Philips Showline MCP9350I

interesting proprietary software, quiet, great connectivity

Strange artefacts on DVD and broadcast pictures

Also unusual is the presence of S-video, composite video and analogue stereo inputs, and two sets to boot. They allow you to connect other video sources, such as a cable or Sky set-top box and, if you connect an IR blaster lead or two, you can...

Good design ; plenty of input/output options ; quiet

Analogue tuners ; only 512MB of Ram

The lack of digital tuners is a real disappointment and prevents what is otherwise a quality Media Center scoring higher

Like most other Windows XP Media Center edition machines, the configuration and operation of the device is remarkably simple.

As another function of XP Media Center allows the computer to act as a PVR, the 250GB hard disk space seems a bit weak.