Nice!
Ambilight on non-philips tvs
Too bad you need a HTPC..
Lightpack – Ambient backlight for your displays
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#12Ack, 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.
They certainly aren't English speakers. It's a pity because they've a really solid product, just not showing it off well to an international audience. The rest isn't full of mistakes as much as just being informal and inconsistent, I suppose it's quite a difficult language if you're not accustomed to writing it.
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#13Interestingly, the BlinkyTape people also used the Futurama intro to demo a similar use of their product:
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#14I was looking at building one of these a while back for my computer. It seams pretty easy with an Arduino, a $15 roll of RGB LED strip and some computer software. Though going beyond computers, it gets quite complicated.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
They certainly aren't English speakers. It's a pity because they've a really solid product, just not showing it off well to an international audience. The rest isn't full of mistakes as much as just being informal and inconsistent, I suppose it's quite a difficult language if you're not accustomed to writing it.
Didn't dig much, but the "146% open source" line might be a reference to Putin.[0]
[0]http://gawker.com/5864945/putin-clings-to-victory-as-russias...
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#16Microsoft Research took the ambient background idea a little further with some cool IllumiRoom demos. [0]
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#17I was looking at building one of these a while back for my computer. It seams pretty easy with an Arduino, a $15 roll of RGB LED strip and some computer software. Though going beyond computers, it gets quite complicated.
Adafruit has a tutorial about how to build something similar using an Arduino and set of RGB LED Christmas lights: http://learn.adafruit.com/adalight-diy-ambient-tv-lighting/o...
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#18No mention of the price?
From the video, they want to to try and get it down to under $50.
I can't get to the site right now to see if lightpack offers anything above simple ambient lighting, but Ikea sells LED light strips for US$30:
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/lig...
EDIT: Ah, it's more than simple ambient lighting. In that regard, $50 seems like a great price.
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#19Looks brilliant. I've put my email in the preorder form... I'd buy one right now if it was available. I hope they deliver to the UK.
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#20It's great to see the Philips Ambilight concept democratized (I hope Philips doesn't have any applicable patents here), but the fact that this requires the video source to be a Mac / Windows / Linux PC is going to cut the potential audience way, way down.