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Hue sync with movies12/27/2023 I then tried it with games via PS5, and it was great to see the lights behind the screen dance around as a slashed my way through Ghosts of Tsushima. Eventually, you'll really notice it when it's off. If it gets distracting you can tone the intensity and the brightness down in the app, and you'll soon find a setting to your liking. What's impressive is how fast the lights respond to the content on the screen, and it really does enhance the impact on what you're watching. It features strong colors and the contrast in the dark between the lights and the rich colors on my OLED TV made for a cool effect. The episode Zima Blue from the remarkable Netflix series Love, Deaths Robots is a great test. It works particularly well with animation, which tends to have areas of strong color. The lights lit up the white alcove perfectly in sync with the content on the screen. right, the yellow of the football shirt against the red hoarding combine to create and orange affects. Reconnecting everything was a bit of a faff as these things always are, and I used just two Hue Play lights but as soon as I got it up and running it was an “oh, wow” moment.Īs you can see see in the picture the lights respond to content on each sided of the image. My TV sits inside an alcove with a white background. This also has a receiver and surround sound setup, but here is where it all started to make sense. However, it was clear that I wasn’t using the Sync Box to its full potential, so I moved it to my TV in the other room. The app lets you choose between four levels of intensity – as in how much the lights react, and there is also a brightness slider. On the plus side, if I switched to stereo music the music sync effects did work and were impressive. However, it turns out that while the Sync Box supports Atmos from HDMI video sources, it does not recognise Atmos in music mode, which seems like a missed opportunity. Second, a feature I was looking forward to was having all the lights in the room syncing to Dolby Atmos tracks from Apple Music, specifically, Dawn FM by The Weekend. First, the light show didn’t do any favors to my projector-based system, merely washing out the image and not adding that much to the experience. On my first try I set up the Sync box in my dedicated cinema room, with a total of 10 lights (six GU10 bulbs in the ceiling, two Hue Play lights, and one Gradient lightstrip) – with the gradient light resting on the top edge of my projector screen, and the Hue Play projecting upwards, so quite the setup. VAT / $229.99.You tell the Hue Sync up where your lights are physically located in your space, so you get the most. The Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box will become available from 15 th Oct onwards in the US and a number of European countries with other regions to follow early next year. For your convenience there is a default setting and you can have presets for movies, music and gaming. With the mobile app in hand you can adjust the lighting effects, finetune brightness, as well as the speed and intensity of lighting effects. As well as some Hue colour lights in your home, you will need a Hue Bridge. Users can connect up to 10 Philips Hue lights to the Sync Box, and there are four HDMI inputs to make it easy to switch input sources. Simply connect the Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box to the TV and your streaming device, satellite and cable set-top box, game console, Blu-Ray and DVD player, or laptop to the box and you can enjoy sympathetic surround lighting to "take your movies, music, TV shows or video games to the next level," says Philips. The new piece of hardware sits between any HDMI connected device (4x ports available) and your TV, to sync the Philips Hue colour smart lights you have in your home to the on-screen action. ![]() ![]() Now the Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box has been announced to make on-screen environmental reactive smart lighting even more easy to implement and widespread. ![]() We have previously seen a number of Philips innovations to weave Hue lighting and home computers closer together, most recently with the Philips Hue and Razer Chroma collaboration, and then the release of Hue Sync for PCs and Macs. ![]() As a subtler strand of the RGB LED lighting and Smart Home trends, Philips Hue smart lighting has steadily grown in popularity throughout many homes.
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