Advantages: One off payment for a life times supply of extra channels Disadvantages: Does't give you access to sports channels, Sky 1 or any movie channels.
your taste, Grundig have another upgraded model on the market, the GDT-1500. It is slightly larger in size but is curvier and looks modern. However this is reflected in the price.
Remote Control
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If your button mad like me then your going to want to know the feel of the buttons! It has been designed with a curve so it sits snugly in your hand.
The button-layout is unchallenging and you've got all the buttons in the right places. See the picture below for a look!
On screen display
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All digital tuners have different screen layouts. Digital terrestrial has what's called and an open MHEG architecture, which basically means that a brand of tuner can design and add whatever it likes with the on screen displays.
Most of the new tuners like Grundig's GDT1000 has a built in TV guide ...
redballoon 17.03.2004 (16.03.2005)
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Advantages: Free TV Disadvantages: Freezes A Little
Who Are Grundig?
Grundig are a lovely little company, well they are getting bigger by the day, that make technology products such as digital boxes.
What's Freeview?
Freeview is like sky but you don't have to pay. Instead of the normal five channels you get on any TV you can get over 60 with a simple box.
What's The Connection?
Grundig produces a digital terrestrial receviers.
These receviers are basicly what you find inside a television but because most televisions are out of date they haven't been designed to pick up the extra channels. So Grundig have produced a box which plugs into your television to receive these extra channels.
What Do I Get?
If you decide to purchase the above model, GDT 1500, basicly what your getting is a small silver box. Also included is a power cable to plug the box into ...
ReviewDude 06.09.2004
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. The problem was choice - tons of it.
Then one day, I popped into Argos, and noticed a Sale catalogue - you know the ones, about a 10 page booklet for their Sale items. I noticed that they were selling this screen, at the reduced price of £999.00 - from the previous £1,500 that it was retailing for.
I went home, and decided to do a little research. Yeah the price was good, but if the quality was poor, then what would be the point. I checked out the Grundig website, and checked out the technical information on the screen. For those who are interested, then I have listed the technical information here for you ( Please dont flame my review, some people are genuinely interested in having such information - and yes I have taken this directly from the grundig website )
This screen is actually called a
Grundig Apollo 42" Plasma
Plasma TV ...
