 guys as you saw from that sneak peek I'm going to show you today on how you can connect your Philips Hue lighting with any TV that you have to get an experience just like that. Now I'm going to use a couple of things the first one is this Philips Hue HDMI sync box this comes in about 230 pounds the next is a Philips Hue gradient light strip for your TV as well. Now this comes in various sizes to match your TV and this one is around 160 pounds. Now a lot of the TVs I've had in the past I've only had the light strips behind the TV and I've also got a Philips Ambilight TV which has it in built and don't get me wrong that is an amazing experience but I want to take it a little bit further so I'm going to add a couple of additional lights here these are the Philips Sydney floor lamps they come in at 250 pounds each so they're not cheap and I'm going to be setting this up in the two corners of my room just to the sides of the TV just to enhance that movie watching experience now having all of those lighting effects match whatever you're watching on your TV or even if you're playing games on your consoles it's just an experience like no other and once you do have that you can't go back so I'm going to go ahead and showcase to you guys how to set this up how to sync it with your Philips Hue bridge and let's go ahead and see how it performs by giving you some sample video footage. So the first thing to do is just to set up your HDMI sync box which is very easy just plug it into the wall outlet this one is the HDMI cable that goes directly into your TV then you have four HDMI ports that you can use to connect to the sync box now the downside of this is that this can only sync the lights to match the videos from a HDMI source so what this can't do is sync up the lights with the videos in the apps that are inbuilt into your TV so my LG C10 has a lot of apps that I use inbuilt like Netflix and Disney Plus I can't use those apps to connect to my Philips Hue lights I will need to use a separate source by a HDMI so this first one here I've connected to my Apple TV which is there so I can use all the apps on there to sync with the Philips Hue lights and then this one is connected to my PlayStation 5 so I'll showcase to you guys an example of how gaming looks on that as well then you also have options to connect like set top boxes maybe you have SkyQ or Virgin Media anything like that you can just put it in there and you can even put an Amazon Firestick as well and play apps from there so that's very easy to set up so you don't need to connect all of your devices to the HDMI ports on your TV you just connect them to here which is connected to your TV directly and then you can switch between them using the Philips Hue sync app next you just connect the Philips Hue gradient light strip to the back of your TV you get this very strong 3M sticky connectors that you just connect on the edges and corners very easy just put it into place so that it goes around the top and the sides and then this is the box that you will connect to the power source to fire up the LED light strip so I've got all of that in place this is the one HDMI cable that's going directly into the sync box once that's done you're ready to connect it via the app so now that the HDMI sync box is connected and the light strip is connected I would recommend if you have any other additional lights set them up before you start syncing them through the app so the Sydney floor lamps I'm going to set them up in each corner of the room back here and then I will go into the app and create an entertainment area to sync them all together with the TV so let me go ahead plug those in and I'll showcase you guys how to do that next so I've just plugged it in I've turned them on I always recommend that you connect it to the Philips Hue bridge first before you connect to the sync box so let me go ahead and open up the Philips Hue app so I'm going to connect these to my kitchen room so I'm going to first set up those two new lights go to light setup and light and then do a search there you can see at the top both of the hue color floor 1 and 2 have now been picked up and they are connected so I'll click on it and I can rename it so now that I've connected those lights I'm going to add them to the kitchen there we go just save it and now I have three lights that are connected to the kitchen the one that's TV that is from my previous household so that one is no longer valid but I've also connected the Hue Play gradient lights and I've connected it to this app as well so all three light sources are now up and running on this app so the last thing I want to do is now connect the HDMI sync box so I can start streaming the lights in sync with the video that appears on the TV so you download the Philips Hue sync app now I've already connected this as well so the box is set up and I just want to showcase to you guys how to put it together with all of the lights now if you go into settings you go into entertainment areas I've connected one at the moment which is called LG Cinema so that includes the light behind the TV and now I'm going to add these two Sydney floor lamps so I select this now if I go into lights I'm going to add the floor lamps so now there's three lights in this entertainment area so this one you'll see I'll position that to the left and the right of TV so you can see they've gone green let me go ahead and save this there we go and pretty much you can add as many lights as you want and position them all around the room so you can have some behind you to the top of the ceilings to the corners of the rooms whatever it may be to create the most ultimate cinematic lighting experience HDMI inputs this is where you can rename the four ports on the back of the sync box I've only used two of them at the moment one is for Apple TV and the other one is for my PlayStation 5 so you can do that there and finally if you go back to the sync page this is where you can choose the intensity for the lights and the sync mode as well you can also adjust the brightness using the slider there so that's it it was very easy to do very easy to set up with the apps let me go ahead and turn the light on behind the TV there we go I'll just change the color on the corner lamps now I'm going to give you guys a showcase of a sample video using an LG demo video which has a lot of vibrant colors to give you the maximum experience of using these lights with the TV that you have so sit back and enjoy and once you finish this video after that I'll show you some samples of how it looks when you're playing some games on the PS5 so let's take a look okay so hopefully you guys enjoyed that for me I think that experience is so amazing especially when you want to just put on a movie at nighttime and just immerse yourself in that type of lighting experience the final thing I wanted to show to you is to set up my PS5 play a game and put this onto game mode on the Hu Sync box app and then let's see how that performs I'm so impressed with this it's definitely worth it and I'm going to be here for a very long time watching movies on this TV so I think it's definitely worth buying if you don't have an ambi light TV now it is quite expensive that's one of the downsides with it the two floor lamps as well as the light strip and the Hu Sync box in total cost me 830 pounds so it's not the cheapest thing for that price you can actually get a 70 inch phillips ambi light TV so it has those cool lights that sync with the video inbuilt into the TV already and there's no setup necessary the other downside for this that it's worth mentioning like I said earlier on in the video is that it doesn't work with the inbuilt apps of your TV you have to have a HDMI source for it to sync with the lights the last downside is that if you do use it with a HDMI source the sync will not work if you use Dolby vision or HDR plus so Apple TV they do have a setting and one of the reasons why it wasn't working when I first tried it is because Dolby vision was enabled so I had to disable it for it to sync with the lights so if you can overlook all of those things especially the price range then I think this is an absolute great thing to have for any TV around the house so if there's anything else you guys want to know about this set then make sure you go ahead and drop a comment down below I'm going to do some really cool tech videos like this in the near future especially when it comes to my new LG C10 so make sure you go ahead and hit subscribe so you don't miss those ones and I will catch you guys next time take care