![]() In the shot above you can see even the original Lightstrips actually fare better here. One notable difference - and an area where the newer Gradient Lightstrip comes up short - is that for some reason Philips decided that you don’t need LED lights along the bottom of your TV. ![]() One notable difference-and an area where the newer Gradient Lightstrip comes up short-is that for some reason Philips decided that you don’t need LED lighting along the bottom of your TV.įor table-mounted displays this isn’t much of an issue, but I’d reckon there’s a high percentage of people who wall mount their large, flat displays, and there is certainly important content and color information along the bottom of the picture in real-world movies, TV shows, and video games. The original Lightstrip is forced to simplify its color reproduction, determining which color is the most prominent at the time (per Left and Right side), and emitting that-even though updates to new colors are quick, with little if any perceptible lag, so it can certainly fool your eyes a bit when you’re actually focused on your content. All of the hues (sorry again) are picked up and there are smooth transitions between each color. Here you can see the Gradient Lightstrip really shines (sorry) with graduated multicolor content. The Gradient Lightstrip can handle every hue, with smooth transitions between each color-but critically lacks coverage along the bottom edge of the TV altogether. So in this framegrab, it just thinks the left is red and the right is green. In the multicolor test, the Lightstrip Plus can only show two colors at a time (and that’s if you’re using two different units on the left and right). Either way, it’s not a real-world scenario but I found it interesting. However, I noticed in the 2-color section of the test video that the original Lightstrip had some issues with the transition between two colors: it’s forced to “give up” and creates a whitish bloom in the transition area between two colors rather than a smooth blend-not surprising since the LED strips on the original model are only capable of emitting one light color at a time.Ĭolor transitions were smoother when the colors were split vertically 50/50 but this is more a virtue of physically mounting two units to the left and right of the TV. In the video above, you can see that the original Lighstrip and Gradient Lightstrip are of course totally fine with 1-color and most 2-color content-but that’s not really something you’ll see in real-world movies or video games. I ran both Lightstrips using the “Extreme” setting in the Hue app, which is usually overkill for real-world content, but gives the best demonstration of color intensity and motion capability in a test like this. ![]() Comparison resultsīearing in mind the original Lightstrips were not designed to synchronize with live content on a TV (and it requires at least two $80 units to cover a typical 55" TV), the older Lightstrips hold up well, but can’t compete with the color reproduction of the Gradient Lightstrip, as expected. In a more traditional setting, you’d have more open space around the lights (and therefore softer diffusion) before the lights start reflecting off the walls. Note: My display is wall mounted much higher than normal, as it’s used at a treadmill rather than in a seated living room setting, so light diffusion isn’t as good as it should be. The test videos are being displayed on the outstanding LG C9 55" OLED display. Both test videos are synthetic as opposed to “real-world” movies or video games, since I was primarily interested in how the two Lightstrips handled a high degree of full color in motion. Madison’t test primarily because I wanted a “torture test” of sorts: a full spectrum of RGB color simply rotating in place. To create this comparison, I used two test videos:ĭave Madison’s Ambilight Color Test and MrPacMan36’s beautiful Fluid Sim Hue Test. ![]()
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