Ambiant Lighting - Image Processing

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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/
 
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I have Philips Ambilight TVs and they're amazing. If you adjust the lighting to get the response rate you want (slower, more gradual is my preference unless you're watching something frenetic) then it is very immersive.
 
I have the AmbiLED set that was released on kickstarter a few years ago, works quite well and has a range of features (static colour, different screen ratios if watching a wider film). I found myself trying to watch the LEDs rather than the film, also it took up quite a bit of processing power from my dualcore media centre which I use for films. Biggest issue I had was it locking up the PC when the screen went into standby so I don't really use it if I know I might not use the PC for a couple of minutes.

Love the effects, but the locking on powersave and processor usage on my media box was a bit too much. Might get a new processor later as it's not even an i3.
 
I use bias lighting with my ROG Swift - I didn't find it useful with most monitors but with the Swift it really helps to make the colours pop and darker black perception. It does require the right distance and background behind the monitor or TV though to work though - the wrong wall or light colour can be nasty or just ineffective and some panels will never look right while others can be massively enhanced.
 
The_Abyss said:
I have Philips Ambilight TVs and they're amazing. If you adjust the lighting to get the response rate you want (slower, more gradual is my preference unless you're watching something frenetic) then it is very immersive.
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We also used to have it set to slower transition and it worked pretty well.
 
The_Abyss said:
I have Philips Ambilight TVs and they're amazing. If you adjust the lighting to get the response rate you want (slower, more gradual is my preference unless you're watching something frenetic) then it is very immersive.
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We got the three sided Ambilight and it does look great but we don't use it all the time.
 
hyperseven said:
Google Lightpack, lightpack clones can be had cheap off ebay too.
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I had Lightpack a while back. It's decent in some respects but had 2 major flaws resulting in it being returned.

1: one of the strips were DOA, but Lightpack team offered to send out a replacement strip. This seemed a common issue at the time.

2: The software controller bogs down the PC, namely anything that would use the DirectDraw API.

It just felt like something that was released unoptimised.

I've since just adopted a pure white USB LED strip behind all screens which seems to work nicely. I have noticed that on LCD screens that ambient lighting helps reduce strain from the backlight, especially where there's a a lot of black. But on OLED screens the backlight is not needed at all to reduce any eyestrain due to the nature of OLED.
 
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I ended up just going with a fixed RGB rather than changing.

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