Customer Ratings & Reviews

I was lucky when the total member price dropped and decided to try it out on diner tv we had set up, and since then it has been great for the family. Have had it for at least a year now with no issues.

Love how it enhanced our movie and gaming experience. Easy setup and only took a few minutes to setup. Definitely recommend if you don’t have one.

Take your TV to the next level! Installation can be tricky but totally worth it! Makes my 77 in TV feel even bigger as explosions extend beyond the screen.

Love this product, my only grip is that it only covers 3 sides of the TV essentially forcing you to buy another light for the bottom.

Very cool and bright to light up your room. Easy to use and install.

The most expensive lights you will ever buy most likely (next to a proper chandelier). They look incredible though, but the biggest caveat is you need the hue play device which is essentially an HDMI hub to take advantage of the color sync features. It makes sense, how could you have a color responsive system without it getting color data from something. So HDMI is what sends it color info to sync, but good luck finding a Hue Play device in stock. This separate base station is $250-300 and is not manufactured currently. So sort of a dead product unless you just want a light strip behind your TV (which you can get for $40 or less with WiFi and the same no-sync features). If somehow this became a software update that does not require a HDMI hub base station that acts as a passthrough for all my devices, I'd update the review to 4 stars, but still not 5. To be 5 stars, I need to be able to use the color-sync feature with my consoles, and my Smart TV media apps (not FireStick, or Chromecast, again you need an HDMI in between the TV > Hue Play > Console/FireStick). In addition, the Hue Play hub is just not even for sale so this is an incomplete product as it is. But the colors do look nice, and are exceptionally high quality. Just not worth nearly $200+ for being a dummy strip. Phillips is out of their collective minds if they assume this will make them money without a software update. And you will need to have available power behind your TV, i.e. run a power cable/extension cord through the wall mounting otherwise you have no way to light a wall mounted TV without having exposed, dangling cables below the TV.

Finicky power adapter, the brackets keep popping off the back of my C4 (don’t expect the light strip to stay in place for long), but the light show is great with movies. Stopped working for gaming for some reason… it all just feels like it takes up a lot of time in terms of keeping it working properly. The Philips Hue system, overall, isn’t fun to use, can feel like a chore.

Love the lights on the TV! A little tricky to set up but once we figured it out it was great.

Easy to install and setup. Looks great, now I want this on all my TVs. Literally makes my TV look even bigger.

A+ product that was easy to install and set up, exceeded every expectation I had and has been a great addition to my entertainment set up

Never mind what the critics say. This is a must have for those looking to take the home theater up a level. I wanted the 75, which is what I should use for my tv size however, the 75 was sold out. So for those looking for 75, 65 works well. Product works great, downside you need to use the fire-stick in order to have the colors sync seamlessly. But once you get over that you are good. Honestly, while expensive, it definitely worth it. Especially at a time like this. Stay Safe Everyone.

I previously had 3 of the "Philips Hue Play White and Color Ambiance Bar Lights" and ended disconnecting those and the "Hue Play HDMI Sync Box" and parking the set in storage because they were sluggish, not that accurate, and the HDMI box constantly messed with Apple TV 4K's video settings and I was not able to use Dolby 4k without the LG OLED TV constantly turning off and back on -- forcing me to a lower 4K setting and negating the reason I spent the money for the setup. I recently saw and then bought the new "Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip" and set it up with the HDMI Sync Box again -- and finally am happy with it all. The colors surround the TV back on 3 sides (top, left, right) in one loop and accurately and instantly display the matching colors reflecting on the wall behind the 65" TV (which is setting on a console and not wall-mounted). It was easy to mount the loop with 3M stickies and they seem to actually stay attached (the Bar lights would fall off the back of the TV in the middle of the night and scare everyone in the house). There has also in the meantime been a firmware update to the HDMI Sync Box and everything actually passes through as it should have 2 years ago (Apple TV > HDMI > Sync Box > HDMI > TV) and I can run Dolby 4K again. The setup requires a separate "Hue Sync" app on my iPhone, but it works well and perhaps one day when I am not feeling so lazy, may automate the process. Right now I just open the app (just when I want to watch good shows; not Cheers re-runs) , turn on the lightship from the app and click "start". When I am done, I put the Apple TV to sleep and it also puts the HDMI Sync Box to sleep as well, so I don't have to access the app again until I am ready for them again. I am so much happier that Hue seems to finally have gotten this right. My two teen-aged great-nephews were over the other day and both jumped up to check the back of the TV when I turned the lightstrip on from outside on my phone, after I had glanced inside and saw them watching TV without it. Perhaps a bit pricey setup overall, but it does a good job and really makes TV ambient against my white wall -- especially at night, but also during the day it casts a decent but more subtle ambience.

It's overpriced, but you know you want it anyway. I honestly would wait until it goes on sale, but it is the best done device like this out there so far.

Phillips really set this up to work pretty flawlessly…. given you have a stron wifi router. After these were added to our tv, it really enhanced movie night and pretty much every game on the PS5.

If you are bought into the Philips Hue lighting system and want to enhance you TV viewing, this lightstrip is great! Works better than the Hue Play system for you TV since it basically has 7 zones. Make sure you get the right size for your TV, I can see getting the incorrect size will cause the zones to be slightly shifted. It requires a Hue Sync box or the PC software to work so there is the additional cost for that, and as with all the Hue products it is a bit pricey.

Is this really cool for certain movies? Of course. Is this cool to show your friends when they come over? Of course. Is this cool for video games? Duh. Is this necessary when you start factoring in the costs of the play box? Absolutely NOT. I had myself convinced I needed this when in reality, it hardly ever gets used. My wife thinks it’s annoying and I definitely is annoying if you just want to watch TV. If you have money to blow then by all means have at it. Does this average person need this? Not at all. Great product. Limited actual use.

This strip works great paired with the Hue Sync Play Box. The only downside is that it does not wrap around the whole TV, only the top and sides.

Awesome very ez and awesome this thing is amazing I have got two 75” and one 65” and love them there ez to install and just work great

Fits TV perfectly easy install great quality accurate colors no delay instant color changes with what's showing on screen

These lights are so much fun. I have a slew of hue bulbs in my living room I have used to sync to the TV. I thought this would be a minor improvement, but wow, these really added to the experience. So much so, if I were in a smaller space, I could see getting away with just this strip, the hub, and the HDMI sync. Installation is easy. I put them on a 77in tv and just had to eye ball what worked best. The tape on the mounts isn’t overly aggressive and allows for a couple attempts at getting the placement right.