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Summary: OK, but there's better stuff out there for the money
Review: ....I think this thing is sortof nice the way it has an integrated Tape and CD, but generally I think it is really crappy compared to the Turtle Beach Audiotron. Granted that unit is designed to be connected to a real stereo, and not imitate a real stereo like this unit, but the support for formats, and features is 400% better on that unit. The Audiotron is also able to play icecast and shoutcast...
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Summary: from an insider
Review: coming from someone who worked on this project, the fw-i1000 is super cool. i have one sitting next to me right now as i write this. you can listen to music from all over the world, music you wouldn't be able to get by conventional radio. it does have problems, though.the connection can sometimes be flaky, and if there is other internet traffic over your link, the music sometimes gets choppy. on the whole, though, a brilliant product.
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Summary: WARNING: THIS IS *NOT* AN INTERNET RADIO
Review: Hello, I've just gotten one of the production units as a review loaner and I want to warn people who are expecting to use this unit to listen to Internet radio: You can't. (At least it won't work like you expect.) No BBC. No Voice of America. No local FM stations. No World Radio Network. No NPR feed. Why? Because if it's not an MP3 stream--and most Internet radio stations aren't and never will be--this device will not hear it. This is the same way iTunes works and it, too, has a very limited selection of stations. The reason for this is the lack of a Real Audio or Windows Media Player inside the device. Real is the format of choice for Internet radio, but using it today requires a PC of some sort to run the client software. If you'd like a Real Audio-based Internet Radio, check out the Bose Wave/PC instead. I really wanted to love this unit--which I had imagined would work like my dearly-departed Kerbango (which did have Real Audio built-in)--but, alas, it's a huge disappointment. Calling this an Internet radio is misrepresentation, if not legally, at least intellectually. David Coursey
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Summary: philips FW-i1000
Review: I was a beta tester for this philips product. I am not a employee of philips. I have had this unit for last 7 mo. The quality is there I do like the fact that the speakers are housed in wood and not plastic. I have cox@home and the hookup to the cable is best used with a router netgear 314. had problems with a hub. This way you can have the FW-i1000 and the computer on at the same time. The mp3when run from computer connected by the iMjukebox really sound great and you are listening to them through the 240 watts instead of your computer speaker system. The Inet radio is similar to the one on the computer except now it is controlled throught the FW-i1000. I do beleive that you do get more boom for your money.
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Summary: Philips Internet Audio System (Beta tester also)
Review: I was also one of those fortunate few to beta test this unit. Plain and simply, I love it! This unit could be a stand-alone stereo for a small household or the family room. The other reviews are accurate, so I'm not going to restate what's already been said. We are told that the released units have had a few changes over the units we tested thanks to our recommendations. They've added the ability to manually set the IP address and have improved the buffering. Mine did hicup occasionally. In my house, I have an internal network with 5 computers and this Philips stereo/Internet radio unit and it still ran great! We received a photocopied manual for review. I can say that this is different then anything else you have used. Does one really read the manual to set up an AM-FM radio? No. But with this, since it is an entireley new concept, read the manual. One nice item is that you can also play your MP3 files from another computer on the network and set up your own playlists. What this means is that you can either pick an Internet radio station or simply play your MP3 files from within your network. Overall, the unit is great. Speakers for their size are great. Stations, great. Operation, after you get the nack, is great. It has an audio out jack. With simply RCA cables, I wired it to my home stereo system which covers the entire house and outdoors. This meant I had the benefit of the entire Internet and my MP3 files throughout the entire house! Now that's great!
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Summary: Boom'n Internet Enabled Mp3 Box
Review: I was chosen by Philips to beta test this beast, and I enjoyed every moment of it. At first I couldn't get it connected to the net, but then noticed I had DHCP turned off on my router. In this broadband world we're in, I think most people would have a router to share a cable modem or dorm type ethernet connection among computers. Anyways, after the beast was connected all was good, I downloaded the JukeBox player software from IM Networks, I believe it is now known as Sonic Box. The JukeBox leaves alot to be desired and is mediocre at best. The software allows you to stream Mp3's from your hard drive to the Fw-i1000, sound quality is great. Indeed this box does boom, it has a feature called wOOx technology, with these cool little woofers atop the left and right speakers, with the wOOx level on 3 (the highest) you can definitely feel it. Push the connect and you have a whole world of internet radio stations at your fingertips. The remote is really easy to use, I never really found a use for the tape player, and the CD player didn't get much play. I had fun playing with it and it makes a great addition to my computer den.
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Summary: I beta-tested this unit for the last 3 months...
Review: I was one of a hundred lucky people who got to beta test this unit for FREE from Philips. To start off, let me say that the cd, tape, regular radio, volume, etc. are all just like any other player on the market and perform quite well. Where this box distinguishes itself is the internet connectivity. I used the box with both a DSL and T1 (at work) line and it was pretty solid, it didn't have any connection problems or anything. At first, I liked the idea of having lots of internet radio channels, but in reality, I found that I couldn't find stations that played more of what I wanted to hear than my regular old FM stations. So check out the IM network to make sure there are things you want to listen to over the internet first. If you do find things, I will say that the sound quality, even at the lowest compression setting was very good. Okay, so a couple of other cool things I liked about this, I liked being able to set radio stations using the IM networks web site that were then sent down to my box, that was cool since it is harder to search for stations using the buttons on the unit. I also liked sending MP3's to the unit, my only complaint is that most of my MP3's weren't named properly so that they would display on the unit screen the title etc. If you've got a network in your house though, you could send mp3's from any PC to your unit which is really neat. ....
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Summary: Great for the Office
Review: I was one of the 100 beta-testers for this FW-i1000. I use the set in my home office, where it is hooked up to the internet via cable modem. It's a great little stereo, much better than listening to internet audio and MP3's over my cheap computer speakers. The ability to create MP3 playlists and stream them from your computer to the i1000 is a big plus for me. I'm impressed with the sound quality for a bookshelf system of this size - it won't rival my dedicated home theater system, but it also costs a lot less. Overall, I'm very happy with the FW-i1000 - all the features of a regular bookshelf system, plus internet audio!
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Summary: Well, "Used" to be a 5 Star'er
Review: I've used this for box for years, thought it was the coolest thing, but now it is not able to connect to any Inet stations (all I use it for really). Soo.. if you are thinking of buying one used, might wanna research to make sure it still works with net stations... (if thats something you are buying it for) I just bought a MC-i250 (the newer one from Philips) has more features (plays MP3s, but is less power - 100watts)
Just wish the fw-i1000 still worked over the net
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Summary: Well, "Used" to be a 5 Star'er
Review: I've used this for box for years, thought it was the coolest thing, but now it is not able to connect to any Inet stations (all I use it for really). Soo.. if you are thinking of buying one used, might wanna research to make sure it still works with net stations... (if thats something you are buying it for) I just bought a MC-i250 (the newer one from Philips) has more features (plays MP3s, but is less power - 100watts)
Just wish the fw-i1000 still worked over the net
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