Customer Ratings & Reviews

The Hue Play system is the realization of pretty much everything I hoped for when I first started to purchase Hue lights years ago. While I quite enjoyed my initial play setup using light bars, the gradient lightstrip really shines as the best way to synchronize lighting to media. It's an incredibly unique effect and can add a special level of immersion, especially when watching video with vibrant colors. I understand why Philips designed this to only wrap around the top and two sides of a TV, but I did opt to add a light bar below the set to provide color around the entire image. That may be unnecessary or even impossible in some setups. I occasionally still have issues with the box that operates the sync needing to be reset or, at its worst, temporarily interrupting the image being delivered to the TV, which can be quite annoying when playing a video game. The lightstrip itself, however, was easy to install and performs exactly as advertised, so it gets full marks from me.

Adds a lot to the television ambience. Love to change the colors on it using the Hue app to match whatever teams are playing sports during the games — the guests love it too! However, be warned: the adhesive backing on the guide things that help you affix this to your TV wear off after a few months and then you're stuck with re-sticking them over and over again. When it falls behind your TV you run the risk of it damaging itself by bending in a way that makes it upset, and then you get flickering lights (if you're not careful). I'd expect the adhesive to work better when you're paying upwards of $250 for addressable RGB lights!

Pretty expensive light strip but does add a cool new immersion when playing games or watching a movie. Biggest complaint is that the bottom part of the TV gets no coverage, so your left with having to get some play bars or an additional light strip to get that zone covered. For the price point, you’d expect the whole TV light zones to be covered.

These lights really help with immersing yourself in whatever content you’re watching. I will never not have them again. Only issue is if you lose the power adapter replacements are hard to find

Ive been using these lights for around 2 years now and couldnt be happier with them. Great product

These lights are amazing! The quality and the colors are second to none. Very impressed with Phillips hue!

I love this light. Works great when playing pc games

Always wanted to try a light strip. It's a bit pricey but have no complaints with the immersion light show

this is good and I am glad I tried it. it works well. it may be a bit overpriced though.

it’s pretty cool using it, but i think it’s alittle too expensive for what it is though

Great lighting and simple installation. Simply put…great!

These look great and fit exactly the amount of space I need to take up, geat neon colors

Amazing what these can do to make an animated movie insanely immersive! I paired this with 3 Play bars and the sync box and my entire room makes me feel like im in the movie!

The adhesive on this will last about six months. Then, nothing in the universe will hold this in place. Im on my third set of adhesive strips to hold the olastic mounting hardware in olace, and nothing works long. Like so much of the Hue ecosystem, under engineered. I fond myself wishing i hadnt invest thousands of dollars across my house in this stuff.

It is perfect to watch movies or music videos. We really love it. Only thing is that it keeps falling out from the back of our TV

The lights were super nice and pretty even though they were pricey (269.99) and we were okay with that. But for them to expect you to pay 249.99 just for a syncbox to make them work is ridiculous. I could understand an HDMI cord or something similar but we have decided to return them because we refuse to purchase the box for that price.

The adhesive doesn’t last long on tv , after a while the strip falls off

I bought this light strip to use with my existing hue set up. I wasn't interested in using the sync box with it, and found out the "gradient" feature is only available with the sync box. If you're planning on using this with just the regular Hue app, know that it will only be able to display one color at a time. How disappointing.

I did not realize that in addition to the $249 lights that you also had to buy a $50. If you wanted to sync video to the light strip then you had to spend another $249 for a sync box. Installation was a pain in the rear end, the included guides didn't hold the lights. If you end up getting this light system consider an alternate adhesive and mounting method, it'll save you a ton of frustration. On the plus side the software Phillips offers is pretty good, pretty easy to setup and use. People who already immersed into the Hue ecosystem will find it easy to setup and use. The lights themselves are cool looking and worked well right out of the box. You may tweak things like brightness to your liking but overall it works. In closing these lights are nice and easy to use but installation and cost are annoying. I returned these and got the Govee Immersion lights that do the same thing for $70 without all extras Hue requires.

Don’t waste your money buying this. The adhesive it comes with lasted me about 6 months before they fell down. I’ve now bought multiple sizes of clips, adhesives, and mounting tape and absolutely nothing will keep these lights up. Shouldn’t have to be work this hard for lights that already cost $260.