then booting. Luckily after quite a few minutes I managed to be quick with the remote to stop it recording so it'd stop booting.
10) It's always slow to respond to the remote control, sometimes taking as long as 10 seconds to respond.
Good Points:
None that make it worth suffering all its bad points for!
It makes me sick to think how much was spent on it. I must be insane to have bought this product. I've had it 1-2 years so it's been well tested.
Avoid the twin tuner GHDD1785 too! - 27 Dec 2006
17 out of 17 found this review helpful.
I bought the slightly pricier GHDD1785DVBT (from elsewhere) as it had twin digital tuners for a very reasonable price. Plus points - an attactive and compact unit with easy to use menus and EPG, the picture quality is great and hardly ever any picture interference. On the negative side, and most annoyingly, even on standby it regularly switches channels on the TV (eg when watching DVDs). The sound freezes up or becomes unsynchronised when watching and recording simultaneously. Apparently some of the the infrared remote commands seem to use the same frequency as some of my other non-Goodmans equipment. I returned and replaced the box at the retailer but the faults appear to be design or engineering flaws, so this baby is going back as soon as I can watch all the backlog of recorded programs.
One star is being generous - AVOID! - 07 Aug 2006
28 out of 28 found this review helpful.
I bought this three months ago and have had problems since the beginning. The drive freezes regularly and requires you to turn the whole thing off and on to get it to work again. Yesterday it began rebooting constantly or completely freezing. I can't even get into the menu to try a software patch. The best comparison I can think of is this, would you accept your computer rebooting itself every few hours for no apparent reason? I hope the answer is no for you, as it was for me. I have sent it back and will need a very good reason to buy another Goodmans product in the future.
Software glitches-R-us - 05 Aug 2006
22 out of 22 found this review helpful.
I had great hopes for this relatively cheap HDD box. It started well, appearing to function normally but after about 2 weeks it has developed the annoying habit of rebooting for no apparent reason. It has had 2 software updates (downloaded over the ether) which cured a problem of missing the ends of most of the recorded programs but it now reboots at an average rate of 4 per hour which is very very annoying. I get the feeling that i could have written the operating system myself and had better luck. Yes it was cheap but i don't expect to be the one doing the software testing for goodmans. research your choice. I am about to try to offload this box onto someone else...look out for it on eBay.
Great value...even if it only has a single tuner - 05 May 2006
20 out of 22 found this review helpful.
Unlike the hugely overhyped sky+ box (which incidently you buy and then HAVE TO pay sky an extra tenner a month to use at all !!!) Just the one off payment, freeview access, simple to record/playback..Single tuner not a problem.. clear and easy menu system...easy to use..get one at this price