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Nanoleaf Debuts 4D Lightstrip Kit and Ultra Black Hexagons
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My Hue HDMI Sync boxes support 4K HDR, Dolby Vision, the whole nine yards. It might once have been a constraining factor, but not anymore.
Why would you want light shining on the wall behind your tv? I don’t get it. Sounds distracting, especially if you’re trying to watch in the dark.
Hue’s approach would work well IF they bothered to update the sync hardware more than once a decade...
in my experience a camera solution can work, in principle, but it lives or dies by the quality of the software. The camera uses a fisheye lens and the software needs to
- correct for that when calibrating the camera view to the TV bounds. Every UI I have seen for that is garbage
- correct for light brightness received from different parts of the screen in terms of the lens. It’s difficult to be certain, but it certainly looks like this is usually done incorrectly, with some parts of the screen grossly overweighted with respect to others.
I want to like Nanoleaf, but they continually disappoint me on the SW side, so I fully expect them to fail on both these dimensions.
Yeah, they very recently updated to HDMI 2.0. Just in time to be basically unacceptable to anyone who’s planning an 8K tv purchase. That’s what I mean about them perpetually lagging the people most interested in buying their product…
Try it. It’s actually really nice. You can get basic kits on AMZ (colored leds and a remote control) for a few tens of dollars. That won’t give you light color sync, but most of the value is simply in having a dim but non-zero light behind your TV.
A Govee kit (include a camera) is a little more and will give you sync But I don’t recommend, their SW is so awful it does the job really badly compared to what it should be doing)
Looking at the specs, it has the same amount of LEDs per meter as the Govee T1 - 30 per meter. The Govee T2 has twice the amount. What I’m curious about is how good NanoLeac’s camera is and if their color transition is as good as Govee’s.
I almost pulled the trigger on Govee T2 but waiting for sale. Really curious if NamoLeaf 4D is a step up or same as T2.
I almost pulled the trigger on Govee T2 but waiting for sale. Really curious if NamoLeaf 4D is a step up or same as T2.
Ive had the nanoleaf triangles because they were the rage a bit back. Shelled out like 300 bucks for them.
First PSU: whistling that got so bad it caused me Headaches whenever the thing was on.
I wrote costumer service. In about 20 emails back and forth they kept asking the same questions. I had to repeatedly send pictures and Videos. Finally they said theyd send a new psu.
Weeks later I asked when they would send it. They said its stuck at the warehouse. Months later it finally arrived. I didnt complain because I did get it in the end.
Finally working I thought. But nope from then on they would mostly not be able to be switched on by Alexa and could not connect even to their app. If they did they reset and I had to set up everythin again. And then at one point they just stopped working and would not even reset. Wrote support and got generic answers to reset. I searched the forums and reddits and turns out that wasnt just me. That happened to many people. Aparently with the new lights coming out a bunch of older stuff stopped working. Same with the bulbs. Then Support started deleting posts and banning people in the reddit.
Thats when I took them off my wall and found burn marks on my wallpaper from the getting too warm. So yea 300 bucks for a bunch of plastic trash that companies like Govee do better and cheaper and the Govee stuff never stops working.
First PSU: whistling that got so bad it caused me Headaches whenever the thing was on.
I wrote costumer service. In about 20 emails back and forth they kept asking the same questions. I had to repeatedly send pictures and Videos. Finally they said theyd send a new psu.
Weeks later I asked when they would send it. They said its stuck at the warehouse. Months later it finally arrived. I didnt complain because I did get it in the end.
Finally working I thought. But nope from then on they would mostly not be able to be switched on by Alexa and could not connect even to their app. If they did they reset and I had to set up everythin again. And then at one point they just stopped working and would not even reset. Wrote support and got generic answers to reset. I searched the forums and reddits and turns out that wasnt just me. That happened to many people. Aparently with the new lights coming out a bunch of older stuff stopped working. Same with the bulbs. Then Support started deleting posts and banning people in the reddit.
Thats when I took them off my wall and found burn marks on my wallpaper from the getting too warm. So yea 300 bucks for a bunch of plastic trash that companies like Govee do better and cheaper and the Govee stuff never stops working.
8K processing will require 4x the CPU power of 4K processing. I'm guessing they have done the math and figured out that the cost to produce such a unit is prohibitively high for now. They'll wait until there are a lot more 8K TVs out there.
Sure that's the case now. But you're still paying $250 (without tax or the lightstrips or the Hue bridge). And then what happens when you get a new TV or the next gen consoles support higher res and quality? That's another $250 you'll be spending in a few short years. The Govee kits come with the lights and controller and can be found on sale for like $90-110