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The best lightstrip to mount on your TV

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Conor Cawley

As with most smart lights, it doesn’t get much better than Philips Hue for this lightstrip

You know those gadgets you show your friends when they come over? The ones that make guests ooh-aah at the marvels of modern-day technology? That’s the Philips Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip to a tee. Unlike the standard Philips Hue Gradient Lightstrip, this lightstrip mounts to the back of your TV, and the lights match the content on screen for a truly immersive experience. The good news is it does so with aplomb. It’s a simple setup process for both the hardware and software, it has a very customization-focused interface for specific types of viewing (or gaming), and the cool factor is through the roof.

While the extravagant price is a bit of a turnoff, particularly with the necessary Hue Sync Box to go along with it, the investment is the definition of worth it, especially for anyone looking to improve their home entertainment area significantly. This is one of the best Philips Hue smart light products on the market. Sure, voice activation and color matching aren’t perfect, but it doesn’t have to be to make the Philips Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip the best option for mounting a lightstrip to the back of your TV.

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The Philips Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip is an easy to install, highly customizable lightstrip that impresses on your first watch. The colors are bright, the matching is impressive, and the ease of installation is remarkable. If you want a lightstrip for the back of your TV, you just found it.

Specifications

  • Integrations: Google Assistant, Alexa, HomeKit
  • Protocol: Zigbee
  • Hub Required: Yes
  • Music Reactive: Yes
  • Service Life: 25,000 hours
  • Voltage: 100V-120V
  • Wattage: 19 W
  • Type: Lightstrip
  • Working Temperature: -4°F to 113°F

Pros

  • Easy to set up
  • Extremely customizable
  • Comprehensive mobile app
  • Cool factor through the roof

Cons

  • Pretty expensive
  • Imperfect color matching
  • Spotty voice activation

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Right out of the box, the Philips Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip was much sturdier than I expected. This is no flimsy lightstrip. At almost an inch thick and weighing just over two and a half pounds, there is no risk of bending, twisting, or breaking anything. At least not by accident. The robust plastic casing around the lights also adds durability and makes mounting it to your TV easy.

I couldn’t believe how easy it was to mount this lightstrip on my TV. The five plastic mounts have a simple peel-off sticker on the back, making it easy to place them in the four back corners of the TV, with one along the top middle for support. I just eyeballed it, and that worked out pretty well, but the manual recommends some measurements to ensure you aren’t too far off. Once the mounts are stuck to your TV, getting the lightstrip attached is even easier. Just push it in at the marked locations on the strip with the slightest bit of force, and you’re ready to go.

I’m lucky enough to have a TV that matches up perfectly with one of the three available sizes (55-inch, 65-inch, and 75-inch), and if you don’t, that is a problem. Because the lightstrip matches specific TV sections – at 1650 lumens, no less – being just a few inches off can significantly impact the viewing experience.

As for what’s in the box, you’ve already heard about the majority of it. The lightstrip and the five mounts can be found immediately, as well as the power cord and an adapter for international plugs. You will need a Zigbee-powered Hue Bridge to get started, which isn’t ideal if you don’t have one, but if you’re adding a color-matching lightstrip to the back of your TV, there’s a good chance you’ve already got a few Hue smart bulbs floating around your home.

Performance, software, setup

Hue is famous for the quality of its software and performance on its many smart lights, and the Philips Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip is no exception. It works with Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, and even Apple’s HomeKit. The mobile app experience is straightforward and comprehensive. Plus, the setup process is a lesson in hand-holding ease of use, although it will take some time to get started, which should be expected from such advanced technology.

Perhaps the only downfall is that voice activation functionality. It was not nearly intuitive enough, even for a smart home expert like myself. While the device could easily be turned on with your standard smart light phrase (“Turn on the TV lights”), there was no way to command it to sync with your TV, as far as I could tell. Subsequently, I had to go into the Hue Sync mobile app to connect the lights every time I wanted to watch, which felt like a hassle, but that’s only because I’m very lazy.

Customizability was vital when starting out with the Philips Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip. At first, it was a bit overwhelming. The default settings were way too much to handle, particularly with certain shows like sitcoms that change camera angles often and abruptly. In fact, for a moment, I began to regret my desire to have one of these lights on the back of my TV.

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However, once I opened the Hue Sync app – which is different from the standard Hue app – I realized that the lightstrip Intensity was set to “Extreme,” which absolutely described how it felt to watch. Once I changed the setting to “Subtle” or even “Moderate”, the experience improved substantially, providing a more fluid viewing experience that didn’t feel like it could activate someone’s epilepsy. The mobile app also has three sync modes – video, music, and game – which is how I discovered that the Extreme setting is primarily designed for gaming. For example, it made playing Fall Guys an intense and exciting endeavor.

All in all, the cool factor contributed significantly to how much I enjoyed the Philips Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip. I was in the middle of rewatching Game of Thrones when I first installed it, and particularly with a show like that, which changes from beautiful locations like Dorne to barren landscapes like Winterfell, I was in awe at how much it added to the viewing experience. Sure, sitcoms aren’t ideal for it because of the bright lighting and abrupt camera changes, but in an era filled with movies defined by their groundbreaking cinematography, this lightstrip is a serious must.

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You’ll need a Philips Hue Sync Box

You may be wondering how a simple gradient lightstrip could be equipped to not only display beautiful colors but also match the content on your TV. The answer is, it’s not. Along with the Philips Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip, you’ll also have to buy the Hue Sync Box, a small black box with four HDMI ports and a single HDMI cable to connect to your TV. This will enable your lightstrip to connect to your TV, adding another hub to your Hue ecosystem.

This is why the Philips Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip is so expensive: you can’t just buy it on its own to utilize the TV functionality. The $250 price for the lights is intimidating enough, but when you add on the fact that you need to buy the Philips Hue Sync Box as well, which also costs $250, you’re looking at a $500 investment to get these lights setup. You really can’t do much better, though, so if you want the best of the best, that investment is the price of admission. Plus, you get four HDMIT ports, which is a nice perk for those of us with only three.

Fortunately, setup is pretty easy, although you will have to get up from the couch to get within inches of the device with your phone, a small effort that is obviously worth it. The result is some truly impressive color matching that rarely lags at all and only occasionally suffers a brief connection issue when switching between particularly different settings.

The color matching did seem a tad off at times, opting for orange over an obvious yellow. The finale of Severance, for example, had some wild color effects that blended together almost too well, confusing blue and purple through the fluid motion. Still, this is barely noticeable if you aren’t looking for it, and it’s easily fixable thanks to the robust customizability.

Spoiler alert for later episodes of Apple TV’s Severance in the clip below

Should you buy it?

Absolutely. If the price isn’t too much of a burden, and you’re in the market for a lightstrip to mount on the back of your TV, there is no denying that the Philips Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip is one of the best options out there. The easy setup process, the robust customizability, and the significant cool factor have made it one of my favorite tech products around the house. And these pros outweigh the cons substantially, with a lack of voice activation and occasionally imperfect color matching registering as slight inconveniences at worst.

Remember, though; the Philips Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip is specifically designed to be mounted on the back of your TV. If you’re looking for a lightstrip to attach to a wall or piece of furniture, you will want to go with the standard Philips Hue Gradient Lightstrip (without the word Play in the title). It has the same color effects and can sync with some devices, but it’s not designed for the back of your TV.

Buy it if…

  • You need a color-matching lightstrip for the back of your TV
  • You’ve got some expendable income

Don’t buy it if…

  • You don’t have a 55-inch, 65-inch, or 75-inch TV
  • You’re not looking for a fun gadget

FAQ

Q: How does the Philips Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip compare to the Philips Hue Gradient Lightstrip?

The Philips Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip is specifically designed to be mounted to the back of your TV, whereas the Philips Hue Gradient Lightstrip is a general-purpose lightstrip for pretty much anything else. Both are capable of color-matching technology depending on the device you use and both are excellent examples of the technology.

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Conor has been staunchly in favor of Android since graduating to a smartphone from his hot pink Motorola RAZR. In fact, he’ll gladly ruin a friendly dinner in service of lambasting Apple devices to those that use them, which he admits is one of his worst personality traits. After being talked out of sports writing by someone working for ESPN Chicago (“it’s the same thing every year, it’s like purgatory”), Conor decided that the ever-evolving world of tech would be a much more interesting topic to focus on. Now, more than half a decade later, he covers everything from new devices and big conferences to small startups and business trends. In addition to freelancing for Android Police, Conor is the Lead Writer for Tech.co, a tech publication focused on helping small businesses grow and succeed. He’s worked with the likes of Forbes, WeWork, General Assembly, Chase Bank, Tech in Motion, and SXSW, among others, through Tech.co in service of making tech a bit more accessible. Conor also can’t properly pronounce the word “colloquially,” but honestly, who can?

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This light strip is designed to be attached to the back of your TV for gaming or movie night ambience.

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Dynamic light for your TV

The Philips Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip gives you color-changing ambient light that can mimic and extend what’s on your TV screen.

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Dynamic light for your TV

Mounted on the back of your TV, the Gradient turns your walls into an extension of your screen.

The Philips Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip gives you color-changing ambient light that can mimic and extend what’s on your TV screen.

The possibilities and the Gradient’s capability to react are endless. The glare of explosions reaches beyond the confines of your TV. Your home theater takes on the same ambience as the dimly lit cafe on the screen.

Game on

Gamers can immerse themselves in the strange glow of virtual worlds, the brightness of the stadium, the hot western sun — wherever the game takes you.

The light strip can also be set to react to music. Sync it with other Hue color-changing lights in a group and you can throw a legitimate dance party.

Dual app control

This light strip requires a Philips Hue Bridge and can be controlled with the Philips Hue app. But if you want the Gradient to react to your content, you’ll also need the Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box and the Philips Hue Sync app. You’ll create a new “entertainment area” in the Hue app and control light automation parameters with the Sync app.

Made for TV

The light strip mounts to the back of your TV with the included brackets. Stick the adhesive-backed clips onto your TV — it helps to lay it flat on the floor for installation — then fit the light strip into the channels following the included instructions. The Gradient will cover three out of four sides behind your screen — top, left, and right.

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Product highlights:

  • ambient, reactive light strip for TVs 65″-70″
  • easy to mount with the included adhesive-backed clips
  • millions of tunable colors
  • white color temperature: 2000-6500K
  • requires Philips Hue Bridge
  • Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box required to sync light strip with TV
  • control with Philips Hue Sync app and Philips Hue app
  • compatible with:
    • Amazon Alexa
    • Google Assistant
    • Apple HomeKit (Siri)
  • 20 watts
  • adjustable brightness up to 1100 lumens
  • rated for approximately 25,000 hours of use
  • 5/8″W x 5/8″H x 100″L
  • warranty: 2 years
  • Our 60-day money-back guarantee
  • MFR # 560417

What’s in the box:

Philips Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip owner’s manual

  • 9′-2″ Lightstrip for 65″ TV with 6″ pigtail (4-pin connector)
  • AC adapter with DC barrel output (DC output: 24V 0. 83A)
  • 2-Prong AC plug adapter
  • 59″ DC power cord (barrel connectors on both ends)
  • Wi-Fi light controller (DC barrel connector on one end and 4-pin connector on other end)
  • 2 Adhesive-backed corner mounting clips
  • 3 Adhesive-backed straight mounting clips
  • Installation Guide (A)
  • Safety Instruction (B)

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Overview: The Philips Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip enhances your TV and movie watching experience by surrounding your TV screen with color that is synchronized with the action on the screen. The flexible lightstrip mounts to the rear of your TV with the included adhesive-backed clips and creates a unique lighting effect behind your TV. The Play Gradient Lightstrip requires a wireless connection to the Hue Bridge (sold separately, or included in a Hue Starter Kit), and the Play HDMI Sync Box. You’ll also need to download the free Hue Sync app for desktop or mobile devices. This Play Gradient Lightstrip is designed for 65″ TVs and larger. Lightstrips are also available for 55″ and 75″ TVs.

Gradient Lightstrip: The Gradient Lightstrip is “quarter round” shaped (0.6″ x 0.6″) and 110″ in length with a 6″ power pigtail. It mounts across the top and down each side of the TV and projects colored light onto the wall behind. Unlike the Hue Lightstrip Plus, which can illuminate only one color at a time, the Gradient Lightstrip can produce multiple colors simultaneously, and blend colors together so they flow naturally into one another. The strip’s pigtail plugs into the Wi-Fi controller, and is powered by the included 20-watt power supply. The controller wirelessly connects to the Hue Bridge and HDMI Sync Box which synchronizes the colors to the content on the screen.

Installation: The Gradient Lightstrip comes with five 3M adhesive-backed mounting clips to attach the strip to the back of your TV. Two of the clips are designed for the upper corners, while the straight clips are for the top center and lower left and right corners (ends). You should avoid covering up the speakers or ventilation slots on the back of the TV. The end with the controller/power connection should be installed on the lower right corner in order for the light colors to match the colors on the screen.

Philips Hue Sync Mobile App: The special Hue Sync mobile app (different from the regular Philips Hue app) helps you set up, configure, and use the Play Gradient Lightstrip and the Play HDMI Sync Box. In the app, you can sync up to 10 color-capable Hue lights, control the brightness and speed of the light effects, and switch between video, game, and audio modes. The Hue Sync desktop app does not work with the Play HDMI Sync Box–you must use the Hue Sync mobile app. The Hue Sync app is available for free download for Apple iPhone/iPad/iPod touch with iOS 12.0 or later, and Android devices running version 7.0 and up.

Voice Control: The Philips Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip can be controlled by voice commands through your favorite Virtual Assistant. The lightstrip is compatible with Siri (Apple HomeKit), Amazon Alexa, and Google Assistant.

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When you create a gradient using colors in different modes and then print or separate the gradient, all colors are converted to CMYK process colors. Colors may be distorted due to the use of different color modes. For best results, define gradients using CMYK colors.

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  9. Click the OK button or the Add button. The gradient is saved in the Swatches panel with the given name.

Applying an unnamed gradient using the Gradient panel

Although we recommend using the Swatches panel to create and save gradients, you can also work with gradients using the Gradient panel (Window > Color > Gradient “). You may already be familiar with it if you have worked with Adobe Illustrator. You can add the current gradient to the Swatches panel at any time. The Gradient palette is handy for creating an unnamed gradient that you don’t intend to use often.

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If you select an object that uses a named gradient, editing that gradient using the Gradient panel will change the color of that object only. To change all occurrences of a named gradient, double-click its swatch in the Swatches panel.

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  2. In the Tools panel or Swatches panel, select the Fill box or Stroke box (if the Gradient Fill box is not visible, choose Show Options from the Gradient panel menu).

  3. To open the Gradient palette, choose Window menu > Color > Gradient, or double-click the Gradient tool in the Tools panel.

  4. To define the starting color for the gradient, click the leftmost color stop below the Gradient Picker, and then do one of the following:

    • Drag a swatch from the Swatches palette onto the color stop.

    • Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) a color swatch in the Swatches panel.

    • In the Color palette, create a color using the sliders or the color bar.

  5. To define the end color of the gradient, click the rightmost color stop below the gradient picker. Then select the desired color as described for the previous step.

  6. Select Linear or Radial from the Type menu, reposition the colors and midpoint as described in Create a gradient swatch.

  7. To change the angle of the gradient fill, enter a value in the Angle box.

Modify gradients

You can modify gradients by adding colors to create multicolor gradients, and by changing the properties and position of color stops and midpoints. Filling the object to be adjusted with a gradient provides a preview of the result as you make changes to the gradient.

Note.

You can modify gradients pasted from Adobe Illustrator provided that the gradient was pasted using the AICB (Adobe Illustrator Clipboard) format. See Inserting Illustrator Art in InDesign. To select the gradient, use the Direct Selection tool.

Note.

When you edit a color swatch, all gradient nodes that use that swatch are updated accordingly, changing the look of the gradient.

Add intermediate colors to the gradient

  1. Double-click the gradient swatch in the Swatches palette, or display the Gradient palette.

  2. Click anywhere just below the Gradient Picker to define a new color stop. The new color stop is automatically determined by the color values ​​at the given location within the existing gradient.

  3. Adjust the properties of the new color stop.

    Note.

    You can also drag a swatch from the Swatches palette onto the Gradient Picker in the Gradient palette to define a new color stop.

Removing an intermediate color from a gradient

  1. Select an intermediate color stop and drag it to the end of the Gradient Picker.

Reverse gradient color sequence

  1. Select a gradient.

  2. In the Gradient panel, click the Invert button.

Adjusting a gradient with the Gradient tools

After applying a gradient fill to an object, you can modify the gradient using the Gradient Swatch tool or the Gradient Feather tool to redraw the fill by dragging along an imaginary line. Using the Gradient tools, you can change the direction of a gradient, change its start and end points, and apply the gradient to multiple objects. The Gradient Feather tool lets you soften the gradient in the direction you drag.

  1. In the Tools panel or Swatches panel, select the Fill box or Stroke box, depending on which part of the image the original gradient was applied to.

  2. Select the Gradient Swatch or Gradient Feather tool and position it at the point where you want to define the start node of the gradient. Drag the mouse over the object in the direction in which the gradient is to be applied. Hold down the Shift key to limit the tool’s movement to a multiple of 45°.

    Dragging the Gradient Feather tool across the gradient gradually softens the colors of the gradient within the drag area.

  3. Release the mouse button when the cursor is over the point where you want to define the end point of the gradient.

Applying a gradient to multiple objects

  1. Make sure all selected objects are already using a gradient.

  2. In the Tools panel, select the Fill box or Stroke box.

  3. Select the Gradient Tool and position it at the point where you want to define the start node of the gradient. Drag the mouse over the object in the direction in which the gradient is to be applied. Hold down the Shift key to limit the tool’s movement to a multiple of 45°.

  4. Release the mouse button when the cursor is over the point where you want to define the end point of the gradient.

Default gradient fill (left) and multi-object gradient (right)

Note.

When a compound path with a gradient is selected, you can change the gradient on all subpaths of that path using the Gradient palette without having to use the Gradient tool.

Applying gradients to text

Within a single text frame, you can create multiple gradient text ranges in addition to the default black text and colored text.

Gradient endpoints always snap relative to the bounding box of the gradient path or text frame. Individual text characters display the part of the gradient they are above. When you resize a text frame or make other changes that cause text characters to reflow, the characters redistribute along the gradient and the individual character colors change accordingly.

Working with Gradient Text Characters

A. Underlying gradient fill B. Gradient-applied text characters C. Added text and shifting text position relative to the gradient fill

If you want to adjust the gradient so that its full color range spans a specific range of text characters, you can do this in two ways.

  • Use the Gradient tool to reposition the endpoints of the gradient so that the gradient only covers the characters selected when the gradient was applied.

  • Select the text and convert it to curves (editable paths), then apply a gradient to the resulting curves. The latter option is the most convenient for briefly displaying screen text in its own text frame. The gradient will be permanently anchored to the curves, not the text frame, and the curves will be positioned along with the rest of the text. However, the curves function as a separate sub-image within the text frame, so the text cannot be edited. In addition, font layout options cannot be applied to this section of text; for example, text converted to outlines cannot have word wrap applied.

By default, text that is repositioned changes relative to the gradient applied to it (left). When converting text to curves, the applied gradient moves with the text (right).

For information about converting text curves to paths, see Convert text curves to paths.

Multiple gradients in one text frame

Within a single text frame, you can select multiple ranges of text to apply a unique gradient to each range. Each gradient is applied to a text frame and tracked separately along with the characters highlighted when each gradient is applied. However, the endpoints of the gradient remain anchored to the bounding box of the text frame and not to individual spans of text.

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Gradient LED strip and other new additions to the Philips Hue range

Signify is expanding its Philips Hue smart home lighting portfolio. Philips Hue’s new range of LED light strips with gradient technology, table and floor lamps from the Signe family, and colored lamps with new bases, help you create the right mood for any activity, filling your home with a variety of colors.

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Gradient technology allows you to harmoniously mix many shades in one device. Colors blend naturally with each other to create a unique effect. At the same time, both static and dynamic color rendering is available.

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