Boaty McBoatface
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I turned my 2nd hand Lifx strip light I bought randomly one day into a super cheap Ambilight alternative, and it works amazingly. I was floored honestly, could never go back to normal viewing.
It's actually way more colourful and saturated than in this video I made, and goes over the entire wall. Despite being a dodge version, I think the Lifx lights are more powerful than even the Hue lights from Philips so it's ended up being better in some ways, and you run the software on PC (it captures the screen), so if you don't mind running everything on a windows laptop/PC then it's a good alternative setup. I also used a cheap 4k usb capture card with OBS to capture the output of my AV receiver, bit of a hassle but it worked.
Need to repeat, once you have this you can't go back lol. I even bought a cheap HDMI Led kit I found on amazon to install at my parents, I'm converting everyone
The absolute best demo I saw of this thing was from this guy, instantly convinced me I need to invest in this kit (so was even happier when I did it on the cheap):
It's actually way more colourful and saturated than in this video I made, and goes over the entire wall. Despite being a dodge version, I think the Lifx lights are more powerful than even the Hue lights from Philips so it's ended up being better in some ways, and you run the software on PC (it captures the screen), so if you don't mind running everything on a windows laptop/PC then it's a good alternative setup. I also used a cheap 4k usb capture card with OBS to capture the output of my AV receiver, bit of a hassle but it worked.
Need to repeat, once you have this you can't go back lol. I even bought a cheap HDMI Led kit I found on amazon to install at my parents, I'm converting everyone
The absolute best demo I saw of this thing was from this guy, instantly convinced me I need to invest in this kit (so was even happier when I did it on the cheap):
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