Grundig GUD300HD DVB-T2 Freeview HD Box
Grundig and Goodmans have both launched similarly sounding and similarly looking Freeview HD boxes – which are in fact the same models only with a slightly different apppearance.
The finer details are a little sketchy right now, despite it being available to buy at Amazon and a host of other mail-order retailers (see the price comparison below for the cheapest price).
The device has two scart sockets, an HDMI socket required to link to your HD TV and an ethernet port which should be used to enable internet services like BBC’s iPlayer when it is made available on Freeview HD boxes later in the year. There is also a USB port for updating the firmware, although there is no indication whether this will allow playback of media files such as pictures, music or video files from removable USB storage.
As you would expect, the GUD300HD has an 8-day EPG and boasts the common ability to upscale standard definition Freeview signals in to high definition when used with a HD TV and HDMI cable. As with other devices, don’t expect these upscaled images to compare to the true HD channels provided by BBC and ITV.
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It appears from their sharing characteristics like the remote control,separate power supply, blue LED status light and, importantly, the same instruction manual apart from one or two minor changes that there are three other boxes using the same electronics but a different design casing.
These are the similarly numbered Alba STB300HD (Argos own brand that they purchased from Harvard who market the Grundig and Goodmans boxes in the UK), the Manhattan Plaza HDT 700 and the Tesco Technika STBHDH2010 (note the second H). The Alba has five control buttons on the front fascia which appears to be the only functional difference between all five boxes. The Technika instruction booklet even has a misprint directing people to the Manhattan site for support! See http://www.manhattan-receivers.com/index.php/support/