Philips MCI-500H user reviews

pren 6 December 2008

Good: Many features

Bad: Some basic features not working

Comment: I bought it octobe 31 2008 and have been using it for over a mounth. The advanced features are working which is good but some of the more basic functions are not which is annoying and seems strange for a company like Philips. I have listed them below. They are reported to Philips and they have answered that they are aware of the problems and working on it. Maybe they will update the firmware sometime in the future. I have version 1.04.3131.

- The display settings is not saved when turning the device off, when you turn it on again the display setting is set to default, so you have to change it every time if you don't like the default setting.
- The FM radio RDS is not activated when you turn on the device, you have to activate it using the remote, it also gets activated if you change anything from the settings menue (strange).
- The auto time sync function is not working, when you turn off the device it say "no station registerd" even if there is a radio station registered. May have something to do with the RDS not is activated automatically.
- When you play tracks from the harddisk and turn on the shuffle function it sometimes comes back to the same track after about 10 tracks even if there are many more tracks to select from, you end up repeating these 10 tracks.
- The philips web-page for selecting favorite internet radio stations are not allowing you to connect to the RadioIO site. Even though they have prepared activation for this. I have a valid sounpass acount that can be used from the RadioIO web but it is not possible to be used with this device.