Philips media player review

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Review Philips' media player range has been undergoing something of a renaissance of late. Both its Spark and Opus players struck us as a thoroughly respectable little devices that sounded good, worked well and represented decent value.

Now Philips has released the Muse and, even from a cursory glance at the spec sheet, it is clear that Philips has raised its game. In the hand, the Muse looks more like a thin mobile phone than a media player. The lettering on the fascia clearly indicates that the device is supposed to be held landscape-style, with the controls to the right of the 3in screen. Yet, even after a week of use we still tended to pick it up and hold it so the controls were at the bottom.

Physically, the Muse is a solid device, and a smart one too, with its brushed metal back and sides and glossy black fascia housing a flush screen. It won't take up too much pocket space either, measuring up at x 8. Philips has still to take the leap into the world of touchscreen navigation, so the Muse makes do with more traditional controls.

Interface manoeuvres are performed with a two-piece navpad adjacent to the screen. The Muse boasts a far more comprehensive raft of codec support than previous Philips media players. UK tabletop wargames specialist Games Workshop has published the latest chapter in the long-running saga of how mighty IT warriors valiantly battled the intransigent forces of ERP.

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Philips makes no representations or warranties of any kind with regard to any third-party websites or the information contained therein. Explore our full Media players range. Ultra HD. Wide Color Gamut. Smoother more realistic color gradations 4K Blu-ray format supports color encoding in bit, which means 4K Blu-ray images can have over a billion colors making movie night an even more delightful experience.

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