Philips Streamium SL400i Reviews

Our sister blog PVR Wire just took Philips' Streamium SL400i media extender for a test drive, but unfortunately they never really got it out of first gear. Martin Conaghan over at the 'Wire (who may be the only member of the WIN family save for the titula...

Flexible Wi-Fi video and music streaming with style.

Extremely flexible Slick looks

Awkward navigation

We love the way that the display on the device mimics what's shown on your telly. It means that you can hook the SL400i up to a hi-fi or surround sound system and navigate your music library without having to switch on your telly

The rack-size Philips Streamium SL400i streams media from a PC or over the Internet, by cable or by air: is it the holy grail of media extenders?

Does not play well with others.

As with other reviewers on this site, I found setup fairly painless, but after the Streamium SL400i was installed I found that it had clobbered several other devices on my system, including my ATI All-in-wonder card and my Roland M-1000 digital line mixer...

Stay away from philips!

I had an earlier model of the philips streamium range ( just over 1 year old) and they are already reducing the range of services for it. This was done without warning, emailed them to find out why and it took 3 weeks to reply, with a very short one line

First generation product; works but lots of small flaws

Having finally converted my 600+ music CDs into MP3s and stored them on the hard drive of my home PC a couple of months ago, I had been looking for an elegant way to link up the PC with my living room hi-fi stack ever since. \n \nSo I naturally jumped at