As a very lazy RGB enthusiast, when I received this set of Philips Hue Sync home theater mood lights, I was still a little embarrassed: so many boxes, do you want me to disassemble and install them in the Year of the Monkey?
However, when I feel that the living room is indeed too cold to adjust the list and start to unbox these lamps and assemble these lamps, its simplicity is still slightly beyond my imagination, after all, Philips Hue lamps have been quite mature and stable compared to some other complex smart home assemblies, as well as simple.
Unlike the previous Philips Hue smart lighting, the main function of the Hue Sync lighting synchronous home theater mood light today is not lighting, but to assist the home theater and provide a sense of atmosphere lighting effects. This is actually similar to the common RGB lighting effect on gaming computers, not for that light, but for that color.
In addition to the light bulbs and gateways, the secret to acousto-optic synchronization lies in the new device, the Hue Syncbox acousto-optic synchronizer. This small box shaped like a TV set-top box can be understood as an HDMI signal repeater, which can put the video source, such as Switch, Xbox, PlayStation and other game consoles, or computers, set-top boxes, Blu-ray player games and video screens to the TV at the same time, but also synchronous to the lamps, so that the lamps echo the picture content, emit the corresponding color of the light, set off the picture atmosphere, provide a more focused and immersive play and movie viewing experience.
Philips Hue Sync home theater mood lights have a lot of specifications to choose from, now Philips Hue family of light bulbs have more than a dozen kinds, in theory, users can completely according to their own needs in the bridge and Hue Syncbox sound and light synchronizer on top of diY their own lighting scheme. The set I received consisted of three strips of lights and a roll of strips of lights, set off in three directions to the left and right of the television.
With the confidence of a consumer electronics editor for many years, I directly ignored the manual when I installed, although there are not many examples of overturning because of this kind of fan confidence in the past, but Philips Hue luminaire installation networking is not complicated:
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There are two ways to assemble the lamp bar, the tabletop vertical type and the horizontal paste type, and this part of the assembly has a hand
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After the bridge connects to the router, download the Hue app on your phone, and the bridge will automatically discover the light bar that is connected to the power supply
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Power on the Hue Syncbox acousto-optic synchronizer, download the Hue Sync app, connect the acousto-optic synchronizer to the bridge, and take over the luminaire control
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Connect any HDMI input source to the Hue Syncbox acousto-optic synchronizer, then connect the Hue Syncbox acousto-optic synchronizer to the TV, and you're done
Through a meal of rummaging through boxes and cabinets, I found the Switch that had been eating ashes for a long time, and finally arrived at the Enjoy moment: watching Tencent Video.
More than a word, when the Tencent video on the Switch side plays part of the power resources, even if it is at 1080P resolution, the clarity is still the level of the full screen of large fruits, so here to choose animation works, the resolution requirements are lower.
Interestingly, the randomly selected "Magic Ancestor" happens to be a work that needs a sense of atmosphere, the picture is sometimes weird, sometimes warm and sometimes bright, and the plot twists and turns are quite emotionally fluctuating.
So after turning off all the lights in the living room and using only this set of atmosphere lights, the viewing experience does add points: the blue and white atmosphere lights are combined with a slightly suspenseful and terrifying picture, which adds a gloomy feeling; and when the picture is burning, the atmosphere lights become warm orange, which makes people feel warm and warm.....
In addition, the delay between this set of lighting effects and the TV picture is quite low, the synchronization is good, there will be no cold picture, but the light is still warm, even if the picture changes quickly, the atmosphere will not stand still.
In addition to the video screen, the game screen can also achieve the same synchronization effect, for example, in "Super Mario", different levels have different screen styles, the initial blue sky and white cloud meadows, to the labyrinth lava that gradually tightens the back screen, but also because the atmosphere lighting is more interesting.
The icing on the cake is the best description of the Philips Hue Sync Light Sync Home Theater, it's not a must-have option for AV and gaming enthusiasts, but with it, it does add to the experience.
Hue series products in the intelligent lighting has not been cheap, such as the price of the above set of atmosphere light sets in four or five thousand yuan, not cheap price in exchange for a single simple function, some people think it is worth it, of course, some people will say that the home TV is not so expensive...
There is also a problem that this set of lamps may be more suitable for users who have a large living room and a large TV wall at home, so that the lamps and lanterns have a larger space and a wider and more uniform distribution of lights. As seen above, because the area of my home TV wall is too small, in fact, the lighting effect is too concentrated, and the sense of atmosphere is actually a little too strong.
However, if on a rainy night on the weekend, no need to work overtime, no one disturbs, turn off all the lights in the house, turn on the TV to see a classic old movie, then there is no doubt that it is the only light I am willing to turn on, the sense of ceremony is good, the sense of atmosphere is also good, the light and shadow change, thousands of purples and reds, but also in response to the sentence in "A Generation of Grandmasters", there are lights, there are people.
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