A month after launching a £200 in-car DAB radio that it claimed would work with existing FM car aerials, Goodmans is being forced to backtrack and admit that many owners will need to have new aerials fitted – that’s according to Barry Fox in this week’s ERT.
This is because around one third of all new cars (including VW, Vauxhall, Audi, Renault, BMW and Mini) come factory fitted with ‘active’ aerials that amplify FM signals, but completely block DAB signals. As a result, Goodmans has had to post an addendum with every GCE7007DAB’s instruction book and also on its website (www.goodmansdigital.co.uk)
Initially Goodmans had claimed that fitting its DAB radio was a five minute job with no need to drill holes in the body work. Now it seems many owners will have to buy a new aerial and get it fitted professionally. There are two helpline numbers (0870 873 0080 and 01132 868613) for customers and dealers to call for advice about the problem.
filed by chris@chrisprice.net
I have a goodmans gdc 3116 tft digital camera whichi can not run on windows xp as its not compatable.Can you instruct me how i can down load a proper program so it will download the photos.
thanks
Posted by: Ivan | September 18, 2003 at 09:17 PM
I have a goodmans gdc 3116 tft digital camera and it works very well under windows xp, just install it properly and you wont have any problems, try reading the instructions that came with it, pay particular attention to the ammendment labelled INSTALLING UNDER WINDOWS XP
Posted by: Ian | December 09, 2003 at 08:40 PM
Siema ! SIEMA !
Posted by: Dzwonki Polifoniczne | December 20, 2004 at 09:07 PM
I have a Goodmans GDC 3116TFT camera, it works but all the photos are very dark, I tried to change the settings but the photos still are dark.What can I do?
Posted by: Diana | February 13, 2005 at 12:01 PM
Jur purchased a Goodmans digital camera model 3116. Unflortunately installation disc doest not work property and I cannot get computer to recognise camera connection and download camera pictures. Any help would be brilliant, as I am stuck otherwise. HAs anyone else experienced similar problems and overcome them or is my installation disc useless.
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Posted by: Julie Rainbird | October 16, 2005 at 12:08 AM