Philips MCI-500H review

Typical price: £400

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What is it: HDD-based jukebox and networked audio streamer

What we think: A solid offering for the price, but its feature set doesn't attempt going the extra mile

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Our Rating

7.6

User Rating

5.0

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	Philips MCI-500H	Apple iPod classic (2nd gen)	Apple iPod Photo (30GB)	Apple iPod classic
Review date	19 Sep 08	16 Sep 08	25 Mar 05	18 Sep 07
Editor's rating	7.6	9.1	9.0	9.0
Price range	£400			£197.98 - £197.98
Review summary	The MCI-500H is an attractive, well-built and painfully easy-to-use system for anyone who wants a living room jukebox, music streamer, Internet radio and CD player in one unit. But for a higher CNET UK rating, we would want lossless audio, RSS feed support for listening to podcasts, faster CD ripping and standard speaker terminals Read full review	120GB of storage and the addition of the Genius feature, makes up for the slightly reduced battery life over the previous model, reaffirming the iPod classic as our favourite portable audio player on record Read full review	The iPod Photo is a beautiful and versatile device with a new, affordable price. The 30GB version is a particularly good value at only £45 more than the audio-only 20GB version Read full review	Apple has not only exceeded our expectations, it's exceeded ones we didn't even have. The iPod classic is a superb audio player with a huge wealth of well-integrated features and intuitive navigation. Our only real concern is that menus can be laggy. Apart from that, outstanding Read full review
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