I bought one such cable to replace one that I thought might be the weak link, but the issue remained, and the only new edition was the Sync Box, so you might end up having to spend a fair bit extra on new cables. It seems that only the highest bandwidth HDMI cables work reliably and 8K compatible Premium Certified cables are recommended.
I did occasionally get momentary picture loss while running content through the switch box. 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. You can configure how you want your sync box to respond to the remote’s buttons through the device’s mobile app.You tell the Hue Sync up where your lights are physically located in your space, so you get the most.
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The latest software update also enables synchronized surround lighting for color-capable Hue lights when watching Dolby Vision or HDR10+ content.įinally, the update gives the box the capability to support standard infrared remote controls and the Harmony universal remote.
This update makes the device compatible with Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri, giving you the power to switch it on or off, to start or stop the light sync function, to switch sync modes (video, music and games) and even to switch HDMI channels by issuing a voice command. Before you start setup Is your Hue Bridge connected and added to the Hue app Your Hue Bridge should already be plugged in, connected to Wi-Fi, and added to your Hue app. However, it didn’t ship with voice control out of the box. With the Hue sync box, you can experience surround lighting where your smarts lights flash, dance, and change color to match the action on the TV screen. The HDMI box syncs the company's smart lights with whatever is playing on your TV for a watching experience that’s more immersive than usual. Now, the feature is finally rolling out as part of the device’s latest software update. Signify, the company formerly known as Philips Lighting, promised voice control for the Hue Play HDMI Sync Box back in January at CES.
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