- 500 GB hard disc drive
- Up to 125 hours HD and 312 hours SD recording time (depending on broadcast format)
- Twin tuner
- Can record 2 channels at the same time
- Auto setup
- Upscales standard definition content to HD
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Get free access to a huge library of over 140 digital channels, radio stations and other services including the BBC iPlayer - and soon ITV Player - with the Goodmans GFSDTR500HD 500GB Freesat + HD Digital TV Recorder, which brings you Freesat HD in all its glory! Pause, rewind and - thanks to a 500GB hard dive built in to this sleek receiver - record up to 300 hours in one go.
The Goodmans GFSDTR500HD 500GB Freesat + HD Digital TV Recorder offers a cornucopia of High Definition entertainment options. And with easy installation, auto-channel-tuning plus onscreen menus and an eight-day electronic program guide at your fingertips, it's simple and quick to get up and running. An HDMI port ensures compression-free connection to your HD TV set, and this forward-looking digital satellite receiver also comes with an Ethernet connection for future broadband connection - required for access to BBC iPlayer and ITV Player.
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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful
I have both this PVR and the similar Humax Foxsat-HDR. Based on these Amazon reviews, the Humax seems to be more popular, but I think the Goodmans is much better.
To me the picture quality is the most important feature, and the picture upscaler in the Goodmans is vastly superior to the Humax. The quality of the up-scaled SD channels is stunning and close to the quality of HD channels from a short distance away from the TV. The Humax is blockier and more pixelated, and doesnt handle movement nearly as well. I dont like to use the Humax any more as the picture quality is very noticeably worse.
One downside to the Goodmans is that the fan can be quite noisy, especially after the box has been on for a while. When you put the box in standby mode the fan continues to spin for a couple of minutes to cool down the hard disk before it powers off. I thought I had a faulty box because the fan was so loud, but you dont notice it at all when the TV is on, only when its shutting down. It would probably be quite easy to open the box up and replace the fan with a quieter one and I'll probably do this when the warranty has expired. At the same time I will probably fit a larger hard disk, as its possible to do this.
In my opinion this is the best freesat-HD PVR you can get for the money, I would say that is better than the Humax because of the picture quality, otherwise they're both quite similar.
To me the picture quality is the most important feature, and the picture upscaler in the Goodmans is vastly superior to the Humax. The quality of the up-scaled SD channels is stunning and close to the quality of HD channels from a short distance away from the TV. The Humax is blockier and more pixelated, and doesnt handle movement nearly as well. I dont like to use the Humax any more as the picture quality is very noticeably worse.
One downside to the Goodmans is that the fan can be quite noisy, especially after the box has been on for a while. When you put the box in standby mode the fan continues to spin for a couple of minutes to cool down the hard disk before it powers off. I thought I had a faulty box because the fan was so loud, but you dont notice it at all when the TV is on, only when its shutting down. It would probably be quite easy to open the box up and replace the fan with a quieter one and I'll probably do this when the warranty has expired. At the same time I will probably fit a larger hard disk, as its possible to do this.
In my opinion this is the best freesat-HD PVR you can get for the money, I would say that is better than the Humax because of the picture quality, otherwise they're both quite similar.
26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
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There really isnt much to choose from if your looking for Freesat+ boxes. If you have the money Panasonic do very good box combined with a blu-ray recorder/player but it is very expensive.
In this price bracket the competition is really with the probably more popular Humax box, which itself is far from perfect and has many niggling faults and omissions.
In many respects this is very similar - it is far from perfect but it does the job. The remote is much better set out than the Humax and doesn't appear to suffer the very annoying delays after pressing buttons for anything to happen - take note Humax.
It is however rather noisy - more so than the Humax and I did find this difficult to get used to.
Overall you will probably be happy with this unit, just don't expect it to be perfect and bug free - non of them are.
In this price bracket the competition is really with the probably more popular Humax box, which itself is far from perfect and has many niggling faults and omissions.
In many respects this is very similar - it is far from perfect but it does the job. The remote is much better set out than the Humax and doesn't appear to suffer the very annoying delays after pressing buttons for anything to happen - take note Humax.
It is however rather noisy - more so than the Humax and I did find this difficult to get used to.
Overall you will probably be happy with this unit, just don't expect it to be perfect and bug free - non of them are.
51 of 54 people found the following review helpful
I decided to get a new freesat HD digital TV recorder as I already had a Goodmans 80G terrestrial recorder and I found it reliable and easy to use. So I looked at the reviews for the Goodmans GFSDTR500HD Freesat recorders and I was suprised to see that the Humax Foxsat 320GB freesat + HD recorder came out best in comparison so I decided as they say its the best one to have I will get one. ( Big Mistake ) I could not get on with the remote control at all I was also having messages telling me that there is a problem and it could not do something but it did not say what it wanted to do. Then finally it just froze and I could not do anything with it at all even after unpluging it for a time it would not respond so I took it back where I got it from and asked them to swap it for a Goodmans 500HD but they would not so I asked for my money back and orderd one from Amazon and it arrived the next day all that I can say is it is much better in every way than the Humex one the remote controle is smaller and laid out much better I would Recomend it to anyone and the fan is not realy a problem I can hardly hear it at all.
P/S look up on the net Humex recorders freezing all the time they do not tell you about that just the good bits.
P/S look up on the net Humex recorders freezing all the time they do not tell you about that just the good bits.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
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Originally received the Goodmans model but this got exchanged for the Grundig, but they are the same machine but different name. Read more
Published 11 days ago by Kevin Smith
Mine is very unreliable too
Mine was pretty rubbish too. Same as previous complaints. Doesn't record BBC HD but does record the SD channels. Read more
Published 1 month ago by T. I. Waldron
You get what you pay for I guess
It works when it wants to Im afraid. Had it for six months now and it sometimes says its recording and when you go back to watch it - its not there, which as you can imagine is... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mrs. N. C. Kelly
Noisy
When I first connected this box I was so alarmed by the loud noise coming from the fan (a noise which continues for some minutes after it's been switched to stand-by mode) that I... Read more
Published 1 month ago by John Williams
not bad
i suppose some could argue that this bit of kit is dear enough but its always worth recalling that its a one off payment. Read more
Published 2 months ago by sean paul mccann
Goodmans 500GB Freesat HD Digital TV Recorder (GFSDTR500HD
THIS WILL BE MY THIRD GOODMAN FREESAT HD PVR.
AMAZON AS USUAL ARE 1st CLASS WHEN IT COMES TO RETURNS ETC . Read more
AMAZON AS USUAL ARE 1st CLASS WHEN IT COMES TO RETURNS ETC . Read more
Published 2 months ago by TED
Grrr
Well:
It doesn't like starting up, often switching back off after you have pressed the start button. Read more
It doesn't like starting up, often switching back off after you have pressed the start button. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Jharcourt
goodmans
this freesat box is very easy to set up and simple to use,my only gripe is with the channel up and down buttons on the remote control which are situated at the bottom right hand... Read more
Published 6 months ago by jimbo
Keeps wiping recordings
What a waste of money - it keeps wiping recordings at random, and often fails to record them at all in the first place. Read more
Published 6 months ago by scarfie
mine was rubbish
I bought one of these boxes about 18 months ago. Very easy to set up very good picture very simple to use when working right but incredibly temperamental. Very noisy. Read more
Published 6 months ago by David Pillinger
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