Ambiant Lighting - Image Processing

[craig_t]

Has anyone set this up and use it? I was looking at setting up ambient lighting behind my TV, but then came across this. I like the idea, on the video at 1:40 when avatar starts it looks great. But I am wondering if anyone has it in real life, do you find it distracting and look at the lighting instead of the video? Is it really a silly idea and am I just being silly even thinking about doing it and I should just use a solid RGB strip and change the colour to suit my mood? Is it one of them things that's great once or twice but then becomes boring like a 3D TV?

What are peoples thoughts?

EDIT: Video won't work for some reason, link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxEZsWa_xbE

Guide and more info on it...

http://blog.oscarliang.net/diy-tv-ambilight-arduino-processing-ozilight-1/

 

[craig_t]

I ended up just going with a fixed RGB rather than changing.