{"id":63198,"date":"2014-06-19T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=63198"},"modified":"2014-06-19T06:52:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T13:52:00","slug":"lightpack-led-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/lightpack-led-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn on the Magic of Colored Lights…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, I was sent a press release for a home theater gizmo called Lightpack. Honestly, I’m not sure how to feel about it. My first instinct is to say that it’s totally useless. However, I can see some applications (notably playing videogames) where it could be kind of fun.
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First, let me be clear that this post should not be taken as an endorsement for the product. Although I was offered the chance to review one, I was not able to do so for logistical reasons. <\/p>\n

Lightpack amounts to a spider web of LED lights that you string around the edges of an HDTV to provide multi-colored ambient lighting while watching TV, movies, games or any other content you’d play in your home theater. <\/p>\n

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The very poorly written web site<\/a> claims that this will help to protect your eyes from the harshness of viewing a bright TV in a dark room, much like the “Ambilight” feature on televisions from Philips. While it’s true that some ambient light can be beneficial in a home theater, it’s clear to me that this aspect of the pitch is mostly BS. <\/p>\n

The real purpose of Lightpack isn’t to soothe your weary eyes. The actual benefit (if that’s the right word) behind this product is that it dynamically interacts with the content being viewed to shine different colored lights onto different quadrants of your wall behind the TV in sync with the program, as an attempt to expand the viewing radius. <\/p>\n