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CES 2022: Sengled Debuts New Smart TV Light Strips and Outdoor String Lights

chewbaka said:
So you can finally watch your favorite movies as the director intended ?

Can’t say I understand how illuminating the wall behind your TV makes the experience more “immersive.” If anything it’s less.
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You don't like it, OK, whatever.

BUT

insisting you won't like it without ever having even tried it? Hmm, there's a word for behavior like that.


And WTF's with this "watch the movie as the director intended"? These people who insist they are such independent souls, move to the beat of a different drum, refuse to follow the crowd, do things there own way -- but OMG, we must watch the movie in the one true manner with not a single deviation from the directive of the fuhrer!

The movie exists for MY viewing pleasure, and I'll watch it how I damn well like, whether that's with colors cranked to the max, on my iPad, with colored LEDs behind the TV, or in half hour chunks as a I do my exercises.
 
Lights illuminating around the edges of the tv while watching a movie is not immersive viewing experience.
It is just distracting disco light crap.
 
brunerd said:
I'm curious about the TV product but it doesn't seem to have HMDI in like Dreamscreen 4K did. It has a mic for "dynamic sync" but if it doesn't match the colors on screen then that just doesn't do it for me. I was a fan of the Philips Ambilight TVs back in the day and have sorely missed having them in the US. Dreamscreen 4K is pretty good, but they are now defunct. At least these things are getting more prevalent and prices are dropping...
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I was sad Dreamscreen shut down. They seemed to be the only ones who used an HDMI hookup to capture the image on screen. I think Philips Hue is now starting to do something similar but no one has really filled that niche yet.
 
red elma said:
Lights illuminating around the edges of the tv while watching a movie is not immersive viewing experience.
It is just distracting disco light crap.
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Actually, I have similar product on my TV with the camera watching the colors on the screen and different colors on different sides of the TV, and it honestly is very immersive, if you remove the objects that create shadows on your wall from the lights. It's not distracting at all. What is distracting, is my daughter asking my 100 questions during a movie.
 
name99 said:
The best you can do right now is power the TV light-strips via the TV's USB port.
Then power down the TV (via homekit if it's a homekit TV, or a smart plug) as appropriate (eg when you leave the house).

That's what I do and I'm happy with it.
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I have a HomeKit tv light strip already but not one that uses the colors from the tv screen
 
RobNYC said:
I was sad Dreamscreen shut down. They seemed to be the only ones who used an HDMI hookup to capture the image on screen. I think Philips Hue is now starting to do something similar but no one has really filled that niche yet.
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This does say video sync and shows images of such
 
Rychiar said:
I have a HomeKit tv light strip already but not one that uses the colors from the tv screen
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How do you want to get the colors from the TV screen?
You can use govee (camera on top, also USB powered). This works but the govee app kinda sucks, especially the procedure for calibrating the camera; and the lag is noticeable.
The newest Hue sync apparently (finally!) handles 4K and HDR, but seems to still have teething troubles, and it will cost you a pretty penny for the box plus compatible light strips.

I would say, based on my experience, that
- TV LEDs are really nice, worth getting BUT
- sync with the image on screen is less important than you might imagine.
After various more sophisticated versions, my current scheme is basic colored LEDs that came with a 16 color remote, and I find that choosing a color that matches the mood of a movie gets me pretty much all the win.

I think built-in Ambilight (with multiple color "modes") is the ideal, but in its absence I personally don't see the extra "precision" of Govee, let alone Hue Sync, as being worth the hassle/cost.
 
name99 said:
How do you want to get the colors from the TV screen?
You can use govee (camera on top, also USB powered). This works but the govee app kinda sucks, especially the procedure for calibrating the camera; and the lag is noticeable.
The newest Hue sync apparently (finally!) handles 4K and HDR, but seems to still have teething troubles, and it will cost you a pretty penny for the box plus compatible light strips.

I would say, based on my experience, that
- TV LEDs are really nice, worth getting BUT
- sync with the image on screen is less important than you might imagine.
After various more sophisticated versions, my current scheme is basic colored LEDs that came with a 16 color remote, and I find that choosing a color that matches the mood of a movie gets me pretty much all the win.

I think built-in Ambilight (with multiple color "modes") is the ideal, but in its absence I personally don't see the extra "precision" of Govee, let alone Hue Sync, as being worth the hassle/cost.
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This light says it has video sync... I imagine it plugs into HDMI and gets the colors??‍♂️. if not its kinda worthless
 
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Rychiar said:
This light says it has video sync... I imagine it plugs into HDMI and gets the colors??‍♂️. if not its kinda worthless
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Apparently it uses a camera. So just like Govee. With the same issues as Govee (though maybe with an app UI that isn't quite as totally useless as Govee's...)

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Sengled wins CES 2022 for me with this LED TV light strip

This LED TV light strip means gaming will never be the same again
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