Add 3 million colours to your home cinema
If you can't help thinking something is missing from your home cinema room, how about adding some ambient lighting capable of delivering "3 million different colour shades"?
The Revoltec Backlight System offers just that. The SMD-09 system is a backlight kit for a TV, with two 23cm SMD LED tubes - expandable up to six tubes – that can be remotely set to any of the three million colour shades.
With more than a nod to Philips' Ambilight system, there are various lighting effects and speed settings that can be set, plus a choice of seven customisable colour presets.
Revoltec also suggests you could add the lights to furniture or other AV kit.
Available from Amazon, there's also an SMD-15 system, which sports larger LED tubes. Both packages include an infrared receiver, remote, mounting clips and attachments.
The Revoltec Backlight System SMD-09 is on sale for around £35, the SMD-15 for £45.
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OK so having seen this on here, I went and ordered it via Amazon. My kids love it! It does look neat and adds a sence of theatre and fun to the family movie night!
A good idea for a product, but hardly new or revolutionary. I have had a similar, if not idential, product for a couple of years now - the Apollo LED backlight system, sold through neon-lights which now appears to have moved on. You can still buy what looks to be the same equipment through energysmart, and I would imagine this is the same product again just being sold through someone else. If it is the same gear then I can recommend it - I'm very happy with mine, and it integrates well with a universal remote like a Harmony (which I have). Having an extra remote might be a bit of a pain though.
So, you can now get Ambilight without being tied to Philips? Hmmm I can sense that people could now switch.
Part of the reason I love my 9664 Philips is Ambilight. Not sure I could do without it now.