Re: goodmans gdb3 keeps turning off Reply 7 - Apr 22 nd , at am. Even if new software fixes the problem, IMO the box should have been taken off the market until the problem was solved.
Re: goodmans gdb3 keeps turning off Reply 8 - Apr 22 nd , at pm. Re: goodmans gdb3 keeps turning off Reply 9 - Apr 26 th , at pm. I have a goodmans gdb2. Bingo - it works beautifully now. Just wish there was something to watch Re: goodmans gdb3 keeps turning off Reply 10 - Apr 27 th , at pm. Re: goodmans gdb3 keeps turning off Reply 11 - May 13 th , at pm. All Rights Reserved. Welcome, Guest. Please Login or Register. Home Help Search Login Register. I've had this Goodmans GDB3 box for 2 years now and had no issues at all with it.
I've also bought one for my parents and theirs is ok too. In fact I've been looking for another one but they only appear to be available on eBay these days… Read Full Review. I have had a Goodmans GDB3 for around two years now, and the only thing that's happened to it is that the red button on the remote doesn't work. Not great for some text services, but I can still press the Text button to bring it up as on most channels Text and the red button do the same thing.
The firmware on this box is a generic one I've seen on numerous other boxes - nothing special there. The EPG is decent, albeit a tad unresponsive at times. The box may, on occassion, switch itself off… Read Full Review. I have several DTT boxes around the house from various manufacturers - one dating back to the inception of the service.
All work fine. I bought this Goodmans GDB3 for my son to take to uni and had the same problems as listed elsewhere here, switching off, freezing etc. Customer service appears to me to be non-existent and the comment elsewhere here… Read Full Review.
Our Goodmans GDB3 box has worked fine for the first 4 months we have had it. However, for some reason, only two of the buttons on the remote now work, and several channels such as e4, itv and itv2 do not work at all. I have 2 other freeview box's which work perfectly well. It just appears that this is a very poor quality box. It seems to be typical of modern Goodmans products - poorly designed and executed.
It is a pity the name once renowned for quality products is, now, associated with virtual rubbish… Read Full Review. Goodmans GDB3 is idiot proof. For the money, fab! Sometimes looses chanels… Read Full Review. I should have taken it back for a refund before the guarantee expired… Read Full Review. If these are still being sold - avoid. I bought 2 one for me and one for my daughter both useless… Read Full Review.
Usual thing turns itself off, looses channels, etc. Since then, I have contacted Goodmans asking why they are still selling the units through Argos, etc. Apparently it's not their fault, it's the BBC's - work that one out. One man from the technical team started answering the comments that had been raised, letting the users know what was happening and when the updates to the software were due. The discussion continued.
Very quickly what had started off as a negative thread about Goodmans got less and less negative. As a public relations campaign if nothing else it was working. The DVB specification which states how digital TV via an aerial should be broadcast requires set top boxes to have a serial port on them.
So unuseful is this feature that Goodmans nearly ditched it regardless of the spec, but decided to keep it and added a small feature which allowed the box to be updated via the serial port. Under two weeks after the thread had begun, Goodmans staff member Mark Smith had written a guide to the process and passed the software over to a member of the forum who had offered to host it on a section of his site.
People started to update their set top boxes. Importantly they were doing this before the main on-air download of the software. Every night the box turns itself on, tunes in and looks over the airwaves to see if there have been any software updates. And if a bug went in that was not spotted… Costly. Well if you were in their boots, would you say no? In return, the team have been mulling over the feature requests that have been made by the forum regulars — including a screen saver for the radio stations which made it into the software in a later update.
The result has been good for Goodmans.
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