The Philips Streamium is an internet micro hi-fi system (press release). You can use it to listen to internet radio stations or you can browse and listen to mp3s that are served off of your PC. You can see in the picture above on the left that the streamium is fairly small and fits in my TV stand. The blue device to the right of my VCR is my Linksys router to which my streamium is connected, and to the left of my VCR is my cable modem that the router's WAN port is connected to. One of the cables going off to the left runs from my router to my PC in the other room.

I posted a review on slashdot about a month ago about various problems with philips' streamium MCi-200. Probably the worst is that philips has strict control over which internet radio stations you can listen too, and that the pc-link function (which allows your pc to communicate with and act as a mp3 server to your streamium) only works on windows. Fortunately I managed to reverse engineer the pc-link protocol and I wrote my own pc-link server in perl, which can be run on any operating system with a perl interpreter installed.