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Philips NP1100/37 Streamium Network Music Player with 3.0" B&W Display | 
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| Brand: Philips
Category: CE
Buy New: $179.99
Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 6974
Color: Silver/blk
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 4.1 x 7.7 x 1.5
MPN: NP1100/37
Model: NP1100/37
UPC: 609585152809
EAN: 0609585152809
ASIN: B0016O8HP4
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| Features:
| • | Compatible with Rhapsody music service (subscription required) | | • | Stream digital music from your PC | | • | Listen to hundreds of free Internet radio stations | | • | Large 3" B&W screen displays track and artist information | | • | Remote control included |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 28 more reviews...
 Great device, really Simplicity ! August 30, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the first time I've seen a very simple device. Once you turn it on and you've gone through the very logical steps of joining your wireless network you can use it straight away. There's no installation of PC-SW needed (like I saw for the Squeezebox) and there's no need to enter your email / create an account. Seems Philips really keeps up to its promise and makes devices very easy and simple to use. The display is indicated with 3", however when you take a ruler and check it is 4.1". Seems somewhere a typo happened ...
The Rhapsody free trial is also a great idea - it allows you to test first, and later decide to join this Service ...
The Internet radio is great. Looks like a vTuner face. It plays every station which I selected and there was no giggling sound or stuttering. Good done !
Finally, I love the idea of having a volume control in the device (even on line-out). So I can use one remote to control !
The display looks great, considering the money spend on this device ...
Good ! Hope Philips makes devices with color screen too and over also Servers in the US (I saw something like a MCi500H being available in Europe).
A nice device that does the job for me August 28, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have been looking around for a device that I can playback my mp3 music from my PC on my home audio wirelessly. After reading the comments on the various products, I have finally picked the NP1100 from Philips for its having a larger screen, pretty nice design, offering free Internet radio, and newer in the market at an attractive price. I'm especially attracted by the Internet Radio feature as I can listen to radio stations from abroad.
I have in my home a wifi router from D-Link, encrypted with WPA and pretty much everything else is default setting. My notebook PC is also connected to this router. Though there are a number of users reported the difficulty in making this unit work nicely in the home network, I thought I can give it a try and expect some challenges along the way.
So here is my experience. I took the player out from the box and connected the Red/White cables to my home audio aux input. I connected the power and go through the set up process. I entered the language preference, the date format, the time format, set the date, set the time, and then I choose the Wireless option to set up connection with my home wifi router.
The device quickly detected my wifi router, as well as my neighbors' routers. I picked my router, entered my WPA key using the remote control (which is similar to typing sms on mobile phone, but I must say that if it has intelligent input like auto-completion of word, it would be very nice), and click through a few options which are default settings. The whole thing took me a couple of minutes and it is pretty straight forward.
Next I tried to play the music from my PC. Since I already have the Windows Media Player version 11 running on my Windows XP, I just follow the instruction on the user manual to set up the Media Player. It took in my case about 15 seconds for the network player to see my PC music. It plays my PC music quite well on my home audio. Most of my MP3 music are ripped at 192 kbps. There is no distortion and so far I have not experienced any hiccup on the music playback.
Next I tried the Internet Radio. I was surprised that I was asked to do software upgrade. I accepted the upgrade and the device restarted itself. So it is quite nice that I can get software upgrade automatically. I give it try again to listen to the Internet Radio and it worked this time. The menu is a bit cumbersome and a lot of choices, which I guess it is good and also bad - the choice is many but it took me a while to find out how to go to desired station. After using this device for a while, I found that the number of radio stations offered is huge and I especially liked the fact that those are free and I can really listen to radio from abroad - French stations, Japanese stations etc.
For the Rhapsody, it is also quite nice. So far I haven't decided if I'd subscribe to the service (as I'm still enjoying the 30 days free trial) but the selection of music is indeed a lot. Most often now I just pick an editor pick and play the music.
Is the device perfect. Sorry, Philips, it is not. The display at close distance is definitely not nice, but after using it for a while the large display at a distance does help. I placed this network player on top of my home audio and I can see quite clearly the screen from a distance, which is about 7 ft away from my sofa. I can go through my collection of MP3 music on my PC or go through the large selection of Internet Radio stations quite easily from the player. But I think Philips should really improve on the scrolling speed as it would be better that I can see the whole song name without waiting for the song to scroll across the screen, slowly.
Things to improve - surely I really like to see the scrolling and display quality be improved for day to day use. Having said so, overall, I found this little device do the job nicely. It is easier to setup than what I have expected. The sound quality is really nice. And it does play my MP3 music from my notebook PC on my home audio without needing to worry about wiring. I'm happy that I can listen my music without needing to either play them out from my study room's PC speakers, or transfer them to my mp3 players in order to listen to them.
 Works as expected August 22, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Just to answer previous review:
1- The organisation of the music by folder: artist/album is performed by the server, not the device. Use a music server other than WMP such as Twonkyvision (twonkymedia) and you will be able to define the way you want to navigate (by Genre, titel of song, artist, artist and album, etc.).
2- The fact that this device (client) does not have a speaker is on purpose as this device is made to be connected to a HIFI system, there are MANY other devices with a speaker (musicpal, NOXON, etc.).
 Rhapsody in Black Box August 21, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I'm being generous with two stars.
This has been the most time consuming and annoying setup experience. It took three separate days to finally get it somewhat working. And something that is fairly useless when it does. The limitations and restrictions alone are enough to steer clear, as this is not ready for prime-time.
First of all, you must use Rhapsody (not free) and I don't know one person that uses it. You must use a PC and windows music files. You cannot use iTunes or a Mac. And your wireless connection is pure luck when you deal with all the settings problems. Creating any type of playlist is beyond me.
All I know is that I had to start the process of getting it to work in any form, countless times. Just when you think everything is fine, your input disappears, or it does not recognize your network, your settings or files. It's a very expensive clock radio, with crappy radio.
I admit that I am a bit spoiled as I have the Logitech Squeezebox Duet, and well, it's worth twice as much than this thing. I had the squeezebox connected in minutes, amazing function and sound, and most of all, works with itunes and a mac flawlessly.
The Streamium is ok for people that were sucked into Rhapsody, stuck with a PC, and have more patience than Laura Bush.
Sounds like a GREAT IDEA August 21, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I really got excited about this product. In theory, it was going to connect the music I have on my PC to my home stereo system. Cool beans. It took some work to connect the display panel to my receiver (I have a lot of products) and 40+ frustrating minutes to get the system up. I already had Media Center 11 so that part was a breeze. I followed all of the directions meticulously and waited with baited breath for the magic to happen. Nothing. Hmm. The system recognized my wireless connection, my PC, my existing music playlists and songs but every time I tried to play something, I received an error message or that the folder was empty. Huh? I double checked my PC and all of my music files on Media Center 11 played just fine from there.
I tried the Internet radio next. This worked fine but reception was spotty. I did not attempt the trial subscription to Rhapsody so I have no view on that option.
I tried to get the music files from my PC to work again but with no better luck. You can only contact Philips support via online so I am waiting to hear back from them. Whatever happened to phone support?
Point being, I am not a happy camper with this item. It held so much promise but delivered very little. I shall wait for the next newest and best out here with my fingers crossed.
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