Philips AJ3600 Time Projection Clock Radio

I just received this clock yesterday and have already fallen in love!

To avoid hitting the snooze or reset button(s) and never waking up, I keep my alarm clock across the room from my bed. This way I wake up enough to get out of bed and walk across the room before I hit any buttons. As my eyes are getting older it has become increasingly more difficult to focus on the clock when I wake up in the middle of the night.

When I decided that a projection clock would solve my problem of focusing on the clock in the middle of the night, I started to look around for one and I was not pleased with what was out there. I did not need nature sounds, nor did I need a light to turn on as part of the alarm. I do not have an MP3 player to dock into my clock, and I do not need a complete weather report when I open my eyes (LOL, I will find that out soon enough when I shlep out of bed and let the dogs outside!). I do not need to know what time the alarm is set (I just...Read more

I'm replacing a similar sharper image projection clock. My complaint with that one was the main display would only light up if the snooze button was hit. I was looking for a projection clock where the display was always on. The AJ3600 has that feature! The huge disappointment was the projection piece; which most likely is the reason you're considering this clock.

You can only rotate the projected image 180 degrees. Most allow 90 degrees rotation. The reason this is a gigantic issue is if you're laying in bed and the clock is facing you and you look up, the image will not read left to right! It's off by 90 degrees!! If you're fine with that, you also need to be fine with the clock to your right. This is because the projection shoots at an angle (up and left). If it's to your left, the image will be projected onto you wall (not ceiling!). Ugh.
The only way to make the clock read left to right is to face the clock out (so you cannot read the display from...Read more

A good bedside clock is very important...it's probably the first and last thing you see/hear before you are off to bed. So what of the Philips Wake up & Beam! Project clock radio? Decent, needs improvements!

First, as a clock, it's fine...good orange glow with 3 dim settings and very large digital display, although when laying in bed, I cannot exactly see the dark black of the letters against the orange glow at certain angles.

Setting the alarms is extremely easy, you get one on the left and on the on right side of the LCD display...you can set to beep, sound or radio...and a large snooze button on top, which I find irresistable to hit!

Radio works great, there is a long antennae included...and the LCD shows the station numbers very clearly. One of the problems with the radio is that there is only one speaker on the side of the clock so the sound is a bit not-balanced, because the other size of the clock has the projection. The other problem I...Read more