Though it seems to do what it says on the tin. I do have some issues with
it.
Seems some channels, probably the had ones as it does not understand them,
it remains silent with not even an invalid channel or press info.
Occasionally, it will miss the info from a channel and say, no info, then
if you press info a second time it will read it.
Also just a little annoying and this is probably down to the broadcaster,
it may say subtitles but there is in fact audio description as well but its
not actually listed anywhere.

It would also be a great thing if it could identify the subscription only
channels and mask them off on an option as the only way to do this at
present seems to be to make up a favourite list and use that instead of the
channel numbers or up down buttons.

As a matter of interest, some channels are just announced as data, and I
wondered what this meant. No clues I can find in the destructions.

Some captions it reads along with the programme info speak oddly due, I
think to some creative use of the English language, such as drivetime
instead of drive-time. the former saying driv ee time.

Also the word close is spoken on some but on others just lots of times so
nobody could figure out what was meant, ie, is it closed for good, only
between times on the page? If there are two groups of times it makes no
sense and sometimes it sounds like the box says damn instead of A M.

However many of those weirdness can be laid at the door of broadcasters who
presumably knew what they meant even if nobody else does.. grin.
quality seems to be around 96 percent on most channels on Crystal Palace
and the start up and first tune seemed to be pretty fault free, albeit very
s l o w.

I have not tried all the advanced features like reminders etc, as yet, as it
would be pointless as I'm not leaving the device connected to an audio
system just to find out when its ready to remind me of something. The
program guide works, but does seem quite button intensive and it makes me
wonder how long the remote control buttons will keep going. They are the
rubber sort.
The remote is quite well designed and is split into three logical areas so
one can sort of guess what does what.
The one problem a lot of people have had revolves around the control your
tv functions. There is a huge list of codes for this and it does work, but
sadly they forget to remind you to set the box volume before tyou make the
volume and other stuff work the tv instead of the box resulting in a very
quiet volume through the tv which you then have to fiddle about in the menus
to find the bit to alter the box volume with. It would have been far easier
to do this first with the tv controlled by its own remote. In fact I've put
this function off, as I'd rather have two remotes than lose the ability to
fiddle the box volume without lots of menu juggling.

The speech is otherwise clear, could do with having a even faster mode but I
do note its starting to glitch occasionally at the current fast peed, so it
could well be a processor overload issue.

Lastly, thus far, even though it has a switch mode plug mounted psu, it
seems pretty clean from the interference point of view.

Brian

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And a question...
In the old set up with the netgem box, a dvd was plugged into the second
scart of the box and a feed to a stereo was taken from the 3.5 jack. Then
when dvd was used the sound from the set top box was muted and the dvd was
heard through the jack and the picture through the scart to the monitor as I
expect. However with the goodmans this seems not to be working. is there
some mode I'm unaware of or has the wayscart works changed?

Brian

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...
Though it seems to do what it says on the tin. I do have some issues with
it.
Seems some channels, probably the had ones as it does not understand them,
it remains silent with not even an invalid channel or press info.
Occasionally, it will miss the info from a channel and say, no info, then
if you press info a second time it will read it.
Also just a little annoying and this is probably down to the broadcaster,
it may say subtitles but there is in fact audio description as well but
its not actually listed anywhere.

It would also be a great thing if it could identify the subscription only
channels and mask them off on an option as the only way to do this at
present seems to be to make up a favourite list and use that instead of
the channel numbers or up down buttons.

As a matter of interest, some channels are just announced as data, and I
wondered what this meant. No clues I can find in the destructions.

Some captions it reads along with the programme info speak oddly due, I
think to some creative use of the English language, such as drivetime
instead of drive-time. the former saying driv ee time.

Also the word close is spoken on some but on others just lots of times so
nobody could figure out what was meant, ie, is it closed for good, only
between times on the page? If there are two groups of times it makes no
sense and sometimes it sounds like the box says damn instead of A M.

However many of those weirdness can be laid at the door of broadcasters
who presumably knew what they meant even if nobody else does.. grin.
quality seems to be around 96 percent on most channels on Crystal Palace
and the start up and first tune seemed to be pretty fault free, albeit
very s l o w.

I have not tried all the advanced features like reminders etc, as yet, as
it would be pointless as I'm not leaving the device connected to an audio
system just to find out when its ready to remind me of something. The
program guide works, but does seem quite button intensive and it makes me
wonder how long the remote control buttons will keep going. They are the
rubber sort.
The remote is quite well designed and is split into three logical areas so
one can sort of guess what does what.
The one problem a lot of people have had revolves around the control your
tv functions. There is a huge list of codes for this and it does work,
but sadly they forget to remind you to set the box volume before tyou make
the volume and other stuff work the tv instead of the box resulting in a
very quiet volume through the tv which you then have to fiddle about in
the menus to find the bit to alter the box volume with. It would have been
far easier to do this first with the tv controlled by its own remote. In
fact I've put this function off, as I'd rather have two remotes than lose
the ability to fiddle the box volume without lots of menu juggling.

The speech is otherwise clear, could do with having a even faster mode but
I do note its starting to glitch occasionally at the current fast peed, so
it could well be a processor overload issue.

Lastly, thus far, even though it has a switch mode plug mounted psu, it
seems pretty clean from the interference point of view.

Brian

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Since no one has commented I'll be Aunt Sally and ask some idiot boy
questions.

You don't say just how it is not working with the Goodmans box. Do you
get no sound or no picture or nothing at all?

If you get no sound what happens if you don't mute the box?

Is it possible that different SCART leads were used, or the same leads
used differently, with the new box as I think the 2-way feed needs all
(or at least more) pins connected?

PS
I did peek at the instructions for the Goodmans box. I could not see
anything at all about how to use the box with a DVD or VCR. Indeed, I
could not even find a reference to the top-right button on the remote
control other in the picture of the remote where it is shown as "TV AV"
and described in the call-out as "TV power on/off and input channel
selection". I guess that is what on other remotes is labelled
"source" but as usual I could well be wrong.

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