Is THIS the BEST Sync Box Ever Made?! All NEW Lytmi Fantasy 3 HDMI 2.1 Ambilight Kit - 2023
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- Опубліковано 15 бер 2023
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hey Chris, thanks for this video, great news, thanks for testing.., could you make a hack to use this syncbox with led stripes for a 120''' screen for my UST LCD Projector? if someone can do this then you ;) unfortunately it is only till 90'' tv at the moment.. maybe you have an idea to get it on 120inch ;)
no problems with colors washed on HDR contents ?
I wonder if it would work with a video wall 4 55in tv
Does the sync box work with earc?
"3:20" Can you provide a link to this video?
Chris - I know you probably won't read this, but I can tell you that I've been struggling for years to understand LEDs, how to make them look good, etc - and from this channel., its literally visual ASMR to see how happy you get when lights look good. I trust you and only you for anything LED/Custom and I wanted to thank you for helping an old geezer like me with these things. Keep up the great work, your channel is severely underrated
Appreciate it!! Thanks so much for the kind words and glad you are enjoying the videos! It's a fun hobby to get into for sure! Hope you have a blessed day buddy!
Thank you my good man. I discovered you channel a while back and it has opened my eyes to some great potential. After ten years of not having a home I finally have a wonderful place to call my own with great lighting potential. I've a few quid coming and I'm going to comb through these vids again and take your good advice. I appreciate your work brother.
The pixel matching is pretty incredible. The Govee one pretty much just does color blocks.
I like my govee still
What did u mean by color blocks?
also the camera ugly af
@@yasasalawattegeneral colour areas, not as accurate
Is govee as good?
Seeing a new video from you makes my day. Thanks for being the first to shine light on these dope new products.
I have the Neo 2.0 box and I like it a lot for it's simplicity, but the latency is noticeable in faster color movement. This looks a lot more performant!
I am completely blown away by this!!!! This is definitely better than the other brands... thank you for posting this, I see now, I need to change all of my lights to this brand!!
This is incredible! Another fantastic video as usual Chris 🔥💥
They look so bright and accurate color display!
Ok, I think this is the one. I’ve wanted something for a while but they all seem to be lacking somewhere but this looks like a complete package. Thanks! I’ll be sure to use your referral link.
Yet another great video, thanks for the info. I like how you do not need the intrusive camera.
Finally one without noticeable lag. Just picked one up pre-order.
Legit! Thank you for all your videos 👌🏼
I really want to see this with Ghost of Tsushima and Mirror's Edge. Both games use color really well. Doom looked REALLY good with it.
AMAZING! I bought my Logitech G560 Lightsync Speakers when i first bought my PC to go along with my Logitech Mouse, and Keyboard. Together with Logitech Ghub there is a Mirror Sync option just like this, I LOVE these Speakers not only for the sound but for the Incredibly immersive experience, and quick and accurate color matching to whats going on with the screen...THIS is the next step, and I'm considering these Lytmi lights for My TV. What a great review, this sync box looks unbeatable. It's such an extra layer of immersion!
I was just thinking about how cool something like this would be and bam someone made it already
Looks really great, thx for sharing. The 4 port 4K 120HZ Bix is a big plus fir me, too. 😁
wow amazing sync box! It looks as good as the newest Ambilight in Philips Tvs!
This is insane, I remember couple years back Philips TVs had this Ambilight lighting built in, thx!
Some of the newer TV's are starting to have it built in too!
That looks very good, I am now using the Govee Envisual TV Backlight T2
It really look amazing ! Been waiting for this for a few years after DreamScreen stopped. Can you choose the size of the led according to your screen ? In your demo, the led fits perfectly so I guess you picked the right one and it was not random
Never seen anything better,this is the first I'll would spend my cash on.
Thank you Chris.
Okay.. this needs to STOP right now! My wife's going to kill me for all the recent LED related purchases LOL! (though I' think she'll appreciate how good this one is)
Couldn't resist.. just placed an order for one of these babies.
Thanks for a great video!
I definitely gotta get one. Awesome video!
looks awesome Chris i have seen them on Instagram posts and thought they looked good !
Great video, as usual!
I ordered mine cause of this video 😍 I can't wait to set it up. Too bad it's taking forever to receive it. I've had my order since March 28.
Good job Chris 👍🏻. THX
Nicely evaluated! Looks better than my Govee with "hidden cam", and my Hue Gradient even with extra bottom strips. Do you have link to video you played?
Interesting maybe for the next tv I've had pretty good luck with the Govee T2 and Neon Rope kit. Also is there a link to the ambi demo video?
Very impressive, I would switch but unless it can sync with other govee products I’ll have to wait until govee does their own
As always great video !!!
here I was about to get the govee T2 setup and you drop this video 🤯
I’ve been waiting for this technology to progress to at least this level before I buy. Might just be time to click the button. 👍
Very cool and just what I've been looking for, but it seems to get confused between orange and pink for some reason. If this worked with Home Assistant I would buy one without hesitation, even with the minor color issues.
I love it and I love the idea of ambilight. It would look epic on my 75" tv, only problem is that I find having my tv backlit and reacting way too distracting and annoying.
Love this... what about added input lag? thx
I have the first version and if the lights on this one get as hot as the original they are not staying stuck on. The first one I'm always having to re stick the clamps as it didn't come with sticky tape all along the strip. And the color accuracy was ok. And I went through 2 hdmi boxes in a week before getting one that's lasted 5 months.
This is truly incredible. Thank you for the review!! Amazing accuracy, precision, color, etc.. But what about most movies, tv shows, non-animated type stuff like… action movies for example? 😊
Глаза устанут. Это как на Филипсе игровой режим.
AMAZING RESULT
Nice to see there is no camera like my Govee. And I'm always happy to see an alternative to any crappy Phillips Hue
I don't think hue is bad at all, just expensive.... If they were all the same price I'd buy hue in a heartbeat, especially since I can use the ceiling lights for video effects.
Die Kamera hat aber den Vorteil, dass man damit auch die internen TV Apps nutzen kann (Netflix usw.) - eben ohne weitere Hardware, Sticks usw.
No camera yes. But anything played thru a smart TV won't work. Only external sources thru hdmi. I also worry about it working with hdmi 2.1 with 4k 120hz and HDR. Not to mention freesync, or gsync. Maybe I'm wrong but I doubt it
What govee camera are you referring to? Was that covered in this video? All I saw was the lymi light kit?
@@J2thebar yep, that was my exact thing about Philips Hue and when it came to gaming… have a next gen gaming console, a nice OLED tv I got on sale but then I’m going to sacrifice the graphics and frame rate because a stupid lighting strip doesn’t support 2.1 HDMI or 120 HZ. Had to find an alternative. Really thought they Govee camera would annoy the crap out of me but on a 65” TV for a few months now I don’t even notice. And not sure what you have but was going to make sure you have the new T2 camera. So much better!!
Color accuracy and responsiveness looks amazing except for a couple of scenes with green colors. It seems to struggle with that quite a bit actually. There was a scene with nearly all green leaves around the edges of the screen and the LEDs were white and teal. Other than that it looks fantastic.
7:50 is an example
I see what you mean and as someone who knows the tech this limitation is really surprising. The RGB LEDs have pure green right in them and the box is (99% sure) processing an RGB image passing over HDMI..
@@JB-fh1bb To be fair, I've watched some other videos with different products and they also seem to struggle with greens. I'm not sure what's going on with processing that is causing this mismatch.
@@amason94 Just so odd. Since it's common, maybe it's something about the green colour signal itself? There is usually some processing in the display pipeline not just because of the difference in the light from the red, green, and blue sub-pixels on a display, but also because the human eye has a perceived brightness of each colour that's different than the colour itself (for example the Helmholtz-Kohlrausch effect).
yes like 8:40 as an example the picture is nothing like purple for some reason when the box doesn't know what to to uses default light with is light purple, 8:41 the picture is all yellow and it's showing light purple
Epic production, Chris! I just released a Hue 4K 120Hz work around, and will be adding a link to your video in comments. I also have Govee which I've compared to Hue, and this Lytmi blows them out of the water 🤯 FINALLY, thank you for such a comprehensive review. I can confidently sit this one out, at least in terms of review 😅
That's awesome! I'll have to check out that video for sure!! Hey there is always room for more opinions and reviews of products! If you get your hands on one you should for sure make a review! Thanks so much!
@@ChrisMaherDIY Is it sync only trough input HDMižI videos, but videos played directly from TV it cant sync, am I right?
6:50 looks amazing. Looking at the end of the video where you have shown off some of the gaming it looks like it doesn't match the screen quite as well as what a video does, can you confirm if thats true? If you were to play a dark screened game (like Dead Space) will the backs and colours look as good as seen on 6:50?
Where did you get all the great video examples from?
Wow it's amazing ❤
lt looks awesome
Looks great, will this work with apps installed on my tv or just whats plugged in through hdmi?
Nice setup and demos
Your plant makes the background light look cooler
That’s pretty good. I looked at the Govee but not sure about the sensor at the top or bottom of the TV.
Wow! They beat Hue to their own game. I’m heavily invested in hue but I can certainly say I’m going to try this
Same. Wtf Philips! I feel like I'm being scammed by them after watching this lol. They've been sitting on their thumbs.
Same lol, after paying like 700 for the hue setup... this sounds great. I been waiting for phillips to release a new sync box but I think ill try this in the TV that does not have a syncbox and depending on how great it is ill replace my other hue sync. oh well haha, I tried the GOVEE T2 but regretted it and ended up returning it and keeping my hye box.
@@nalrodriguez I always thought the Govee was a half ass setup so I didn’t buy into it. I read somewhere that Hue is updating their sync box to a 2.1 but there’s no official word from hue. So this lytmi setup gonna have to do
@@nalrodriguez feel like I was in a similar situation with company’s but I previously had gotten and gifted a few Govee products and thought they were great for the money (I just hated you can’t use Apple HomeKit with them but hopefully that will soon change since they’re going to Matter). But I also got a nice 65” LG OLED TV to setup with my PS5. And holy cow I didn’t know what I was missing. Obviously next gen consoles are the best but feel like it got even better/ a newer game console when I got that TV so was super bummed that Hue couldn’t run the main software/ performance for the PS5. So have Govee a try and actually got use to the camera which I thought I wouldn’t but 65” it’s not bad plus I see people hide the cameras now. But long story short, took me a while to get it dialed and wanted to return it until seeing some videos and calling Govee. Once I configured the color, saturation, etc. it’s spot on now and killer for the money!
@@p3tran I was hoping when I got a Hue gradient setup, that the blues would actually match the screen, unlike the $35 kit I got off AliExpress that works with my PC. Turns out the LED quality is exactly the same, and the blues don't match the exact same way my $35 strip doesn't. Also the $35 strip allows me to match each LED to an area on the screen, getting PERFECT matchup between LED and screen unlike Hue. I still prefer my $35 setup a million times over my Hue one, and it cost less than a tenth of the price, and covers the entire screen not just the top and sides. Also plenty of times my Hue lights stop syncing in the middle of a movie and have to restart my phone, restart the app, do a ton of different things before its fixed. Latency is also a bit worse. My $35 AliExpress set up? Works 100% of the time, everytime. Philips is absurdly overrated and absurdly expensive.
nice setup and no need for a camera now on this one , i want one sometime for my 43 inch TV .
Damnnn that is so sick!
whoa this is ahhh mayyy zing!!!
Really great review when one side of your tv is up against a brick wall! Also failed to mention that it currently costs £162!!
Can VRR support be updated via firmware? Also, does the lack of VRR support only pertain to backlight functionality, or does it also prevent the TV and console from utilizing VRR?
my Lytmi fantasy 2 has been awesome but after spending about $250 in additional equipment to TRY to get my HTPC to properly display at 4k 144hz on my tv while still having the backlit, I gave up and just set it to solid color when I game. This looks promising and well worth the price. Another thing I like is that the Lytmi products I've had so far all work inside the Smart Life app which is great for consolidating all the smart apps I have, just means 1 less app needed.
How do you change inputs on the box? If everything is hooked into the TV with ie: HDMI input 1. Then I cant use the TV controller to switch inputs on the TV? I have to use their app? or does it come with a controller? Sorry if I missed you talking about this in the video
this is the best tv upgrade i have see in my life.. little too much expensive for me., but i really like this syatem ❤
Hi, thank you si much for your video, just a quick question, did the colors in HDR are washed ? I have the 2.0 lytmi fantasy and the colors are white/washed in HDR.
Does it have colour correction? I have my TV mounted to not a white wall and curious if it can account for that like the Govee version does.
wow, what is the test video you were using?
I have 9 hue lights crammed behind my tv, it's a pretty good effect with all those zones
Amazing performance
Can you sync any additional lights besides the strip that it comes with? Example: sync the light bulbs on your ceiling?
Could you add a link for the ambilight tester channel in your description plz?
Will this work with a receiver/home theatre system?
Awesome
Wow this is best ever i wish i could buy one of these
Great and easy setup, but is it HDCP compatible, and does it work with apps like Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max....etc?
Chris, I am blown away by how well it does with the color, accuracy and speed. I have one question. What if you want to use your own higher dense LED lights? Can you do that or do you have to have their lights that come with the system?. Great video!.
You have to use included lights. Honestly I'm not sure you would want to use anything else they are quite good
@@J2thebar Too bad. There are much better LED strip lights than these. I know because I have them. I have 5m long and each 1m has 630 LED lights. That is 3,150 LED lights in a 16.4 feet strip. You can't even see the individual LED lights. That's how dense they are.
@@yusuf6778and that's some noticeable while they project some diffuse light on the wall?
@@eleh1337 they are noticeable both brightness and color
Looks good but I am so sick of having to create an account in order to use a local device. Would love a step by step and bullet proof parts list for a WLED ambilight setup! Oh, and for a projector setup that is further away from the video source too
My 75" TV sits about ~14" off the wall. Do you think this is too far away that the colors would just blend together and lose intensity, or do you think it would still work?
Can you test out if the led strips work with a longer length USB cable? I’m trying to figure out if a 3 or even 5 metre USB C cable would be OK
Nice video. I have Govee immersion lights and they are really good as well. I do think these are more accurate for sure and I do like there hdmi plugging into the tv instead of using a camera. I feel like Govee’s light are brighter and spread across the back wall better but then again I haven’t seen them live so. I may have went with these if I knew of them.
Also where do you find your demos for the showing of your lights
UA-cam is where he gets all of his demos.... I bought this Lytmi and it's junk Customer service is a joke. I returned it. And bought another Govee for my new TV
I wonder if they overdrive the LEDs in the corners to make up for the gaps
Is there a power loss recovery setting for their lights like with Philips hue
Omg this looks amazing. Better then govee and Phillips
awesome
Pretty dope but cant justify the $200 price tag. My girl would blast me ass on this one. Good video mate.
This is an impressive product. Glad they didn't skimp on the HDMI specs. It would be even better if there was some way to get it to talk to ESP controllers or add additional strips to it like in your bigger media setup.
But they did skimp on the HDMI specs since the sync-box can't do VRR friend :(
@@NinjaDog578 Maybe through a future software update?
@@NinjaDog578 VRR is only for console players. Im on PC and havent noticed a difference so far my games feel exactly the same.
@@SubZyYT VRR/Freesync/Gsync is definitely not just a console thing and is essential for a box like this if you are a gamer.
But at what cost to response time for gaming?
Hey Chris, instead of connecting to the TV, can you connect the smart box to the AV receiver then to the TV?. Because I have an AVR that upgrades everything to 8K. Thanks.
Would this look good on a tv in the corner, not flush with the wall? And how about dark paint, would the LEDs show up well?
Can you post the links for the demos you used? Specifically the bouncing ball that you mentioned is one of your favorites.
I also would like to know about the bouncing dots one. Did you find out?
If you did, please let me know.
Those are some of the names of the demos that you saw on this video (plus some more that I personally like)
Fluid Sim Hue Test
Rainbow Flames in 4K UHD! (12 Hours)🔥
4K Videos Philips Ambilight TV Democlip 2021
Bonus (haha):
Transient 2 - 4K, UHD, 1000FPS
Philips lightwaves DEMO UHD 4K
I wonder if you can use the sync box with an HDMI splitter that does 1 input 2 outputs, cause on my side i'm planning to have a gaming setup with a lot of consoles (Xbox 360, Wii, PS2 (yeah via an HDMI upscaler), PS3, PS4, Switch etc..) so yeah i'd need at least 8+ ports available..
The compatibility on the TV synchronisation switch only says Sony and Xiaomi. Will it still work on my 55 inch LG C2 chris? Thank you for great calming top quality videos.
I assume it won't work with the tv tuner or apps built into the TV right?
Was this for a 65inch? So far its the best in color i have seen ✌️😎
This for sure has an advantage over stuff like Govee Dreamview by going through a box instead of needing a camera. The zone accuracy seems very high as well.
Those also need a box. So it's not an "instead" it's an "in addition to"
Does this device work if you are only using your tv as a source? Do you need external device like fire tv or something like that. Because I know that you need that for hue box.
What test video are you using at the beginning of the video? I just bought the kit and want to try that exact one.
Can you send a link to those test videos?
Does this support variable refresh rate?
so cool
Great find! I’ve been running Hyperion on a Pi4 with an HDMI splitter and usb capture card but had issues with HDR content. Does this have any issue playing HDR content?
could I order the 55-60 Inch and place it on a 32 inch monitor? or would there be too much extra wire?
So should you have a white colored back wall for this to wall like yours ? I was thinking of painting the back wall as a feature wall it a dark color. My thinking is it makes the TV draw your eyes and enhance the picture. Now I'm not sure after seeing this video.
Do these lights work with roku TV's that have built in apps like Netflix or Crunchyroll?
How would you go about doing full room sync with the LYTMI 3 system?