Lightpack – Ambient backlight for your displays • Hacker News Board

Some Sony TV's have this ... I like the effect during films, but I don't know why I like it... intuitively it feel like it should reduce the apparent contrast of the picture, but it instead feels like I'm watching a larger screen or that there's more going on in my environment.

I'm going to hypothesise something to do with how brains process our peripheral vision.

Anyway, not sure how much fun it would be to to run it on a monitor that has vim/consoles 90% of the time... maybe it would encourage me to tab certain syntax highlighted code to the far edges of the screen and go wild :)

Re: Lightpack – Ambient backlight for your displays

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Post by Pwntastic » Mon, Dec 09, 2013, 5:41 PM UTC

Skovy wrote: post #3

ztnewman wrote: post #2

No mention of the price?

I believe I saw somewhere it was $80

They're finishing up a kickstarter[0], so it might be a while before they take any actual orders from their site

[0] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/woodenshark/lightpack-am...

Re: Lightpack – Ambient backlight for your displays

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Post by ollysb » Mon, Dec 09, 2013, 5:42 PM UTC

ztnewman wrote: post #2

No mention of the price?

From the video, they want to to try and get it down to under $50.

Re: Lightpack – Ambient backlight for your displays

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Post by nwh » Mon, Dec 09, 2013, 5:52 PM UTC

Ack, it looks like a nice product but they need some help with their copywriting.

> "So, you can't use Lightpack with your PlayStation 4 out-of-the-box cause you unable to run Prismatik in SONY ecosystem"

Re: Lightpack – Ambient backlight for your displays

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Post by Skovy » Mon, Dec 09, 2013, 5:58 PM UTC

nwh wrote: post #8

Ack, it looks like a nice product but they need some help with their copywriting. > " So, you can't use Lightpack with your PlayStation 4 out-of-the-box cause you unable to run Prismatik in SONY ecosystem "

Yea, I agree and I noticed several other errors. As you could tell from the video I believe they are Russian along with other nationalities.

Re: Lightpack – Ambient backlight for your displays

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Post by lojack » Mon, Dec 09, 2013, 6:04 PM UTC

chrisfarms wrote: post #5

Some Sony TV's have this ... I like the effect during films, but I don't know why I like it... intuitively it feel like it should reduce the apparent contrast of the picture, but it instead feels like I'm watching a larger screen or that there's more going on in my environment. I'm going to hypothesise something to do with how brains process our peripheral vision. Anyway, not sure how much fun it would be to to run i…

I like this effect, but not because of changes to the perceived contrast. Often people turn off the lights during movies and this always bothered me because I lose my point of reference. It actually tends to give me nausea to have the only light coming from the TV. Having some sort of light whether its this, a nightlight, or a soft light from a different room tends to prevent this nausea.