Sengled wins CES 2022 for me with this LED TV light strip

Sengled wins CES 2022 for me with this LED Tv set light strip

A TV with a Sengled Wifi Video-Sync LED light strip. The light strip mirrors the colors on the TV and projects them across the whole room.

(Epitome credit: Sengled)

CES 2022 has already seen plenty of new and exciting smart dwelling house tech products announced. Just if yous're looking to add some wink to your living room, it's difficult to top the Sengled Wi-Fi Video-Sync Television Lite Strip.

Equally the name suggests, Sengled's new product is a smart LED light strip that works with your Television receiver. But it'southward not merely whatsoever sometime ready of LED lights on a strip — this device syncs the visuals on your TV to an adhesive, wall-facing calorie-free strip using an external camera. The resulting low-cal show extends the colors on screen to your entire room.

The Sengled Wi-Fi Video-Sync Goggle box Light Strip has a tentative price of $119 and can come up fitted to screen sizes 45- to 75-inches.

A large TV with a sunset on screen. The Sengled Wifi Video-Sync LED light strip mirrors the colors on the TV screen across the whole room. — (Image credit: Sengled)

Unlike other immersive TV lights similar the Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box, Sengled's Video-Sync lights don't analyze content though an HDMI cable. That frees up a precious HDMI slot on the back of your TV, giving you lot space for your sound confined, consoles and other peripherals. Instead, Sengled's lights apply a small photographic camera positioned to face the TV to read the colors in the current picture show, mirroring them beyond the strip of rear-mounted LEDs.

The Video-Sync Light Strip is likewise cheaper than near alternatives. The Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box costs $229 by itself, and the actual lights have to exist bought separately.

These lights build on the functionality of 2 previous Sengled products — the Audio-Sync Television calorie-free strips and the company's LED lite bars. The Audio-Sync light strips produced an impressive light show and were great for listening to music, but getting the same experience synced to video instead of audio is not bad for gamers and streaming, and could even give Sengled a shot at being one of the all-time TikTok lights.

This style of smart calorie-free strips turns any you're watching or playing into an immersive experience, meaning it could be like having a dwelling theater without shelling out hundreds for the whole setup.

Sengled's products thrive on their ease-of-utilise — the company'south products take fabricated our lists of the all-time smart lights for years running because of their easy setups and relatively low toll compared to the competition. They integrate with the Sengled app, which is easy to use, and work with Alexa, Google Assistant, HomeKit and SmartThings.

The Video-Sync lights wait to continue Sengled'southward successful track record. They may seem expensive for a set of ornamental LED lights, merely the comparative price of buying a fancier, fully-immersive Tv set setup and the fact they're not tied up to HDMI cables makes me interested.

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