Haven’t Christmas lights been LED for 15 years or more? It seems like a long time since I’ve seen those tiny filament bulbs.
Indeed, the ability to turn it off "glass" without being forced into an accessibility UI for the visually impaired.
Filament bulb tree lights still exist. Still see them in stores seasonally. Though the LED lights that are more in the 2D rope or string style design, sometimes marketed as fairy lights, are far easier to put on and take off the tree.
Yeah, almost shocking, especially if they don't intend to tone in down more before GM. But their movies are making money 😅
Yes, and LED lights are hugely more efficient, [and the warm white strands are good] but until recently, manufacturers haven't bothered to faithfully recreate the other colors of the incandescent bulbs, so those of us who grew up with "vintage" lights see the odd colors of the LED strands in neighbors' yards and think they look like PC gaming computers or, as the YT channel linked below said, a vape shop. Of course, a new generation will grow up with the vape shop colors and be nostalgic for those when they're older.
ok, I'm not "clear" (sorry but it works; um what I wrote works, not the clear icons(the real con).
Mass market cheap Christmas lights with LEDs arrived perhaps 10 years ago. The tiny incandescent bulbs breathed their last breath more recently. The problem is, most of those cheap LED Christmas lights make red, blue, green, and yellow, by using red, blue, green, and yellow LEDs - and the red, for instance, doesn't produce all wavelengths of red light, it produces one specific wavelength of red light - the waveform looks like a single spike, instead of a bell curve in the red section of the spectrum. Same for the other colors. It's not the warm glow we remember. The vape shop comment is hilarious but pretty much hits the mark. There are a few companies that make Christmas lights that start with white LEDs and then filter them to the desired colors physically (i.e. with little colored caps, or tints applied to the outside of the LED, which much more closely approximate the old school lights, giving off much warmer more enjoyable colors. The Technology Connections guy actually has a long-running series of videos on this, which are somewhat entertaining.
Shudder. The Butterfly Keyboard did eventually go away, but it plagued Mac laptops for years as the only choice. So I hope this isn't like that.
The vape shop colors bother me, but the Times Square / move marquee running lights patterns bother me even more. I loved the lights that were around in my childhood where some of the lights blinked on and off completely randomly. Then we got decades of abominations where the entire string would blink on/off together (so the tree would be blinking in 3-4 blocks, ugh). I ended up making my own Christmas lights for my front window, 7 or 8 years ago, by getting a reel of individually addressable RGB LEDs and an Arduino Uno, and writing software to make them all twinkle independently. I rather like the effect, but would love to have some company give me an even better version (LEDs have improved since then, controllers are much more capable), but mostly they go for the dazzling Times Square effects, rather than a sedate, cheerful, random twinkle.
