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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:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 6076
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
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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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 10 more reviews...
 Simple, Works Well, Good Value for Money September 30, 2008
Matthew Browne
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really like having internet radio away from PC on a proper sound system. Hooking it up to my router was simple... search, select my network, enter my WEP key and it was working right away.
The selection of stations is excellent. Any time I miss a show on NPR or CBC (public radio) I can usually find it again in another time zone.
The streaming from the PC is a bit trickier in that I had to configure my PC for sharing. The sharing feature of Windows Media player is not an obvious button to click. On top of that, I had to configure my firewall etc... to work with the NP1100. It's all PC related stuff and not to do with the device itself which worked well.
None the less, the user manual (once I looked at it) helped me through it quite well. Start early with the user manual for this part and you should be fine.
I haven't had the chance to play with the Rhapsody on-line service feature yet. However, it sounds like a cool way to get access to new music.
The big, black and white display is a bit chunky close up, but quite visible from across the room. It would be nice if a slicker colour version is in the future, but the the back and white does the job.
In terms of sound quality, I'm sure this has more to do with the recording quality of the content and my stereo than the device itself. So far everything sounds good to me on it.
Overall, the device worked well and I'm happy to have internet radio freed from my PC with a small simple device.
 Not that great, and heavily overpriced. September 15, 2008
W. Grose (Minnesota)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Style-wise, this is actually quite a nifty-looking product. But the praise ends there.
The box tells you that it works with "any" Windows Media Player, but apparently this only means Windows Media Player 11. Since most music lovers use iTunes (going by Apple's market-share due to iPod sales), one has to wonder what Philips were thinking with this release. It was a pain to set up, failing to detect my WPA network, the screen is absolutely horrendous, with the refresh rate on par with the Earth's rotation around the sun. You're then stuck with the aforementioned Windows Media Player and this Streamium, a device that randomly locks up (needing a plug-pull from the wall), and, aside from the power button, all the controls are on the included remote. Don't lose it!
The Apple Airport Express does the same thing for much less, albeit without the screen/remote, but has more uses such as wireless printing support, bridging modes etc.
I really don't recommend this device unless you're a Rhapsody subscriber. It's simply not worth it.
Does what it says and does it well ! September 10, 2008
Jasper V
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just bought myself a second Streamium NP1100 after I used my first one for two weeks. I now have one in my living room and one in my study. The installation was pretty straightforward and I got the thing working almost instantly. I mainly use internet radio and I love Rhapsody so I hardly use it to listen to my own music from my PC. A friend of mine has a Squeezebox which is nice but a bit too expensive and complicated for me (at least that is what I experienced when I was playing with that one). For me this Philips products does what it says and does it well!
Great device, really Simplicity ! August 30, 2008
Blechtrottel (USA, San Jose)
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
Freebee (Vancouver, BC)
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.
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