Page 1 of Victory over Dixons - Grundig GDV230

Hi all,

Just thought I`d drop a short note to let you know of my trials and travails with the GDV230.

I bought the player in November after the Dixons sales assistant recommended it as being multi-region hackable. Well... after months spent searching this site (and many others) for a remote hack I came up empty handed. I went back to Dixons in February to ask again and the assistant this time recommended the Samsung M105 but couldn`t offer me an exchange.

Unhappy with this, I went home and penned a three page rant to Dixons head office slamming their lousy service and demanding they do something about it.

Finally, today, I took possession of a new M105 after Dixons wrote me a grovelling apology and agreed to take the s***ty Grundig off my hands.

Who says it doesn`t pay to complain? I would recommend any other people out there who ended up saddled with a GDV230 take similar action.

I`m off to hack my player (provided I have the right firmware that is :-)

Bill