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Freeview Upscaling - Goodmans GDB15HD
Posted on March 16th, 2009 23 commentsDeadFredVideo asked:
In this video i look at a cheap and simple way of improving freeview picture quality on a HD TV… Throw out the old set top box and buy a new upscaling freeview box! Its cheap, and greatly improves picture quality
Freeview Set Top Box featured is a: - Goodmans GDB15HD - £30 in Argos (Shows as a Bush box at £35) …
23 responses to “Freeview Upscaling - Goodmans GDB15HD”
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bellendbellend1 March 18th, 2009 at 22:11
Oh thanks for **** all you cunt
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mixindave1 March 20th, 2009 at 14:11
freeview is just fake hd its nothing like the real thing. soon they are bringing real hd to freeview
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mixindave1 March 22nd, 2009 at 20:18
do tvs with freeview built in have upscaling? im prety sure they do my image is alot better than an external thompson freeview recorder box
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VeggieXD March 26th, 2009 at 03:09
Thanks dude! I saw a £30 Freeview Upscaling box on Misco. Don’t know what Brand it is though.
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gamerglazer March 27th, 2009 at 22:47
Hey dude,nice vid,i was wondering weather to get one of them HD upscaling digi boxes but my HD tv has a digi box fitted into it but i dnt kno if it is normal def or upscaled,do you know?
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cyclopsgd March 31st, 2009 at 11:44
oh that ok price coz i only 13 and buying out of birthday and christmas money for my xbox, thank i think i found 1 now any way it a bush 1 for £175 and on argos got 5 star rating
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DeadFredVideo April 3rd, 2009 at 20:22
It was £240 when i bought it June 07 so it should be able to to find it at around £200

Im not if its still on sale though, haven’t seen it in many stores lately
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cyclopsgd April 6th, 2009 at 22:18
how much was the tv coz i want to buy 1 and i only got bout £190 to spend
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DeadFredVideo April 8th, 2009 at 14:03
That should work brilliantly
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WHINElikeaTURBINE April 11th, 2009 at 01:30
hi quick question…..
if i buy a standard pc monitor with an HDMI socket…wud i be able to connect it to one of those goodmans freeview box and get TV on my pc monitor?? -
wedrinkmountaindew April 12th, 2009 at 12:01
the whole digital tv infrastructure was paid for by the british public via the tv licence money.itv,channel 4 and the rest got all their new gear for free.when you think about it,it was actually a bribe by the BBC
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explosiv0 April 13th, 2009 at 07:49
did you get a hdmi lead with it?
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m16inf16 April 14th, 2009 at 00:51
i got freeview for 3 pound super!!!!!! let me kno if you would like too
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DeadFredVideo April 16th, 2009 at 11:55
I think i might go for freesat at some point
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mixindave1 April 18th, 2009 at 14:48
now theres freesat i think thats the jump up for freeview viewers
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sspenc182 April 19th, 2009 at 20:27
ahh goodooo!
i was looking at some others and most come with HDD recording and stuff which is good but this is a cheap and cheerful option!
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DeadFredVideo April 23rd, 2009 at 05:39
Yeah it has those red/white audio outputs
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sspenc182 April 26th, 2009 at 06:02
hey, what audio ouputs does the box have?
is it the standard left/right out?
just that i’m thinking of using this to connect to my dell monitor via hdmi-dvi
so i’ll need external soundthanks
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brindy666 April 26th, 2009 at 14:16
great, that means i understood what i’d been learning today correctly! cheers.
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DeadFredVideo April 26th, 2009 at 18:45
Its just because i was using 1080i - im not 100% on how they work but interlaced (the “I”) refreshes half the image at one time giving it a jumpy effect

Progressive scan (the “P”) refreshes the whole image at a time so the video is much smoother
I use 720p now very smooth
The picture quality is brilliant no artifacts in interlaced or progressive modes
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brindy666 April 29th, 2009 at 06:49
hi, thanks for this. i’m still trying to get my head around all this, so apologies if this is wrong… but you mention that you get “jumping” on fast moving objects. is this because of the “up scaling” technology or because you’re watching it in 1080i and are observing interlacing artefacts? i.e. do you still get the jumps if you watch it in 720p?
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GAZBEROTTEN May 1st, 2009 at 23:25
Dead fred i forgot to add that since it can handle HD the HD channels can now arrive and we can watch them hehehehe
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GAZBEROTTEN May 4th, 2009 at 02:53
im going to buy one next week
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