Upgrade your home theater with the Philips Hue Play gradient
light strip and enjoy premium surround lighting that syncs
perfectly with the action on your screen. Now you can have a
smart LED TV backlight with flowing multicolor effects that blend
seamlessly together. Watch, listen, and play with more excitement
as your Hue lights dance, flash, dim and brighten with your
screen. This 75-inch LED light strip is designed specifically for
TV backlighting and fits 75-inch and larger wall-mounted or
standing TVs. Mounting brackets are included to make it easy to
place behind your TV for a secure fit. With a 45-degree light
projection, the light strip is set at the ideal angle for ambient
TV lighting. This color changing light strip has a premium
silicone sleeve with a matte, milky white finish. The sleeve
diffuses the light so all you see is the powerful light effect
without harsh reflections. Set-up is easy: 1) Place the included
mounting brackets on the back of your TV. 2) Position the light
strip within the brackets. 3) Use the Hue app to add your Play
gradient light strip to an entertainment zone. 4) Start enjoying
premium surround lighting that syncs to your favorite media. The
Play gradient light strip requires a Hue HDMI sync box and
Bridge, sold separately. Hue sync technology captures media
content through your HDMI devices before it reaches your screen
for an unmatched experience with accurate color matching and no
delay. The sync box is placed out of the way so that all you see
is the action on your screen with no distractions. Unlock the
full power of Philips Hue smart home lighting with the Bridge and
enjoy benefits like multi-room control, automations and smart
control from anywhere in the world. Philips Hue is the smart
lighting system that lights your home inside and out, all without
straining your Wi-Fi.
Review: It’s always a party with these lights. - Great lights.
Makes movies and anything you’re watching better. Try watching
The Force Awakens when Kylo Ren is fighting Rey and they’re
dueling it out with light sabers. Or, if you’re a raver like me,
open up YouTube and search for a DJ set and watch the lights go
crazy (in an awesome way). Lights are insanely easy to install.
Find the center at the top of your TV, take the center black clip
and peel back the adhesive and attach it to the top center at the
border of the tv. Then just stick on the remaining clips. I also
bought the hue light bulbs and I can now have a full-on dance
party. Tis all 🤷🏻♂️
Review: What you probably don’t know… - It does what you expect.
On top of the Gradient Lightstrip for my TV, I also bought the
play bars. You can isolate each light into individual colors. If
you’re not new to the LED scene, then know you should be familiar
with setting scenes with the app. When everything arrived, I
immediately started setting up. The first problem I had was
connecting the bridge to the internet. The first two lights came
on but not the third. Without being connected to the internet, I
can’t access the bridge with the app or move on with the rest of
the installation. The solution to that, was that I plugged the
network cable it came with from the bridge to the splitter I
have. Come to find out, the bridge doesn’t work with splitters.
Technically, the protocol doesn’t allow for it. You have to
directly connect it to the router. I have a 70 inch Samsung Smart
TV. I bought the 65” light strip. After setting up all the
lights, the bridge, and the sync box, I was excited to play
something colorful like Avatar or Spiderman(across the
spiderverse). So, having smart tv and all I had to do was press
the Netflix button on my remote and it brings me to the TV
app(There’s a reason I say that) BUT, starting a movie, the
lights just dimmed to the lowest white light and they were not
synced to what was being shown on screen. The app kept showing me
that nothing was connected to the sync box. I of course didn’t
understand if I connect my tv to the box. After hours of
research, I’ve done everything I could from getting different
HDMI cables, to switching ends, to factory resetting the sync
box, to seeing if my tv needed to be updated. I was afraid I
bought a defective sync box. My last last thing to try was to
call customer support. Surprisingly, after dialing the number,
less than 5 minutes, I was on the phone with someone, which is
impressive. Come to find out… to have lights sync, you can’t use
it with TV Applications. You have to have a second source such as
a PlayStation, Xbox, Firestick and so on. After learning that, I
connected my PlayStation to the sync box, went to a YouTube video
and it worked. So if you’re having this same issue, hopefully I
was able to help someone out. Looking it up, I wasn’t the only
one stumped with this same problem. All in all, after I got it to
work, it’s amazing! The lights on top of a surround sound system,
you don’t have to go to the movies anymore. You have an enhanced
theater right in front of you. If you’re not watching TV, you can
still work the lights with the app and either set a scene or
choose whatever color(s) you prefer. It’s expensive for no
reason. But you get what you pay for and that’s quality. You
won’t be disappointed. P.S. The Bridge, Sync Box, and the Lights
all use a big box plug. The blocky ones. So I had to utilize
another power strip to get everything plugged in and working on
top of everything I already had plugged.
