NEWS: Goodmans adds two affordable Freeview recorders

Andrew Everard 11 August 2007 17:53

Goodmans GHD8020F2

This is the GHD8020F2, one of two new digital set-top box/recorders just announced by Goodmans under the Freeview Playback banner. It has an 80GB hard drive good for 35 hours of recording, and will sell for around £130 when it hits the shops next month.

A month later the company will launch the GHD1621F2 (below), which has a 160GB hard drive for twice the recording capacity, and twin tuners to allow you to watch one channel while recording another. The price for that one is yet to be announced.

Goodmans GHD1621F2

Both units offer the ability to pause or rewind live TV, and either direct recording or time-shifting via an eight-day electronic programme guide, complete with Series Linkage to allow a whole series to be recorded.

The units will be on sale at outlets including Dixons, Currys and Sainsbury's.

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Andy Clough August 11, 2007 18:20

There's a full review of the GHD8020F2 in the new Ultimate Guide to Home Cinema, on sale Sept 6.

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About Andrew Everard

Andrew Everard, Audio Editor of Gramophone since November 1999 and What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision's Consulting Editor, read English at Queens' College, Cambridge a very long time ago! He started his journalistic career in 1982 on Haymarket's photographic magazines, and subsequently worked on What Hi-Fi?, High Fidelity, Audiophile and Home Cinema magazines, as well as contributing a monthly column to Japanese title HiVi.