Customer Ratings & Reviews

Lights are prettt nice but are a bit fragile with wiring. Hard to set up

The lightstrip is much dimmer than I was expecting it to be and after just a few days the lightstrip started to slowly flicker like I was turning it off and on once or twice and then right when I was 4 days out of the return policy it stopped working entirely.

Not everything syncs. I have an apple tv and it not working for most movies and tv shows. It works well with music

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.

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.

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

Don’t expect it to last more than 2 years. The strip will inevitably fail and fall off, and when it does, you will end up breaking your monitor. It was fine until today.

I've had this for probably close to 2yrs now and the mounting hardware has NEVER stayed stuck to the tv longer than a few days. The light itself works fine, but it's bulky and awkward to try and bend into shape. It's ok if you don't mind constantly reattaching the hardware/strip to the tv. But in hindsight I would have spent my money on the lightbars instead.

I really would like my money back. I thought these would work but it’s a nightmare to setup. The 3mm tape that comes with them are garbage. The angle for this is also garbage. Everything about this is garbage. I’m very disappointed with this. I would never recommend this to anyone at all